Bandcamp has “Bandcamp Fridays” when 100% of the sales go to the artists. The next ones are on October 3rd and December 5th.

Problem is ampwall basically has a non viable business model beyond it’s current scale. So it’s likely to never really replace other options. It’s good to have around tho.

In the Ampwall business model the artists pay to upload their music but listening is free.

Sounds fine for hobby musicians, but not for anyone professional.

1. Talk to other human beings about music.

Music is not meant to be a solitary hobby. Share what you like, they’ll share what they like.

2. Like a piece of music? Look up that producer, or record label if it’s small. Look up the session musicians. Don’t just look up the artist.

Generally it’s not just the artist that makes the music top tier. There are other great professionals involved in the background and good people hire other good people to work in the background.

This is easy. Once you start doing this you end up with a queue of albums you want to get round to listening to. It’s easy enough to find too much music yourself without an algorithm. You start finding the artist radio a waste of your time.

The rabbit holes I’ve been down following a producer, guitarist, or bassist, etc. are usually very rewarding and often you pop up in another place you knew already after finding out about some lesser known great music on the way.

last.fm is pretty good. download music locally, scrobble it to last.fm, look at recommendations ans/or similar artists. also recommendations from fans tend to work well (comment sections, subreddits, forums, etc)

Honest question: I discover at maximum 1 new song that I like per week. I listen to metal and hard electronic music. As soon as the song has 20 seconds of intro I skip it. Spotify only suggests songs with long intros or songs that are just growling, which I don’t like too much, or that electronic over saturated sound where you only have bass and nothing else.

How can I discover new songs that I like there?

Personally I’ve been using SoundCloud for the past 10 years at least and it’s been great.

Potentially I Heart Radio to listen to various artists, then internet search to purchase their albums.

Might have to bring back mix tapes and record favourite songs over digital radio!

Spotify isn’t the only streaming service, it’s just one of the worst, like ethically.

and to answer your question there are sites like Rate Your Music that let you find albums similar to albums you like.

I’ve been using listenbrainz for a bit, and it’s pretty good.

Spotify used to do that very well, but the last years it enshittified. Now it’s very difficult to find new artists or new music, heck even finding a playlist that isn’t auto generated by Spotify has become a challenge. Everything is now pushed by Spotify and they select which artists you listen to, the artists that make Spotify more money.

Yes I do : https://ko-fi.com/ravachol. Thank you so much!

Hey, thanks, appreciate it.

It’s a music player for POSIX terminals that you can find on Linux, macOS and FreeBSD.

It looks like this:

Mezzanine is a masterpiece. It could’ve been released yesterday. The sound is timeless.

I only know the House M.D. intro song, but I do like it. Mezzanine, I think?

Band merchandise is basically a donation with a reward, it’s not meant to compete on price with store-bought clothing.

I’m ok with paying premium for band shirts even though they’re just basic tees with a print. It’s my way of supporting the artist aside from attending live shows, because streaming their music doesn’t really do anything, and buying physical CDs/vinyl isn’t practical for me.

I see you haven’t bought a band T-shirt in awhile! (also they use materials that have all sorts of fair trade, organic, and social justice certifications) (also I chose one of the $35 ones)

It does!