How do you find new music?

[DocD3F4U17]

i used to wait to hear cool stuff on MTV2 or Much

[trace]

Wikipedia! It may sound stupid but a lot of my musical discovery came from reading wikipedia articles about my favorite bands and just exploring all the related artists, guest musician's bands, bands on the same record label as bands I liked, musician's previous bands, bands who toured together, etc. Obviously there are tons of great smaller bands that aren't on wikipedia, but it's still a great way to find stuff especially if you aren't super concerned about "new" as in "2015" music and like to discover "new" old stuff.

Also it gives you tons of useless musical trivia knowledge, I challenge any of you to a game of six degrees of Trent Reznor.

[kbit]

Music news sites, wikipedia, friends, checking out other bands that go out on tour with bands I like even if im not going to see their show.

[Eivind August]

Wikipedia! It may sound stupid but a lot of my musical discovery came from reading wikipedia articles about my favorite bands and just exploring all the related artists, guest musician's bands, bands on the same record label as bands I liked, musician's previous bands, bands who toured together, etc. Obviously there are tons of great smaller bands that aren't on wikipedia, but it's still a great way to find stuff especially if you aren't super concerned about "new" as in "2015" music and like to discover "new" old stuff.

Also it gives you tons of useless musical trivia knowledge, I challenge any of you to a game of six degrees of Trent Reznor.

Glad I'm not the only one. It's cool to listen to music whilst learning the history behind it.

Also related artists on Spotify, friends, blogs and forums, and the occasional youtubeing.

[Ugly Nora]

A great place to discover new stuff is discogs.com. For the uninitiated, it is a cd/vinyl etc marketplace with sellers from around the world. Usually it is people selling stuff from their own collections. I usually wind up there looking for a specific item. Once I find that item I want to buy I look at everything else the guy has for sale. Logic dicatates that if he has 1 cd I like he probably has a bunch of other stuff I would like. So, I comb through their collection, and check things out on youtube etc that look interesting. Things are broken down by genres, and styles and whatever so you can easily search for other similar items they might have.

Also, if anyone is into drone stuff, here is a good list by year that has several thousands albums from 1966-current day.

https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Drone/

[D.o.S.]

Discogs is also the jam for finding shit that sells for wayyy too much on ebay or whatever.

[DocD3F4U17]

a good place for brothers and sisters to go is fuse if u got cable some videos suck but sometimes theyll play cool stuff that dont blow for the brothers and sisters at home with nothing to do but maybe no internet to play with

[Ugly Nora]

Discogs is also the jam for finding shit that sells for wayyy too much on ebay or whatever.

Yeah, I just bought a mint Rhys Chatham boxset for $45 on discogs. Currently on Amazon they have 2 "very good" for sale. One is $79.95 and the other is $315.04. A new version is going for $392.74 (plus $3.99 shipping)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006 ... =8-3-spell

[lordgalvar]

A great place to discover new stuff is discogs.com.

Heck yea, discogs is awesome. I even found myself on there (don't know who went out of there way to add it, but cool). I read Maximum Rock and Roll and distraught lists for good and interesting names/descriptions and then scour the Internet and discogs.

Sometimes I go to shows I normally wouldn't and talk to the random people and djs. A lot of those guys post track lists on facebook. Found some neat stuff. That's how I find stuff I normally wouldn't be digging for.

For Example, I like Crass which was associated with anarchy punk. Rudimentry Peni had a record put out by crass. Part1 were associated with RP. Talked to someone with a Part1 patch....found Belgrado.

I liked Melt Banana then heard a split with Discordance Axis, my friend told me to check out OLD because I liked DA, found out about Plotkin, heard Khanate, then Sunn0))).

[ChetMagongalo]

thanks for all the advice guys a lot of stuff I didn't think about doing!

[kbit]

Also, if anyone is into drone stuff, here is a good list by year that has several thousands albums from 1966-current day.

https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Drone/

Thank you

Listening to Cluster for the first time and really enjoying it.

[Ugly Nora]

Yeah Cluster is good. They were previously called Kluster. Those guys do some collabs with Eno worth checking out (like all Eno).

Also check out the Taj Mahal Travellers if you don't know them. Awesome live improv drone ambient stuff. Wacky Japanese dudes.

[leaves turn]

I spent years on rateyourmusic. Found a lot of great music and cool people, but you can get sucked in and waste a bunch of time managing your collection and making lists and "is this album a 4 or a 4.5?!" and "what are the greatest italo-disco singles with harmonized male vocals?" instead of actually enjoying music for what it is.

[backwardsvoyager]

I spent years on rateyourmusic. Found a lot of great music and cool people, but you can get sucked in and waste a bunch of time managing your collection and making lists and "is this album a 4 or a 4.5?!" and "what are the greatest italo-disco singles with harmonized male vocals?" instead of actually enjoying music for what it is.

it is a slippery slope. i've really come to dislike the notion of 'rating' music. genre categorisation is a useful guide for many reasons but yeah, the rating thing is why i don't use sites like pitchfork to find music because to some degree you're making up your mind about something based on the subjective opinions of others before you even listen to it.
i get really OCD about finishing things, like if i like an album on a bandcamp label i have to test out every other album on the same label even if there's like 200. then the ones i do download i might only go back and listen regularly to a couple. there's just an intimidating amount of stuff out there.

[darthbatman]

mentioned already but bandcamp is my jam, i find shit by browsing through tags and explore different genres depending on my mood.
there's some really great stuff on there from people getting down in a totally DIY way. It's like anti-radio

edit: for instance here's some totally wacky homemade shit from right there around denton, which for some reason i can't stop listening to
http://avant-age.bandcamp.com/album/collard-greens