I'm kind-of amazed at how neither the post nor any of the comments mention music blogs or music publications. Pitchfork has been an outstanding resource for me

I'm kind-of amazed at how neither the post nor any of the comments mention music blogs or music publications. Pitchfork has been an outstanding resource for me over the years. It's helped me find music that wasn't necessarily aligned with the music I already knew and liked. Because I'm a pretty avid P4K reader, I feel it's turned me on to new artists -- hell, even entire genres -- that I probably would not otherwise discover on my own (and which Spotify definitely would not recommend to me). They have very thorough coverage of new music, though it tends to skew slightly less mainstream. Check it out!