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

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[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!)