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Which Websites Do You Use To Find Great New Music?
I use the amazing websites anydecentmusic.com, metacritic.com, and some other websites (this one included) to find great new music and then download/buy from amazon or iTunes.
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Permalink Reply by Randy Brown on -
I use LastFM, NoiseTrade and ReverbNation.
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Permalink Reply by Will James on -
For what I do, I need to find good bands at the local level. MySpace actually used to be great for hearing bands before it petered out; certainly better than most artists' own websites unfortunately. I go with ReverbNation, lots of good things for bands to promote themselves, I can hear them, etc. The good ones know about it, or should. I insist that bands are on it. Incorporates somewhat with Facebook, though in general Facebook is useless for music, still.
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Permalink Reply by RP N10 on -
Podcasts - CBC3; NPR; The Miller Tells Her Tale; Nine Bullets; KEXP Song of the Day
No depression
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Permalink Reply by Randy Brown on
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Oh, man, I forgot NineBullets! Also, Paste Magazine, American Songwriter and, of course, NO DEPRESSION!
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Permalink Reply by Doug Shirk on
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NPR's "All Songs Considered" blog is a good choice. I also know this ia contridiction in terms, but for modern "classic soul" or new recordings by classic soul artists, www.soulfuldetroit.com is a good bet.
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Permalink Reply by Doug Shirk on
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The trouble with Pandora is you've got to feed through so much junk because of their music "paramators". I recently set up a psych station because "The Technicolor Web Of Sound" shut down, and along with the 60's psych, I'm getting rap (among other things). My oldies stream is populated with second rate cover bands, and my country/rock (Poco, NRPS, etc) presents me with all sorts of garbage. On music I don't know well (Americana, for example), it's difficult to tailor a station.
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Permalink Reply by Greywolf on -
Yeah makes sense, but I don't use it for stations to play music on a sustained basis, I just occasionally put in an artist or a song and see what else comes up and it gives me something to check out further (or not). Then I can put THAT in and see what comes up... anyway works OK for me, but I only use it now and then for fun.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Morris on
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www.anydecentmusic.com is the best I've found. Amazing website that compiles reviews from other sites and sorts through the junk to find the gems.
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Permalink Reply by Pete on -
daytrotter.com -- used to be free, now $2.00/month -- all live performances -- recently delivered 4 Wilco songs from The Loft -- also got Iron & Wine, Joseph Arthur, but many, many obscure indie bands...I use Sirius Outlaw Country to hear some new music, too.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Elder on
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Other than No Depression (which I love), I regularly visit some of the NPR blogs... Alt.latino being my favorite. I also listen to Soma fm which has a wide variety of interesting if obscure music streams. For what is happening in Portland and the Northwest I love my home town OPB Music.
If you are interested in using creative commons music as samples in film or machinima projects (creating mixes for shorts is something I enjoy) Ccmixter is wonderful. At times I love exploring fairly random music to find something interesting so I'll wander into Sound Cloud - even if and partially because I have to weed thru the good, the bad and the ugly.
One label I love and regularly visit is YepRock for folks like Chuck Prophet, John Doe, Peggy Sue, Nick Lowe, and Dave Alvin among others.
Once I find something I want I'll buy from the usual suspects iTunes and Amazon...or direct from the label or artist if possible.
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