How do you find new music?

Subject: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST,nycgamer
Date: 27 May 03 - 02:55 PM

Are you one of those people who monopolize the listening station at the CD store? Do you borrow from friends? TV? Movies? Games? How do you discover your next CD acquisition?

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: MMario
Date: 27 May 03 - 03:13 PM

I come here. And that has given me a decade or two backlog of "new" music to learn. The backlog keeps getting longer!

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST,weerover
Date: 27 May 03 - 03:24 PM

I find some of it OK, some not. Seriously, get round clubs, festivals, sessions, and when you hear something you like ask the performer where it came from. That way you diversify your collection.

wr

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: greg stephens
Date: 27 May 03 - 04:02 PM

I go to the local asylum seekers hostel, sing a couple of songs and ask if anyone else knows any songs. The result over the last few years has been staggering/mind-blowing/awesome (select any superlative adjective)/

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: Zhenya
Date: 27 May 03 - 04:38 PM

When I arrive for my music lesson, my teacher, who usually has back-to-back lessons and is a smoker, goes over to the window for a smoking break. First, though, he puts on an interesting CD to listen to. I've had to tell him that this is causing the lessons to be very expensive for me, as I invariably end up buying most of the CDs at some point down the road. So that's one way to find them...

This isn't confined to my music teacher. A few years ago, a friend I was visiting played me part of a contradance album. I not only eventually bought that album, but several others as well to jumpstart my contradance collection.

Concerts are always good for adding to the collection, especially smaller ones where the performer can see if you DON'T buy one. (Just kidding..)

Then there was the recent occasion when a friend raved about a performer and I went with her to see him…and she was right. I bought one album at the concert, and am now in the process of acquiring every other album he's ever made. (he's well represented on Mudcat threads.)

Then there are the catalogs, music magazines, radio shows, online review info, festival sales booths, and OF COURSE Mudcat comments. I hardly ever shop in music stores. (at least the generic ones around here. If you have a good folk oriented store in your area, I guess it's worth it.)

Did I leave anything out here?

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: M.Ted
Date: 27 May 03 - 07:27 PM

I like food from odd places, and when I hear something I like on the restaurant CD player, I ask what it is, then try to find it. Sometimes it takes a couple years.   I also tend to ask how to fix things that I like. On a good day, there may be a zither player, or someone plucking out tunes on a Saz, or an accordian player--I like Greg's way, too, and have done similar things in the past--

Currently, I am looking for something by Googoosh and something by Enver Ismailov--

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 27 May 03 - 11:24 PM

Our church has a monthly CD roundtable where we do potluck dinner and everybody brings a CD to play a couple songs. Half the CDs go home (temporarily) with a different person.

I also listen to the interviews of the (semi) popular musicians that I already listen to. I love when they say what influences them and what they are currently listening to. Jimmy Buffett turned me onto Zachary Richard, who turned me on to Beausoleil who turned me onto . . .

Guest performers on albums is another way. That's one way I learn about new Celtic performers.

The there's all the music programs on Public Radio.

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 May 03 - 08:42 AM

I haunt my local great CD shop so much the lads have turned into friends.

The crappy Top 40 shops are places I avoid, but a small shop run by enthusiasts is the place to go. They specialise in re-releases & back catalogue (no Top 40 anywhere in their shop) & I have replaced a lot of old tapes & records - Eric Bogle, Pete Seeger, Weavers, Joan Baez, Pentangle, Moody Blues, Neil Diamond, Manfred Mann, Vera Lynne, Noel Coward, Django Reinhardt, Neil Young, War of the Worlds, Gracie Fields ...

I also buy at festivals & when artists visit my club, and albums put out by friends. I even get a few freebies from acts who would like to be booked!

My collection is spilling all over the floor (I really must get the shelves put up).

I also print out songs from Mudcat & other sources.

sandra

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST,nycgamer
Date: 28 May 03 - 03:58 PM

If it's not in a movie, a video game or a friend's CD player, then chances are I'll never hear it. I hardly listen to the radio anymore. Actually, I find a surprising amount of new music through video games. I just recently got into Crystal Method after hearing their song, "Listen All You Mutha F***ers!" in Splinter Cell
. Any other gamers here?


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Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 03 - 04:10 PM

yeah but we have lives enough that we don't buy soundtracks to video games...

i get music by going to pubs mainly....if i hear soemthing i like i try to find some one who has recorded it....

