I mainly use metal-archives and bandcamp. On metal-archives, I mainly use the similar artists feature, and sometimes search for specific genres from specific countries.

Edit: Oh, and I totally forgot, everynoise.com is also a great resource to get surface level into new genres.

Spotify’s Discover Weekly used to be great for me for a long time and I’d get lots of new music that I liked. it got pretty stale over the past year or so, with stuff that I don’t enjoy at all, and it often recommends me the same songs that I tell it to not recommend. it feels like I’ve reached the end of the internet and there’s no more music left to try.

everynoise.com is pretty great, though it hasn’t kept up with the absolute most recent sub genres lately. Still fantastic, though. Connects with Spotify - which I use.

I’ve discovered more music new to me on Radio Paradise the last few years than anywhere else. They stream up to FLAC quality so an excellent choice for listening on the home stereo. https://radioparadise.com/home

Bandcamp daily Blogs Since I listen mostly to hip hop and rappers collaborate often, features is a big part of the way I discover new music

last.fm has awesome algorithms.

It’s all mostly happenstance and serendipity but I do find a lot of music by googling what I hear in the background of movies and TV. Letterkenny always has really good music and it’s always or almost always by a Canadian group that I might not otherwise encounter.

thats a good question. i think i find most new music irl. just friends or family that are into something i havent heard of yet. into classic rock a lot now because of my father in law having his youtube recomended constantly playing at their place and its all old rock songs from 60’s to 90’s. i think online you’d have to maybe find some music communities and go from there. finding one new song on youtube can open up a lot when you sort the suggestions on the side by music and just keep going down the rabbit hole.

Spotify’s discovery algorithm is great. Outside of that I routinely check Pitchfork for new albums. theneedledrop makes good recs too and Any Decent Music is a pretty decent music review aggregator similar to Metacritic but for more niche styles.

These days I listen to a lot of dance music though, so I tend to discover music via DJ mixes on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Their Bandcamp Weekly section is pretty great and you can easily find music by browsing record labels, people’s collections or the “if you like x” recommendations listed at the bottom of individual release pages.

Bandcamp via the Tags system can really yield some great results. It’s got a virtual feel equivalent to browsing through a physical record store.

I basically just poke around until I find something I like then check the tags at the bottom of a release. Click the tag and then browse that for other stuff.

The YouTube algorithm is sometimes surprisingly good. Like “Listen to this band with 47 plays!” and then it’s a banger.

It used to be Discovery on whatever music app I’m subscribed to, but they have all turned awful for finding good music.

They always end up playing the same type of single creator synthesised music that presumably is cheaper per stream than big bands.

There are so many proper rock bands over the last 50 years, I just wish I knew how to find them.

Whenever I come across a new band I add their albums to my Plex, eventually I’ll have enough to do my own discovery.

I use a combination of Spotify discover weekly playlists, related artist lists, and lately I’ve been finding a random new category that Spotify curates and then searching for playlists of the same type that are curated by users. I think I get more deep cuts that way.

Used to be what.cd

Now it’s just hopes and prayers

I’ve found a few decent hits from random music blogs. actually while writing this i went to one of them and now i’m listening to a Japanaese prog rock band that sings in an invented language