Like upcoming albums, new bands, music news, all that stuff. I was always really into music, but with the pandemic + getting a job where I was basically alone most of the time led to me listening to podcasts more often I spent less time listening to or reading about music. My breaking point was having a pretty embarrassing Spotify wrapped lol. I've been going back to albums I loved pre-covid and catching up on the albums from artists I enjoy that I missed these past couple years but I want more. I used to check out all of the r/genreXheads to stay current but I can't stand using reddit anymore.

So are there any good blogs/twitter accounts/websites/newsletters/whatever you use to follow music?

Edit: I'm looking for places that I can also follow music, please do not give some vague answer about the weird insular music community you belong to unless you're also inviting me to join lol

  • SpookyVanguard64 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    YouTube, Bandcamp and Reddit. For context, I'm mostly listening to relatively underground electronic music genres like Jungle, Breakbeat Hardcore, DnB, and occasionally Techno & underground House.

    YouTube is good for listening to mixes, as well as following promoters & some record labels. In my case, following individual artists on YouTube isn't really an option most of the time, since most of the people I listen to don't have channels and instead mostly just rely on promoters, DJs and word of mouth to spread their music out to new people on YouTube. (I also run a YouTube channel where I upload DJ mixes for the genres I listen to, so I'm both keeping up with promoters/DJs to find new music, and serving as a promoter/DJ to others lol)

    Bandcamp is good for following record labels and individual artists, and I also like using it to search for stuff by genre/subgenre. There also tends to be a lot of stuff on Bandcamp that you won't be able to find on other platforms, so you sorta wind up having to use it if you want access to shit you'll never see on Spotify.

    Reddit is good for just seeing whatever other people post and checking out anything that catches my eye.