Every so often (maybe once a year) I look through my music collection and then go “Oh, I forgot about this band that I used to love” and then look them up and see if anything new from them is out. If the band has broken up I also look up the band members to see what bands they are now in or people they have worked with etc. The Six degrees of separation thing works quite well.

Listen to the billions of songs made before 2016 lol. You got a lot of catching up to do.

New does not equal good.

Beyond that, follow trustworthy artists. The only way to fight the slop is with community and trust.

I only discover music through human curators I trust.

Currently it’s via the YouTube channel “worldhaspostrock”, though the word “new” might not be appropriate because as of late they’ve just been posting decade-old albums.

I don’t usually listen to anything newer than around 2010 anyway. 🤣

• Bandcamp
• see who tours together. If you like A and they open for B, you might like B
• indie record labels
• see who’s playing at local venues.

i recently discovered Tom Lehrer through some shit post. But I guess it depends on what you define as new

My main genre is hiphop I simply discover artists via recursive checking of features

I mainly listen to electronic music for the past decade or so and have several artists I’ve listened to consistently, they’ll collab with some new artist or do a mix and include their music so I check them out and it grows from there.

It’s much easier to find organic art in a community, outside the art industries.

Sure, unless you set up a lot of subscriptions it won’t just come on a consumption conveyor belt, and some people might want or expect that, but it’s much better to be in a place where you’re actually interacting with artists.

Go to the small concert venues and see them play.

I’ve used https://www.music-map.com/ a few times but not lately, so I don’t know how exclusive it is in regards to AI music.

Record labels. For any band you like, go to their label’s website, browse the other artists on their roster or peruse the label’s past releases. The bands will likely be similar in style/sound, or at least worth checking out.

I guess im lucky in that my taste is with older music. I had a friend whos main hobby was going to bars with bands playing and that is how bands got their start in the past. If you don’t live near a large metro you can check who is playing at various big city venues and then look around at what their music is like.

outside

I get recommendations from real people, not algorithms.

I go to live shows and music festivsls and buy music at the merch table.