Music Discovery What Are Your Sources For Discovering New Music?

I've been finding a lot of good new artists and music from the online radio station out of San Francisco called Somafm.com - they have a streaming app for IOS (not sure about Android) as well as streams off their site directly - they have good diverse "channel" lineup geared toward specific genres and listening types. The iOS app has a good bookmark/find on iTunes feature that I can mark songs as I hear them, then go seek out the artist/music later.

The internet and my mate that has no job and sits at home looking up reviews all day.

Mostly WATMM.

soma, new releases forum on watmm, xlr8r, digital::nimbus radio & igloo mag. Mostly these.

  On 8/1/2012 at 8:51 PM, chassis said:

my mate that sits at home looking up reviews all day.

this. my friend just looks up music for hours on end and then he shares some of it with me. if it wasn't for him i wouldn't even know about aphex, BoC, autechre, etc...

youtube related vids and 4chan

blogs, soundcloud, songza (radio app), watmm's new releases forum, friends

I get friends whose tastes I trust to make me lists of their alltime/current favourites & make my way through them.

 

Pretty much have to do that because any opportunity to hunt down new music myself is also an opportunity to work on my own tracks & the latter usually wins out

i used to listen to soma a lot some 5-7 years ago, and coincidentally, today i was working alone so remembered it and decided to fire up the drone station, in my ~4 hours listening session i only liked 2 tracks, one by steve roach (whom i never heard before) and another one by "ex confusion". it seems like it was much better before..

Edited August 1, 2012 by eugene

last.fm, WATMM, random listening on Boomkat and Bleep.

Mostly WATMM new releases. Bleep newsletter, I also check Pitchfork best new music/albums sometimes.

 

But what usually happens is that I find a song I like and then check discogs for everything the artist has done

Edited August 1, 2012 by Wyern

i use similar resources, but another good strategy is to search out the label mates of musicians that you already like. a good way to do that is to go to discogs and look up labels with some artists you like and then track down the releases/artists on that label that you don't already recognize. then, since many musicians release on multiple labels, search out the other labels that they release on and repeat the process. you can find some great and lesser known releases that way. as much as i enjoy searching out stuff on boomkat/bleep/watmm, there can be a bit of a closed bubble effect where you just come across the same stuff that happens to be popular at the time, so this gives you a way out of the bubble

Edited August 1, 2012 by grue

Wow Soma is still around? Nice to see they haven't changed the site design much.

 

In no particular order:

 

- WATMM New Releases and Music Discussion

- A genre-agnostic music forum that is a small community I've been a part of for 6 years

- RateYourMusic.com reviews, lists, new release announcements

- Last.fm recommendations

- Facebook (via band pages or review sites/blogs I follow, etc)

good question mr joyrex,

 

I need more info into experimantal/alternative/guitar type bands. My usual sources don't seem to cover this too much. electronic stuff I have nailed but most of my guitar based recommendations came from mates who are all bringing up kids at the moment. One of which told me last week the last album he bought was SOADs Mesmerize which came out about 8 years ago!!

 

Stuff having kids then lol

Edited August 1, 2012 by beerwolf

Mostly WATMM New Releases forum and various e-newsletters from distros, labels, and individual artists.

WATMM, various online shop emails/newsletters, a few friends when shooting the shit about music, random links on smaller label sites.

 

Mostly WATMM tbh. I wouldn't listen to half the stuff I do now if I never came here.

 

It's also surprising how Facebook can have its uses. Producers I follow sometimes suggest new people.

-WATMM New Releases and Music Discussion

-Pitchfork Reviews

-Stereogum News

-My 18 year old cousin (a lot of crap but im hearing things I would NEVER have heard otherwise).

-Random ass tumblrs where someone just happens to post music and I just happen to listen.

-My old roommate (moved out in June) got me into *shels and TheWeeknd (chopped and screwed). I heard a lot of new rap through her too.

- I usually ask new people I meet what has been exciting them musically.

I subscribed to the wire for all of 2011. Never bothered to spend the $100 to renew. Nowadays, mostly you guys, or just googling names that sound interesting. I'll check some other places like chipmusic every once in a while for netlabel releases too.

  On 8/1/2012 at 10:32 PM, colunga said:

- I usually ask new people I meet what has been exciting them musically.

 

 

me too, but as you probably know by now, nine times out of ten it's usually horseshit.

Edited August 1, 2012 by beerwolf

dublab.com

watmm,soundcloud,facebook,clone,juno,boomkat,youtube

The [bloody] Boomkat weekly newsletter - there came a point about a year or two ago that I dreaded it arriving in my inbox as I knew I was going to buy a whole load of stuff that I couldn't really afford. Nowadays I've managed to keep my spending down to far more civilised levels.

man, boomkat spams one of my inboxes with pretty much a newsletter a day. every album is "a must have" "super rare" "HIGHLY recommended" "newly unearthed" "atmospheric gem" from an artist that i've never heard of or will ever hear of again outside the boomkat bubble. whoever is writing these emails, tone it the fuck down please.

Mostly WATMM and Youtube (the way youtube links you to "similar" songs)

Blogs, friends, galleries, youtube, soundcloud, music sites, the radio, magazines... Everywhere.