2/28/2023 0 Comments Girl put your records onRemember back on my first post when I talked about forming your own separate online communities of friends? Well, if it’s a groupchat, facebook group, or even a discourse forum you can set up a regular “What Are You LIstening To?” thread. Plus the option to stream first and buy the album to support the artist directly makes it a winner for me. Aside from their pretty thoughtfully curated release highlight lists, I have spent hours getting lost in tag searches to discover some fantastic music that often doesn’t exist on other streaming platforms. You know when you go on Wikipedia to look up a specific thing but then just click on link after link and you end up somewhere completely different from where you started? You can do that exact thing with Bandcamp. Here are a few resources that have been working for me. A big part of the bitching is my own doing and the past few months I’ve been working on it. Now, saying all of that, I’m fully admitting here that of course there are places to discover new music and a majority of this is all coming from my reluctance in adapting to the ever-evolving music world and being both too busy and too lazy to go out on the concert scene to find things out for myself. Spotify, Google Music, and YouTube have been pretty amazing in beefing up their algorithms with their discovery playlists, but there’s something about the intent that feels off about it and I feel like my interests are being farmed, not just for a good musical experience, but for advertising purposes as well. We’re currently in an age where everything is available on demand, but you actually have to know what you want in order to demand it. Plus the way the music world evolved has felt a little disjointed. Now they offer a chance to export those playlists on to Spotify but…well, considering that a chunks of the songs folks were putting up weren’t exactly mainstream, you end up with a playlist that has some severe gaps. Hell, remember 8Tracks before copyright issues got involved? I can’t really fault them for the shift, but what made that site great was the ability to make and share a mix of music that no one had really heard of before. There seems to be something missing in regards to thoughtful intent that has made a lot of folks I know just not bother to create a mix online. What’s more, mixtape culture just feels…wrong ever since we stopped recording on tape or burning a CD. More and more music stores are going out of business, local radio is mostly comprised of Top 10 hits, and the forums, communities, and sites that used to be a treasure trove of fun tunes have pretty much vanished. A large part of that, for me, is that the actual discovery part isn’t as accessible as it used to be. When it comes to discovering new music, I’ve been pretty lazy this past decade and just listening to old playlists and music I used to like. Guest post by Robin LeBlanc from her wonderful blog Do Your Best
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |