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
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?
On the radio ? – Charlie Anzman