Where do you guys find new music?

[FlexpertHamilton]

The radio has always been trash, I've heard maybe 10 good songs on it my whole life.

I've used Pandora and Spotify for a decade. Pandora has ta very small library and it seems like I've already heard most of what I like. Spotify is very hit or miss and while sometimes the curated playlists are good, it's mostly pure trash.

Soundcloud and Youtube are too impractical to listen to in the BG, they're more for finding specific songs.

I used to add 100-200 new songs (new to me that is) to my Spotify library every year, but as of late I only add maybe a 1-2 dozen per year, it's kind of disconcerting actually. I am really picky about music so that doesn't help.

 

[lost_blackbird]

I'm still enjoying my old music. My heyday was the late 90's - early noughties.
Still banging my head to the old tunes and happy to do so.

 

[inquisitor]

might try suggesting artists to you, see if you like them. try out King Crimson first

 

[Hamurabimbi]

XM radio. College radio stations. SF Bay Area has a couple of decent radio stations that have some new music.
When I was on Tinder. I’d listen to the music my Matches had on their profiles. Found some good stuff.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

might try suggesting artists to you, see if you like them. try out King Crimson first

Oh ffs might as well rec Ornette Coleman. Don't recommend weird proggy stuff without knowing the OP's tastes first. C'mon man.

OP stick with old, proven artists from pre 2012 first. What specifically do you like?

(p.s. Ornette Coleman had a famous/infamous debut album where the people in his band played random stuff - out of key and out of time and with little regard for what the other band members were doing) that rubbed most people who listened to it the wrong way, needless to say. This is the kind of music you don't recommend to strangers.

It's like inviting someone to dinner and forcing them to try some strange recipe you're trying out. Just don't do it.

 

[SW15]

The radio has always been trash, I've heard maybe 10 good songs on it my whole life.

I don't think AM/FM radio has always been trash. I discovered a lot of good songs off of it in the past.

With that said, AM/FM radio for music has been declining for the better part of 2 decades.

I don't know how AM/FM radio has survived the following innovations....

• CD players in cars
• Sirius XM satellite radio
• iPods/MP3 players
• iPhones/other smartphones

All of those innovations were superior for listening to music in the car or home than AM/FM radio.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

I'm still enjoying my old music. My heyday was the late 90's - early noughties.
Still banging my head to the old tunes and happy to do so.

This is one thing I don't get, how people can listen to the same bands seemingly indefinitely. I used to love punk/hard rock like Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, A7X, can't fvcking stand any of them now.

XM radio. College radio stations. SF Bay Area has a couple of decent radio stations that have some new music.
When I was on Tinder. I’d listen to the music my Matches had on their profiles. Found some good stuff.

XM Radio is good but not worth the price

might try suggesting artists to you, see if you like them. try out King Crimson first

II'll check them out, I do like psychedelic/alt rock.

 

[Hamurabimbi]

XM Radio is good but not worth the price

I got if for $300 for life of the car. Car is 15 years old now.

 

[Bible_Belt]

The app "Radio Garden" lets you listen to stations all over the world.

 

[inquisitor]

Oh ffs might as well rec Ornette Coleman. Don't recommend weird proggy stuff without knowing the OP's tastes first. C'mon man.

OP stick with old, proven artists from pre 2012 first. What specifically do you like?

(p.s. Ornette Coleman had a famous/infamous debut album where the people in his band played random stuff - out of key and out of time and with little regard for what the other band members were doing) that rubbed most people who listened to it the wrong way, needless to say. This is the kind of music you don't recommend to strangers.

It's like inviting someone to dinner and forcing them to try some strange recipe you're trying out. Just don't do it.

He's very expressive about his taste though (saying there is little good music out there), which tells a lot about what music he really likes.

 

[Canadian_Man]

I often find new music on Bandcamp these days.

My genre of choice is Irish folk music (songs and instrumentals), so, I've come to recognize which tags are often used for these albums, and I search those tags. Sort by Newest Arrivals, check a handful of tags every once and a while (e.g., "Irish", "Irish folk", "Celtic", etc.), skimming through any new albums which appeal to me.

Example:

Music and merch tagged irish on Bandcamp

Shop for vinyl, cassettes, CDs, t-shirts, and other merch tagged irish on Bandcamp.

bandcamp.com

If you want to have them on a Spotify playlist or something like that, you would need to put in extra effort to go find it there as well.

Personally, I download all of my music, and put it onto my phone.

 

[MatureDJ]

rutracker,org

But be forewarned, you will find so much stuff that you will feel like Midas and his Golden Touch,