How do you look for new music?

[mercifulfuzziness]

Back in the days I would go to the record store. The choices where limited but I was able to find my next jams.
Then came Spotify. All the music at my finger tips. Also have Youtube Music.

But that algorithm... it sucks for me. It keeps giving me Gary Clark Jr, one of my favorite artists, Rolling stones, Black Keys.. the usual stuff if you are a bit into blues rock / rock like me etc. This week discover weekly dared to give me "Aretha Fraklin - You make me feel like a natural women". How can that ever be a new song for me?

Then there is all the 90s hiphop still there because that was my first love.

I need to find new music, especially guitar music.

How do you find new stuff?

 

[PLX]

I watch like 4 or 5 of this guy's videos, and the algorithm feed flows with kick ass guitar music.

 

[duzie]

I’m an old curmudgeon
Stuck in the music of my youth
New music

 

[sleewell]

Hate5six

We send new stuff that we each find in our band chat too.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

I watch like 4 or 5 of this guy's videos, and the algorithm feed flows with kick ass guitar music.

The problem for me is the algorithm. It rarely shows new music. The “mixes” in Spotify are just a rehash of what I am already listening too and it seems like they deleted the “new album releases” section.

 

[PLX]

New music

 

[DrewJD82]

I've actually ended up with quite a few new albums/bands by letting Apple Music shuffle after I finish an album/song of a particular artist. Most of the newer metal stuff I've come across that way. Reddit's also got various subs for sharing specific genres of music that can be good for the same thing.

 

[Mongillo19]

Spotify DJ has been helpful for me. Thanks AI

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

How do you look for new music?

 

[MirrorProfiles]

BBC Radio 6 Music. Constantly discovering a ton of great new music from here, fully recommend it

 

[FuzzyAce]

I'll periodically cruise through bandcamp and check out music. Pandora playlists. Youtube. One new artist usually leads to another if you go down the rabbit hole.

 

[la szum]

I like to have conversations with someone younger than me.



My Son and I listened to a lot of new-to-me music this weekend while we were on the road to Chicago.

This was my fave band that he hipped me to.

 

[Warmart]

I like to have conversations with someone younger than me.



My Son and I listened to a lot of new-to-me music this weekend while we were on the road to Chicago.

This was my fave band that he hipped me to.

But the sticker at the bottom right means it's not for parents?

 

[la szum]

 

[FuzzyAce]

I like to have conversations with someone younger than me.



My Son and I listened to a lot of new-to-me music this weekend while we were on the road to Chicago.

This was my fave band that he hipped me to.

I did discover a lot of folk and folk rock, indie folk etc. from my niece some years back. I was teaching her guitar and we ended up writing quite a few songs in the process too.
I like discovering new music, and having a young person's perspective can open up doors you weren't expecting.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I turn the radio on once in a while, I try most videos posted here, and whatever my Pandora stations choose that's new to me, but for the most part, I don't hear much that piques my interest.

Plus, I have enough music on my phone that I could listen to it for months w/o repeating a song.

Mammoth WVH and The Warning are the only 2 bands I've come across lately that do anything for me. I guess I'm just one of those people that finding new music is just not important to me any longer.

 

[gonzoknife]

Podcasts and my teens. They overall have decent taste in music. Sometimes my son will be driving and listening to something new and cool I haven't heard before.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

New or new to me?

YouTube Music rabbit holes, bandmates that are way older than me talking about old bands I had never head of, YT channels like Tankthetech.

 

[la szum]

I did discover a lot of folk and folk rock, indie folk etc. from my niece some years back. I was teaching her guitar and we ended up writing quite a few songs in the process too.
I like discovering new music, and having a young person's perspective can open up doors you weren't expecting.

That's awesome, FA! I agree! I really dig young people. They have youth on their side....

 

[la szum]

New or new to me?

YouTube Music rabbit holes, bandmates that are way older than me talking about old bands I had never head of, YT channels like Tankthetech.

Nice to know us Geezers can pay it back now and then.

Truth is, there is still so much old music I have not experience in depth
that I find myself going forward and back at the same time. My latest
fascination is Old Country and Texas/Western Swing.