Where do you find new music?

[birdonthebeach]

Simple enough - how do you find out about new music? Is it a website? A magazine? TV? XM? FM? Do you actually go into a record store (remember those?) and flip through the discs?

[caupina]

In my case is pretty much a little bit of everything. Most of the time I go to the stores, Tower Records, Barnes & Nobles or Amoeba Music here in LA (excellent choice especially when looking for out of prints VHS, Cds, etc) and spend hours just browsing.

[JoeE SP9]

Recently I have been getting introduced to new music by the Pandora project. www.pandora.com This is a service you tell what kind of music you like and it tries to play stuff it thinks you might like. It has turned me on to half a dozen new artists. I recommend it. All you music lovers should give it a try.

[mytzen]

I have found a lot of new music from listening to XM in my car. I didnt get XM with the intentions of finding a lot of new music but it has been an added bonus.

[Sheep]

Friends. Myspace.

SheepStar

[supervij]

I've discovered new music in a very . . . erm . . . incestuous way. I'll give you an example. As a kid, I heard Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" on the radio and loved it. So I bought everything Phil Collins I could find. Then I remembered that he also sang lead for Genesis. So I bought everything Genesis I could find. Hey, who's that other guy singing on the older Genesis stuff? Peter Gabriel? Cool. Then got everything Gabriel. Noticed he did duets with both Laurie Anderson and Kate Bush on one of his albums, so I bought everything from those two artists. At one time Tori Amos was being compared favourably to Kate, so I tried out her first album, loved it, and collected everything from her. So that's one method.

The other is pretty much the SheepStar method: friends and MySpace. My friends know my musical tastes, and recommend stuff they think I'd like. And MySpace is a brilliant place to sample lots of stuff for free. Heck, I'm going to the Hunter Eves concert later this month based on the music she streams on her own website plus her MySpace page.

cheers,
supervij

[Sleestack]

Allmusic.com is a great resource.

[JVC]

I also use www.pandora.com

[johndoe]

sometimes i search on amazon for stuff i like and check out the "you might also like" recommendations. sometimes I visit these other bands' websites or forums. I pretty much stumbled onto Porcupine Tree this way

I've been using pandora since I heard about it, it looks very promising.

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When I posted this originally I had just started using Pandora. I've found some amazing music recommendations that I had never ever heard of (also some crap, but you can just skip)

[birdonthebeach]

Has anyone seen PASTE magazine? You should be able to find it on the newsstand - always has a sampler CD included with over 20 songs. A great resource for new music from great artists.