OK, everybody knows that Last.fm & Pandora are great services, but there are a lot of other tools that can help us to find new cool music. Some of them just expose daily musical goodies, others make recommendations based on your very own preferences, and others take the web interactivity ever further. Explore the best 20 ways to discover new music in a web 2.0 world.
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Live music discovey
My favorite method to discover new music is listening to the Awdio stream (live music stream from more than 60 clubs from all over the world – including DJ sets & parties) and when I hear a nice track, I tag it with Shazam (explained below) to find out what tune is it. [twitter]
Shazam gives instant satisfaction for those times when you want to know the song that is playing, learn more about the artist, buy the song immediately – or simply share your discovery with your family and friends. A similar project for PC is Midomi.
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Music recommendation services
iLike is an online service that allows users to download and share music. The website makes use of Apple’s iTunes in order to discover new artists and tracks that you should like. One of the oldest projects of it’s kind. [twitter]
The Filter – the vision of Peter Gabriel – is a discovery experience that filters the world of online entertainment and information, personalizing it in a way that reflects an individual’s tastes and moods through unique algorithms. It gathers your listening history through an iTunes plug-in. [twitter]
iTunes 8 includes a new feature – The Genius – that lets you automatically create playlists from songs in your music library that go great together. Right-click any song in your library and choose Start Genius from the pop-up menu for a list of new songs that match that tune’s attributes.
Kind of an emo version of The Filter & such, Taste Kid explores your taste suggesting similar or related music (artists, bands), movies and books, based on what you like. So be it! [twitter]
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Hot new tracks
The Hype Machine monitors hundreds of blogs for new music, collecting the MP3 links in a massive library of songs that you can favorite, adding to your dashboard, and then play like a radio. Another cool feature is the blog music zeitgeist. There is also a similar service -> Elbo.ws. [twitter]
Pitchfork is a daily blog devoted to music criticism, news and artist interviews. Its focus is on independent music, but the range of covered genres extends to electronic, pop, hip hop, dance, folk, jazz, and experimental music. The Pitchfork influence is often compared with NME‘s.
A leading online outlet for indie and alternative music, news, reviews, and gossip, Stereogum regularly features unknown artists who go on to become mainstream sensations. A very good tool for finding hot new tracks is the GumDrop. [twitter]
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Social bookmarking & Short Reviews
Mog is all about a music community. It’s very blog-centric and revolves around user pages, or “Mogs”. You build your Mog around songs you’re listening too and artists you like. That builds something like a profile for you that users can browse to and comment on. It also uses this profile to suggest other people or music that you might like.
StumbleAudio is a social music discovery site (yes, StumbleUpon like baby!) with a mission is to help you find music by new artists that you would like, rather than play or sell you the hits by mainstream artists that you are “expected” to love.
Made public in 2005, Liveplasma is a new way to broaden your cultural horizons according to your taste in music and movies. Look for your favorite bands, music or directors to obtain a map that details other potential interests.
It limits each review to a single line and allows users to rate those reviews up or down using Up or Down buttons. The daily selection of Musebin is a good mix of old and fresh music albums. [twitter]
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Mr Blippr gives us a really easy way to discover, talk about and organize great music trough very short reviews. They also host movie, book and application reviews so imagine the same thing extended for everything. [twitter]
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Internet Jukeboxes
Imeem is an online community where artists, fans & friends can promote their content, share their tastes, and discover blogs, photos, music and videos. The core engineers came from Napster (the pioneer file sharing service). [twitter]
With Deezer you can listen your favorite songs for free, create unlimited playlists, and share songs with the embedded players. Something like last.fm where you have the option to listen the desired tracks. [tweeter]
Songza is a web search engine that finds and plays music files on the internet. Unlike other streaming services, users explicitly search for individual files to play rather than an automatically generated playlist they cannot control. [tweeter]
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Others
If you love Twitter and you like listening to new music, then you should definitely try Blip.fm. The service allows you to make a stream of your recently discovered songs and to subscribe to the Blip feeds of your friends. [twitter]
Thesixtyone is a music discovery game that rewards those who help others listen to good new music. Also, new artists can add their music to thesixtyone in a process that’s fast and simple. [twitter]
One Llama is a music discovery and playlist-sharing site with a Flash app that lets you explore live related radio playlists. You just type the name of an artist or band and you get a big list of radio stations that usualy play songs by that artist.
