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How do you discover new music these days?

Spotify’s Release Radar playlist.

It only has new releases from the artists you choose to follow, so I make sure to follow a lot of artists, new and old.

When they collaborate, I find new artists in genres I like. I also listen to pop radio, YouTube, and Amazing Radio (new indie artists).
 
..from the reference tracks that clients send me!
There's also this genre tree I want to check out that Seids posted on her YT shorts. Each genre listing also has links of artists. That could come in really handy. I can't find the link right now but did find MusicMap which is similar but I don't think it has the links like this other one did.
 
Genre oriented online radio stations, DJ sets (with playlists), compilations/album samplers and not at last checking out the work of band members that performed on my favorite albums.
 
I tend to network outwards from something that interests me. My wife refers to Radio 3 as the shopping channel, because I'll hear something and be checking out of Amazon before it's even finished. But then I'll do a bunch of googling, and branch out from whatever it is, buying stuff along the way. This year I've already gone from Marius Neset on Radio 3, and am currently buying discs of music that blends electronica with Sami Joiks - darned if I can remember all the steps in between, although I know Bjork and Anna Thorvaldsdottir featured. I've also got a side thread going, of hunting down all the jazz arrangements of the Rite of Spring that I can find. Last year I started with Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto for Turntablist, and ended up down a whole bunch of EDM rabbitholes, as well as hunting down CDs of Hopkins weird instruments and Radiohead arranged for string quartet.

Incidentally, if you haven't heard Marius Neset, I thoroughly recommend rectifying that. His 'Manmade' concerto is fantastic.
 
I find good radio DJs & follow them. Every week I get a 2 hour mix from each of Giles Petersen (BBC & others), Benji B (BBC), David Rodigan (BBC), Hessle Audio (NTS), Drift Deeper (Patreon), Steve Barker (MixWire) & Stinky Jim (BFM) and they all care about music enough to share their playlists (& often link to bandcamp releases) - it’s a form of discovery where the algorithm of streaming can be completely ignored as it has nothing to offer by comparison to the humanity of great DJs & music collectors/curators sharing their selections. Another invaluable form of discovery for me is reading reviews & interviews in The Wire magazine.
 
Reading all your answers, I noticed music written press seems to be a concept of the past (just one mention of the Wire).
Also no one did mention concerts.
Not that I read music press (I stopped long ago because I couldn’t find anything interesting in it and I was tired paying to read for commercials in disguise), and I don’t go to concerts as often I’d like, but it means something about our time.
 
Niah2 said:
Hello,

How to guys discover new music these days? I am talking about not just soundtracks or scores because that's easy, but any other type of music.

A few years ago I was really happy with just the YT related videos and honestly it was even overwhelming the amount of excellent of music I was getting from this feature. (I didn't even had a YT account). These days it seems that YT is more of a pool for clickbait and scandal material than any other thing. :-(

I don't have any streaming service.

Curious to hear from you guys.

Thank you
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I started clicking on vids with very few views in Youtube and this year it has exploded (in YouTube suggestions feed), now I even get suggestions with '1 view'. Yesterday, I got a vid suggestion of a guy in Kenya 'How to start boiled maize business in Kenya' - (with only few views) and I absolutely love it.

But it's great to check things out on music scene this way, and you are not being pushed a narrative either. The main issue is though, 99% is crap music. It's basically a catastrophe how bad the music is these days. But if you skim through 100 vids, there is 1-2 that pass the threshold.

In conclusion: start to click on music vids with few views, and at some point YouTube algorithm asks 'are the suggestions good' and click 'very good'.
 
Calagan said:
Reading all your answers, I noticed music written press seems to be a concept of the past (just one mention of the Wire).
Also no one did mention concerts.
Not that I read music press (I stopped long ago because I couldn’t find anything interesting in it and I was tired paying to read for commercials in disguise), and I don’t go to concerts as often I’d like, but it means something about our time.
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In the classical world I don't think concerts have been a way to discover new music for many decades, because they're programmed with the assumption that people don't like new things. An orchestra might premiere one work, but then play a bunch of Beethoven and Mozart to make sure nobody goes home complaining that everything is squeaky gate music these days. So it's a very slow way of discovering new things.
 
Pingu said:
In the classical world I don't think concerts have been a way to discover new music for many decades, because they're programmed with the assumption that people don't like new things. An orchestra might premiere one work, but then play a bunch of Beethoven and Mozart to make sure nobody goes home complaining that everything is squeaky gate music these days. So it's a very slow way of discovering new things.
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I get a lot of contemporary classical works from YT.
 
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