How do you find new music/bands?

[pacmania_2001]

I've been adding to my music collection lately and have been discovering new bands that I like through places like Amazon and from word of mouth from friends etc.

Just wondering how you find new bands/music to listen to?

[Conquest10]

Word of mouth mostly.

[housepig]

word of mouth, but also from Aquarius Records - great store, great people, and they have streaming audio samples of most of their stuff.

[tgpo]

iTunes Music Store. Makes it very easy to find bands that the crappy radio stations don't pick up on.

[ipgpe13]

Looking on-line at sites with the types of music I like.

Metropolis records for one.

[zzyzzx]

New or new to you? As far as I an concerned there is very little or no music recorded in the past 15 years thats' much different from the past. The only "new" band I really like is the Bloodhound Gang. And the only reason I got into them is they made a reference to Falco in one of their songs. Most of the stuff I listen to is from the early to mid 1980's, back when music and music videos were good.

[gitreel]

I agree zzyzzx.

Imo, the 80's had better music.

[gitreel]

I use p2p.

Most independent artists will put their music on p2p to get recognized and heard. If I like it, then I will buy their music.

[Doramius]

Here we call it RADIO or MTV.

[Faustus]

Hrm... usually I find band that are new to me instead of just new. That way they have (hopefully) more music to pull from.

I've learned to not be afriad to investagate a band say... with a good song on a sound track. That helps alot actually. Other then that I sometimes take suggestions from people I talk to online, then sample them somewhat from the internet before I plunge in and buy the CD.

[The village idiot]

Here we call it RADIO or MTV.

BAH! over produced crap.


Movie soundtracks can offer up a large selection of good music. The downside is that often the music on a soundtrack is the only good song ever produced by some of the bands.