For my new music, I go to Bandcamp to find new music. What the Sony et al want us to think is good, sucks bigly. Bandcamp has a searchable front end where you can find quality, unsigned new music in whatever genre you want.
As for the old FReepers who think new music sucks, you're wrong. Indeed, commerce works. Get off yer assez, go out to a bar/club, plunk down $10 for a cover charge and hear 4 bands play their guts out. Two bands will suck. One will be ok. But then you'll find that one band that blows your socks off, and renews your hope in youth and humanity...you just then buy their merch because capitalism.
Thanks for the tip to Bandcamp. I’d never heard of it before.
I just sampled a few bands and Sunbörn by Sunbörn is promising. It’s billed as a Danish ensemble with musicians from all over the world that fuses Afrobeat, jazz, soul, and funk.
It reminds me of some of similar fusions in the early and mid 70s.
Agreed. And it’s always been that way. As for Rick’s selecting this playlist from Spotify, I think it has to do with the number of Spotify listeners compared to other streaming services. The playlist is automatically generated by the number of listens a song gets. Beato once compared other top lists of the same genre from multiple music streaming services and they mostly consisted of the same songs. That was a couple years ago, so I don’t know if it still holds true.