![]() Find an artist you enjoy, then check out the tracks they’ve “liked.” Tag surfing works great here as well. SoundCloud is similarly built for wandering when you’re done with a track, it autoplays something else you might like.You can dig deeper into Bandcamp by “tag surfing” from a band you like to others, or following the Bandcamp blog, says GMG developer Janos Hardi.(via Maria Sherman, senior writer at Jezebel.) E.g., July’s best of jazz or the best recent reissues. Each month, Bandcamp names the best new music on the platform, in varying genres.The internet wants very badly for you to hear new music. ![]() (via Péter Szász, managing director at GMG Hungary) Needledrop keeps a running “loved list” of its favorite new songs.Consequence of Sound uses a letter-grade system for reviews, and streams new tracks as they come out (sometimes before they hit Spotify or iTunes).Pitchfork’s ratings are arbitrary!”-Joel Kahn, senior video producer at Lifehacker I don’t really read it or care what they say too much. “I check Pitchfork every morning to see what just came out they publish 4-5 album reviews a day.From there you’ll find review sites like these: Metacritic Music averages critical reviews, so it’s a good starting point, and shows you what’s controversial or universally acclaimed.If you find a site whose taste matches yours, great! If not, you can still use these, if only just to keep track of what’s out this week. Each year, NPR’s All… Read more Follow music review sites Looking for some new music to lose yourself in this weekend? Look no further. Discogs has the list for free.ĭiscover New Music With NPR's Austin 100 Playlist 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die : A doorstopper of a book reviewing all the essential albums from the 1950s to 2005.Rate Your Music has over 40,000 user-created lists scroll to the “popular lists” section (current top result: “Please Excuse My Dark, Ambient Swag”) or browse the list of “ultimate box sets,” which compile the best of niche genres like Belgian techno, neoclassical dark wave, and mumble rap.(I’ve previously worked through Q Magazine’s 40 cosmic rock albums and Rolling Stone’s 50 greatest prog rock albums.) But so will sites dedicated entirely to that one genre, which will choose deeper, more distinctive cuts. Pitchfork and Rolling Stone will show up a lot, as will NPR, Complex, and Uproxx. Search “best ” and find a source you like.AllMusic doesn’t rank its listings, instead breaking out alphabetical lists by genre. AllMusic’s annual best album lists are beautifully presented, with album art and a short description that links to a longer review.Check out NPR’s list of the 150 greatest albums made by women for a crash course in what you’ve probably missed. If you’re noticing that most of these best-of lists focus on male artists, you’re not wrong.The Slog culture blog loves to tell you what Pitchfork missed.If you are looking to beef out your playlists, since 2006 the site has also assembled rankings of each year’s best songs, and gone back to the 1960s to craft best-of-the-year song lists by decade. Pitchfork digs a little deeper than Rolling Stone, with a little less concern for an album’s mass appeal. The list is a mix of music so popular it’s painfully clichéd, and important albums that you probably missed if you weren’t in the right generation. Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Fill out your knowledge of canonical popular music with one of the most famous “greatest music” lists, published in 2012.Consider this comprehensive lists of acclaimed songs and albums. ![]() If you’re getting into a new era or genre, or if you just want to “be more of a music person,” you might enjoy a guided tour though the works that have already been given the critical seal of approval. Some are obvious, some are bizarre, some are embarrassing, but all have helped people find a new favorite song, or even their new favorite band. But if you need more ways to find music, here are some ideas-taken from Twitter users, writers from across Lifehacker publisher G/O Media Group’s sites, and my own habits. Others are perfectly content with their weekly Spotify Discover playlist. Some people can dig up great music like magic, or have friends inside the industry who keep them updated.
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