music How do you find new music to listen to?

[Music Chart Fan 819]

I've been thinking about the responses to my previous topic here:

 

http://mlpforums.com/topic/28652-does-anyone-else-look-up-music-popularity-charts/

 

I stated in this topic that I mostly discover new music by looking up songs that performed well on the singles charts and by listening to the radio (classic rock, oldies, and modern adult). Judging from the responses, I am relatively unique in discovering new music this way.

 

How do you find new music to listen to? (By new music, I mean music which you have not heard before, not necessarily music newly released.) Music popularity charts? Radio? Music forums? Friends' recommendations? YouTube? Someway else I am not thinking of?

[termenchecks 146]

record stores

youtube

internet radio

watmm.com

record labels

from my best friend

my excellent taste in music

[RippedOffMattress 314]

I either stumble across them myself, usually on Youtube, or I hear some other people, or my friends discussing it and I try it myself.

[NeverNeverland 1,940]

It's usually through Internet sites, other forum recommendations or YouTube reviews. What I listen to isn't mainstream and doesn't appear in normal chartings, and I never liked the popular hits charts thing, so I find it useless. Besides, user recommended stuff is usually better IMO.

[Skullbuster 1,906]

most EQD, and im subscribed to alot of my favorite musicans any way so i usually catch a song before it hits EQD

 

i only listen to brony music

[FedoraMemes 582]

Usually, a friend reccomends them to me, but I find all my new electronic music through either IKF (not so much) and Monstercat.

 

I also find a lot in the Metal Thread, or any other music thread that interests me.

 

I also tend to find stuff through YouTube related videos.

[Kazuki Fuse 534]

Make a last.fm account then when you listen to a band it'll recommend like 10 other bands with similar sound. Great way to find music you might never have otherwise discovered.

[Dr_Waveband 745]

I don't listen to music too much, so, funnily enough, often by watching PMV's (which I find on EqD).

I found out I like AWOLnation, for example, by seeing a couple of PMV's with their music in them.

 

Otherwise I just borrow a CD from the library with different bands' or, usually, composers' music on it.

 

 

I just realized I use interjections, like this one, in my sentences quite a lot.

[Bohtty 1,775]

Pandora Radio, Music used in youtube videos and on rare occasions, music I hear when I'm out and about.

[Viscra Maelstrom 3,718]

going through random albums in record stores or by going on the internet and downloading random shit from places. also listening to recs from others. works pretty well considering that i'm sure i must have over 100 physical albums now and 751GB's worth of music on my external harddrive (yes, 751 GB. no more, no less).

[MVC NVMXD JVRXD 2,406]

I get most of my music recommendations from the Metal Thread, here at this forum.

Besides that, another source are some guitar players I know. They are usually into some pretty obscure bands, and these bands are usually pretty good.

 

METAL THREAD.

 

[Zerul 554]

To be honest I don't even look for my music.I just seem to come across them Been working out pretty well for me thus far

[Dusty Soul 2,611]

I find new music by looking at similar artists to my favorite ones. Also I use EQD for a lot of my music needs.

[Crispy 5,563]

Going to shows and seeing the small opening bands, my co-contributors at the Metal Thread, and my various RL friends.

 

Oh, and Youtube related videos.

[Taco Horse 116]

Pandora or Tastekid. I mostly use Tastekid when I want to find more artist that are similar to artist I already listen to or if I really like one song by a band and want to hear other songs like it.

[PonyEcho 1,610]

word of mouth mostly i'll here about a song i'll try and find it on youtube and if i like it i'll buy it like most recently i heard from a mate that there was a new billy talent song out call viking death march i checked it out and loved it and now im gonna but the album when it comes out and see them live when they come to the UK.

[Modphase 1,271]

subscribe to random music people on youtube, play video games, talk to friends, and searching up artists names on youtube.

[Jimmy Bronymian 140]

I've found out this works well: http://www.music-map.com/

 

Just type in a band you really like, and it finds bands that are similar

[Psych Ward 377]

Opening bands at concerts are sometimes good. I also find out what NOT to listen to from opening bands at concerts.

[Rascal 44]

Youtube

T.V.

hearing it from the speakers of places Fast food resturants,supermarkets etc.

looking through my dads old CD collection which does count as old songs but it's exceptionable.

[Chill Mists (Chilly) 801]

Through other bands and Youtube mostly. I also listen to what others recommend, a lot of the time you can find some really great music thanks to others.

[Music Chart Fan 819]

hearing it from the speakers of places Fast food resturants,supermarkets etc.

Heh heh, I don't know about your experience, but the public places where I go usually play classic pop and rock music or adult music, and since I have spent a lot of time looking up artists of that nature, I usually end up already recognizing a lot of it. This has led me to many new songs before, though.

 

The funny thing is, when I hear new songs over the loudspeakers at these public places, I often end up being able to think of the artist and title of the song despite never hearing it before. Since I have spent many hours making chart databases, I have hundreds of artist-title associations in my head (e.g. Julian Lennon had a hit called "Too Late For Goodbyes"), without having any idea what the songs or artists sound like. Then, when I recognize a song I hear in this way, I can look up that artist's chart history and find out what other hits that artist had and listen to those.

 

However, if my memory fails me, or the artist or title is not obvious, then I have to remember some of the lyrics and look them up online later to find out what the song is.

[KakeiTheWolf 652]

1. Screw around on internet.

2. If internet fails, make my own.

3. Either way, profit.

 

Next question!

[LMW-YBC 102]

I find new music on YouTube. I've found lots of great music channels there, with the top two being VitalMusic and MonstercatMedia.

[Twiliscael 3,960]

I use a music program call Spotify and it has similar bands to the current one being listened to listed. I usually check out some new music from those, as well as being recommended by friends. I personally don't look at popularity charts or anything because most of the music I listen to isn't usually listed very high on those charts