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DJ Shotski's avatar

Putting in a plug for community, campus and low-power radio stations. There are so many passionate volunteers who are producing radio shows that stream online and sometimes are archived for on-demand listening. Ask me about my Google calendar for music shows.

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Cassette Technologies's avatar

Campus radio stations have always been a huge way for artists to market themselves and build a community. It’s a win-win-win-win situation. School gets advertised, community gets music, producer gets experience, and artist gets exposure!

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DJ Shotski's avatar

Amen!

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B-Side Behaviour's avatar

Would like to learn more about the Google calendar

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DJ Shotski's avatar

I talked about it a little near the end of my latest post

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rania's avatar

amen to that!

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Gabbie's avatar

I'll take "things I've been screaming into the heavens for years" for $500

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Toby Barnes's avatar

I’m really enjoying Record Club - start up part discogs, part last.fm.

https://record.club/tobybarnes

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Jenny's avatar

True quality in this post

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Toby Barnes's avatar

Oh and buy music club - create playlists from Bandcamp - make it easy to buy & stream new music

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Adam Tanner's avatar

I find SoundCloud great for DJ sets, remixes and club music.

I find Bandcamp great for indie/undground/punk/hardcore artists

YouTube is mostly just reposting stuff from other places for the music I like and at least at Bandcamp, the artist sees some money.

Spotify is just the old music industry model that didn’t work for artists before, but sadly too many people just want easy.

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Jessica Aimufua's avatar

Would add Nina to this! https://www.ninaprotocol.com/

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JC's avatar

Excellent timing after just seeing a post on how Spotify is killing music. Those just getting spoon fed are cut from the same cloth of those who had three channels programmed on their FM dial.

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Iryna's avatar

I have a feeling you’ll really like this website https://everynoise.com

great post btw

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Alex De Lagarde's avatar

DIGGING WILL NEVER DIE.

The underground will always thrive. Get out and support your local record stores!

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Last Marginalia's avatar

One aspect which you haven’t looked at is the music blog sphere which has recovered somewhat from the decline inflicted by DCMA strikes in the early 2010s. The music blog scene is particularly good for forgotten music of the past and current niche genres - the only challenge is finding blogs that are still active but there are still plenty out there.

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Andreas Vlach's avatar

Ever tried RYM? Imho the best place for music discovery.

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Emily Wilk-Mullis's avatar

This post is on point! It ehoes my own sentiments. The music is there. The excitment is waiting. We just have to get away from the algo buzz, but on on our own terms. Signing up to Substack is a good place to start. Roon and Sonos hold good concepts behind them, too. Actually, there are loads of platforms/publications as you rightly said! Thanks for sharing your post 🙂

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Kodi M. T. Gates's avatar

Love this post! Reminds me of how much I loved finding new music as a teenager on Soundcloud and 8tracks especially! 8tracks was incredible (and still is) for finding playlists that users curate into themes, moods, genres, or for stories they like or write themselves! Lots of fanfiction-inspired playlists on there that I saved from high school.

I used Apple Music for a little while and I currently still have a Spotify account, though I’m weighing whether or not to compile the playlists I have on there onto other platforms instead over time because it pays artists so little. Tiktok is how I find most of the new music I listen to and I love listening to various types of music performances, DJs, music videos, and more on Youtube.

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miami music archive's avatar

M-xcloud was missed here

i 2nd youtube / soundcloud / bandcamp

impossible

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miami music archive's avatar

but its impossible to just discover great music without developing a great taste in music ...... that means do not follow he status quo or your peers but study certain ppl who historically put together great playlist and eventually you will see what type of quality that person requires for them to add a track to their playlist plus many ppl won't share their playlist for exclusivity reasons but use your phone but do not use Shazam 👎 use google search because youtube is google and most likely it will identify the track with info

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miami music archive's avatar

also there was never a British invasion we left the door wide open because in the '60s there was a music renaissance happening and because it was promoting drug use which i've always believed its not the drugs but the clowns that don't know how to take them. well they had to stop this movement somehow well lets have a war and draft all these young musicians send them to Vietnam and give them heroine that will fix that. well it worked and gutted our entire music scene here in the states except of a few that dodged the draft moving to England like Walker Bros, Jerry Donahue and Hendrix who got drafted but got discharged and never made it to Vietnam.

where i feel Lee Hazlewood influenced Scott Engle and he in turn influence David Bowie also Jerry Donahue and Sandy Denny's John The Gun recording in 1970 along with Bread's Guitar man 1971 directly influenced Dark Side of The Moon .

therefore music creativity failed in '70s and when '80s started everyone thought this new ...... but all that was happening we going back 15 years to the mid sixties were we left off Psyche scene did all that already

then CDs hit and we never recovered

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Music for ur mental's avatar

If you're looking for downtempo, inward-looking music, look no further than music for ur mental x https://musicforurmental.substack.com/

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