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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m grateful every day that my rock station is independent, and they still play Black Sabbath and Tool and whatnot. It’s still pretty repetitive, but that’s because there’s not a ton of new rock music.

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  • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There is an absolutely insane amount of new rock music. More rock music is being made today than ever before in the history of music.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Idk, the rock music I find is either:

      • from >10 years ago - several decent bands from 2000-2015
      • based in Europe so I never hear about them (I’m in the US)
      • country or country-adjacent - I hate country music, but I love rock of all other forms
      • small band that’s incredibly hard to find

      I just don’t know how to find decent new rock music these days.

      That said, there are a few decent ones I’ve found recently:

      • Volbeat - kinda sounds like Metallica
      • H.E.A.T. - kinda like Iron Maiden?
      • Ghost - kinda like Judas Priest?

      All of those are from Europe (hard for me to find) and were formed in the 2000s. At least Volbeat makes it to my local radio station, which is cool.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ve been on the lookout for new to me artists and new artists to explore the catalogues of because I’ve realized my music library is very much trapped in the early 2000s and I need to keep finding new stuff so my taste doesn’t become stagnent and boring. My approaches are:

        1. Go through current and former band members of bands I like and see what other bands they’re in and see if I like them (for example the vocalist Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage fame moved on and is now the vocalist for Light The Torch so you can get more of his incredible vocals)
        2. Watch smaller live music venues and see who is performing including who is opening for performers and dig through their music catalogues
        3. Look up all of the bands that play in the morning and early afternoon at music festivals. (This is how I recently learned of The Haunt, a newish band that just released their second album and is brilliant if you catch them live!)

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Im grateful that Tool finally gave in to public pressure and allowed their music to be streamed. When ITunes first came out and other streaming platforms became a thing. Tool refused to let their music be streamed because they wanted to “preserve the album experience”. It wasn’t until 2019 that you could find Tool on Spotify.

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do they not realise you can stream an album?

      I think the only functioning CD player I have is in my car. Assuming it works, I’ve never actually used it.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I love buying CDs but almost never insert them into a drive after initially ripping them to add to my MP3 collection

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      • Coldcell@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Anything to hear another cookie recipe.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  iHeartMedia plays artists that they own, either record contract or catalogue.

  When I lived in the UK my local gym always had the same shitty radio station on and I was like “Why do they keep playing these artists? I almost never heard them on BBC” and it turned out to be because the owners of the radio station also owned those artists. Vertical integration baby!

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