Do you listen to modern/new music?

[Unemploid]

What are you listening to?

Where/how do find new music?

 

[hrodbert696]

Funny, one of the places I find new artists is TB threads like this one...

One group I found that way from a recent thread is the Norwegian girl band Katzenjammer....


Sometimes I come across new bands on Youtube. KEXP is really good for exposing new artists. I found one of my absolute favorites, Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas, there.


Other times it's just kismet of someone playing live. I went to see St. Paul and the Broken Bones and JD McPherson was their opening act. He put on such a good set, I bought a CD.


I checked out Portugal the Man because they were on the alternative charts. I have a current indie/alt cover band so I try to see if the #1 on that chart is worth covering.


Sunflower Bean was another KEXP find, but this video is way more glam.


Could not find King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard glammed up though.

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Yes, but mainly just jazz. I haven't been up on rock music since the early 2000s. But I definitely keep up with newer jazz artists, especially those that play in a contemporary style, or do more of a funk thing. I'm not terribly interested in hearing someone re-create the sounds of the 50s, as much as I love classic jazz of that era. If I want hard bop, I'll listen to an older record. But I really dig artists like Kamasi Washington, Ambrose Akinmusire, Budos Band, Christian Scott, Omer Avital, Progger, Polyrhythmics, Snarky Puppy, Lettuce, Esperanza Spalding, The Spike Orchestra, Jaimeo Brown, Dave Douglas, Anat Cohen, Donny McCaslin, etc, etc, etc. And I keep up with John Zorn's career as much as budget will allow (dude makes a ton of records every year).

I find new artists on Spotify and YouTube, from friends' recommendations, and at jazz festivals.

 

[hrodbert696]

Oh, forgot this one, that I think just popped up as a youtube recommendation...

 

[filmtex]

Heard about Elizabeth Cook on NPR and managed to see her in Luckenbach a couple months later. She's fantastic.



Same thing with First Aid Kit.



(Wish I could write bridges like this...sheesh.)

Yep, always interested in new music.

 

[Chicory Blue]

I almost always look back, rather than forward, to discover music, to get more in touch with the “why” of things, and to appreciate the sorts of sounds I might be able to make myself using my physical equipment and meat-hands.

Contemporary things are tons of fun, but they’re either too posthuman/post-individual to replicate, or too original to punk. When I listen to music, it’s research, and I’ve got a lot of history to catch up on.

--^@

 

[sean_on_bass]

Yes i tend to discover new stuff on Spotify, and still listen to the good ole radio from time to time. Give Hiatus Kaiyote a try, and Anderson .Paak.

 

[Johnny Crab]

Yes, listen to some "modern" music.
99% of it comes via any of the 6 children we've had here(now grown, ages 25 to 40+). They grew up listening to anything an everything we did plus whatever Dad(me) was learning 0n bass at the time.

 

[jerry]

I still read Downbeat, Jazztimes, Relix etc. I always find lots of new stuff to keep my credit cards humming.

 

[Kmonk]

I haven't purchased anything new in over 20 years. Most modern music is over simplified, lacking creativity, use of sampling (which I absolutely hate, it's stealing and the artist using the sample is not showing any creativity), reliance on auto-tune, etc. There are some exceptions but for the most part, I do not like anything that has come out in a long time.

 

[MonetBass]

When you have a teenage son, sometimes you're forced to...

However, he's been listening to a lot more 80s pop lately, so that's good.

For me, the only contemporary band I've been into is the Foo Fighters.

 

[Funky Ghost]

Most of my crew are younger than me so getting a chance to hear new music is never a struggle. LIKING said new music ... that's a little more difficult and rare haha

 

[robd]

Yes

 

[dan1952]

The only modern music I listen to is on the local Contemporary Christian station, since I play in the worship band at church, and we occasionally pick up something current there. Any of the geezer bands who might call me for a gig are still playing Brown Eyed Girl, Mustang Sally, and Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits.

 

[Ryan Atchison]

Yes

 

[bassdude51]

No I don't.

 

[Kevin1960]

Sure. Let's see.




They are out there, but are much more difficult to find than in the past. Commercialism makes it tougher to find exactly what you seek on the digital highways my friend.

 

[Gorn]

Almost never. I barely listen to music that was made while I was alive. I do enjoy garbage pop music as a guilty pleasure. Katie Perry and the like. Teenage Dream is my jam.

 

[petrus61]

Yes I do, no I won't list them.

 

[bassboysam]

I haven't purchased anything new in over 20 years. Most modern music is over simplified, lacking creativity, use of sampling (which I absolutely hate, it's stealing and the artist using the sample is not showing any creativity), reliance on auto-tune, etc. There are some exceptions but for the most part, I do not like anything that has come out in a long time.

first of all your perception of sampling is way off. there's a lot more to it than you think. it is an art and requires a lot of vision and musicality. in addition artists who use samples are very well versed and listen to a huge selection of music and have an incredible ability pick out even the smallest moments of brilluance from some really crappy songs.









second of all not all new music uses sampling, nor is it simple. unless your definition of music is what you heard on the radio. there are thousands upon thousands of extremely talented musicians that you are missing out on.

and third...get off my lawn.