Discovering new music?
ZeroGravitas: You ask for "new music" but in the longer question you seem to be asking for music that is new to you, two very different things.I'm more interested in finding good music, than new (produced in the last X years) music, in fact I probably have a distinct preference for older music so with that in mind here's some techniques I use.Last.fm has "similar to artist X" radio but I think it's actually "people who listen to Artist X also listen to" radio which I find gives good results as long as you don't choose highly popular artists (or those that are listened to by boring people) as that seems to average things out to the point that I've already heard the music and nothing surprises me. For my tastes I found "music that is listened to by people who listen to Eels" was interesting. It also worked with "Sly and the Family Stone". What I peronally like about this is that it's a mix of stuff I know and like with new and interesting music so the new stuff gets a chance to creep up on me.BBC Radio 6 Music is basically a bunch of musos playing good tunes. So good in fact that they're alledgedly going to kill it soon in some big reshuffle, enjoy it while it lasts.http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/Since they log every track they play on last.fm you can also listen to BBC Radio 6 style music on Last.fm here:http://www.last.fm/listen/user/bbc6music/personalMy own personal fave tactic is to research my favourite bands and listen to the music they liked (including who they cover, namecheck, sample, work with etc.). This rarely lets me down. It also helps to have a circle of friends doing likewise as it can be time intensive.