Music

Its a mix. Finding new music is difficult and time consuming. But sometimes I actively try to find "new" stuff. But being in my late 40s that means basically anything less then 10 years old.

Back in "the olden days" the sieve of radio made me listen to a lot of stuff and I could pick what I liked. Post listening to the radio (because these days they are all either just playing the same stuff or gone).

But with a little effort I've found stuff.

I've recently found Bury Tomorrow and I'm liking a lot of their stuff.

On another genre side I've found Hugo Kant and really dig his stuff a lot as well.

I also found a throw back sort of trip hop band called Mirrors for Princes that I like though they don't have many songs.

More varied taste for me, plus I make more of an effort to seek new music outside of algorithms. Hello Mary, Spiral Drive, and Chat Pile are three new-ish bands I love

Mostly the same stuff. I'll occasionally find a new band/album that I like, but it's always by chance. I've been missing a good place to find new music ever since what.cd got shutdown.

I was guilty of this until very recently (my phone is still loaded with all my 90s/00s favourites). But I got back into playing music and then started to want to listen to more folk music as inspiration. Now I hardly want to listen to anything else, and I was largely into metal before. Sometimes you just need to try something new.

Listen to a heap of new stuff, as well as a lot of old stuff.

Picking up the guitar to learn start of last year has put me on a journey of exploration into several areas and a lot of new music

I travel a lot and am always looking for new music wherever I am! Love going to local rock bars and live venues and seeing whatever's on on a particular day.

all the time. I have a problem. I'm always seeking the next mindblowing album experience. gotta go back to the trieds and trues occasionally!

I still listen to new music, but most of it is related to stuff I listened to as a kid. I was big into 90's alt rock, and there's so much of it that I keep finding stuff I hadn't listened to from that era. Right now Butthole Surfers have been getting a lot of play; they were always kinda on my radar, but the name really put me off. Can't believe I missed out for this long.

I've always liked folk punk and alternative country, but there wasn't a ton of it when I was younger. Now there's so much more so I've been discovering lots of new bands. Blackbird Raum is pretty great, and Amigo the Devil might be one of my new favorites.

I try to find new music, and have found some cool new groups. And some old favourites have fallen out of favour. I feel like my tastes evolve and change, so I'll try to find new music that speaks to me at this current point in my life.

A year from now I could be into a totaöly new style of music.

I still discover new music, there is plenty of good music nowadays, i like fontaines dc, wet leg, squid, mac Demarco, Altin gün, the chats, la femme, parquet courts, lcd soundsystem.

Which are all active today.

I still browse Rateyourmusic for new releases that seem interesting, but less and less seems interesting to me nowadays. Maybe that's the first sign of me getting old...

I also started making an effort to discover new music to me, no necessarily new music, simply because my tastes shifted quite a bit and I realised it by noticing I almost stopped listening to music. I just started following some very nice YouTube music album channels that introduced me to some great music that I'd never learn about otherwise.

Another thing I didn't realise I was doing was that I wasn't keeping up with the artists I enjoyed, I kept listening to the old stuff, but I didn't listen to the new material to see if liked where they were going.

I'm always looking out for new music, but there's so much always coming out that it's hard to separate what I want to listen to from all the stuff I don't.

For me it's both, and it depends on what I'm doing. I have a lot of tolerance for returning to the bands and songs I love and relistening to the same albums over and over again. I'm the type of person that will listen to a song 10x on repeat if I love it. But in those situations, the music is the primary activity. I might be driving or something but most of my mental processes are focused on the music.

I love discovering new music, though, and I find that it's better for me to listen to new music while I'm focused on something else, the opposite of my "old" favorites.

It seems counterintuitive, but every night I play video games for a couple of hours before bed and that's when I put an album I've never listened to on. Maybe I'll hear something that will pull my attention away form the game and I will repeat that song a few times (this happened recently with 'That's all for everyone' from Tusk), or I will be humming it the next day, and that will kind of form the neural pathway in my brain to cause me to seek that album/song out for more active listening.

It's been a great way for me to discover new (to me) music.

But there is nothing like the comfort of a well-known and well-loved song at the right moment.