Where are you finding/listening to new music?

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Straight up question, answers in the comments please. Where do you go or what do you do to find out about, and/or hear for the first time, new music? Links to websites especially useful, remember this stuff isn't as widely disseminated as many people assume. If you're thinking "oh surely everyone knows about [[source]]", post it anyway!


My go-to sources of the moment are:

* here, obv
* The Singles Jukebox
* Popjustice
* smattering of blogs and twitter feeds
* music video channels you get on Freeview

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be a boring old fuddy-duddy but I would definitely include - the library!

Although that may stretch your definition of 'new' further than you wish?

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Hehe!

"New to ME" is fine also, sure!

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Also, not very poptimisty, but: for neo-folk, martial pop, experimental industrial, dark ambient and similar related musics, I tend to listen to Aural Apocalypse (an LA-based radio show) on podcasts downloaded from the website/myspace. I find Miss Merrick an amusing presenter cos she gets easily distracted sometimes! I don't think DJing comes naturally to her. She is generally very good with her choices though.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

(Library stuff is actually fairly up to date, but I believe they may still have to wait 6 months before acquiring new albums? I mean, they had the most recent PJ Harvey/John Parish album in last week, which isn't bad going!)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Bobby Friction, a couple of lj sharing communities, Kat, Lex.

My internet connectivity is so limited I basically don't listen to any new music these days tho. :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ILX, especially the rolling hip-hop and r&b threads. Onsmash, which puts up a shit ton of hip-hop and R&B videos. Trusted friends and random blogs which are aligned to my tastes. Sometimes I'll randomly google favoured artists to see if they've been up to anything recently. Increasingly, following artists on Twitter! Loads of them just throw music out there themselves: I first became aware of Amerie's amazing new single because she tweeted the damn thing.

Occasionally the stacks of promos I get sent though this is MUCH RARER than one would think.

Almost never listen to the radio or watch TV, but I'll often find amazing tracks in the various mixes I listen to. Bizarrely the other week I was trying to find a track called "Tenzado" by a producer called Greena, which I've heard in several mixes - couldn't find it anywhere. And then the next day found myself sitting opposite him at a dinner party.

Popjustice is a good litmus test of what not to bother with.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

(For all of ILX's faults, which are much less these days anyway, it's still the one place on the internet where people seem genuinely hungry for new music.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Should probably elaborate on those trusted blogs and internet sources.

Fact Magazine do EXCELLENT free mixes which have mostly taken over from the Resident Advisor podcasts for me, due to superior bitrate.

dot-alt.blogspot.com hosts a ton of A+ mixes too, and firstup.se is one of the few mp3 blogs I regularly frequent. The Heatwave is ESSENTIAL for dancehall. I drop in on RCRDLBL and The Fader from time to time and am usually rewarded very well indeed.

I guess because lots of my friends are critics/DJs/producers, so much of our talk starts with "have you heard..." or tweeting random youtube/mp3 links, too.

(Sorry no links, couldn't be bothered, all easy to find with google tho!)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Obv I find most of my new music through videos: I have a bunch of major label Youtube/DailyMotion/Vimeo channels I semi-regularly check plus as Lex says OnSmash is wicked good for all sorts of stuff. Annoyingly Chartsingles.net has stopped updating its single release dates more than once a year (sadface) and now I am basically floundering in PITCH DARKNESS (except for the places you list above!)

[credoimprobus]

Likewise on the here and the singles jukebox, and Onsmash (though I don't remember to check there as often as I should); also do a lot of related-videos surfing on youtube. For more obscurist stuff, there's Boomkat (excellent for keeping up with dubstep releases -- it's how I've found out about a lot of my favourite records this year, also, FULLENGTH STREAMS of mp3 releases hurrah!) and the really excellent newsletter my favourite shop puts out. I've also spent a lot of time mining this hip-hop & r&b leak (etc) blog this year, although it's been a while right now because there's always TOO MUCH STUFF TO KEEP UP WITH.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I kinda wish I could receive everything (for initial listening/viing purposes at least) thru Spotify as i am just finding it so superior as a medium to anything else out there (mainly down to ease of use) even tho there's so many ways it could be better (esp. for being made aware of new releases). i would use youtube a lot more but still find it pretty clunky altho as playlists are taking off more i intend to make more use of those.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

The Singles Jukebox, plus the odd link from Poptimists or other pals.