…but how would I have been exposed to that music without the show?
How would I find music that I’ll possibly love, but I won’t be exposed to?
Doesn’t have to be rock at all.
I’m lucky to live in a really good radio town. For the last 10 years, I have found the best new music consistently from the KUTX community supported radio station.
You can listen to them online too. Laurie Gallardo is sort of my low key hero.
Local community radio show. CKUT and CISM in Montreal have great niche music shows: math-rock, electronica, experimental, underground hip-hop, name it, there’s a show for it.
Whenever I find a new artist I like I’ll make a pandora station based on one of their songs. It usually reveals a bunch of similar artists, it’s how I found Noah Kahan around pandemic time
Are you in the US? You might want to check out the eurovision song contest. I’ve become familiar with a lot more new music that way.
If you like that, check out San Remo – unlike the EVSC, it’s less about politics and more about talent, and Italians really know how to get experimental
I fucking hate YouTube Music, but the discovery algorithm is undeniable brilliant, even compared to Spotify
It takes maybe six months of skipping tracks you don’t like and fully listening to ones you do to teach it, but after that it’s pretty amazing
I share an account with my wife who has a hugely different taste, but it manages to find stuff we both like
ReVanced is the way
If you do find artists you like on Youtube (as in people who actually run their own channels) they might collaborate with other interesting artists too on some songs. That is a great way to find new artists.
Yep my wife loved the french band Deluxe’s “Flowers”, amazing track right enough
The algorithm started suggesting stuff by a guy called Chinese Man, very odd, not our usual stuff but strangely likeable
Turns out he’s the producer for Deluxe. Listened to a couple of his tracks that are kind electronica, the algo suggests more electronica which we skipped most of, the algo figures out what style we liked in that niche (to us) category.
And that’s just one example, I’ve discovered hundreds of bands because of it
As bad as Enshittification is, some bits of it are incredible
Do you use ReVanced with the default Play Music app? What are the advantages?
Really? It’s way worse than spotify for me. It pretty much plays the same set of songs whenever it autoplays no matter what it’s trying to base the autoplay on.
It takes maybe six months of skipping tracks
Lol, I look forward to good results by the end of the year? Maybe not the best algorithm after all.
I personally don’t have one particular way of discovering new music. It’s a mix of suggestions from different apps or friends. Shazam during movies and TV also helps guide some discoveries. Also just clicking through a rabbit hole of suggestions and marking stuff you like for future digging.
The algorithm will figure your rough taste out in a day.
But like most things in life, you’ll find patience does amazing things
Many, perhaps most, music services have towards the bottom of an artist page a list of similar artists that you can explore. Also, if you see what compilations a song, or an artist, is on you can see what else is on that collection.
Also, music services have collections for different styles of music. As you listen to those, if you like a song you can try to see if you like other songs from the same group / artist.
Completely ignoring your question to say, that Peacemaker soundtrack is awesome! I had no idea about a lot of those songs but now the title track is my ringtone. Lol
James Gunn generally does a good job at choosing music for his movies/series
Yup! GOTG soundtracks are really good!
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead’s album So Divided! https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kxLqnOo6nF_rB-JCbX2yf_AfsfPDx5h3k&si=CweERMj0J0MOpXh8
A throwaway Spotify noname account on your computer browser. This is not a joke.
I’m hesitant to link back to reddit, but I’m not sure there’s any community with quite the same amount of engagement/content yet. They have rules against number of views/plays to try to keep posts about lesser known stuff.
https://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/
The few things I liked about siriusXM when I had a subscription were alt nation (except Madison… ugh) and XMU. The DJs occasionally had insight into their choices but you can find the playlists themselves here
https://xmplaylist.com/station/siriusxmu https://xmplaylist.com/station/altnation
You could try random internet radios, usually long lists are easily searchable and just listen to them for a few mins at a time to see if you like anything then if you do look up that bands albums, or if you’re really interested read up about artists and what music inspires them and branch out from there.
BBC Radio 6 Music has a lot of obscure stuff, especially the DJs like Iggy Pop and Craig Charles.
Edit: also, go to a local open mic night, find someone whose music you like, and make friends with them. They’ll have loads of obscure recommendations for you.
Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend’s too Stupid to Know About https://www.mixcloud.com/PopSongsMixtape/
I like finding playlists that people on Spotify have made roughly around a particular band or genre. I find one and hit shuffle and see what happens. I’m talking an actual user made playlist, not the garbage Spotify “made for you” playlists. Those used to be solid until they started stuffing them with 90% songs I already listen to.
Sometimes playing the last song on an album that I like or one of my playlists gets some good stuff out of Spotify’s algorithm, but that is kind of hit or miss. It used to be quite a bit better.
