I've always been the type to look for music. In highschool I was torrenting music constantly, then in the last couple years I subscribed to Spotify. I get so much dopamine from finding new music that I listen to new things probably every week/month. I do still listen to what I listened to 10-20 years ago, it's just all a mix of my favourites at the time.
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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.
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'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.
Yes I definitely try and seek out new bands and sub-genres. Just the act of searching is fun.
Also, Reign in Blood on repeat for 35 years
Reign in Blood
I see you are a man of culture. I'm not really into the thrash metal scene beyond some albums from Testament or Machine Head, but that album is amazing. What Rick Rubin achieved there was wonderful.
Is it just me or is the process of finding new music also succumbing to the forces of enshitification? Like for me the sources went like this:
- Old forum-style/niche internet sources (userbase died out)
- Internet radio (ate by Pandora)
- Pandora (ate by other music streaming sites, enshitification of algorithm)
- Spotify (enshitification of algorithm, bad treatment of music industry creators)
- Google music (rip... But tbh wasn't ever really good at finding new music)
- Music publications?? (Pitchfork is the best I guess??? Npr maaaybe? That's sad, and also all of these are prone to enshitification)
- Local underground music scenes (lots died with covid, hope they come back, but now I live in a more rural place)
Like... How do we find new music now? If it's up to an algorithm, it's enshitified. If it's up to people's suggestions, idk where a userbase would even exist.
I literally used to run charting for a radio station and I STILL don't know where to find new tunes. I'm still a baby, too, so some of you that think it's harder just because you're older... I have bad news lol
KEXP.org is free streaming and has a huge variety of music. It's indy, run by human DJs, and has an app. They play just about every music type and publish their playlist live. Try that for new music. I find new stuff to listen to every week ( I find stuff to like in every genre, but if you're more particular, then you might have to scope out the schedule to see when the genres you like get play)
I think bandcamp is a pretty good way to find new music. I've gone down some lengthy rabbitholes finding a band I like then clicking various tags or links to other bands supported by their fans. You can stream a lot of the music, and if you buy something more of the money goes to the artists.
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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.
I used to be that way, but recently I've been only listening to bands I'd never heard of before. I've had Spotify for about 10 years and only recently started using the Discovery Weekly playlist. It was only ok at first, but now I heart about 50% of the songs each week.
Don't be too hard on your friends. This is actually scientifically proven. https://neurosciencenews.com/music-youth-17765/ You love the music that you "grew up with as you were forming an identity" You can always change but it is more work to create new memories and nostalgia based on different or "new" songs.
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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.
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 am constantly on the lookout for new metal/metalcore/deathcore bands! As I have gotten older, I am enjoying more and more genres of music.
Personally I have found that Pandora's algorithm for suggesting new music is the best when I am on the hunt.