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I seem to have Given Up
Hat:
I found what worked for me was to buy a pair of shoes so shitty that no venue that served alcohol would let me in after 9 oclock, unless they were also a place that had live music. For some reason live music actually lowers the dress code.
Eventually, through drunken trial and error, I found quite a few venues that are always giving new bands a go, and you get to pick and choose from there.
Kid Modernist:
I use wikipedia a lot, and pitchfork. But yeah, my drive for new bands seems to have floundered. At least indie-ish, it's all getting so generic. I'm starting to get into world beats and electronica personally. Theivery Corporation is the shit.
Anybody know some cool bands along those lines? (Here's another way I find bands)
amok:
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I really hate that thing. I fed it about 20 bands before it actually knew one. And then for Icon of Coil, it played one vaguely relevant tune that everyone already knows anyhow before moving on to crazy Eurotrash-style pop :|
Might be better for indie though I guess.
OP: try some Datach'i, Múm, Telefon Tel Aviv, Venetian Snares if you haven't already...
Felix:
Myspace is at least good for checking out bands.
KharBevNor:
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I really hate that thing. I fed it about 20 bands before it actually knew one. And then for Icon of Coil, it played one vaguely relevant tune that everyone already knows anyhow before moving on to crazy Eurotrash-style pop :|
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Pandora works great for some things, but as I've said before, it's flaw is the subjectivity of that 'music gene' system. Some of the bands that share qualities are ridiculous. For example, I type in Current 93, and it gives me Coldplay because of the piano. That would be wonderful if even a majority of Current 93 releases used the piano, or if they toured with one live. Despite the fact it turns up strange genre matches, I find that last.fm's system is much superior, because it quantifies the unquantifiable, and can throw you totally left-field bands that sound nothing like what you've heard before but which you're likely to like (how I found Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows, for example). Also, last.fm can suggest tracks and artists it doesn't have stored for downloading in its database, which is a huge advantage.
Get a last.fm account!
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