r/Music • u/no_longer_huhmann • 1d ago

article Hayley Williams Urges Sold-Out Crowd to Support Independent Music: “Go to Little Shows at Independent Venues. Find Your People, Find Your Favorite Music, and Support That.”

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/hayley-williams-support-independent-music/
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u/no_longer_huhmann 1d ago

Does Spotify shovel good music your way anymore though? I find you get a lot of pop songs that these celebs pay for and often even AI slop gets in the Top 50 Discovery charts

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u/zaccus 1d ago

Find one local artist you like, follow them on insta, look at who they follow and who they share bills with, go down the rabbit hole

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u/Phoenix_Rising42069 1d ago

I’m an Apple Music guy, and they have an “infinity mode” that once the album you were listening to is finished, they start playing music in that same vein. I’ve discovered a few new artists that way.

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u/Actual-Feed-9739 1d ago

It sounds good in theory but my god I wish they'd stop turning that shit on automatically. I absolutely hate it when I'm vibing to the end of an album thay has like a powerful outro or a good fade out, only to launch right into something nuts with blast beats or something.

I want to sit with the ending of the album for a moment, I don't need you to force feed me another song.

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u/Phoenix_Rising42069 1d ago

I’ve yet to have it turned on automatically, when I turn it off it stays off. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Actual-Feed-9739 1d ago

iPhone user? I'm on android and apple hates us so that might be why lol

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u/Phoenix_Rising42069 1d ago

Indeed I am, and that’s a fair guess as to why. Only issue I have with it is it sometimes gets turned off when I didn’t want it to.

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u/blackbasset 16h ago

If only there was a way to do this

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u/duckhunt420 1d ago

I wouldn't have said "shovel" if it was good lol

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u/luneth27 1d ago

Does Spotify shovel good music your way anymore though? I find you get a lot of pop songs that these celebs pay for and often even AI slop gets in the Top 50 Discovery charts

Unironically I still pay for premium specifically because of spotify's rec engine. I easily find a dozen new bands whenever I look to find something new in the subgenre I'm looking for. I've found niche Ukrainian black metal like Kekht Arakh/Balance Interruption, I've found breakcore like Christoph de Babalon/Xanopticon/cast heal, spotify's always finding me new slamming beatdown to spin, hell I even realized there's a ton of rap I like that just isn't radio rap like glxtch/Kenny Segal/Curly Castro and a buncha other shit that if I enumerated we'd be here all day.

It's super strong, you just gotta break out of the 1m+ listener shit.

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u/decrpt 1d ago

Do not us top lists or curated lists. Use the Discover playlists every Monday and Friday. It is tailored to your tastes and, at least for me, usually helps me discover at least one new artist or song a week that I like.

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u/goodpiano276 23h ago

I tend to stay away from any playlists based on algorithms though; I'm always afraid it's going to feed me some Ai bullshit.

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u/ox_ 1d ago

As evil as Spotify is, I've discovered literally hundreds of great smaller artists through there that I've gone on to watch live in all kinds of venues.

The key is finding a good start point. Once you've found a new band you like, you can bounce around artist radio and all that good stuff.

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 1d ago

Pandora has a station modifier where you can input some bands you like and then turn in discovery mode for new bands. Works well for me.

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u/SkiingAway 17h ago

Like every algorithm-driven service: It depends on how conscious you are about what your behavior on it is going to do for your future recommendations. (And also how well you understand how to use it's various functions).

If you're aggressive about banning/blocking anything you don't like and make a point of not engaging with the type of content you don't want more of, you can get decent results.

If you just hit play on your "Release Radar" and hear some shit song you hate - and wind up listening to it 4x more this week because you play through that playlist again 4 more times this week - that kind of thing makes your recommendations worse. If you'd banned it from the playlist a minute into the first listen and never listened to that song again, you'd be better off.

tl;dr - you have to be an active listener, not just letting crap you don't like play.

Separately: Spotify has a bunch of functions I think people under-recognize. A lot of artists put up their own playlists (under "artist playlists" on their artist page) of stuff they like. The "fans also like" on the artist pages is also helpful. I find a good chunk of new to me music by just clicking on random artists I've been liking recently and seeing what else they recommend or that people who like them listen to. Works especially well in more niche areas.