Music
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I try to find new music, and have found some cool new groups. And some old favourites have fallen out of favour. I feel like my tastes evolve and change, so I'll try to find new music that speaks to me at this current point in my life.
A year from now I could be into a totaöly new style of music.
I still browse Rateyourmusic for new releases that seem interesting, but less and less seems interesting to me nowadays. Maybe that's the first sign of me getting old...
Where most of my friends are getting stuck listening to the same music they've been listening to when they were young I try to actively look for the new artists/styles too. Not everyday of course, but definitely at least one a month.
I'm always looking out for new music, but there's so much always coming out that it's hard to separate what I want to listen to from all the stuff I don't.
Yes I definitely try and seek out new bands and sub-genres. Just the act of searching is fun.
Also, Reign in Blood on repeat for 35 years
Is it just me or is the process of finding new music also succumbing to the forces of enshitification? Like for me the sources went like this:
- Old forum-style/niche internet sources (userbase died out)
- Internet radio (ate by Pandora)
- Pandora (ate by other music streaming sites, enshitification of algorithm)
- Spotify (enshitification of algorithm, bad treatment of music industry creators)
- Google music (rip... But tbh wasn't ever really good at finding new music)
- Music publications?? (Pitchfork is the best I guess??? Npr maaaybe? That's sad, and also all of these are prone to enshitification)
- Local underground music scenes (lots died with covid, hope they come back, but now I live in a more rural place)
Like... How do we find new music now? If it's up to an algorithm, it's enshitified. If it's up to people's suggestions, idk where a userbase would even exist.
I literally used to run charting for a radio station and I STILL don't know where to find new tunes. I'm still a baby, too, so some of you that think it's harder just because you're older... I have bad news lol
I think bandcamp is a pretty good way to find new music. I've gone down some lengthy rabbitholes finding a band I like then clicking various tags or links to other bands supported by their fans. You can stream a lot of the music, and if you buy something more of the money goes to the artists.
I have to admit that I don't actively seek out new music as such anymore.
But I usually welcome suggestions and follow a few reaction channels on YT. So I feel well-covered for my own need of new stuff.
Just got into 'Sicksense' for an example. Pretty neat band so far.
Its a mix. Finding new music is difficult and time consuming. But sometimes I actively try to find "new" stuff. But being in my late 40s that means basically anything less then 10 years old.
Back in "the olden days" the sieve of radio made me listen to a lot of stuff and I could pick what I liked. Post listening to the radio (because these days they are all either just playing the same stuff or gone).
But with a little effort I've found stuff.
I've recently found Bury Tomorrow and I'm liking a lot of their stuff.
On another genre side I've found Hugo Kant and really dig his stuff a lot as well.
I also found a throw back sort of trip hop band called Mirrors for Princes that I like though they don't have many songs.
I used to be that way, but recently I've been only listening to bands I'd never heard of before. I've had Spotify for about 10 years and only recently started using the Discovery Weekly playlist. It was only ok at first, but now I heart about 50% of the songs each week.
I have discovered so many great bands using Discovery Weekly! Not all the suggestions are the best, but I usually can understand why they were suggested.