Music

Between discovering postrock like Godspeed You Black Emperor, Red Sparrows, etc, and diving back into Prog I never paid attention to, and then diving into Bitches Brew and Mahuvishna Orchestra, and then diving into death metal I have been expanding outward...

It's very hard for me to find new music these days. I can't pin it down to any one thing, lots of things have changed over the last 10 years that make it harder.

Is it just me or is the process of finding new music also succumbing to the forces of enshitification? Like for me the sources went like this:

1. Old forum-style/niche internet sources (userbase died out)
2. Internet radio (ate by Pandora)
3. Pandora (ate by other music streaming sites, enshitification of algorithm)
4. Spotify (enshitification of algorithm, bad treatment of music industry creators)
5. Google music (rip... But tbh wasn't ever really good at finding new music)
6. Music publications?? (Pitchfork is the best I guess??? Npr maaaybe? That's sad, and also all of these are prone to enshitification)
7. Local underground music scenes (lots died with covid, hope they come back, but now I live in a more rural place)

Like... How do we find new music now? If it's up to an algorithm, it's enshitified. If it's up to people's suggestions, idk where a userbase would even exist.

I literally used to run charting for a radio station and I STILL don't know where to find new tunes. I'm still a baby, too, so some of you that think it's harder just because you're older... I have bad news lol

Yes I definitely try and seek out new bands and sub-genres. Just the act of searching is fun.

Also, Reign in Blood on repeat for 35 years

Mostly the same stuff. I'll occasionally find a new band/album that I like, but it's always by chance. I've been missing a good place to find new music ever since what.cd got shutdown.

I was guilty of this until very recently (my phone is still loaded with all my 90s/00s favourites). But I got back into playing music and then started to want to listen to more folk music as inspiration. Now I hardly want to listen to anything else, and I was largely into metal before. Sometimes you just need to try something new.

Generally, I listen to the same stuff I have been listening to for 20 years. I don't have a favorite band/artist. I'm more into soundtracks (movies, shows, games). But I listen to anything. My playlists are a spattering of random songs from any decade. Even from 100 years ago.

Listen to a heap of new stuff, as well as a lot of old stuff.

Picking up the guitar to learn start of last year has put me on a journey of exploration into several areas and a lot of new music

I still listen to new music, but most of it is related to stuff I listened to as a kid. I was big into 90's alt rock, and there's so much of it that I keep finding stuff I hadn't listened to from that era. Right now Butthole Surfers have been getting a lot of play; they were always kinda on my radar, but the name really put me off. Can't believe I missed out for this long.

I've always liked folk punk and alternative country, but there wasn't a ton of it when I was younger. Now there's so much more so I've been discovering lots of new bands. Blackbird Raum is pretty great, and Amigo the Devil might be one of my new favorites.

Nah my tastes are all over the place, but finding new new bands is kinda hard, and I never make time to actually do it. My s.o. has impeccable taste luckily so she's always showing me new stuff, most of it is older, deep cuts etx, but like you said it's new to me. I'm just starting to cycle back into stuff I listened to 10 years ago though. It's nostalgic and still amazing.

i listen to the same genre of music i listened to as a teenager, which is, music for teenagers (receipts in profile links)

I sometimes go and search for lists of new artists of the music genres I like to listen to, but most of the time I just end up listening to the same band, composer, etc I've been listening since my teens.

I'm not closed to "new" music, but I rarely get attached to anything new, so I end up listening to the same things almost every day.

I still discover new music, there is plenty of good music nowadays, i like fontaines dc, wet leg, squid, mac Demarco, Altin gün, the chats, la femme, parquet courts, lcd soundsystem.

Which are all active today.

Where most of my friends are getting stuck listening to the same music they've been listening to when they were young I try to actively look for the new artists/styles too. Not everyday of course, but definitely at least one a month.

I'm more focused on new releases by bands I've listened to for a long time. Mostly rock, folk, and pop from the 80s/90s.

But I also got into EDM a little while ago and added a lot of new and old stuff to my frequent plays.

I don't want to be the old grumpy guy, but the current pop music is very rarely pleasant for me... Queue the struggle for control when I'm in the car with the kids: We found that Yacht Rock is safe territory for all :p

I have to admit that I don't actively seek out new music as such anymore.

But I usually welcome suggestions and follow a few reaction channels on YT. So I feel well-covered for my own need of new stuff.

Just got into 'Sicksense' for an example. Pretty neat band so far.

I guess as someone who's still a teenager I've been listening to a lot of black country new road recently because I discovered them through rateyourmusic and I think their pretty great. Other than that it's a lot of stuff from earlier in the 2000s like burial and the field. Also a fair amount of Radiohead because that's a legal requirement for a music nerd like me.