Over course of the past year or so, I've fallen out of touch with the discovery new music. I put this down to being busy (or lazy) and/or lack of money.
HOWEVER, I now have some disposible income and the will to discover new bands and music.
I would appreciate it if people would post suggestions (the more the merrier) for me to discover new bands that I like - my tastes are already diverse so anything is welcome.
THANK YOU xx
Hmmm...
David Cronenberg's Wife
www.myspace.com/davidcronenbergswife
The Indelicates
www.myspace.com/theindelicates
The Outdoor Types
www.myspace.com/theoutdoortypes
Mucky Little Paw Prints
www.myspace.com/muckylittlepawprints
did i ever tell you that i love you?
!!!
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go to some random gigs? get back to trawling myspace? listen to some podcasts/music blogs?
(i empathise, i'm in the same position: i think you just need to immerse yourself in music for a bit and you'll be right as rain. and skint again).
its hard I think we are entering an end of decade lull
2005 was immense.
So maybe you're right.
Dis should do a new podcast.
im hoping it will be like last decade
where 1997-2003 seemed rubbish at the time when really all sorts of great stuff was secretly going on
I'm sure it is...
There is so much music in the last 8 years I haven't listened to.
The fact that most of the new stuff coming out isn't particularly inspiring makes no difference to me. I've only got about 150 CDs and that's after buying over 10 a month for the last 5 months.
Don't you feel that you have an almost never ending suply of music to explore?
Oh wait, they said "new" music.
I thought they just said music, I'm stupid. :)
Nonsense
Way too early for that...
Buy the Let's Wrestle EP
I did listen to Let's Wrestle
wasn't entirely sure that I liked them...
Perhaps I should make more efforts to remember bands that people mention :)
this happened to me
So I signed up to here having heard it was the holy grail for "indier than thou"ness. Everytime someone mentioned a band I hadn't heard of I listened to them.
I am now a lot happier as a person.
1) Go to Metacritic.com
2) Click on music, scroll a quarter of the way down, tick 'sort by score'. Look at the bands who are doing well.
4) Look at the newer bands.
The Dodos, Los Campesinos, and Vampire Weekend for example.
5) Have a look in Pitchforks best new music section.
5) Go to Hypemachine and Elbo.ws
(http://www.hypem.com and http://elbo.ws respectively), type in the names you've gathered, and download MP3 from the blogs.
6) You win!*
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*7) Your tastes are now exactly like everyone else. Feel a little hollow inside, but rejoice in your hipness.
Keveddy's right,
MySpace trawling is the way forward.
Christ, that's depressing to actually admit...
Also, 'Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip' are just about the most forward-thinking musical partnership on the planet - give them a go, then buy Biffy Clyro and Radiohead's latest efforts to re-establish old loves.
Happy hunting x
dan le cack vs poobius pip
Whatever you do...
DON'T buy Biffy Clyro's latest effort. It will ruin everything you ever liked about them in one foul MOR swoop.
so true.
such a disappointment :(
Suggestinos!
Getting people to list myspace pages in the hope you like one of them is pretty lame. If new music is lost on you and you can't be bothered to go out and find it for yourself, then maybe you don't deserve new music. How'd you like them apples?
burn
:-)
They taste a bit sour :(
I can be bothered to go out. But although I have some money, I'm still on a budget.
Spending my time between Leeds & Edinburgh, I often find it incredibly hard to find the good stuff in between a lot of wanky scene gigs and I don't have the financial means to go to one a night to discern which is which.
Welcome to the world
It's a shitty place, but one that rewards hard work.
Also, I didn't ask for specific suggestions of bands
I was more looking for resources (things akin to Myspace or good blogs) to aid me.
Cool
last.fm radios are your best bet.
Listen to samples
on Boomkat.
I might do this tonight
Thanks, this is the sort of suggestion that I'm looking for :)
Don't listen to all these mersh heathens...
...telling you to trawl MySpace. I'd rather crawl on all fours across a desert made from razor sharp splinters of Mariah Carey's broken teeth.
Sign up for www.last.fm if you haven't already and get recommendations based on your actual muzak taste. Or take a running head-first leap at the CD racks in HMV and buy the first CD that embeds itself in your gore-streaked forehead.
Check the release year on CD's you are interested in
it's normally on the back but you may have to look for it.
If it says 2008 you can be sure it's new music so proced with you purchase, otherwise return CD to shelf
Possibly the best suggestion so far.
:)
2008...
..could mean that the record is nearly four months old. THAT@S ANCIENT GRANDAD!
I listen to bands that don't even exist yet.
I have that t-shirt
Last.fm radio's a good way to hear new stuff.
Yeah, reckon I'm going to do me some of that tonight
Thanks :)
Well..
I hade the same thing. I think last year I just found something in listening to comfortable bands I already knew and hence I ignore newer stuff. Plus I was pretty ill, so it was a bit of a comfort thing.
Now I've decided to stretch myself a bit. The reccomendations threads on DIS combined with a few other sites usually gives me as much as my wallet can handle.
It'll come back to you and this year is shaping up to be really great so the timing is good!
I got napster to go
on a free trial for 7 days and put lots of stuff on my zen to listen to on my long, long walks.
I put
the new Blood Red Shoes record on my ipod and it made me want to take a long, long walk.
Off a short, short pier.
last.fm and music conversation
Talking to lots of different people in lots of different settings is a great idea, one I employ when I go to gigs or am just out and about... only if you're outgoing though.
Last.fm is great because you can get recommendations based on the stuff you listen to.. so I always find that useful. And you always get people recommending stuff.
A few things
Firstly Myspace
Last FM if you can be botherd
Pandora (doent work here in the uk ) or Jango
This site look at the bands people like here.
And finaly the funist way buy random cds from big record stores :)
random cds
I've attempted that a few times before, going in and just going on the name of something. That has horrendously backfired at times though, paying good money for something that turns out to be awful. That's the way the lucky dip goes I suppose.
i agree
searching through myspace is a treat!
ask friends for mixCDs
i find that can be good to find stuff you may have missed.
I was in a similar position to you about five years ago ..
... and as I was working in London, I started buying Time Out, checking the gig guide, then going to gigs that sounded interesting. I get the occasional dud but the hit rate is well over 80% I'd say, and if yo've got a wide range of tastes the same would apply. And if you're in London, certain names can usually be trusted - The Windmill, Club Fandango, The Old Blue Last, Dublin Castle, Barfly). Just get in there !