[GlendaleViper]

Radio (especially college radio), compilations, friends, concerts, Head-Fi and plain ol' brick & mortar browsing.

Old School Mutha Brother!

 

[NiceCans]

1 - Concerts: Opening acts are often excellent and likely to be the main act next time around.

2 - Forums: particularly some place called "Head-Fi" which often has posts with excellent recommendations & reviews

3 - RadioParadise: I often just put on a really really great internet radio station and enjoy.

Also check out their "Listener Review Channel" where they test stuff that's new to them.

4 - Paste Magazine - includes a free CD of new releases

 

[hollabackitsobi]

CDBaby
Last.fm
Pandora Radio
UGHH

My favorite site would have to be CDBaby. I just loved browsing it for new music.

 

[Rolamoto]

Last.FM/Pandora

 

[srserl]

x2 on cdbaby.com

Just search on a band you like and it will return a bunch of other artists to try.

Scott

 

[GlendaleViper]

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiceCans /img/forum/go_quote.gif 1 - Concerts: Opening acts are often excellent and likely to be the main act next time around.

Often a great surprise, sometimes the highlight of the show, typically the only place to find their recordings (save mail-order lists - yes, they still exist), and often a great source of soon-to-be-rare-possibly-even-sought-after material.

Opening acts are one of the prime reasons I stick to small venues.

 

[natim9]

Used to be Pandora until they closed the service for none US residents

 

[G-man]

Friends
"Top" Lists (not necessarily charts)
Sister
A while ago, radio was used quite a lot
Currently i am finding there is a lot of music i have only heard once, or a long time ago, so i am sort of re discovering my collection. It is fun.

Currently i am exploring a lot of old bands, especially in the rock/grunge genre. These are generally well know, so there really isn't a lot of finding to do. But in terms of finding their style, if I like them, their best songs/albums, listening is the best way.

When i used to use what.cd, for each artist they had a sort of "map" in which the artist was linked to other, and how similar they were. This helped me find a few bands.

 

[Poohblah]

wow, cdbaby.com is marvelous. i could spend all day on that website.

 

[MeanWillieGreen]

Sirius, typically - Left of Center, Hard Attack, and Outlaw Country

friends recommendations

Internet forums

 

[Akabeth]

radio (fm/sirius), forums, and eBay deals

 

[Moocher]

Yes to the above, plus the following:

Music posts - Crave, the gadget blog - CNET

 

[mnemoniak]

The Take-away shows (LA BLOGOTHEQUE) from la Blogotheque (http://www.blogotheque.net) just made me discover Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar, take a look at their cover of After laughter (come tears) from Wendy Renee, here : Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar - Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar - LA BLOGOTHEQUE

 

[FrederikS|TPU]

This forum actually. And of course recommendations from friends.

 

[moriez]

Surprised to see nobody mentions p2p like Soulseek. Random downloads does it for me.