Inspiration for this magazine linked here. How do you discover new music?

rwtwm, 7 months ago

The majority of my music consumption is through Spotify. There are a few artists that I follow and support on Bandcamp too, but not enough that it constitutes a stream of new music.
I wasn't a sub of Republic of music on Reddit, but like the concept, and 3 months feels like a good window. Are people happy with Spotify links as a share, or should I find the content elsewhere before posting here?

PeutMieuxFaire, 9 months ago

Thanks everyone for sharing!

I mostly use Bandcamp or random browsing of Youtube suggestions, which sometimes lead me to Soundcloud.
Another of my favourite sources is… Original soundtracks from movies. That's how I discovered Teeth of the Sea, Grandbrothers or the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Doom_Cough, 10 months ago

I have a mix of a blog that I occasionally check in with. A few youtube channels that are always talking about new stuff, and mostly just from email from labels and bands themselves when new stuff comes out.

Really, I have to make an effort to go looking. But I have curated a big enough roster of stuff that falls into my lap if I bother to open emails and have a listen as I've bought so much vinyl and through bandcamp that I have to ignore much of it to keep my wallet safe and sanity in check.

When I'm not listening to metal or jazz specifically, I often spin many types of electronic stuff. And I tag tracks I like either on spotify, or hear in a mix on mixcloud. mixcloud is an amazing site if you're into dance/electronic or any type of extended mixes...

ReCursing, 11 months ago

I mostly discover new music listening to BBC Radio 6 music. They don't exclusively play new music, they don't exclusively play anything outside of certain specialist shows like the Craig Charles Funk And Soul Show on Saturday evenings. They do have a (very varied) playlist from which the daytime DJs have to play stuff, but someone did a count up and figured out it's less than 25% of what they play on most shows anyway, with the rest being selected by the DJs and producers.

ownsauce, 11 months ago

/r/republicofmusic info: "The Republic of Music is modeled after /r/music, but with a twist - only content created or published within the last three months will be allowed, and reposted or rehosted content is prohibited.

Audio, video, news, reviews, art, pretty much anything music-related is allowed in this subreddit as long as it is no more than three months old. For example, a review of a Beatles album published last week would be allowed, but a Beatles song itself would not.

For music videos, the published date of the video itself is what counts, not the published date of the song the video was made for (which may be released to the public many months before the video is even created)"

• What do you think?
• Do these rules make sense for a magazine here on the kbin and on the fediverse?
• Is three months too fresh? Not fresh enough?

ownsauce, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Due credit to our ancestors. RepublicOfMusic is one of my favorite #music communities because of all the newly released music posted to the platform. My hope is that #newmusic can become the spiritual successor to that community and welcome anyone from the recent reddit migrations looking for the same.

Lately I mostly discover new music from my soundcloud recommendations and weekly/daily playlists or my youtube subscriptions. I'll share some of those here. My hope is that with more users here and throughout the fediverse we'll have more people to use the hashtag and post and recommend their music.

Happy music discovery and thanks for reading.