Music discovery

[PP34]

How do you go about discovering music in today's world?

The radio has basically died as a music discovery tool with stations blasting the same 4-5 artists.

I've found Spotify to be okay for finding related artists.

 

[Gough]

I look at who influenced my favourite bands and singers, go backwards from there. At some point you always end up listening to Robert Johnson.

 

[Quivorir]

http://www.gnoosic.com/

https://www.music-map.com/

 

[Plugger35]

I used to buy Uncut magazine monthly and they had CDs attached which were a guide to the month's best music, ie. songs off albums they had reviewed.

Discovered some good music from that but I stopped buying it several years ago when the quality of the magazines and the CDs deteriorated.

 

[_VXV]

Many old rockers do podcasts & streamable radio shows featuring their influences & new music that's captured their attention. Rollins, Iggy, Alice Cooper do this. Here's one if you like metal done by Fenriz from Darkthrone that I've discovered some great artists on whom would of otherwise slipped through.

http://www.nts.live/shows/radio-fenriz

 

[Richard Cranium]

By reading the myriad 20-1 countdowns on the music board.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I stopped buying it several years ago when the quality of the magazines and the CDs deteriorated.

Nah, you just got old, man.

 

[Golden_6]

I still use the radio. Triple J constantly play new music and I'm finding new artists and bands every week that I enjoy. I can delve into their later work from there.

 

[Gough]

PP34 seeing as tomorrow is the 52nd anniversary of Dylan going electric, there's some rich material to be mined from that era if you haven't already. Butterfield Blues Band, Al Kooper, The Band.

 

[Gough]

Try the Basement Tapes, it's like everyone got together, got a bit boozed, a bit high, and played some tunes. Except it's Bob Dylan and The Band doing it.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Youtube.....Invariably one artist you like will lead onto another of a similar genre.....A bit like books really.

Have just happened upon Emili Sande, whose been around as an artist for a decade, but because she's British , we just don't hear her on our radios.

Can't get enough of her atm.

 

[the_interloper]

I look at who influenced my favourite bands and singers, go backwards from there. At some point you always end up listening to Robert Johnson.

Ha ha, I bought a Robert Johnson best of just because I felt I had to, still give it a spin occasionally. What you say is right though, my fave band is Metallica and they always crapped on about Black Sabbath and Motorhead, so listened to them, but then you can go forwards again, like how Pantera used to cover Sabbath (along with every other metal band) Though I would say that often a great band's biggest influences aren't always great. If you take a band like Diamond Head, they were kind of ok, like a poor man's Zeppelin, but then Metallica took them and kind of amped them up with some Maiden/Priest/Sabbath influence essentially and left them in the dust really.

And that doco about the band Anvil, the metal band that never made it, well you can tell by listening to their music. They may have been groundbreaking when they came out but they quickly sounded dated by the growth of thrash metal. Of course I was 2 at the time but I'm an expert.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Commercial radio is dogshit. You won't hear anything new and good on it. ABC's Triple J is decidedly better but leans towards pissy music. If you're driving in a car, and don't want to hook in a device, community radio (in Melbourne 3RRR 102.7 and PBS 106.7) is your best bet to hear something new and good. But otherwise the internet is full of reviews sorting the good new stuff from the junk new stuff.

 

[ChappyUK]

Wont be everyone's genre but I use this

birp.fm

100 mostly never heard artists. Found some great bands this way.

Outside of that I read lots of review websites metacritic, pitchfork, themusic.com.au.

Never listen to the radio.

 

[raskolnikov]

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...itle-votes-due-wednesday-7-45pm-aest.1170482/

 

[JG22]

Spotify has become king. New tunes will just arrive in the generic top hits playlists constantly.

The use of Shazam anywhere and snatching tunes of mates will work also. Soundcloud if u want bangers

 

[Catfish Alley]

I tend to do most of my music through the tv now. I just use the music app and you can search new music by genre, artist etc. National radio can also be good.

 

[DroopStDanny]

This

I look at who influenced my favourite bands and singers, go backwards from there. At some point you always end up listening to Robert Johnson.

And this

If you're driving in a car, and don't want to hook in a device, community radio (in Melbourne 3RRR 102.7 and PBS 106.7) is your best bet to hear something new and good.

Triple J is not much better than commercial radio. Government funded so they need to get the numbers to justify the expenditure in a time where the ABC has had its budget slashed so they play a fair bit of shit. It's not even a shadow of what it was when I listened to it in my teens about 30 years ago.

 

[GWBogan]

By reading the myriad 20-1 countdowns on the music board.

I'm still waiting for an update in the Luke McPharlin 20-1 thread.

 

[Mofra]

Music festivals, soul nights, PBS (Bluejuice is an excellent program), word of mouth.

 

[Chaisa]

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...itle-votes-due-wednesday-7-45pm-aest.1170482/

Haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Other than that, Spotify is good. Community radio is decent but depends where you live (i.e. outside of a major city and you're out of luck probably). And obviously sites like Pitchfork help.

 

[Scotland]

Triple J is awful.

As you stop being an impressionable teenager your music tastes do change to a degree and you get sucked into the 'my era was the best' thing, but I was still listening to and enjoying Triple J years after finishing high school.

From about 2010 onwards it's just become a mixture of stuff that's on commercial radio anyway and stuff that makes my ears bleed. It's reflected in the Hottest 100s. 'Big Jet Plane' and 'Talk is Cheap' #1s? **** me. They would've struggled to make it at all in the mid 90s. A dude from Australian Idol at #3? Jeeeesus. About the only thing it has going for it is a medium for Aussie hip hop to get a run. Where are the Living End/Grinspoon/Frenzal Rhomb/Spiderbait/Custard/The Fauves/Jebediah/Regurgitator/etc. bands coming through?

The whole Taylor Swift 2014 ban thing shows how precious and pretentious the people running Triple J are these days.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...itle-votes-due-wednesday-7-45pm-aest.1170482/

Most posters in that thread just nominate Gold FM songs.

 

[Twoslabs]

Youtube.....Invariably one artist you like will lead onto another of a similar genre.....A bit like books really.

This is exactly how I've found many new artists.

Also with physical CD's I normally look at the thank yous as bands will thank other bands in a similar genre that they've toured/ played with

 

[The Lemon]

Start at my trusty wikipedia, searching Shoegaze and then go from there.