Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="kyrie derbingle"][quote name="Roop"][quote name="kyrie derbingle"]Professional interest. What's your source?[/quote] I was wishing you could tell me when I read the question. It's such a pain in the ass. What I do is, usually I've just gotten up and I go looking for new shit, try different ways, open a bunch of tabs and I listen to a stream of junk. Youtube will sometimes get in a good groove with me, end up recommending stuff, like how I saw the new Death Valley Girls. WXRT has always had the Big Beat show with new releases for the week, and I'll hear something there if I catch it or Google later. Sometimes I see lists of bands from SXSW wherever. I follow a few accounts on Youtube that curate new music. I guess Reddit itself has gone to hell, at least r/listentothis still seems okay and active, but it's not perfect because I've posted shit I've seen on there myself which means they all missed it. It's not every day, but I'll listen to twenty songs maybe more. There's tons of new music released every day, and I actually miss most of it. So to answer your question, I dunno I struggle the fuck along.[/quote] Well, that's not too different from my approach-flail wildly and occasionally run across something interesting. The reason I asked is because of frustration over what you mentioned: I know I'm missing so much original, quality stuff all the time. I'm hoping to find someone who has a more methodical approach, or a strategy that'll at least plug me into specific genres and browse new content without having to wade through every SoundCloud rapper with "Li'l" somewhere in his name, but I also don't want to miss something amazing just because some playlist curator doesn't think they're established enough or whatever. Browsing new music has become too much of a drink from the firehose proposition. [quote name="Roop"] Wait, professional interest? Maybe you should be answering this damn question for me.[/quote] Hah, probably not. As I've gotten older I've lost my ability to absorb pop culture by osmosis; what was once intuitive is now painstaking, and the motivation isn't always there to wade through a couple hours of the artistic equivalent of fidget spinners on the off-chance that I might randomly run across an occasional 2NU or March Fourth. As far as my own poor methods, one of the Seattle NPR stations plays funky new stuff for a couple of hours every day, and I'm up to my allotted limit of stations on Pandora (and I'm constantly deleting to enter new artist/genres to trawl). I was excited that the Amazon Prime music app had a continuous play feature that would find similar artists at the end of a user's playlist, but (to my great frustration) they seem to have removed that feature in the last week or so. I spend a lot of time on music publishers' websites, but again, I'm either diving in and hoping I find something randomly or going through a playlist and trusting that the curator somehow knows what I'm looking for. <a href="MusicMap.info">MusicMap</a> and <a href="EveryNoise.com">EveryNoise</a> are helpful in drilling down in a broader genre, but their suggested artists are limited. Honestly, the easiest and most efficient method for finding good shit right now is to take my younger colleagues out for a beer and give them a chance to talk about their new favorite discoveries. We hired two guys fresh out of college year before last, and those two combined with Caltrops probably account for about 90% of what I've found and liked over the past year or so.[/quote]