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Originally Posted by DamageX
Actually I don't even check out YouTube for new releases of my old favorite bands. Unless they're the likes of Metallica, most of the time you never hear about their new albums these days. I do check out songs from the new releases on YouTube though.
What I do is check out the band name on Wikipedia and scroll down to discography. I do this a few times a year, keeps me pretty up to date with new releases. Add new discoveries (for me) to the list and I have a never-ending hand-picked collection of music that is now about six months' worth of non-stop listening.
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A couple other ways to find new music are movie soundtracks and music festivals.
Like for music festivals, for example, Metallica played at Glastonbury a few years ago so, if you're a Metallica fan and you're a music fan and you see that organizers booked Metallica to headline, it should be natural to be curious to see who else was playing at the festival and then check Youtube. Make sense? It takes effort but it's fun and if you find one new band that you like amongst five that you don't like, it's worth it.
As an example for movie soundtracks, I finally watched American Hustle the other night and liked a few of the songs in the movie so I went to Youtube and searched the lyrics. One of the songs was Dirty Work who I then found out was by Steely Dan. I was familiar with Steely Dan (mainly the album
Aja) but didn't realize that the song was by them because Donald Fagen was not the vocalist. I also really liked the Arab version of White Rabbit. Another example is Darjeeling Limited. A few of the songs on the soundtrack are by The Kinks. I knew of The Kinks, but had never really listened to them until after seeing the movie.