AllMusic has a nice monthly list of "Editor's Picks" that often have at least one or two nice albums in the haystack. That is how I discovered Big Thief, Mavis

AllMusic has a nice monthly list of "Editor's Picks" that often have at least one or two nice albums in the haystack. That is how I discovered Big Thief, Mavis Staples' "We Get By," and some interesting indie artists. Reddit/indie and reddit/hiphopheads also have nice additions on the regular. There are some interesting music discovery tools that use a graph such as Music Map [0] [0] https://www.music-map.com/the+civil+wars https://www.music-map.com/the+civil+wars