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Extras
- Jango – Internet radio that plays what you want.
- SoundCloud – music uploaded and commented by artists and fans. Highly interactive listening process. [twitter]
- Cherry Peel – the democratic music revolution
- Rifflet – home of the unfinished songs; here you find pieces of a song – a bass line, a guitar riff, a drumbeat or something else entirely. Nice find for DJs
- hey, if you’re not satisfied by this list follow Britney on Twitter :-D
- please leave some tips & tricks in the comment
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travis September 3, 2010
A new one i found is http://www.thetuneage.com/
Haven Yates September 3, 2010
Thank you for creating this list. I was looking all over for some new discovery resources to upload music to, and you included quite a few that I had never even heard of. I appreciate it!
John Mayer September 15, 2010
Hey, what about Venossi.com?
nddie September 26, 2010
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alberto October 14, 2010
i read somewhere about a site in which you wrote titles of music that you like and it analyze your taste in a “rythm” way.. deeper , with a complicated algorithm..
BUT i don’t remember the sitename!=( (the inventor spent years to elaborate this thing!
Spongy November 17, 2010
It’s just a newborn baby but take a look at
http://www.frozentv.com
No ‘star ratings’ no ‘friends’ no blogs no forums no scroll bar.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication! -
Leonardo Da Vinci
Alvin November 23, 2010
You should check out http://songfountain.com/ It’s a music link sharing/trading community. If you post up your taste, people will post you good songs based on your taste!
Mr. Tunes December 4, 2010
i wonder what year this post was made in? imeem was killed off by myspace years ago. now if someone buys myspace and kills it off, two music sites will have been buried into the ground
Gina December 11, 2010
StumbleAudio is just what I was looking for thank you!!!
Theboss December 14, 2010
how about songlair.com?
jay December 15, 2010
http://www.totalmusiccontrol.blogspot.com
find the best music
Brad January 1, 2011
Open two tabs in your browser
1.http://www.similarartist.com
2.http://listen.grooveshark.com
As I am always on a quest for new music, these two sites give me nearly optimum options. Enjoy!
Vampira Bloothorn January 11, 2011
Mr. Tunes. That may probably get us no where. Then people would be wondering what happened to myspace. Then there would be a petition to get it back. then once those two were together we would still be on the same page as we are now.
Vampira Bloothorn January 11, 2011
T.T I really miss talking to Mr. Obama on imeem.
He joined two of my groups.
Stephen February 6, 2011
simplest and the fastest http://vupas.com
hope February 12, 2011
http://www.vupas.com really rocks thanks Stephen
Ryan February 21, 2011
http://vupas.com/ looks amazing! Thanks Stephen
Lulu March 20, 2011
http://www.shizzlin.com
A new personalized radio and music discovery site.
Katey April 4, 2011
There is a site I found recently thanks to stumbleupon that my stupid self never favorited. Its a site where you type in a band you like (say, Arcade Fire) but then it will give you like 8 bands that match that. Then you can click on one of those and it will take you to similar bands to them. Like a big tree w/branches off of the different bands. Its a great site. Anyone know it?
Katey April 4, 2011
http://static.echonest.com/musicmaze/MusicMaze.html
i found it and its great!
Nyarlathotep April 9, 2011
20 fantastic ways to fnd out why you shouldn’t listen to what other people say.
Sorry, but these kind of sites are utterly useless for those of us who have niche and ultra-specific tastes. Take my favourite artist : Alllied Vision. Many similar artists are not ones I consider similar, let alone anything I like (infact its usually strong dislike).
What there needs to be is a system that analyses an mp3 file – and reads the kind of sounds, textures, vocals and structures within the music then suggests music with the same properties. Sadly, thats probably too awesome to exist isnt it ?
Nick April 18, 2011
My favorite:
http://www.findnewjams.com
Fredd April 21, 2011
I use http://www.albumtable.com
I do believe pitchfork is usually right, but with that you can compare it with others.
