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Where do you go to get music recommendations?

  • 07-07-2011 02:34PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭


    Just spent a very pleasant 20 minutes looking through the past threads and noted a lot of new acts to check out. Which got me thinking - where do you go to find out about new music? Which blogs and bulletin boards do you check out? What about radio shows? Or is it largely word of count? Very curious, especially given what people are talking about here.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭TemptationWaits


    Last.fm is the best for finding bands that you'd like!

    I find out about a lot of good bands by seeing them on MTV Rocks and Q on telly, also from reading music magazines, the bands that influence bands I like, bands that support bands I like, and also word of mouth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 knight_of_cake


    For me anyways i use nialler9 and harmless noise most of the time...Hyper machine and those geese were Stupefied are both good too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    Last.fm is pretty great. AllMusic's similar artists category for each band is superb too.

    As for blogs this lot have always been good:
    http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/
    http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/
    http://songbytoad.com/


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    twitter and blogs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭indiewindy


    Checking out who foggy notions are bringing to Dublin for gigs has introduced me to some great music.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Howard the Duck


    Mostly i read reviews in mojo and uncut, the "The Name a song you've recently discovered and would like to share" thread" here has introduced me to some new stuff.
    Also BBC6 music and other online music stations.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    last.fm turned me from a tasteless lout to someone with a great taste and expansive library (if I do say so myself :D)

    You should try the last.fm radio, enter a broad tag in like "alternative" "electronic" or whatever, and let it play through, mark some artists you like the sound of, and you're off. Too bad it isn't free in Ireland though, only a 30 song trial. If you skip the track before the end you can bypass that I think.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 178 ✭✭DirtyLeeds


    I use the NME..............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    last.fm is great. it's turned me onto some great artists i'd never heard of before, through its recommendations radio.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Last.fm and BBC6. And sometimes reading the stuff you all post on Boards.ie, so thanks for that. 2FM aren't bad on Sunday nights.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Hackysack


    A combination of last fm, friend's recommendations and recently, the Post a Song you would like to share thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    KEXP Seattle.

    Thank god I live in a US city with a decent radio station. Check out their playlist, they play excellent music.

    http://kexp.org/playlist/playlist.aspx

    Plus Boards, I should add. An invaluable source of new bands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭TwoCanDan


    I concur with the other Last.fm fans here. I find it very handy to look at the charts of neighbours/friends there.

    Around ten years ago, as a musically green culchie, I found pre-licence Phantom fm brilliant. They played a genuinely eclectic mix of stuff, it was a bit anarchic, and although they had a playlist they were happy to deviate from it for requests at any time of day.
    I rarely listen to it anymore. I don't know if it actually has drifted from the leftfield towards the centre due to commercial concerns, or if I've become an insufferable snob in the intervening years. (I know they have niche shows, but I never feel compelled to listen like I used to...I even used to listen to "Mettol Notes" and I'm not a metal fan at all...)


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭TommyTippee


    Q magazine supply my reviews....they are rarely wrong.

    Only £20 for a year's delivered subscription too. God bless the UK.

    You would barely get half a dozen Hot Press toilet roll for that price.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Q magazine supply my reviews....they are rarely wrong.

    Only £20 for a year's delivered subscription too. God bless the UK.

    You would barely get half a dozen Hot Press toilet roll for that price.

    yeah but Q has that shiny paper which makes wiping harder...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Last FM and Rate Your Music are the shizz.
    Various music forums and blogs.
    Magazines such as MOJO and Uncut. Stay away from Q, NME and the Day & Night section of the indo if you want some good reliable music reviews.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭dots03


    so no one reads pitchfork eh...yeah right ;)


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    dots03 wrote: »
    so no one reads pitchfork eh...yeah right ;)

    being honest it's slipped down a good bit, i normally hear a name on twitter and stick it into spotify


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭H8GHOTI


    The last couple of years I've found good new music in the Electric Picnic line-up.


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    H8GHOTI wrote: »
    The last couple of years I've found good new music in the Electric Picnic line-up.

    Check out this years primavera line up. It was on in May and had the best line up of a festival i've been too.

    This years EP line up is awesome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭H8GHOTI


    Ya it was a very good line-up, a few from it are playing EP this year too.
    I wouldn't mind a few more being added from it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭TemptationWaits


    I do use Pitchfork a bit as well, their reviews are very intelligent but they've a really high standard. I find if an album has a good review on Pitchfork it's gonna be very good, but if it has a bad review if doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭TwoCanDan


    I do use Pitchfork a bit as well, their reviews are very intelligent but they've a really high standard. I find if an album has a good review on Pitchfork it's gonna be very good, but if it has a bad review if doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad album.

    I don't agree entirely there.

    I think it's a very good website for news and tour info, and the album lists for the 70's, 80's and 90's are brilliant (I've lost count of the number of great albums I found through them...take the piss if you like!).

    However, their reviews are way too beholden to the vagaries of current scenes and trends...I've been suckered into buying a fair few lo-fi-for-the-sake-of-lo-fi turds on the back of their reviews over the last few years. Of course, they're spot-on a lot of the time too...


    Two more legitimate (and funny) pisstakes of their review system...

    ...this...
    http://www.theonion.com/articles/pitchfork-gives-music-68,2278/

    ...and this...
    http://www.pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/6044-david-cross-albums-to-listen-to-while-reading-overwrought-pitchfork-reviews/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    I do use Pitchfork a bit as well, their reviews are very intelligent but they've a really high standard. I find if an album has a good review on Pitchfork it's gonna be very good, but if it has a bad review if doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad album.
    Pitchfork's reviews are unbelievably unconsistent and some of them are just horrendously unfair and self-absorbed. They try far too hard to be 'trendy'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    Pitchfork's reviews are unbelievably unconsistent and some of them are just horrendously unfair and self-absorbed. They try far too hard to be 'trendy'.
    They're also hypocritical. For example, they reviewed Belle and Sebastian's The Boy With The Arab Strap when it was first released in 1998. They gave it 0.8, despite it being a damn good album. They have since deleted the review from the website in the wake of the rise in popularity of B&S in the 00's in order for it not to be seen by all the new fans. However here is an archive of the review:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20030604193859/pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/belle-and-sebastian/boy-with-the-arab-strap.shtml

    Here are the B&S reviews that are currently on Pitchfork, note how most of them get rave reviews, even Write About Love:

    http://pitchfork.com/artists/324-belle-and-sebastian/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Nice find, case in point. They care more about their appearance than the music they listen to. Real hipsters at work.


  • Posts: 903 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Last.fm

    & Pure Volume


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Tiny Mix Tapes, The Hype Machine, Gorilla VS Bear, Last.fm, Resident Advisor, Pitchfork (when Philip Sherburne writes for them, otherwise fairly sh!t, and this new-found exaltation of some of the sh!ttest pop and hip-hop and thus music is severely depressing. Drake? Lil' Wayne? Soulja Boy? Fvck the fvck off.), but the best site I've found is, oddly enough, the forum on the Radiohead fansite ateaseweb.com. It almost works as an aggregator of sorts for all the above sites and once you get to know the regulars' tastes, you can sorta weave through their lists like a musical buffet. Plus, the breadth, scope and variety of the lists are fvcking epic.
    Without it I'd be painfully unaware of at least half the bands I love.


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