Apart from usuals like spotify or bandcamp, I'd also like to introduce gnod here: https://www.gnod.com/
I do not use it very often, but it's quite nice to browse the recommendations based on what you were recently listening once in a while.
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Just my opinion, but I feel like you're far to concerned with being "current". No offence.
I'm 48 and when I was younger I swore up and down that "I wasn't going to be like my parents, stuck in my ways musically, blah blah blah." But you know what, it doesn't actually matter. Literally at all. It's vapid pop culture stuff that in adult world, no one actually cares about. Your friends aren't going to be your friends simply because you like the same music as them. You're social circle isn't going to rise and fall based on how "current" you are because outside of highschool, literally no one gives a damn.
Like what you like. Listen to what you want. and don't worry about staying "hip" because the entire concept is subjective and meaningless in the actual day-to-day world. No one is going to shun you for not knowing what's happening between Kendrick whats-his-face and The dude from Degrassi. And if they do, they're not really the kind of vapid social media obsessed people you should be associating with at your age anyway.
Again...just my opinion.
I think you might have my motivations a little confused.
I don’t want to be current myself. I want to keep up with current art, as it’s fascinating. Should I have not gotten in Beethoven and Chopin because those were before my time?
I don’t listen to vapid pop, pop music and what’s popular in different genres are two different things. I know I’m flogging this horse in a few comments, but Kendrick is certified lyrical genius and I never would have found him hadn’t I put the work in.
It’s not to make friends, hell I’ve got too many friends and I don’t need anymore. I don’t even share the new stuff with them as they don’t care, which is cool.
I do like what I like , hence I want to find more of what I might like you know.
I know you said it’s just your opinion, but I hope this gives more perspective on my intentions here, this is for me and me alone.
Ah. Gotcha. Makes sense.
From my initial read it sounded as though you were suffering from some kind of pop-culture FOMO, which is what I was responding to. If you're just looking to find new stuff for yourself, than more power to you. But I still think you're giving it a little too much thought. New tastes, new likes tend to come quite naturally without really hunting. Very much like you discovered Kendrick. You didn't go out searching, it just came up.
To use myself as an example, at 48, most of my new music has come from just hearing something I like on the TV and looking it up. I discovered "The 88" through How I met your Mother and Community. I loved the theme music from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and was pleasantly surprised to learn that not only was it an actual band with MORE music, but it was literally a side gig for a comedian that I had already been enjoying for years. (Valley Lodge, if you're interested. They don't get enough love.) I discovered the Decemberists and Hawksley Workman both because I was trying to impress a girl at two different times in my life, but it turned out I really dug it.
My point is, don't go looking for what's popular, just keep your ears open and listen for stuff you like. Just looking by studying what's popular at the time would have made me miss most of the bands I just mentioned.
I try to pick up artists from younger coworkers. That's how I learned about 100 Gecs. Saw them live. We were the olds. Skipped PinkPantheress cause it felt like we'd be too olds.
As a software developer in a small company. These people wouldn’t know hip-hop if pac came and slapped em.
Thanks though.
44 year old, lifelong metalhead here. I refuse to listen to a bands current album if it isn't my favorite of theirs. Too many bands phone it in after only a few years. So, I definitely need to find the latest music available. Metal Injection has a ballot every year of about 200 albums. Of course it isn't a definitive list, but it's enough for me to keep up with everything.
This is helpful as I also like a bit of metal. System of a Down are probably my favourite so I’d love to find bands like that. It’s Serjs lyrics I like, like the conscientious hip-hop genre I feel lyrics more than the music although being a banger doesn’t hurt you know.
Thanks.
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Hang out with high schoolers.
Shit I thought Drake got murdered last week.
Found Matt Gaetz's account.
Hey now, I didn't say to take them across state lines.
just let the algorithm feed you the cultural gruel
The algos are not all there cracked up to be, they get quite repetitive.
It depends on which algo/service. Pandora and I have never meshed so I just avoid that one. YouTube occasionally tosses a good one in my feed. Spotify does well enough that I pay. SoundCloud is probably my favorite.
Aside from that, I'm subscribed to a few music communities here. That has widened my net. Same with imgur - 99% of the time I'm there for the memes but occasionally someone will post something that helps me find a new band.
I've gotten back into going to concerts. I go by myself and end up meeting bunches of new people and we all end up talking about music, sharing the names of our favorite tracks and bands.
You're going to have to blaze your own trail. There's so much new music being made every day that it's very much a "needle in a haystack" thing.
Plus, don't automatically rule out a band because they're not new. That is, Alien Ant Farm was never on my radar until last year. Their cover of "Smooth Criminal" hit my SoundCloud recommendations. It's from before MJ died...anyway, I've listened to some of their stuff and added some to my playlists.
Keep your ears and mind open.
Thanks for this. Soundcloud has been shouted out a few times on here so I’m gonna hit it up.
Do you have a few music communities on here or how you found them. Wait Imgur can up my severely lacking meme game?
Concerts is a good idea and I like to do things like that on my own anyway, nobody I know would ever come to a classical music venue so had to fly solo.
AAF Smooth Criminal is fire. Now I gotta go give it a listen it’s been a minute.
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Listen to music.
yeah, but what if the music i listen to isn't 'with it'? what will the kids thing of me? as an old?
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What could be more current than the beatles?
JS Bach?
There is always more current in ACDC.
Pink Floyd
Fucking love Pink Floyd, but it don’t hit the same if you ain’t off your face.
Find a scene you like and subscribe to the artists and their labels. As for trends and gossip, it's cooler to remain oblivious to that brain poison.
Thanks.
I am curious if you think the current trends and gossip is brain poison or our generations was the same and we just age out of it. As the former seems quite elitist.
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