I like music, a lot! In fact, I probably spend the most discretionary money purchasing music (digitally.) I often get asked by my friends how I find the music I listen to. The answer is that there’s many ways to find new and good music–like indie music that not many people have heard of, but is hundreds of times better than anything that floats on the Billboard music charts.
One of the easiest ways to find new music is to search for an indie band in iTunes that you like listening to. Go to the album page and then scroll down to view the Listeners Also Bought list.
There are many other services that offer the same type of feature. However, my favorite way to find new music is via last.fm. I use their Scrobbler feature, which keeps a record of every song you listen to on your computer. You can use their standalone Scrobbler software, or use a third party application with the Scrobbler feature built in. I use CoverSutra, which gives me additional controls for iTunes.
After you start scrobbling, last.fm will start finding what they call Neighbours. Neighbours are other last.fm users that have similar music listening tastes. When I’m interested in finding new music, I usually go to my last.fm Neighbours page, and then look at the music my Neighbours are listening to. More often than not, I find a new artist that I’ve never heard of that I end up really liking.
