Given we all live in a decidedly niche music sphere, I thought it might be helpful if we share our tips/tricks for finding new artists. Here’s my tried and true: everynoise.com
I’ve been using the custom chart function at https://rateyourmusic.com/ recently. It allows me to drill down to highly specific combinations of genres, influences and descriptors, such as “instrumental noise rock influenced by krautrock” or “noisy avant-prog influenced by post-punk”. Back in the day I discovered a lot of new music from obscure internet radio stations. Recommendation algorithms however have never worked for me, they usually just recommend stuff I already know.
I use angrymetalguy.com and spotify reccomended artists on band pages.
https://www.music-map.com/ can help a bit. It knows surprisingly underground bands.
Random browsing on Bandcamp can produce results too.
This is cool and helpful, thank you for sharing
The link doesn’t work for me, is it the same as everynoise.com?
I’ve been mostly using Spotify and some Dutch review sites. I still have a Last.fm account but don’t use it much anymore, Spotify has mostly replaced it.
I’m considering switching back to Spotify for just that reason. I jumped over to Tidal a few years back as they pay artists more, but their recommendation algorithms are garbage in comparison.
If this gets traction, maybe we could sticky it?
I dont mind, but i have no idea how haha
edit: ok just figured out how to, if you want ill sticky it
