Bandcamp daily Blogs Since I listen mostly to hip hop and rappers collaborate often, features is a big part of the way I discover new music

It’s all mostly happenstance and serendipity but I do find a lot of music by googling what I hear in the background of movies and TV. Letterkenny always has really good music and it’s always or almost always by a Canadian group that I might not otherwise encounter.

To add to your sites:

• Last.fm, especially the “Similar Albums” section on Album pages and the “Similar to” section on Artist pages.
• Sharethreads on 4chan’s /mu/: The download links in older threads might be dead, but it still might be useful for discovering new music.
• “Essential [insert genre] Charts”

I usually get a bunch of cool stuff from the Quietus end-of-year list. It’s a lot more varied than the lists of most other publications.

Besides that, mostly Rateyourmusic for sure, especially the “Let’s all find the next gem of [current year]” forum threads. I also used to visit /mu/ for recommendations back in the day, but the culture there made me, uhh, reconsider my life choices.

Spotify’s Discover Weekly used to be great for me for a long time and I’d get lots of new music that I liked. it got pretty stale over the past year or so, with stuff that I don’t enjoy at all, and it often recommends me the same songs that I tell it to not recommend. it feels like I’ve reached the end of the internet and there’s no more music left to try.

yeah, Spotify really thinks you wanna hear the same dozen or songs on a loop. I’d love it if I could “pause” a song and keep it out of rotation for a few weeks. The AI DJ is very occasionally helpful - in between sets of the usual he’ll blast you with something out of left field.

I find it’s more useful to look at artist playlists on spotify - see what they are inspired by. As long as the band’s not too big, then it’s more what their label wants to push.

I also use Bandcamp #discover where you can browse by tags - which seems kinda oldschool now. But so far works great for me

I use a combination of Spotify discover weekly playlists, related artist lists, and lately I’ve been finding a random new category that Spotify curates and then searching for playlists of the same type that are curated by users. I think I get more deep cuts that way.

honestly the spotify algorithm is shockingly good at recommending me new music. it knows my taste inside and out. And i listen to almost every genre, but have my specific preferences to every genre. Been on the same account for like 10 years so spotify knows me pretty well by now

It used to be Discovery on whatever music app I’m subscribed to, but they have all turned awful for finding good music.

They always end up playing the same type of single creator synthesised music that presumably is cheaper per stream than big bands.

There are so many proper rock bands over the last 50 years, I just wish I knew how to find them.

Whenever I come across a new band I add their albums to my Plex, eventually I’ll have enough to do my own discovery.

Recommendations from friends/random socials/memes. Discovered Wind Rose through a Deep Rock Galactic meme. 😂

Spotify’s discovery algorithm is great. Outside of that I routinely check Pitchfork for new albums. theneedledrop makes good recs too and Any Decent Music is a pretty decent music review aggregator similar to Metacritic but for more niche styles.

These days I listen to a lot of dance music though, so I tend to discover music via DJ mixes on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Their Bandcamp Weekly section is pretty great and you can easily find music by browsing record labels, people’s collections or the “if you like x” recommendations listed at the bottom of individual release pages.

The YouTube algorithm is sometimes surprisingly good. Like “Listen to this band with 47 plays!” and then it’s a banger.

Used to be what.cd

Now it’s just hopes and prayers

thats a good question. i think i find most new music irl. just friends or family that are into something i havent heard of yet. into classic rock a lot now because of my father in law having his youtube recomended constantly playing at their place and its all old rock songs from 60’s to 90’s. i think online you’d have to maybe find some music communities and go from there. finding one new song on youtube can open up a lot when you sort the suggestions on the side by music and just keep going down the rabbit hole.

Bandcamp via the Tags system can really yield some great results. It’s got a virtual feel equivalent to browsing through a physical record store.

I basically just poke around until I find something I like then check the tags at the bottom of a release. Click the tag and then browse that for other stuff.