Finding New Music to Listen To
Its always nice when a new CD or single gets released that a person likes. Old favorites, while always enjoyable in small amounts, can often wear thin after repeat listens. Even I often find that my favorite CDs, such as the reviewed Bleed American, become dull and hard to listen to after a while. But waiting for new releases from favorite artists can be hard. Bands don’t release, for the most part, new albums each and every year. So how can we find more music to listen to?
The obvious answer, for most, is the radio. The radio has traditionally been the core of new music and discovering new artists. By listening to certain genre stations, one can, presumably, find artists similar to his or her favorites and expand their musical library. Unfortunately, using the radio for this purpose often results in fruitless results and wasted time. Radio stations, even genre-specific ones, mainly only feature big-name artists who most music listeners already know about. In addition, it may take hours to discover a new song one actually likes by listening to the radio.
If you’re like me and want something reliable to discover new music, I would suggest Pandora. Pandora is an internet site that has, over the last couple of months, become very popular in the digital music community. By visiting the free site, which uses internet ads to make money, and entering current favorites, either artists or songs, Pandora will go through different and unheard of music and recommend new artists to you.
Sound too good to be true? Well it’s not. Pandora is, again, free to try and has keyed me into several bands that I listen to today, including Feeder and Maritime. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for new tunes to listen to.
Filed under: Digital Music
