How do you find new music?
I feel like Spotify recommendations, artist radio, and "Discovery Weekly" has become an echo chamber of music that's fine, but isn't that interesting, or new. What are some better ways to discover new music?
When I’m feeling adventurous, I just pick a year or decade and start listening to the most hi hi my rated albums I haven’t heard yet.
Their genre categories are great too
I watched Eurovision, and now have enough excellent music to hold me over for a few months.
Cha Cha Cha, y'all.
I love listening to https://radioparadise.com especially when I don't want to choose what to listen to. Apart from their main stream, they have special streams for mellow, rock, and "world" music (don't like that word, but it is what it is).
1. Search “jukebox” and the latest Bollywood/Tollywood musicals on YouTube
2. Distractingly good music in high quality TV shows. Those music directors for US tv shows are insanely good music curators
3. My kid
4. Guitar song or style tutorials on YouTube
YouTube offers up playlists of music, sometimes there are interesting things I've not heard before.
https://radio.garden is fun too
Ten years ago it was the Pandora algorithm. It really did a good job of distilling genres. (Spotify has never quite been able to match this for me, though sometimes the “mood” playlists provide good results)
These days, I read a lot of music biographies, and that tends to lead me down interesting paths. Read about Bowie, you’ll learn about Mick Ronson, the Stooges, etc. Read about the Talking Heads, you’ll learn about Fela Kuti. Read about the Beastie Boys, you’ll learn about.. well almost everything.
Having Shazam ready on my phone to identify music I'm coming across randomly has yielded some nice additions to my playlist.
I've recently listened to SomaFM a lot. No idea what I'm actually listening to but it's great coding music.
I also feel like my Spotify playlists have gone cold. Once I had 6 covers in a row.
I’ve recently switched to Qobuz which is more editorial and less algorithmic. Overall very happy with their recs.
YouTube suggestions, Reddit, IG, Facebook groups, Deezer playlists, Podcasts, Bandcamp suggestions, even IMDB for soundtracks of films I've enjoyed.
BBC Radio 6 Music is specialising primarily in "alternative" music (alternative rock, pop, R&B etc). Try a listen.
I listen to John Digweeds Transitions every week.
i just randomly find them. if i happen to like them, i would add it to my playlist
The most effective for me is FM radio.
Rabbit holes on the metal archives.
sputnikmusic.com and go through Trending Albums