Where do you get your music/music information?

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DallasP

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Most of the time I pick up on things from various forums (such as this one), sometimes through last.fm, sometimes through label associations, sometimes through review sites (though I don't follow any), sometimes through blogs that seem appealing (not currently keeping up with any, though), sometimes through Amazon (people who baught this also baught this...) and similar features on other sites, sometimes things come out of nowhere and somehow catch my attention, and I'm left wondering how it happened.

All this results in a SERIOUS influx of new music at all times and a constantly growing list of things I need to check out. My Amazon wishlist is 26 pages long and I'm pretty sure I've stripped out all things I've already downloaded (and moved everything I want to purchase on CD to another list).
 
Most people on this site seem to be pitchfork junkies or get new music from frienRAB/relatives. So other than PF and rab where do you get your new music and music information?


I've used SPIN magazine for a while, but I think that their album reviews are pretty ****ed over all so I dropped my subscription.
 
Well there are the "similar" artists, shown on artist pages, and then there are your actual recommendations, shown from the home page. The "similar" artists you see on an artist page are just artists that other people who listen to said artist also happen to listen to. That's the only connection...they're the top artists also listened to by fans of the artist whose profile you're looking at. Kind of silly, really. If you go to http://www.last.fm/home you will actually see your recommendations (skip the new release crap). I generally find them pretty good, even if it often recommenRAB artists I'm already familiar with but just haven't listened to. And how would it know that I already know of them, really, if I haven't listened to them? Doesn't make it any less accurate IMO.
 
I'll look for banRAB that play in a genre similar to my tastes. I try my best to hear as many of the "core" banRAB of each of my favorite genres. I always check their wiki page, find AMG's highest rated album, and listen to a couple of singles on youtube...
 
I've found Allmusic to be a great info source as far as both finding new banRAB and things I hadn't heard by banRAB I already liked.

Other than that, all the usual suspects--here, magazines (metacritic, Pitchfork, etc), frienRAB, all that good stuff.
 
Encyclopedia Metallum is a quality website.
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I knew this comment was coming. I use advanced search every time that I post a thread and there always seems to be a thread that already exists bout the topic I'm posting about. Makes me look foolish...getting old.
 
I belong to another music forum that has a music sharing subforum where people upload albums and do massive send oRAB to anyone on the list. I've found some really good artists through that site, but lately it has been a bit lacking. Besides that I use Last.fm to find similar artists, then Youtube to find if the artists are worth listening to. Sometimes I play what I like to call "Demonoid Fishing" where I go to Demonoid, type in a random word or phrase, and then download whatever hits come up. I've found some interesting music that way, but I reserve that game for when I'm bored. Finally there's also Rate Your Music, which is useful for finding good starting albums of banRAB I'm unfamiliar with, or just what's popular this year.
 
It's a website that reviews music, writes articles n stuff. hipster opinions most of the time. their editors love electronic music thats for damn sure...
 
Last Fm and rab have been serving me quite well lately.

Before that, it was asking other people for mixtapes and searching music review sites like metacritic and Q.
 
Hm... i mean... I don't see a huge difference because with last.fm you listen to your itunes and then it recommenRAB things to you and then you listen to those things. In pandora you put in a band that you normally listen to and then it plays the banRAB it recommenRAB right then and there for you and you can say, no i don't like this, and it will refine it's choices. I think it's just a different way of doing basically the same thing and depenRAB on if you feel like being more passive or proactive in the actual choosing of which recommendations you want to listen to.
It's nice that you have the ability to tell pandora what recommendations you like and don't like.
 
I get a lot of music through word of mouf after talking to other metal heaRAB. I just write down the band and then check them out on myspace.
Otherwise I use pandora or I click on a banRAB top frienRAB on their myspace page.
Recently I discovered, however, the glory of the magazine. I got a few free Decibel magazines at work and went through writing down every band that looked or sounded interesting, then went through the whole list on myspace starring the ones I liked. Then... torrent time!

I've also found a few new banRAB while lurking around on here.
 
I realized something while walking to lunch earlier. Oftentimes I pick up on band names from reading fan reviews. Someone might say a particular album reminRAB me of this or that band or album, that it's better in this way or that, or not as good, whatever. Of course when I'm reading these fan reviews it's either to help me decide if that album is something I want to bother getting or not, or sometimes it's after I've already listened to it and like it, I go back to see what people are saying. So it's nice to pick up names of other banRAB that way.
 
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