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What do you recommend for finding new music?
Usually I go with recommendations from friends and also listening to a lot of stuff I don't know if I'll like or not. NPR Tiny Desk concerts are great to figure out if you vibe with an artist. Also a huge fan of the Sofar Sounds channel on YouTube - found a bunch of artists I wouldn't have found otherwise. Also like to find interviews with artists I already like and find out what influenced them or what they're listening to now. I don't collect much vinyl, but love going to record shops and seeing what I can find.
Ah, I was hoping for something a little less time consuming, but that may have been too optimistic. I've listened to NPR and their music is good, but it's pretty much always the sort of pop and pop-adjacent stuff that you can easily find without much effort. Same deal with recommendations from friends.
The most promising non-Spotify recommendation system I've found so far is listenbrainz. It's still not giving any good recommendations though.
Look, if you're an enthusiast, that sounds great. Me, I don't get recommendations from friends - even if a friend recommends something, I don't usually bother listening anymore because in my personal case, the only ones who mention the artists they discover, have such a wildly different taste in music I just get nothing out of it.
The NPR Tiny Desk concerts sound cool, actually there's a similar concept in a local public radio in my country called "mini live" where an artist or group of artists present one or two songs (sometimes an original and a cover). But that's one episode a week and who knows if I'm even listening to the radio at that time. I don't really seek out radio programmes, I just listen to radio while driving.
I just find it easier to... Put on a song I know I like on YouTube Music, and let it autoplay similar shit. If I run into shit I dislike, I skip it and click dislike. If I find something new I like, I check out the name of the song, click like and if it's something I really like, then next time I might just start from that song, or listen to other songs from the same artist.
Currently the song I most often start off with is NF - Story which usually gives me, in some order, some of his other great tracks, and many other great hip-hop artists. Put it this way, the algorithm already knows not to give me Drake or Ye, but also knows I like Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, etc. And occasionally sprinkles in lesser known artists that tend to be good too. That's how I discovered NF in fact. Not that he's super unknown, but compared to Em and Kendrick, he might as well be nameless lol
I find I'm just so drained from all that's going on in my life, I don't have the energy to put into a discovery process like yours. I'm literally minmaxing finding music I like for as little effort as possible lol
Also just to add, I just do this on desktop with adblock enabled. On my phone I listen to podcasts and in the car it's public broadcast radio (so no ads)