How do you listen to / find new music?

[Dave Gray]

I used to listen to the radio (had satellite for a while) and I had CDs and would download MP3s.


Now, I basically find recommendations on the Internet and listen through youtube or occasionally on my Alexa device at home.

[pondwater]

Enough music from the mid 60s thru the mid 90s to last my lifetime. Therefore I'm not really trying to find new music. Sometimes I'll happen upon something newer that I like. But I'm not really looking for it.

[Phishfan]

I stream everything now. I usually find new music through recommendations and just by seeing a new name enough times on festival lineups.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Old school Radio

[Spider-Dan]

I hear a lot of top 40-type songs on the radio at work.

Outside of that, I've heard a bunch of stuff on the website Jet Set Radio Live, which is a fan-made tribute with collections of songs in the style of the Jet Set Radio games (loosely, graffiti/b-boy culture).  But the last time I checked, it had been a while since they added new songs to the "stations" I like.

[masterfins]

I haven't listened to any new music in probably 15 years, with the exception of a few concerts.  I actually have at least 100 old albums from the 60's and 70's that I want to listen to once I get my system up and running; so that will be new to me.

[SlothVomit]

I use Apple Music mostly. At the bottom of an artist I'm listening to it says "similar artists" or "recommended". I usually fall down a rabbit hole and find a ton of new music this way or when I go to or play a local show, someone will be wearing a new band shirt and I just look them up. Also, and I truly hate to admit this, but Tik Tok. It has become a massive platform for up and coming new artists to put out 30 second clips of their music and then in turn, I go to Apple Music and find them.