>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.
>8 mathpunk @ 2025/04/22 04:39
>>OP I used to use youtube to find new music. The recommendations actually used to be pretty darn good; I found almost all of my favourite bands this way. At some point I started feeling like youtube was just recommending me the same music I had already heard/videos I had already seen - no idea if something actually changed or if this is just my perception, though. Nowadays I just ask my friends for recommendations, which usually goes well because I know people who are excited to share what they're listening to.
>9 rmgr @ 2025/04/27 03:50
>>8 +1 for youtube, I follow channels like Audiotree and KEXP who showcase smaller acts which has found me a lot of my favourite bands lately
>10 mathpunk @ 2025/04/29 08:01
>>9 I totally forgot that there are lots of channels on youtube specifically dedicated to showcasing music. I'll be on the lookout for more of those to add to my RSS feeds
>11 scootinkerer @ 2025/04/30 16:42
>>OP I like stumbling on peoples' personal collections, but I don't have a method for doing so. When I notice a youtube video is in a playlist, I browse the playlist. When I download something on Soulseek, or when someone downloads from me, I browse their collection and sometimes there are curiously named directories with all sorts of stuff. For example, recently I've found a metal party playlist from what seems to be early-to-mid 2000s. On Soulseek. Learned some fun songs from bands I've never heard about. One time I walked past a teenager with a bluetooth speaker and searched part of the lyrics of a song they played that I liked. Found a great artist this way. For finding new-new stuff I have no idea, tried Spotify a few times but it's garbage, just like radio is. Youtube recommendations are useless to me too, always steering into the same direction if you leave it on auto play.
>12 scarecat @ 2025/05/07 20:30
While yes, major of the music I discover is from Spotify, I found this blog from someone on Neocities that has been a great source for finding new music: https://sophiesfloorboard.blogspot.com/ its particularily an archive + reviews of the rock / metal / emo / hardcore genres.