Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Article: Online Tools for Finding New Music

This blog has two main purposes (see the header).  Live Music & New Releases.  And preference usually lands with new music that will also be played live in NEO in the near future.  Anyway, while I'd like to think this blog is all you'd need for both purposes, I concede that you might also want to look elsewhere as well (though it's totally cool if you don't).  Here's an article from Wired's Underwire that gives you some ideas and tools for other ways to find new music:

Underwire

5 Essential Online Tools for Finding New Music (or Music That’s New to You) | Underwire | Wired.com

"The problem with all this instant gratification is how quickly you hit the wall of what you want to explore. If you’d like to go deeper than the latest Glee soundtrack or who made Pitchfork’s Best New Music list, you’re going to need some help navigating the 75,000 records released in 2010 — and that’s down 22 percent from the 96,000 released in 2009.

Oh hell, you’ve got huge chunks of music history that you haven’t gotten around to listening to yet. So use the great new digital tools at your disposal to start tackling it and figure out what actually belongs in your record collection."

(Continued... 5 Essential Online Tools for Finding New Music (or Music That’s New to You) | Underwire | Wired.com)

 

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