• Rate Your Music charts or lists

If you don't have a problem with sharing your listening data:

• Last.fm (for example, check "similar to" section of artist pages or "similar albums" of album pages)
• ListenBrainz, a free and open source alternative to Last.fm (for example, Music Neighbourhood, ListenBrainz Radio, or the "Created for you" playlists (they have been criticised by people for having too little variety, but according to the devs this will increase as more people use the service))

Or you can just ask people for recommendations.

this is something i'm trying to figure out myself, so i'm right there with you 😅

the best thing i've done so far is to visit various public tracker sites and look at the trending torrents for music over different time frames.

i've also been just combing through different DJ sets, playlists, and allowing the almighty algorithm on YouTube take me to new places, and then I download the ones that i like. almost crate digging, but digitally :)

keen to see what others say, though.

I start playing music on YT music, and if there's anything I like I will pirate it

What do all you die hard pirates do to discover new bands?

1. Find DJs I like on Twitch. (Many of them copy shows to Mixcloud too, so you can listen later, but track IDs may only be on the live show.)
2. When I hear a song I like, grab the discography from one of the usual sources.

I have discovered so much great new music via Twitch, but I am sure not every genre is well supplied with good DJs.

Orpheus has a spiderweb map of similar artists at the bottom of every artist page. It’s not as in-depth as WCD’s was (RIP) but it’s serviceable!

Maybe this? https://nuclear.js.org/

Havent found a good solution for me aswell.

I used to use spotify and let it create similar playlists to what I already had but ofc they killed that feature in favor of their useless smart shuffle....

Soulseek. I'll search a band I like, then browse the directories of other people with similar taste.

I'd like an indexer good enough to show me real music close enough to what I get generatively from a suno.com prompt. :3

I mostly look the reddits or here on Lemmy communitys of the genre I like. I also look at what bands tour with who and give there songs a listen.

But I have also came across a website called coreradio(.)online and it has been great for piracy and discovery of that genre (metalcore and other metals/rock ) as well. No idea if there are similar sites out there for other genres.

Maybe not exacly what you're looking for but www.chosic.com has a bunch of tools for recommending similar artists and songs.