I use RateYourMusic and Last.fm mostly to find out about new music: 1. RateYourMusic has a wonderful feature of democratically tagging albums with genres. Peop

I use RateYourMusic and Last.fm mostly to find out about new music: 1. RateYourMusic has a wonderful feature of democratically tagging albums with genres. People suggest this or that genre, then if it gets more than 2 votes (or something like that) the album's page is updated to feature the genre. You can then browse the genre page and swift through other similarly-tagged albums. Here's an example[1]. 2. I find Last.fm's "Similar Artists" section to favor niche artists more than, say, the Spotify equivalent. [1]: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/casper-mcfadden/medicalmechanica/ https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/casper-mcfadden/medi...