how do you find new music and artists?

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#1 leon2365
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i was wondering how everyone else found out about a certain artist or type of music.
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#2 JML897
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Last.FM recommended artists, online forums, music blogs, and friends' recommendations. Not necessarily in that order.

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#3 Noteldnep
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I usually listen to the radio.
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#4 rocketfox129
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music magazines and sites, recommendations from friends, browsing similar artists on last.fm, checking out artists whom are buds with an artist I already like mostly
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#5 ArmoredCore55
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Usually from forums and sometimes youtube.
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#6 cronomagus36
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Usually from the internet or from my friend's recommendations.
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#7 lensflare15
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Youtube and google searches. I might write something like "Bands like NOFX" and see what comes up.

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#8 telvisnostic
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Last.FM recommended artists, online forums, music blogs, and friends' recommendations. Not necessarily in that order.JML897
This is what I do too.

Also to try to go out of my element or music I listen to, I tend to get or ask friends for some suggestions.

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#9 SpiritOfFire117
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Usually from word of mouth or the radio.
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#10 AudioPrison
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Last.FM

T.V.

Spotfly

Other people :) Just, random ways really. 

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#11 cronomagus36
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Youtube and google searches. I might write something like "Bands like NOFX" and see what comes up.

lensflare15

Stuff like this sometimes helps too. You can also just go on Wikipedia and look up lists of artists from different genres of music (like "List of Punk Rock bands" or "List of Progressive Rock bands").

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#12 telvisnostic
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Last.FM

T.V.

Spotfly

Other people :) Just, random ways really. AudioPrison

Spotify has totally given me new artists to listen to.

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#13 atony12
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From the radio
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#14 kierwinyoung
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Movies, games, youtube, friends.

But most of my friends don't like my kind of music, they listen to music that is only big shot today,next month, whatever.

they have songs today then the next week another song was aired in Mtv or other, then that's their new favorite.

But I can see in them that some of them just liked the song because it's big shot now. 

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#15 applesxc47
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Lurking reccomendation threads on the net mostly.

Metal Archives helps too.

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#16 lensflare15
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I've been using Last FM a lot lately, and Wikipidia.
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#17 cfstar
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This site is fantastic for finding new music.

 

While i was suspended, i expanded my musical tastes a lot with the help of this website. 

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Youtube
MetalSucks
Metal Injection
The Needle Drop
The Metal Union
Metal Archives

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#19 zmanrwks
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The radio of course, sometimes through other artists I like (I began listening to the Gorillaz a few months back after I heard a song they made with Andre 3000), occassionally by accident (such as watching a random video that has a song by an artist you haven't listened to), and friend recommendations.
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#20 StaticKornSlipX
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Sometimes the games I am playing direct me to new music. I started following a few bands that had songs in FIFA games and GTA games.
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#21 lancelot200
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I've mainly used lurking on last.fm and wikipedia.
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#22 applesxc47
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Lots of reccs from websites like Metal Archives are helpful, especially if you're after a specific sound or genre.

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#23 Iceozo
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Lurking reccomendation threads on the net mostly.

Metal Archives helps too.

applesxc47


This pretty much.
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#24 Assassin_87
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A mix of Last.FM and Spotify, as others have said. I also sometimes find artists/bands on Youtube.
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#25 cheetahman91
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Youtube and Wikipedia are what I primarily use.
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#26 n-re
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I have my ways around youtube and my friends
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#27 sman3579
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I just do research on musicians and songs.

Like I'll look up best selling artists and read a bit about them. 

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#28 kingkilla3
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A surprisingly common way I've found music is through the "Similar Artists" sections on Last.FM pages. 
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#29 dissonantblack
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i use last.fm a lot.
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#30 nima_metal90
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TV mostly like VH1 or....
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#31 GamerofMario1
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Recommendations from friends and family, the radio, and the Guitar Hero and Rock Band video game series.
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#32 the_plan_man
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i was wondering how everyone else found out about a certain artist or type of music.leon2365

Pandora, Wikipedia occasionally, mainly radio. 

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#33 strategyfn
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TV specials. I found Aura Dione that way and Unheilig. Also regular TV I use to get MuchMusic and watch artists' videos.