How do you discover new music?

[shuriken]

youtube, jbtv, movies and sometimes the radio

[senpai]

I love Spotify! I wish you didn't have to pay for it. The ads and limits are annoying if you go with the free version. Also Pandora's all right, but I prefer Spotify. I'm a fan of indie rock and classic rock too. My favorite radio station is aired in MN. So I just do I Heart Radio whenever I feel like tuning in. They play some of the best new and old music!

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by senpai

I love Spotify! I wish you didn't have to pay for it. The ads and limits are annoying if you go with the free version. Also Pandora's all right, but I prefer Spotify. I'm a fan of indie rock and classic rock too. My favorite radio station is aired in MN. So I just do I Heart Radio whenever I feel like tuning in. They play some of the best new and old music!

And you don't have to pay for it if you don't want to. Yes, I'd rather do without the ads, but I'm not paying 6-7 euros per month just to get rid off them. It's not like the world is over if an ad plays every 3-4 songs. In fact, it kinda makes it livelier. Like some sort of ultra-modern radio station. I don't mind it much, to be honest.

[Shiro Kame]

I use Youtube. Since I subscribe and view a variety of internet artists, some channel suggestions will come up for me. I will also sometimes search up the genre. That's how I discovered TheEnigma TNG.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Lately? TV commercials. Yeah, it sounds weird, but I've been hearing some really cool tunes on commercials- the Kia one using Maroon 5's Animals and the Vegas Cosmopolitan one with an instrumental of Mos Def's Twilite Speedball being just a couple- and I liked them so much I had to hunt them down.

[Wesley]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Lately? TV commercials. Yeah, it sounds weird, but I've been hearing some really cool tunes on commercials- the Kia one using Maroon 5's Animals and the Vegas Cosmopolitan one with an instrumental of Mos Def's Twilite Speedball being just a couple- and I liked them so much I had to hunt them down.

I don't think that's weird. I've heard a lot of fun songs over the years on TV shows like soap operas and comedies. For example, Rockin' Around the World by Status Quo was used in an episode of Coronation Street nearly a decade ago when they guest-starred on the soap.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

True, one of the earliest TV soundtracks I bought was the one for season one of Smallville. I loved most of the songs on it, and now I kind of wish I'd picked up some of the other albums from later seasons. Or Buffy and Angel, I remember both shows having some really good tunes. The most recent OST I've bought was for Guardians of the Galaxy.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Wesley

I don't think that's weird. I've heard a lot of fun songs over the years on TV shows like soap operas and comedies. For example, Rockin' Around the World by Status Quo was used in an episode of Coronation Street nearly a decade ago when they guest-starred on the soap.

Video games can be a good place to discover new artists as well. I found out about Radiohead, Kasabian, Head Automatica and Franz Ferdinand in FIFA, per example.

[Wesley]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Video games can be a good place to discover new artists as well. I found out about Radiohead, Kasabian, Head Automatica and Franz Ferdinand in FIFA, per example.

I agree about video games. I discovered The Offspring by playing Crazy Taxi and heard the song To Get Down by Timo Maas in FIFA 2003. Also, I heard some of my favourite bands/artists first on the Irish TV show Reeling in the Years.