How do you discover new music?

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I didn't know about that Pandora site. I always go in youtube, but I think I'll try that website you mentioned.
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I mostly discover new music through the radio, on stations or at times of the day when they play new songs. I have found a lot of new music or bands I enjoy by listening to radio stations I don't usually tune in to as well.
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Honestly youtube.
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I like to see what is recommended on Spotify after I listen to my favorite artists. After an album, they will usually start a playlist of similar artists and I usually find some really nice things I like there.
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Since I'm a teacher that likes to talk to my students, they inform of what's new in the music industry. We do not always share the same interests; however, they keep me updated on that matter.
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I switch between Pandora, Spotify, Youtube and Jamendo. I use Pandora and Jamendo the most. I rarely listen to the radio anymore but I check the Billboard online every now and then.
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I discover new music by going on YouTube t, to see what different music is trending at the moment.
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Haven't really thought about that.. Usually through friends or movies.
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I typically discover new music through youtube as well as the Pandora app on my phone. iHeartRadio is a great app too.
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Friends, Family, YouTube, Pandora, IHeartRadio, and then I also discover songs through different fanfictions
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maybe online or music channels
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My kid bro does the discovery for me. He discovers and downloads and I just transfer them to my library. Funny enough, we have the same likes. Lol
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1. I use TV shows and movies for this purpose. It's an old habit that I have. It has been the most productive method to discover music that is new to me.

You are watching something, and than bam!, comes along this music from a perfect stranger or a band of perfect strangers, sending shivers down your spine, making the hair stand up on your arm. Eyes locked on the screen and ears tuned in to the music, you start groping your surroundings for pen and paper. The old drill with a bit of Shazam at times spicing things up with this funny feeling of safety it gives you the moment said perfect stranger becomes unanonymous; feelings of gratitude and fondness rushing in, making you question whether you owe the better part of this to serendipity or to sheer luck or to where consumerism has gotten us, or to all three at once.

2. Active google search with highly descriptive query content and high use of filter.

3. Youtube recommendations or basic youtube search of compilations, where listening to a bit of what's uploaded gives me ideas about the user. If I like their uploads, I'll continue listening to their lists of songs often made in a certain genre, through to the end and then use Youtube's own recommendations.

If not, I enter some song I really like and use Youtube suggestions until I see something foreign to me.

4. Lurking in the forums until I spot someone with lots of similarities to me who makes me think the kind of music we tend to enjoy would also turn out similar, and then skim through their messages until I find some sort of thread in which they have contributed, often with more than one recommendation. Then, I follow these people.

5. A periodic checking of late night non-stop radio music being rotated in specific channels that I've come to like. There will often be something in it for me.

I don't do friends, magazines etc anymore. I don't do paid channels with a vast database of music either. They're too easy to get lost in.
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I listen to the radio and when that song catches my attention, i'll search it to youtube and spotify. But lately i don't like the musics. I dunno why
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I discover most new music through the radio or by using pandora.
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