>0 slashedzero @ 2025/03/03 08:05
I'm curious how you all discover new music. When you ask most people this these days the answer is inevitably Spotify or some other algorithm based service that creates playlists. Somehow I expect that people who get on tilde don't follow that pattern well. Back in the day, you would get recommended by friends new artists and music. Of course, you can still look at what bands are playing locally and if you are a time traveler, you can even hear new things on the radio. So yeah, how do you, if at all, discover new music?
>1 anonymous @ 2025/03/08 16:21
I'm part of the music community on the Fediverse and have found a lot of great stuff there. If you follow #fediwave , or some genre tags you like, there are some fresh recommendations there!
>2 krellr @ 2025/03/10 02:09
>>OP This is a gret question that I wish I had a single solid answer for. I have often been asked "where the hell did you find this!? and the answer is almost always some long, strange rabbithole. youtube used to help, its mostly a shithole now. reading about the stuff that musicians you already like listen to can sometimes be a good one. soundtracks another good one. internet search for "music like .... " having an interest in music kind-of leads to more.
>3 slashedzero @ 2025/03/10 14:46
>>2 Ha, I hear this a lot too and it makes me worry that those of us who are not so connected to the music scene are just left in the dark. Anything you found recently that's any good? Doesn't matter genre.
>4 anthk @ 2025/03/21 13:46
>>OP archive.org has the Jamendo dump from James Scott, from textfiles.org. I'd suggest, as a start: - Diablo Swing Orchestra - Tunguska: Electronic Secret Society - NoCreeps
>5 ant @ 2025/03/22 14:33
>>4 It's Jason Scott, of textfiles.com .
>6 subtra3t @ 2025/03/22 15:20
This is the most basic answer you can get but primarily through Spotify/YouTube. On Spotify I don't use the recommendation algorithm at all though, I find it to be pretty bad. I tend to search for user created playlists and shuffle through the most liked playlists until I find an artist/song I like. For example lately I've been very into yacht rock, so I just searched on Spotify "yacht rock" and clicked on the first user created playlist. I've already found a ton of good songs and albums from that very playlist. In YouTube I solely use the algorithm, I don't think there is any scope for finding playlists. The algorithm is pretty good though. Just a couple weeks ago I discovered this really niche album Sons of 1973 by Satellite Lovers. Before the album was uploaded to YouTube very few people had heard of it and it was destined for obscurity. But YouTube exposed millions of people to the album and helped focus attention on the band's other albums too.
>7 subtra3t @ 2025/03/22 15:21
Oops, I didn't think there would be enforced indentation on every line. My bad for the ugly comment.