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Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

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janalsncm 2y ago
Spotify, TikTok, and if I’m feeling adventurous there is a site https://cosine.space https://cosine.space that has a song similarity service.
- processing 2y ago
  I love cosine.space - great discovery engine.
mdaniel 2y ago
I enjoy soundcloud (and have a plus membership with them) but it for sure is a monster amount of play, skip, go to artist profile, play a few of their top tracks, repeat I've had some good luck with surfing the IceCast directory in the sidebar of VLC but it often only helps discover music if they have their id3 tags configured correctly or that the dj is disciplined about doing track IDs The BBC streams are great about both aspects if your interests are covered by one of their shows
johnneville 2y ago
I listen to NTS radio shows for music curated by a human and use youtube music for algorithmic discoveries
judith0_0 2y ago
Usually check out the new singles or albums of the singers I follow. Some backgroud music of stores, shows, videos are also quite unique.
jkmcf 2y ago
Genre streams like Hirschmilch and SomaFM, and WherePostRockDwells on YouTube
JojoFatsani 2y ago
For “new to me” at least, I read a lot of rock documentaries, and I’ll go and Spotify all the various other musicians that get mentioned as contemporaries or influences of the bands I read about. I have some friends in the local scene still who will refer me to local club shows and stuff. I’ve had a hard time getting really passionate about any new-new acts for the past decade or so though, I blame my age/stage of life more than anything there.
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mstep 2y ago
i can recommmend: https://hardwax.com https://hardwax.com (legendary berlin based record shop) https://bleep.com https://bleep.com (founded by warp records) https://boomkat.com https://boomkat.com (another fine online music store from the uk)
t-3 2y ago
https://www.mixcloud.com/ https://www.mixcloud.com/ is pretty good for finding stuff to listen to in a somewhat curated manner.

9 points by processing 2y ago

Spotify, TikTok, and if I’m feeling adventurous there is a site https://cosine.space https://cosine.space that has a song similarity service.

processing 2y ago
I love cosine.space - great discovery engine.

mdaniel 2y ago

I enjoy soundcloud (and have a plus membership with them) but it for sure is a monster amount of play, skip, go to artist profile, play a few of their top tracks, repeat I've had some good luck with surfing the IceCast directory in the sidebar of VLC but it often only helps discover music if they have their id3 tags configured correctly or that the dj is disciplined about doing track IDs The BBC streams are great about both aspects if your interests are covered by one of their shows

johnneville 2y ago

I listen to NTS radio shows for music curated by a human and use youtube music for algorithmic discoveries

judith0_0 2y ago

Usually check out the new singles or albums of the singers I follow. Some backgroud music of stores, shows, videos are also quite unique.

jkmcf 2y ago

Genre streams like Hirschmilch and SomaFM, and WherePostRockDwells on YouTube

JojoFatsani 2y ago

For “new to me” at least, I read a lot of rock documentaries, and I’ll go and Spotify all the various other musicians that get mentioned as contemporaries or influences of the bands I read about. I have some friends in the local scene still who will refer me to local club shows and stuff. I’ve had a hard time getting really passionate about any new-new acts for the past decade or so though, I blame my age/stage of life more than anything there.

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mstep 2y ago

i can recommmend: https://hardwax.com https://hardwax.com (legendary berlin based record shop) https://bleep.com https://bleep.com (founded by warp records) https://boomkat.com https://boomkat.com (another fine online music store from the uk)

t-3 2y ago

https://www.mixcloud.com/ https://www.mixcloud.com/ is pretty good for finding stuff to listen to in a somewhat curated manner.