Browsing the top 10 on sites like Redacted or Orpheus became my preferred way of discovering new music.
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Music discovery galaxy brain: asking Siri to play [first random phrase that pops into your head]
I tried using Spotify's AI DJ... I am getting old, I want to discover something new, but I have no idea how to do it, AI DJ promised to try to challenge me with new music... I tried switching songs and modes for half an hour, never heard a single song that would be on my playlists or by a band that is on my playlists. The Spotify AI DJ is just a really fancy shuffle button and is absolute garbage.
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Unfortunately I barely have friends
Making friends can be hard, but you're already in a good place to make some (Fediverse).
Good Luck <3
No thanks
I do this for cartoons. If you tell me about a cartoon I haven’t heard of my immediate reaction is to download it.
I have almost 600 cartoon series, none older than late 80s.
Listen to Fantastic Planet by Failure, you're welcome
One of my favourite bands. Solo albums by Louis and Genevive (the duo behind Knower) are also fire. Knower - Knower forever
Love Louis Cole and everyone even remotely associated with him. Genevieve Artadi, Moonchild, Jacob Mann, Thundercat, Ben Wendel, MonoNeon… and then going from those guys also lead into a lot of other great music.
Sam Wilkes, who plays bass on many knower tracks is someone that keeps inspiring me since I first heard him. Check out his line on Scary pockets cover of Creep, so simple yet brings a grin on my face every time.
My bandcamp findings dump this year so far :3
- Mikaela Davis — Graceland Way
- Tara Clerkin Trio — Somewhere Good
- Smirk — Speculative Fiction
- Magic Tuber Stringband — Heavy Water
- Courtney Barnett — Creature of Habit
- Sarah Kinsley — Fleeting EP
- Father Dionysos Tabakis — Paradise Metal
- Ecca Vandal — LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW
- Rafael Anton Irisarri — Points of Inaccessibility
- Kelsey Lu — So Help Me God
- Underwater Sleep Orchestra — The Night and Other Sunken Dreams
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Best music discovery I’ve had was a thread on the something awful forums maybe 2 decades ago. People would post their favorites or ones they wanted similar artists to, and folks would chime in with suggestions. I discovered so much music in that thread, stuff that has become my core favorites. I learned about Chromeo in that thread (back when Needy Girl was new) and they have been in my top 5 or 10 ever since.
I do enjoy the Apple Music suggestions, but finding new is so much slower and more hit or miss.
There should be a site for community driven music suggestions similar to that old thread. Especially nowadays when so much is independent and obscure.4
Hey that's a really cool idea! It could be based around ActivityPub. I kinda feel like a Threadiverse community might would suffice though?
This has to do with the death of music journalism in general. A lot of curation function was done through magazines and online publications, many of which are now gone or much smaller than they used to be: Pitchfork, Paste, NME, Rolling Stone and so on. Now curation is done through niche influencers.
By the way I do some curation on Youtube with an emphasis on Austin based indie and folk music. You can check out my Youtube of live music videos:
If you like funky Argentine funky indie pop? Bandalos Chinos are the dogs bollocks
Music discovery by watching cathatonic youths clips
Found my favourite album by scrolling new releases on Bandcamp: Plantoid - FLARE
Came back to say I bought this one last friday, thanks for the suggestion.
That’s nice to hear. I usually get tired of new music pretty quickly but I‘ve been listening to this album at least once a month since I bought it in February and still love it
[ stretches ]
Alright... I guess it's time for another one of my "I will listen to your song" posts
Here we go https://lemmy.world/post/50708959
EDIT: Just noticing plenty folks are sharing stuff in here anyway. Whoops. Egg meet face. =3
I don't talk to people I just grab my music straight from the game files and random youtube videos that I don't use youtube but I randomly remember stuff sometimes or find out about something and use yt-dlp or just pipetube or whatever I have. and then use vlc or any random file player for that matter.
If you like the Beatles and trippy/weird song lyrics, check out Klaatu
I unironically get mine from Neuro Sama Karaoke.
I've been finding new music as last year I discovered a group that shares 50 songs a year, that's been running since 2009. I actually already knew about it as artists I already follow are involved with the group, I just somehow never connected the dots until recently. This shit is gonna last me ages
Whoa! That sounds super awesome! That'd probably be too much music for me to listen to, though. I generally listen to a smaller mumber of artists, but I listen to like, all of their albums.