enjoyed reading this one! music blogs in the early aughts were the prevalent one that i discovered music (even worked for spin media back in the day). i'll admit during the pandemic there was a heavy period where i was using Discover Weekly, but based on my own search process and tastes and similar to textfx, it helped show me a rabbit hole, but i decided to go deeper and spur that. now i use spotify mainly to validate things i find in the crates when i go record shopping, and try to utilize records as my main source of listening (unless i'm in the car). i think there's definitely a value to purity in discovery, but as we evolve, so too should our discovery methods. harmony with tech for music discovery seems like the only way to go for now.
totally agree! that's the perfect example of how you can take the initiative to learn more + dive in deeper regardless of how you have that initial point of discovery. will peep!
enjoyed reading this one! music blogs in the early aughts were the prevalent one that i discovered music (even worked for spin media back in the day). i'll admit during the pandemic there was a heavy period where i was using Discover Weekly, but based on my own search process and tastes and similar to textfx, it helped show me a rabbit hole, but i decided to go deeper and spur that. now i use spotify mainly to validate things i find in the crates when i go record shopping, and try to utilize records as my main source of listening (unless i'm in the car). i think there's definitely a value to purity in discovery, but as we evolve, so too should our discovery methods. harmony with tech for music discovery seems like the only way to go for now.
also check out this podcast episode about how to find music today - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kOUnOTlYpuLAKMiFDMUgS?si=86bd942e840d4383
totally agree! that's the perfect example of how you can take the initiative to learn more + dive in deeper regardless of how you have that initial point of discovery. will peep!