What's a good source for discovering new music?

[bif]

I'm into all kinds of music: Indie, ambient, post-rock, World, and electronic. Is there a good online site for new music?

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I have an Echo with Prime music. I read the All Music guide.

then look at Amazon. Find newer or interesting artists then stream full albums.

Working through the entire ECM jazz catalog that way.

Also...listen to Radio Paradise for leads and ideas.

Music plays here 7AM til midnight most days. TV went off 10 yrs ago.

[nmgaucho]

3. Love the ECM stuff

Metheny, Wheeler, Gabarek, Holland, Jarrett, etc...great stuff

[bif]

6. Been a fan of ECM since high school

Just about everything they produce is fantastic.

[nmgaucho]

2. Here is a good source to find some cool and interesting music

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/best/albums/

They have sound clip samples so you can decide if you like or not

[beachbum bob]

4. Youtube

[tableturner]

5. Radio Paradise......eclectic commercial free Internet radio.....

Programmed by a program director of a former album oriented station:

www.radioparadise.com/

[Foolacious]

7. Radio Paradise -- seconded

It's great because it doesn't automatically filter to stuff that it thinks you'll like. You get what you get; if you're a subscriber (which is free... donations are completely voluntary) and can't stand what you're hearing, you can have it play something else. In one set you might hear Bach followed by the Lone Bellow followed by the Clash followed by London Grammar followed by Dobet Gnahore... and there likely will even be a theme that ties them together.

[Rustynaerduwell]

8. A bit old school, but

if you live near a college or university listen to their radio station.

[bif]

9. Any other suggestions?

I used to follow SOMA FM but haven't streamed it in a while. Pretty good source for laid-back electronica. Lots of channels.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Any "smart" radio music service

Pandora and iHeart Radio have exposed me to some really neat music I might not have discovered otherwise and both are free (though you have to deal with some ads if you don't subscribe). Google Play Music has a Radio streaming mode, as does Spotify, though I don't think that they are as good as the first two and tend to repeat a lot.

[Kaleva]

11. Pandora has a wide selection

I had never heard of Electro Swing before but came across it by accident on Pandora.

[MrScorpio]

12. Bandcamp, Mixcloud and SoundCloud.

And check out as many international radio stations as you can.

[Hotler]

13. Here is a couple

www.radio.com., youtube is fun to poke around in. http://www.cpr.org/openair This is a colorado public radio station that plays a lot of contemporary music with some classic thrown in. You can stream all of these on your computer.
enjoy and have fun

[Beausoleil]

14. I am addicted to TuneIn

https://tunein.com/

I have about 10 different online radio stations that I cycle through.

They also have live feeds of MSNBC and CNN and more.
Lots of podcasts too.

Browser, Android, iphone accessible. Roku and Amazon Fire apps available too.

[shenmue]

15. Spotify

[FSogol]

17. Every noise at once

Beware, it is kind insane, but I've found great new music and whole genres I had never know about.

Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 2,279 genres by Spotify as of 2018-11-07. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.

The result is a map of genres, click on any genres and it will give you bands, listen to samples, see similar bands and genres. It is basically a map of the music universe.


http://everynoise.com/

[maxrandb]

18. We have this great show on the local NPR station

Paul Shagrue has got to have the greatest job in the world. Hosts an evening and weekend show called Out of the Box.

I've never seen a better selection of new music of all types.

You should check it out.



https://mediaplayer.whro.org/program/outofthebox

[bif]

19. Thanks for all your suggestions!

Lots of leads for new music. (There goes my weekend.)

[hibbing]

20. College radio. NPR, KEXP n/t