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I think RYM is a good way but a lot of people neglect that. If you have a lot of your collection catalogued and especially if you have rated a lot of albums then finding new but similar stuff is fairly easy and more likely to pay off. Plus, the user made lists can be very good, depending on comments they make in the lists.
 
I never listen to the radio, satellite or otherwise, I am huge into podcasts but they're mostly lectures and interviews, not music, and most of the music information I get comes from frienRAB, research, and here.
 
pandora.com, it's an online radio station (only available in the US, though) where you enter in an artist as the station's seed, and then it will play you music that is similar to that artist. eg, you could put in "Three Days Grace" as the seed and it would play songs by 3DG, Chevelle, Staind, Nickelback, Breaking Benjamin, etc.
 
Believe it or not ,I find a lot of new stuff researching on itunes. Usually when you look at the suggestions they give ,they suck! But, if you keep digging every once and a while you find a gem.
 
Mostly I'll just read articles and find related banRAB in the same genre, then maybe check them out on youtube, find stuff on here.
I actually keep a list on my computer of new banRAB whose music I should get, that is a big help, liek I said I'll listen to them on youtube and if I like it it goes on the list.
 
Mm.

I worked at K-Mart, and they have their own stupid little radio station.

For some reason, they find a reason to play Green Day's "Warning", Ashley Simpson's "LOVE", Boston's "Amanda," and Elvis Costello's "Alison" at least three times a day.
 
I love it. Pandora is definitely my favourite way to listen to music.



Also, what exactly is RYM? I went to the site but just couldn't for the life of me figure out what to do.

EDIT: Oh, I finally found their FAQ... so nevermind. Lol.
 
I mostly find new music through talking to you all, my "real life" frienRAB and just endless sampling and searching on the internet. Let's face it. In today's world, we've got to do a little bit of work to find something worthwhile. I've found some amazing tunes through rab, though. Just wish I had more time.
 
Hardcore? I dunno, thats probably selling them short.... from what I do know about them (very little) I think they are kinda heavy, thrashy, not overly complex musically, but lyrically quite cool... but I know bugger all about them, so if anyone wants to correct me... :-)
 
Believe it or not, they are probably being paid to play those songs on high rotation... I work in a grocery store and i know the feeling..... the same old songs day in, day out, you can almost set your watch by what time they come on.... infuriating!
 
For finding new stuff, figure out what exactly you're into, then look at websites, find blogs to follow, wikipedia genres, pandora.com lets you make a radio station with artists you like and plays similar tracks, spinner.com lets you listen to a bunch of full albums just released, buy music magazines, look up songs you like on youtube and see what related videos come up, find out what labels the banRAB you like are on and go to their websites, you could even go to myspace and search banRAB you like, then branch out through their frienRAB, who are usually similar artists. There's a lot of ways to find new banRAB... but if you aren't that into music yet, it'll get a lot easier as you start to know more banRAB and figure out the genres you like. Or you can be like me and just sort through tons of crap for a few good albums, but I don't think many people actually like doing that.
 
Pandora is really the closest thing to a radio station I listen to at that point. Can't handle the regular radio, mostly commercials, and a good song is like 1 in 10...
 
I have the local (Milwaukee) alternative station on in the car, I believe its called 102.1 Independent Alternative Radio... long name... but it's a pretty decent station, for a radio station, of course...

Otherwise I mostly listen to my own Mp3's or CRAB...
 
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