Thiago Dragoni April 23, 2011
wow, you forgot a lot of good ones, the best one for me
http://www.8tracks.com
Lydia August 1, 2011
totally agree, 8tracks is my main source for music anymore.
the medifast diet blog May 11, 2011
There are some interesting points made in this post but I don’t know if I see all of them heart to eye . There is some validity but I will take hold judgement until I look into it further. Good clause, thanks and we want more! Added to FeedBurner besides.
Justin Lewis May 19, 2011
I use this new website http://upperclassbeats.com
It has a variety of music for all tastes .
Check it out
Sdog&bitch May 21, 2011
TuneGlue – the best one for me and my girlfriend!
http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/
amazingly comfortable and user friendly visual interface, just search a known artist, and click on it to expand and similar artists will pop up.
audioguy June 19, 2011
Ya, that site that let you put in names and let you listen to the best new music from all over the world was called UnHeard Radio. http://www.unheardradio.com – but with insane increase of use, lack of advertisers, the owners couldn’t afford to keep it running anymore. Kinda Sucks. I loved that site.
Michael Canter June 28, 2011
We have a radio program that we air on Tuesdays from 4pm – 8pm CDT called “New Music Tuesdays”. It’s on Jivewired Radio powered by Live365 – it’s free, and the radio player provides links to where the listener can download the music – with about 60-75% of the music available at no coast. The link is http://live365.com/stations/jivewiredradio – and we also pay royalties for airplay and take submissions for new music (there is an e-mail link on our station page).
Ari July 7, 2011
What about wahwah.fm?
david katz July 26, 2011
http://iGiveapoop.com on http://JackTheDonkey.com (be social, discover new music…make change for the charity of your choice…freely).
Rach July 30, 2011
listen.grooveshark.com
lucy August 3, 2011
8tracks.com changed my life
Kfir August 16, 2011
jampri.com does it for me due to its strong social abilities.
james August 29, 2011
http://songspin.fm is a great way to discover new music. it’s like stumbleupon for music.
Brian September 11, 2011
Music Emissions does a podcast every month that is strictly lesser known bands.
http://www.musicemissions.com/blog/index.php/category/podcast/unsigned-and-wound-up/
Fred Flintstone September 14, 2011
8tracks.com
alan September 24, 2011
Is there a website with the option where you can choose to only listen to full tracks by one artist? I like grooveshark, but it’s not very comprehensive for the music that I listen to. Best idea for me to do this so far is iTunes playall by artist, but of course I only get to listen to snippets.
Debbie September 25, 2011
If you are into indie music, there is a great new website called RhythmScore at http://www.rhythmscore.com
It’s still kinda new, but it’s got a great concept going for it!
Tim Thorson September 28, 2011
I agree with Nyarlathotep, I’ve tried nearly all of these kind of sites and I never find anything. Ever. Was never into Allied Vision much, but that late 90′s ultra-harsh electro-industrial sound is what I like too – my favourite was Numb’s latter stuff. So I know what you mean, sadly this stuff is so niche theres very few people actually made/making it which is probably why it’s so hard to find real decent recomendations on these sites. So I feel your frustration brother, if only more people had our awesome taste :D
Marty October 15, 2011
Great websites there. My new favorite is http://www.BitCandy.com They are a music filter and an internet radio station specializing in indie, alternative pop and electro
Tara November 1, 2011
Facebook is no longer supporting iLike or any downloadable music service
Robert November 8, 2011
an upcoming newer site i’ve found for finding new indie music for free is MuzicNotez (http://www.muzicnotez.com/), check it out
Mike November 25, 2011
You should also check out http://albumcorner.com — we’re working on a pretty interesting model for music discovery, I think!
Charles Koehler December 10, 2011
I want to import my playlist into a website that can analyze my particular likes and give recommended music based on what I already like. Sort of a Music DNA algorithm that can disect and break down my particular style of music that I broadcast and help me find new artists. http://www.live365.com/stations/ck12248384
vagelis January 5, 2012
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Music-Radar/266936683370892?sk=wall
val January 13, 2012
Check out turntable.fm too. awesome website for finding music
Michael January 25, 2012
How about InternetDJ?
http://www.internetdj.com
It’s been live since 1997.