I listen to music all day at work, so I burn through new stuff in a short matter of time. What do you use to find new interesting music? My friends are not so great for this. All 160GB of my iPod already seems stale.
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How do you find new music?
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Amazon is pretty good about suggesting things to me.
F'rinstance, it told me about the new Chick Correa CD, which featured a bassist I'd heard of, but not heard. Liked what I heard, dug deeper. That led me to Hadrian Feraud's self-titled CD and the John McLaughlin Industrial Zen CD he played on.
I listen to the jazz station on my commute - canned stuff in the morning, local programming in the evening. That will often clue me into a new track or artist.
I've got quite the range of music in my player, something for almost every mood.
But perhaps I'm not easily bored - there are CD's I've listened to for 20 years and probably will until the end of (my) time. For me, if it goes stale in a listen or two, it probably didn't have much substance to begin with.
There are lots of good suggestions on TB as well.
F'rinstance, it told me about the new Chick Correa CD, which featured a bassist I'd heard of, but not heard. Liked what I heard, dug deeper. That led me to Hadrian Feraud's self-titled CD and the John McLaughlin Industrial Zen CD he played on.
I listen to the jazz station on my commute - canned stuff in the morning, local programming in the evening. That will often clue me into a new track or artist.
I've got quite the range of music in my player, something for almost every mood.
But perhaps I'm not easily bored - there are CD's I've listened to for 20 years and probably will until the end of (my) time. For me, if it goes stale in a listen or two, it probably didn't have much substance to begin with.
There are lots of good suggestions on TB as well.
NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts is great for stuff I'd never know to look for, otherwise Pandora or Last.fm.
I don't really look for new music, per se. But I look for new or old artists I haven't heard in a genre I like.
For example, I like classical organ music, smooth jazz, latin, and melodic speed metal on top of the more popular hard rock, classic rock, metal, jazz, R&B, and top 40.
For example, I like classical organ music, smooth jazz, latin, and melodic speed metal on top of the more popular hard rock, classic rock, metal, jazz, R&B, and top 40.
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Same here.
It's been a major resource for discovering artists I'd otherwise have never been exposed to by terrestrial radio.
Yep, never miss a support band, especially one I don't know, bought lots of CDs that way.... And on this side of the water anyway, the incomparable Jools Holland show, that b***er has cost me a fortune!
Pandora, I like to find music by new an older artists that I have never heard.
Groovin on some Bob Berg lately. too bad he's gone.
Groovin on some Bob Berg lately. too bad he's gone.
I follow Prog Rock Magazine online at progrockmag.com, and they're always posting new stuff for me to check out. I follow some labels on facebook, as well, which post about new releases from any of their bands, which gives me even more stuff to listen to.
