How Do You Find Good New Music?

thegummy · July 2019

A good way I've found to find new artists is watching KEXP's extensive live session Youtube channel at random and find some great artists.

Also watch Jools Holland when it's on and sometimes find some good ones that way.

What ways do you have of finding good new music?

I'd imagine things like Spotify could be good too but I don't subscribe to that since I prefer local storage for music.

Any tips?

drofluf · July 2019

Guess it depends what you're into? I find a lot of stuff on 6Music but I'm their target demographic

thegummy · July 2019

drofluf said:

Guess it depends what you're into? I find a lot of stuff on 6Music but I'm their target demographic

I do listen to that sometimes, particularly late at night. Has some good stuff.

Was listening to it one night and it was some experimental electronic stuff and it's mostly pretty good but one specific track came on and I absolutely loved it (Dravier) so got the album and it turned out to be a real favourite of the year for me.

Doesn't seem to be very big cause when I went to link my mate to the track on the official youtube, it didn't have any plays yet so he was the first lol.

Good shout.

Winny_Pooh · July 2019

You really need to try Spotify. You listen to an artist or genre "radio" and find good things. It will not all be as consistently good as KEXP but you'll find other stuff you'd miss and you can listen to an album for a while before you commit to buying.
The other benefit is the sheer volume of stuff on there.

Fuengi · July 2019

Check the Metacritic lists. They collate pretty much every album release each week and rate them.based on the reviews.

Ratings aside, it's a fantastic resource to see who has released what.

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/new-releases/date

VimFuego · July 2019

for folky stuff I listen to the Mike Harding podcast and the James Fagan Thank Goodness it's Folk show.

TheMarlin · July 2019

I listen to Radio 6. Especially Marc Riley, all new music, and fantastic stuff. Found some awesome bands that way.

stimpsonslostson · July 2019

I use Spotify-
"Artist Radio"- for something similar to a specific artist.
"Daily Mix"- for things similar to what I've been listening to generally.
"New Punk/Rock/Metal/Folk (Delete as appropriate) Tracks"- for new music in whatever genre I fancy exploring.

I'm pretty sure all these work on a free account, you just have the occasional advert to sit through.

matdotcodot · July 2019

I still enjoy certain record labels as gatekeepers for music as well as wandering around my local record store Resident Records in Brighton, when streaming/youtube etc gets a bit overwhelming, it's great to find an Ambient (in my case) label to help focus things a bit.

Also Music-Map is good for finding similar artists to the ones you already enjoy.

https://www.music-map.com/

thegummy · July 2019

matdotcodot said:

I still enjoy certain record labels as gatekeepers for music as well as wandering around my local record store Resident Records in Brighton, when streaming/youtube etc gets a bit overwhelming, it's great to find an Ambient (in my case) label to help focus things a bit.
Also Music-Map is good for finding similar artists to the ones you already enjoy.
https://www.music-map.com/

That's another good shout actually, ever since I realised online would take over (though at the time I thought it would be downloads rather than streaming) I thought record labels would turn into more like curators or a stamp of quality for a certain style.

There definitely used to be specific labels that I'd buy CDs from before there was any way to hear a new artist first so that's something I should look back in to.

Grunfeld · July 2019

1) Spotify -- as has been said. It's a game changer and I doubt you'd regret signing up.

2) An internet radio station or two with the same basic tastes. I found one (Spoon) which does Rock and Alt.Indie perfectly with a mixture of old and new stuff, and a psy chill station (Schizoid) which is always finding interesting stuff.

3) Labels -- I do that too (e.g. Cosmicleaf)

4) The YouTube rabbit hole

zepp76 · July 2019

I used to listen to different radio stations here: https://live365.com/

you can pick the genre you want to listen too, there are lots of different stations.

darthed1981 · July 2019

I think I'm probably in the car on this, some Spotify, Later with Jools, Magazines.

I would have screamed 6 Music from the top of my lungs, but for me at least it's become "1 Extra Extra" recently and I struggle to listen to a lot of what the play.

Grumpyrocker · July 2019

I tend to look at suggestions from Google Music which we have a family sub of and there's a few music blogs I read.

The irony is that I discover a band I really love via Google Music I'll often buy physical copies of their music rather than stream them.

UnclePsychosis · July 2019

Pretty much all of the above-

6music
I'm a "member" of a record label so I get everything they release. Good way to find new, relatively local stuff.
Good quality journalism - The Wire, for instance
Word of Mouth from likeminded friends

Jalapeno · July 2019

drofluf said:

Guess it depends what you're into? I find a lot of stuff on 6Music but I'm their target demographic

Ditto, and Jools (usually with finger poised over FFWD)

Reverend · July 2019

Word of mouth. Facebook is good too.
I do have spotify now but it is incredibly patchy.
Band camp is good.
I get a lot of new stuff sent via haulix.

Philly_Q · July 2019

Spotify for me.

I do pay the monthly fee but as far as I can remember most of the functionality is there in the free version, you just have to put up with occasional adverts.

YouTube's good as well, if you can find channels which match your musical tastes (e.g. Stoned Meadow of Doom in my case). But I still think of YT as somewhere to watch things rather than listen to them.

Grumpyrocker · July 2019

For a couple of years myself and friend ran a music blog. We got sent lots of music by lables - and because of the ever expanding web of suggestions based on having this music in my library it's kept me going for years. We haven't run the blog for five years but the effects in my own streaming library continue as it helped open me to so much new music. Some of my favourite in my life is stuff released in the last few years.

Creed_Clicks · July 2019

www.music-map.com

Litterick · July 2019

Tiny Desk.

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