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I listen to music 3-6 hours a day and am the type of person who doesn't enjoy hearing the same song the same day or really the day after. Sites I've used for discovering new music were reddit and rateyourmusic.com.

Beyond that I do use Spotify song radios, but typically the song has to be far outside my standard genres to show me new music.

Whatdo others use to discover new music?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I usually get a bunch of cool stuff from the Quietus end-of-year list. It's a lot more varied than the lists of most other publications.

Besides that, mostly Rateyourmusic for sure, especially the "Let's all find the next gem of [current year]" forum threads. I also used to visit /mu/ for recommendations back in the day, but the culture there made me, uhh, reconsider my life choices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bandcamp via the Tags system can really yield some great results. It's got a virtual feel equivalent to browsing through a physical record store.

I basically just poke around until I find something I like then check the tags at the bottom of a release. Click the tag and then browse that for other stuff.

[–] Qiot 1 points 1 year ago

I've been having fun using the location tags. I like to pick a major city far away from me and see what's popular from there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's all mostly happenstance and serendipity but I do find a lot of music by googling what I hear in the background of movies and TV. Letterkenny always has really good music and it's always or almost always by a Canadian group that I might not otherwise encounter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bandcamp daily Blogs Since I listen mostly to hip hop and rappers collaborate often, features is a big part of the way I discover new music

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Spotify's Discover Weekly used to be great for me for a long time and I'd get lots of new music that I liked. it got pretty stale over the past year or so, with stuff that I don't enjoy at all, and it often recommends me the same songs that I tell it to not recommend. it feels like I've reached the end of the internet and there's no more music left to try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mainly use metal-archives and bandcamp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It used to be Discovery on whatever music app I'm subscribed to, but they have all turned awful for finding good music.

They always end up playing the same type of single creator synthesised music that presumably is cheaper per stream than big bands.

There are so many proper rock bands over the last 50 years, I just wish I knew how to find them.

Whenever I come across a new band I add their albums to my Plex, eventually I'll have enough to do my own discovery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used to be what.cd

Now it's just hopes and prayers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not in redacted, but I've heard that and Orpheus are the replacements for it, are they any good?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use a combination of Spotify discover weekly playlists, related artist lists, and lately I've been finding a random new category that Spotify curates and then searching for playlists of the same type that are curated by users. I think I get more deep cuts that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BrooklynVegan

Certainly skews towards specific tastes and genres [indie, punk, diy, and sometimes undergroud hip-hop], but super active and on top of new music and related info

I follow the news portion as well, but for pure new music discovery: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/new-songs/?from=trending

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I missed so much good music because I replied on music algorithm recommendatuons, BV has been great for finding the kinds of music I like

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

honestly the spotify algorithm is shockingly good at recommending me new music. it knows my taste inside and out. And i listen to almost every genre, but have my specific preferences to every genre. Been on the same account for like 10 years so spotify knows me pretty well by now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Once upon a time there was this beautiful music player called Songbird that aggegated music blogs and let you directly download MP3s. It was magical.

Now I use Soundcloud, which has been awesome for discovering new music.

Also, don't sleep on the Internet Archive. There is some awesome music hosted there, often in FLAC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

last.fm has awesome algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I find the Tidal algorithm to be excellent. Beyond that I think a good trick is checking out different services. Playing the same artist or song radio on Spotify will be a very different experience to Pandora or YouTube Music or again Tidal. That and a few of them actually have a 'discovery', or whatever they call it, setting on the radio that will specifically recommend things that are new and/or unexpected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The YouTube algorithm is sometimes surprisingly good. Like "Listen to this band with 47 plays!" and then it's a banger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am often getting interesting stuff from the personal discover playlists on Spotify. Often it is very obscure vands with like a thousand listeners on last.fm, so I feel like I am being exposed new and upcoming bands and not just established names.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I listen to the radio, but a radio station that's alternative and aligns with my musical tastes (www.kink.nl, a Dutch station). Stuff I like I look up, and see what's similar on Spotify or what have been influences to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spotify's discovery algorithm is great. Outside of that I routinely check Pitchfork for new albums. theneedledrop makes good recs too and Any Decent Music is a pretty decent music review aggregator similar to Metacritic but for more niche styles.

These days I listen to a lot of dance music though, so I tend to discover music via DJ mixes on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Their Bandcamp Weekly section is pretty great and you can easily find music by browsing record labels, people's collections or the "if you like x" recommendations listed at the bottom of individual release pages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To add to your sites:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Recommendations from friends/random socials/memes. Discovered Wind Rose through a Deep Rock Galactic meme. 😂

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