How Do You Discover New Music?
I love listening to a wide variety of music. When I’m working, I will often have music playing, which can be heard over my stream. People send me emails all the time with recommendations of different music, songs and artists I should check out. I always take the time to do so, since you never know what I might find that I enjoy and would have never heard of otherwise. I tend to discover my music this way. I had to ask my friends how they discover their new tunes.
I’ve had this dilemma until recently. I don’t use radio anymore, and I haven’t had cable in years so no MTV or VH1. I’ve recently discovered Pandora, quite happy with it. - Kevin Etter
On the radio ? - Charlie Anzman
Hype Machine is good although its hard to keep track of everything on there its updated constantly. - Sean Davis
I use Pandora constantly. - Morgan
last.fm, browsing iTunes & eMusic. Metafilter and various blogs also introduced me to a few bands - Mike Cohen
Definitely Last.FM ! - Éric Senterre
Pandora is definitely the way I find new music. I haven’t tried Last.FM in a while, I may need to rediscover it. - JT Perry
last.fm - nicerobot
Pandora and here. - Yolanda
I recommend Binaerpilot. - Vezquex
I have some friends whose raison d’être is finding new music, and they toss it to me. - Kirk Kittell
I don’t listen to radio at all. I don’t watch videos. Primary source of music is Last.fm and I find new/different stuff via FriendFeed. If I can’t find anything I like…I create it. - Rahsheen Porter
Cool friends - Noah Carter
Any and every way I can. I especially like getting recommendations from people I trust. Then, if I really dig the music, I will always have that connection to reflect on. - Josh Haley
last.fm, eMusic, and Jamendo. - Steven Perez
Madison, Wisconsin enjoys the benefits of a fine community station and a killer student station (i.e., WORT, WSUM). Always way ahead of the curve. Plus the internets are a bonus. - Dave Martin
Last.fm, Pandora, a few choice blogs and–every now and then–the radio. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl
Pandora, BBC 1 (it’s new to Americans) and a few di.fm programs. - Andrew Leyden
I don’t listen to radio or watch TV since I moved to the UK, so my primary sources now are Last.fm, eMusic, FriendFeed and Rolling Stone. I’d say I’m purchasing about as much music as I used to though - mostly CDs when Amazon or HMV has a sale. DRM sucks. - Jon Price
Pandora, Last.fm, podcasts, & sometimes radio. Friends too :) - zoblue
primarily - last.fm and amazon.com recommendations. secondarily - friend recommendations. I have the benefit of having friends with impeccable taste in music. - Jason Toney
Corie Allison - Bren
Friends, last.fm, radio, newspapers, movies, tv shows, magazines, concerts, nightclubs, festivals, and FF. - Pete Delucchi
Oh, music blogs and podcasts, too. flux, gramophone, soul sides, rock insider, and the fader are go to blogs. KCRW top tune, kexp song of the day, and indiefeed are my go to music podcasts. But, damn, now y’all know all my secrets. How will I maintain my rockist/soulist cred? - Jason Toney
All I use is last.fm, because somehow it amanages to find new related artists each week despite my massive music collection - Bartek Gniado
I tend to rummage with radio, and internet cause I don’t get music suggestions. - Shawn
Last.fm - Roger Benningfield
I’m a bit of a new-music freak and take a lot of time out to find new music. I don’t ell se last.fm but I am hooked up on the site. While Pandora was available in the UK that was by far the best way I found new music. Since then I browse my iLike Activity page weekly, as well as check my iTunes weekly mail of new tunes from my favourite bands. I also check BBC Radio 1’s and xfm’s playlists and isten to the hottest tracks from sixtyone.com. Lastly I check the music page on MySpace nd anything the London Timeout lists in its weekly magazine. For my type of music I listen to Zane Loe on Radio 1 A LOT! Huw Stephens and the In New Music We Trust programmes are very good too. I’m a member of Blip.fm and several others but they don’t seem to give me good results. - Kol Tregaskes
Oh and once I do find a new band I hck them out on Amazon and AllMusic and seek out the similar artists/Albums they list. ALso, Radio 1 has lots of podcasts to listen to. - Kol Tregaskes
If the last.fm feeds on FF all hd lay buttons then I would check them out more too. - Kol Tregaskes
I don’t, really. Most of my new music is soundtracks. I just don’t listen to music. - Brent Newhall
a href=”http://www.freeformrock.com” rel=”nofollow”>http://www.freeformrock.com (traditional FM freeform, including contemporary Americana, from one of the legendary freeform DJ’s) and Pandora for stuff that’s new to my hearing, but I somehow missed over the years ( http://pandora.com/share/stati… ). - Malcolm Gault-Williams
Through friends and Amazon.com. Occasionally through the BBC’s 1Xtra and the NY Times Arts section. My friends are musical omnivores and voracious consumers. They’ve introduced me to most of the new music I’ve purchased in the last year. - tiffany
i am in the black/electro scene - new music i find via last.fm, listening to my friends’ music and - like last weekend - by visiting festivals :) - Carsten
How do you find new music to listen to? Do you just turn on a radio and listen? Do you take recommendations from others? Or do you just happen across new stuff occasionally online?
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9 Comments
Shane
August 12th, 2008
at 2:15am
Last.fm, iTunes, Pandora, and any suggestions my friends or family send my way.
Bob Dobalina
August 12th, 2008
at 3:32pm
http://www.slacker.com
PsionicArchon
August 12th, 2008
at 5:51pm
If I’m craving something new and my current music library has become stale there’s a few things I find myself doing simply to pick up on a new song, or perhaps a newly released album from an already listened to artist.
Occasionally I’ll look through my music library and google my favorite bands, if I find they’ve released a new album I’ll youtube the songs, if I like them, I’ll download them.
I guess I needn’t re mention youtube then, but yes, it is a viable source of new music, especially if you do not have a means of downloading music.
Satellite radio. There are so many stations, and with XM and Serius merging, a good 300 right at your finger tips. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found myself simply listening so I can pick up on something new, if a song comes on that I like I will jot down the Artist’s name and the song name for later research.
Internet radio, I’ve seen last.fm mentioned hundreds of times, there is also yahoo’s radio and a great many cross state radio stations who not only broadcast their stations online but list the what they’re playing now and what they have recently played. One of my favorite New Jersey stations, the point, gives you a last ten songs we played list. It’s been very helpful as far as music discovery is concerned.
My friends have proven to be very helpful when I’m craving new music.. I find myself constantly browsing through their music libraries, and while hanging out with them have heard a great many songs I liked. In the past week one of my closest friends has already turned me on to about ten new bands.. boredom is far from my future.
Thomas Fitzpatrick
August 12th, 2008
at 6:47pm
i really like http://www.rcrdlbl.com/
lots of free downloads and the content is fresh everyday.
RockerX
August 12th, 2008
at 9:31pm
I use playlist.com, great social media music website.
Jose
August 12th, 2008
at 10:43pm
i usually find new music threw my friends sending me music or listening to there ipods
ThermionicEmissions
August 13th, 2008
at 12:55am
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Alec Hamburg
August 13th, 2008
at 11:04pm
Umm.. well it depends on what music you listen to.
If you want to get a little taste of all music a good place to start is myspace.
Maybe doing a little googling.
Another way is if your into certain music try looking up where they sell there clothes if it a franchise and has multiple bands then you can view not only get the name to sear more on them but maybe spend a couple bucks and buy a t-shirt.
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