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Clay Lowe
@soulcruzer · 4:57

Where do you find random new music that isn't driven by algorithms?

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And I just went to the Apple Music. It was a new music alternative playlist. And I thought, Well, let's just go and see what we get. And it just made me think about how I used to discover music. One, the random wandering through a record shop and two just recommendations from your friends and what they were listening to. And then the radio, which was huge

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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 2:16
Lately, I've been really relying on other artists to inform me of newer bands that I may have never heard about. One of the ways that they go about doing this is by simply bringing one of these bands on tour with them. And I listen to a lot of heavy metals, so that's a scene that really relies on the community. When a band gets famous, they sort of act like The Big Brother figure almost for other smaller bands, and they'll take them out on tour
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@tjh
Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 4:41

@soulcruzer @Taylor It’s a great time to be alive

They have 24/7 radio stations with DJs recommending music. Interviewing the artist, talking about older music, newer music, dropping new singles, world premiering new music. Apple Music one. They have three radio stations, Apple Music One, then the hit station and then the country station. And I can't even tell you how many hours and hours and hours I've spent listening to them and all of their recommendations
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Swell Team
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@JLMcMillan
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 3:16

Great question.

If there's an instrument that interests me, looking at the background of that, typically it might invoke some kind of genre that I might have overlooked or a period of time or country. I think there's so many ways to go about it. It's a multifaceted journey, but I think that there is still something to say about that randomness and the tactile quality of browsing through a local shop. And there's a thriving violence industry, so that hasn't gone away and it doesn't have to
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Clay Lowe
@soulcruzer · 0:50
There's all kinds of stuff in here. But yes, absolutely great stuff. And yeah, I'm with you right there on the nostalgia bit of the brows wandering of the record shops, good stuff, good times as well
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Clay Lowe
@soulcruzer · 2:46

@tjh

Wow. Trevor, man, I love your enthusiasm for love for music. You can hear it just pouring right through the microphone. I thought I loved music. Man, you really love music. Awesome. As nostalgic as I am for record shops and the whole browse. I mean, the reason I haven't bought a CD or an album in years is for that very reason. It's like on Spotify and Apple Music
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Clay Lowe
@soulcruzer · 2:44

@JLMcMillan

And it sounds like you have a fantastic collection as well in the physical space, which is cool in the list. I love it. The replies so far is just the love of music that's coming through from the replies that's very encouraging to me. And I love it. Yeah. So I'm glad I made that post
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Clay Lowe
@soulcruzer · 0:33

@Taylor

Hey Taylor, although I've been on the platform for a year, I only did two posts a year ago, so essentially I'm fairly new at it and didn't realize how to tag people in a reply. So I didn't know if you were getting at the reply that I sent to you, so I'm just recording this because I figured out how to do the old tag you in the reply, but just wanted to share my thoughts back to you in terms of your post
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@Tim
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 1:50

I rely on radio, newspapers, and @JLMcMillan

Number one is the radio, especially the College stations or the public stations that have specific shows in niche or specific music markets like Americana or bluegrass or Blues, and discover new artists that way. And that's true for indie rock, too. Although you can hardly find indie rock on the radio down anymore, number two is actually the newspaper. Our newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, still has a music critic, and he has a much wider musical palette than I do
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