How to Find New Music

Need some new ways to find new music? Got some great resources to share? Let's talk in the comments section!

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[isaacness]

1- Research the artists that you like and what were their influences
2-Listen to those influences

[thomaslee]

Rate Your Music has helped me to find some new artists that I'd never heard of before. It's also a good resource for getting into specific genres as the charts section can help you find out which albums are considered 'the best' in a specific genre, giving you a good entry point.

[officialmasqq_]

1- follow music meme page
2- have the 5 albums they constantly mention and that everyone else who follows generally agrees are good in rotation at all times

[SuperRat]

Used to be so much eaiser when Youtube actually showed you related music on the side and not multiple uploads of what youre currently listening to.
Now it's just college radio and What's in my Bag?

[nicolamorawetz]

Go to record stores and ask the owner for reccomendations. If found amazing music through my local record store

[gabreldj]

Your "5 albums to get you into..." series has been very helpful to me to discover new music. 🖤

[Bennick]

1. Youtube recommendations are surprisingly good in my experience.
2. As a metalhead, I love Metal Archives for listing all side projects band members can have, which becomes a quick six degrees of separation type exercise into all sorts of interesting things, since there's often a lot of interesting guests and other artists involved too.
3. band interviews
4. retrying things you may not have liked before a year ago. That's how I have now become a Death Grips fan.

[forsythajuk]

For electronic music in particular, I like to look at the music labels, where you can find other producers who also release on the same label

[Seth-hcbj]

Honestly I do 2 things
1. Go to the record store and pick the weirdest looking record from the dollar bin
2. Research influences and then research the influences of those influences

[ZyrusSmith]

I have a unique way of finding music. I watch musicians livestream on YouTube and turn on chat. People flood chat asking the streamer to listen to a song. I sit there and write the names of songs they say and then add them to my Watch Later playlist.
I'll also watch videos of people asking their audience about crazy concert experiences and look up every band mentioned, find out what their best album is, then add four random songs from that album to my Watch Later.
My Watch Later has about 4900 videos on it. All songs. I listen to them while driving, clearing out ones I don't like, and saving ones I do.

[LieLikesMusic]

Thanks for the great tips! Research about my favorite artist's influences is a great way for me personally to find new music. I also listened to a ton of stuff on Bandcamp too back in 2017. Might do that again cause you reminded me of how much new music i discovered. Cheers!

[torgan]

I strongly recommend books of Simon Reynolds. I've read "Retromania", now I'm reading "Rip It Up and Start Again" about postpunk and I'm gonna buy "Energy Flash" about electronic music. I love writing style of this guy

[ntness]

Haven't seen anyone say this yet but thank you so so much for this video. With so many people on the internet playing mysterious or "superior" because of their music tastes and findings these days, I feel that you are truly setting an example, as well as showing the more independent, hopeful musicians out there that their content matters and is appreciated while showing fans of music a path to finding them out at the same time. Killer work Oliver, cheers!

[bloodbornesurvivor]

Still really glad to have Deep Cuts back, always a pleasure to watch these videos

[justintownsend]

I ask everyone I meet to recommend me some of their favorite artists, then keep a big list of stuff I've been recommended. Great way to hear stuff you normally might not have found

[nihey]

Do you hearing music just in free time, fully focused on it, or even while doing something other?
I've recognized my addiction which comes up, while hearing music to fuel other doings through getting emotionally motivated by hearing music.
Would be great to hear something of your thoughts and behaviours of that.


Thanks for doing all of that, Oliver!!

[dylanmcmahon]

My favorite music book is by far "Please Kill Me", it's an oral history of the New York proto punk scene. Amazing interviews with Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, and others. Endlessly entertaining and insightful, and it taught me of so many awesome, obscure NY punk bands

[Ruxinator]

Local donator-supported radio stations in my area are awesome. I find that the university student-dj'ed radio station does a really good job of supporting local bands and playing great music.

[liamthemusicreviewer]

Shoutout to The Quietus for putting me onto an unreal number of albums, most recently Lorraine James 'You & I'. Easily one of the most valuable resources for finding new music.

[Jack_nnn_]

1:06 - funny enough, I actually discovered Sonic Youth through a passing mention in your No Wave guide! Kind of the reverse. They've since become one of my all time favourites, so thanks for that!