Who cares who's popular? I want to know who's good.

That's the problem is finding someone good.
There are 10 billion bands out there. How can I find the good ones?

Mugato: Most artists get paid through touring anyway. The record companies have historically screwed them out of money from sales.

And the touring managers have historically screwed them out of money from touring.

Kasira: Who cares who's popular? I want to know who's good.

Couple good local (DFW) groups I've found lately. The Orbans, Air Review, Calhoun, Telegraph Canyon, Doug Burr, Sara Jaffe to name a few. I prefer good local music to most of the crappy on the radio.

I really really love that music that is all like 'auto-tuned'. it's so nice to be able to try and poke out my ear drums from the screeching effing noise.

/No I don't try to poke out my ear drums, but the mute button is worn out for the tv and I no longer listen to radio.
//Crap singers and auto-tuning and greedy pigs, killed music.

Britney Spears: real or fake, it's still shiat singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8MIM3_PcSw

Radio DJs??

SilentStrider: Kasira: Who cares who's popular? I want to know who's good.



Here's a start. Fresh this week.

Kasira: Who cares who's popular? I want to know who's good.

For the first time in ages, I saw an opening band that I never heard of before and went out and got their album the next day.


Fang Island (new window)

I'm going to see live music three times this week. 2 of those times with people who actually produce CD's. I'm happy with this arrangement.

Ween: Caesar Demos

Last.FM has charts showing what their members listen to. Course, the top of the list is always Coldplay and the Beatles..

I like Adele. But she's the only "popular" artist I've liked in a while.

Sleigh Bells (new window)

RazorRex: That's the problem is finding someone good.
There are 10 billion bands out there. How can I find the good ones?

Whatever you do, don't ask this guy:

Link (new window)

We'll always have Rolling Stone.

I bought Girl in a Coma's entire discography after hearing one set in the Ballroom up in Cleveland.

Rockabilly done right.

The set list on Rocksmith?

This is all very interesting, but concerning these digitized systems; how easy is it to short or boost the numbers?

JimmySlicings: Kasira: Who cares who's popular? I want to know who's good.

For the first time in ages, I saw an opening band that I never heard of before and went out and got their album the next day.


Fang Island (new window)

I seem to end up doing that every time I see Neil Finn/Crowded House in concert. He's always had terrific opening acts for the 20+ years I've been seeing him live. The last one was Lawrence Arabia. Great album if you like Beatlesque pop, and they killed it live.

GAT_00: Kasira: Who cares who's popular? I want to know who's good.

Let me know when you find something. I haven't found new good music in forever.

I just got back from Cate Le Bon & St. Vincent. I'd recommend both, but St. Vincent especially. I haven't been wowed by many new albums but Strange Mercy did it, and the live show was even better.

GAT_00: Let me know when you find something.

Depends on what you like. Tastes vary widely and the great thing about music today is that you have music for virtually every taste. For example, every band mentioned in this thread so far sounds like complete sh*t to me. But if I were to link to newer bands that I've been liking recently such as Mitochondrion or Portal, I'm sure that various members of this community would sh*t on me for my crappy taste.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I guess all I have to say is: #1 rule of music, everyone but you hast sh*t taste in music.

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Look who we told were popular 5, 6,7 years ago. Are they still around?

Google image search Adele (with safe search off).

Which one is her real face?

I've found several 'new to me' groups by looking at the playlist for the 'Chuck' TV series.

http://chucktv.net/music/

You prob know them/hate them already

RazorRex: That's the problem is finding someone good.
There are 10 billion bands out there. How can I find the good ones?

You could just hang out in bars with local acts. Sure, in terms of actual craft they probably aren't great, but people are hardwired to subconsciously communicate with each other when in close proximity and that makes things seem better.

It's why people go on about "man, they kill in concert" about objectively shiat bands, and why a seat at a live theater costs 50$ a show and one at a movie costs 8$. Might as well take advantage of your own psychology if you're that hard up finding a decent radio station or whatever.

Programs like Pandora and Slacker are the future of how people discover new music.

I can't possibly imagine a better way to discover new music.

/Although, I quite romanticize the olden days - where you find a cassette at a garage sale, that may or may not BLOW your mind. Or that punk kid showing off some record he stole in his leaky basement, "You're going to love this, dude!". Or spending your $5 on a random record you've never heard of, based on its album art alone.

i usually listen to every new album uploaded on spinner.com to see if i like what's new instead of having someone tell me somethings great (cause bon iver and grizzly bear are not)

Bookmark is a band you should check out

/not really
//the bookmarks

meat0918: I think scientists have started to figure out how to make hits. Even songs you say you hate, the brain activity says otherwise.

Contradicting evidence

SPna15: GAT_00: Let me know when you find something.

Depends on what you like. Tastes vary widely and the great thing about music today is that you have music for virtually every taste. For example, every band mentioned in this thread so far sounds like complete sh*t to me. But if I were to link to newer bands that I've been liking recently such as Mitochondrion or Portal, I'm sure that various members of this community would sh*t on me for my crappy taste.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I guess all I have to say is: #1 rule of music, everyone but you hast sh*t taste in music.

God I miss the metal threads

Last one of these threads I heard about Guadalupe Plata .(new window)

Now I hear about Fang Island. And I probably taught at least one member of the band.

Fark ought to start charging royalties, or at least finder's fees.

GAT_00: Let me know when you find something. I haven't found new good music in forever.

Use Pandora and set up a station with bands you like and it'll start sneaking other stuff in there that you might like. It lets you give thumbs up and down to what you listen to and over time its predictions get pretty good. Also go to Amazon and put in a band/album you like and it'll say something like "customers who bought this also bought music from these bands:" and it'll have a list. Listen to their stuff and see if you like it. Branch out from there.

It's pretty easy.

I also found

Sleepy Sun
Gram Rabbit

For the record, Mumford and Sons and their ilk should be shot into the sun

good. every 'rock star' who got rich and famous turned to merde. keep 'em hungry. keep 'em hungry. keep 'em hungry.