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: Burke
Date: 28 May 03 - 04:37 PM

Recently I've been checking CD's out from the library. Most of what I'm borrowing is performers I've heard of for years but haven't really heard.

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: Wesley S
Date: 28 May 03 - 04:46 PM

Sometimes here - but I often find things through Sing Out, Acoustic Guitar and Dirty Linen magazines.

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: Les B
Date: 28 May 03 - 06:43 PM

I've been having fair luck lately in the "used CD" section of Hastings - a book & record chain. I've found $5 CD's of Uncle Dave Macon, Spade Cooley, and Big Bill Broonzey.   However, one I thought was Bob Wills turned out to be Asleep at the Wheel doing a Bob Wills tribute - someone had put the wrong CD in the right jewel box! Next time I'll check the contents!

At jam sessions I listen real closely to old timers and ask where they heard this or that song. Sometimes it's a real revelation.

I also watch the used record bins at off-beat little shops. Just an hour ago I found "R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders," a group I've wanted to hear for 20 years.

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 03 - 06:51 PM

artists playing at the folk club, hear say...

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: michaelr
Date: 28 May 03 - 07:43 PM

I'm on MusicScotland.com's email list, and twice a month or so they let me know about new releases. Just yesterday I received an order of CDs from them including the new Capercaillie CD "Choice Language" which won't be released in the US until September; "What Road" from Caper's fiddler Charlie McKerron et al calling themselves Session A9, which may never be released here; and Malinky's "3 Ravens".

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: toadfrog
Date: 28 May 03 - 08:15 PM

NPR is a very good source. Notably BBC Outlook.

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 29 May 03 - 09:54 AM

I've lots of friends with musical tastes equivalent to mine. We're always swapping suggestions and CDs.

Spend the summer going to festivals of my favorite music. My favorite recording purveyor shows up at some of them and can be counted on to have almost everything currently available.

A local college radio station has a couple of programs devoted to my favorite music. The DJs are friends who keep pretty current.

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST,Lidy
Date: 29 May 03 - 10:03 AM

I scour libraries (I have now worn out the county's entire folk selection, not that it was exactly overwhelming in size!); I always make sure I turn up at gigs early to catch the support bands- you never know what you might miss; if I find I'm unexpectedly free for an evening, I head down to a venue that I know always has decent stuff on and a decent crowd (in my case, borderline in London); me and my mates have an intensively strict car-and-music sharing routine. We have to take it in turns to drive places, and the driver always has to ensure there's at least one tape/cd that no one else has heard yet, whether it's new or something dug up from the parents' record collection!
If the driver does not do this, they have to drive every trip until they introduce us to something. We find the threat of being the designated driver more often than necessary really boosts our music-hunting!!

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST,nycgamer
Date: 29 May 03 - 01:45 PM

To whomever said "yeah but we have lives enough that we don't buy soundtracks to video games...", well, neither do I. I simply said I got into Crystal Method through playing Splinter Cell - I didn't buy a Splinter Cell soundtrack. There is no such thing anyway. The only video game soundtrack I know of is the soundtrack to GTA Vice City and that's because the game has radio stations with literally hundreds of hits from the 1980s.

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 May 03 - 02:29 PM

Does anyone listen to the radio these days? As far as I can tell, radio has SUCKED lately.

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jun 03 - 09:31 AM

Radio!! Our National Broadcaster has several programs that play folk/blues CDs & live concerts - commercial stations might play an old folk classic (maybe, but only if they're into nostalgia) & naturally the smaller FM stations have folk/blues programs run by enthusiasts.

Otherwise the music I like is only heard by those who already love it - the greater part of the public would never hear anything other than Top 40 stuff.

sandra (who doesn't have a TV & listens to radio or CDs & goes to clubs, sessions & festivals )

Subject: RE: How do you find new music?
From: mg
Date: 05 Jun 03 - 09:31 PM

I love radio..especially KMUN in Astoria and KBCS in Seattle...I also listen to internet radio whenever I can (Live365.com)...lots of folk there. I also love going to music camps (some coming up soon..Vancouver, B.C., Victoria B.C. (I think) and our Sunnycamp)...and of course Folklife..speaking of which I heard an OH WOW song there..about the horses involved in the fishing industry in Ilwaco in the olden days. Hobe Kytr wrote it..I'll see if I can get the words someday. If you like horses, this one is just great..in fact if you like songs, it is just great..

mg