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Decurso
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
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- #1
- Posted: 11/02/2015 02:19
- Post subject: How Do You Discover New Music?
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I have two questions to pose to our membership.
1.How do you discover new music?
2.Have your methods changed at all over the lat 10 years?
My methods are as follows:
1.Live performances. I would guess I am in a minority here, but for me music is a social experience that is best enjoyed live. Whenever a band is going to play where I live, I try to find out something about them. If I like them, I go to their show and buy their albums.
2.Samplers. The SXSW artist sampler series is a music fan's wet dream. Every year I discover 40-60 new artists this way.
3.Friends. There is a distinct link between personality and music, and I trust my friends to turn me on to good shit. In the old days...we traded mix tapes. Now...we swap USB drives.
4.BEA. Honestly, I haven't discovered many artists through this site, but I do use it a lot to find the best albums by artists who have been recommended to me elsewhere. So it is a rather important resource to me.
5.Books, Wikipedia and other miscellaneous resources. These are not to be discounted. Would I have ever heard of Robert Johnson if not for reading books about Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton? Probably. But reading those books gave me a head start.
Now...what it is interesting to me is not one of those methods involves the radio. 20 years ago...hands down it was radio and music television. During the 90s I had Direct TV and those satellite stations were responsible for introducing me to so much music.
So...to repeat the questions:1.How do you discover new music? 2. Have your methods changed over the last 10 years?
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creator
Age: 36
Location: chicago
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- #2
- Posted: 11/02/2015 02:24
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It used to be mixtapes and radio, then it became music blogs, and now it is almost exclusively rym and bea.
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sp4cetiger
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- #3
- Posted: 11/02/2015 02:31
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BEA is my top source right now, followed by blogs/review sites, followed by rym timelines. Sometimes I use last fm's "similar artists" feature, which has had a surprisingly high success rate.
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Location: Chicago
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- #4
- Posted: 11/02/2015 02:36
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Ironic bubblebass-obsessed hipsters on RYM.
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CA Dreamin
Gender: Male
Location: LA
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- #5
- Posted: 11/02/2015 04:00
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I've always discovered the vast majority of new music from friends/peers. That hasn't changed over the past ten years, and probably never will. As a secondary source, I used to discover a lot of new music from the radio while driving. But radio stations typically play the same artists and the same songs. And after a while, I felt like I heard them all. Today I rarely listen to radio. But today I'd have to say BEA has become my new secondary source. Joining this site has led me to listen to things I wouldn't have otherwise.
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Satie
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- #6
- Posted: 11/02/2015 04:27
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RYM
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Revolution909
Age: 29
Location: Galway, Ireland's 4th City
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France
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- #8
- Posted: 11/02/2015 06:40
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BEA
RYM
NAR
Exys.
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10 years ago it would have been mainly the French indie press. 10 years before, the radio.
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andyw110183
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Location: Scotland
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- #9
- Posted: 11/02/2015 06:48
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In terms of publications, the only thing I would read is the wire.
Online I mostly use BEA and occasionally RA and quietus.
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Patman360
Serenity Now
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Location: Cork, Ireland
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- #10
- Posted: 11/02/2015 08:50
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BEA, RYM, couple of varying blogs, video games and films have influenced it also. _________________
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