Where do you find your new releases?

 

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's new release has just found me here... I'm listening to it on Bandcamp now.

 

Provided that there is a CD physical release, I still buy new music.

But if the artistes or labels doesn't take the trouble to manufacture CDs in sufficient numbers, then they can go screw themselves, cos I won't buy files and very rarely a vinyl

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: ^  Actually, Greg still sells through his synphonic website also (that's how I buy (unless I don't have a choice) since I don't want to pay extra for extra taxes that seem to be on discogs and nowhere else). He sends stuff out pretty fast and if you have a long history with him and he trusts you then he will usually send stuff out before he gets a payment. They are good for classic prog and new stuff also. I bought tons of stuff from Larry at Kinesis during covid but at some point all that was left was really obscure low priority stuff and I eventually switched to Laser's Edge (Laser CD), Wayside and Synphonic. I also used to buy from ZNR but not much and now they're mostly just on discogs although a website still exist (unlike Kinesis).

Would Syn be located in Continental Europe, I would still mainly shop at his place, but punitive import taxes (thanks to Trump's tax wars) and prohibitive shipping rates have litteraly stopped me from doing so anymore (same goes for Wayside and Laser's Edge - but it wasn't a regular event). Really too bad, coz Greg has an amazing and quick service

Nowadays, most of my buying is via Bandcamp or my B&M record store Caroline Music, which goes out of its way to order (for me) stuff they don't normally carry.

For recommendations, it's here, PE, Gnosis, Rock 60/70, but also searching by myself whenever prowling on the web.

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I gave specific advice on how to find new exciting releases based on my everyday experience. What do you not understand?

I honestly have way too many albums/artist from the good old days (60's/70's/80's) that I have yet to buy/listen to/get into/discover, so I don't tend to get too bothered by the fact that 99.9% of what's going on is passing me by. PA and RYM have lately been the main place I (accidentally) discovered new music, but even then, I tend to only like a small percentage of what's coming out today, and even if I like it, it's often not a priority over older crap.

To himself, presumably.

Thank you for all the helpful responses! Personally I used to have a subscription to Prog Magazine and got a lot of recommendations from that. I try to keep up with the various new reviews coming out of Sea of Tranquility and on here too. 

It can be hard to keep track at times especially with all the off-shot bands, solo projects and different incarnations of established bands. 

Hi,

That is easy to do, but, when it comes to the arts, it is difficult to think that nothing happens today, when the history shows us that it (basically) happens every day forever. HOWEVER, it is easy to "bypass" today, when the controls are so corporate related and the music is so formatted and almost the same. 

But the minute you think that nothing is worth it, something is over there in the corner, that you will miss.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ It’s the opposite for me. I’m basically done with exploring the classic era. There’ll always be albums from the past that I’ll discover and like, but my focus is on artists that are publishing music right in the here and now …

It's probably really easy to suggest that there isn't a whole lot more to find in those days ... and with today's ability to get everything seen and shown and we're finding bands that we did not even know that they existed, it might be almost like we don't need to look anymore.

We were "there" from 1972 on, and from what we could see and know from the "imports" area of things and the stuff released in the USA, that we had a fairly good handle on what we thought was probably 80% of all the stuff ... and now, with all these bands that we "found" that we never knew, that number has dropped to about 60%. (... the numbers are somewhat generalized!)

It is even easier to concern oneself with today's work a lot more, and I think that is a great thing, although I'm one to think that the past is not meant to be forgotten, or that it had nothing to show us ... and that is not the case at all ... specially when we tend to mention only 4 or 5 bands, instead of a wider, world wide, sampling. And that might just be one of the greater issues with "progressive" music and its definitions and average discussion and consumption.

Pretty much this. Meaning, to me, that I don't actively look for new stuff but rather come across it. Works fine for me and I don't feel I'm missing anything. 

But to each their own of course. 

Today, depending on where you live, it is much easier to listen to new music. When I started to listen to music in 1985 I had to make do with what the local record store had to offer. Now I have a Spotify subscription, there's Bandcamp, and I can listen to 50k releases instantaneously. The problem of course is time. We can't all listen to everything, so we all have to specialize. My current strategy is to listen to a lot of new music that is being released right now. And it's exciting! At least to me. I've listened to more than 100 new releases of 2023, some really popular artists, others really obscure. And the journey continues ... 

Maybe I was better at this when I was young(er), but even as a teenager I don't think I could have listened to more than a couple of new albums per day and remember them in a meaningful way. The only reliable way to do that is to listen to them repeatedly over the course of days or weeks. So even with a few hours each day available for listening, realistically we humans can probably "absorb" 3-5 releases per week.