What are the best ways of keeping up to date with new releases?

[bugduv]

Every year I start with the intention to consume as much new music as possible, and every year before February I’m just listening to my favourite records from 2007 again.

Give me websites, aggregators, radio shows, podcasts, magazines, blogs, etc, which will help me. I normally just use Hype Machine and Album of the Year.

TIA.

[sycamore]

honestly, the weekly ‘New Releases’ threads on here are brilliant for this, you know the ones?

[TKC]

Brooklyn Vegan do a weekly playlist on Spotify

[sycamore]

like e.g.

New Releases 13 Oct 23

Here’s three for starters… L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog Her last album was brilliant - reviews for this one are suggesting this might be ever better. Experimental multi-instrumentalist and vocalist on Mexican Summer. CMAT - Crazymad, for me Loved last year’s debut. Country-tinged Irish pop. Hyperdawn - Hyperdawn Manchester band who, according to Boomkat, are at the intersection of Tirzah, HTRK, and Pre-Millennium Tension-era Tricky. Which sounds like a great place to be.

[Pale-eyedBadger]

I always check this.

Upcoming Album Releases

[Pale-eyedBadger]

and definitely the Friday release thread here. It’s the best!

[mroc]

The absolute best place is the weekly threads on here no joke. I also use RYM almost exclusively for this purpose. Just follow the artists you are into and it will pop up in the new releases for you section.

[Octobadger]

Since everynoise went down I would agree that rateyourmusic is one of the best resources now.

It is unfortunately quite unwieldy to look at releases for today or this week, basically need to go to this page, sort by date and then click back through the pages to reach the current date.

More effective is looking back at a past week or longer through the ratings pages once they have updated on a Tuesday to reflect ratings from the past week. For example this link has the albums released from Friday 27th October to the next Thursday by order (broadly the average rating but it has an algorithm to weight towards albums with more votes).

[rich-t]

For me…

• New Releases thread
• Blogs like smallalbums, swim into the sound and for the rabbits have playlists of new stuff and reviews (small albums do tiny playlist Tuesday, what rules Wednesday and a very good end of month playlist for tracks and albums. For The Rabbits do 5 things we like this week each Friday that is exclusively new music. Swim into the sound is good for playlists, reviews and stuff for an emo slant).
• I have a monthly playlist for singles. I chuck stuff from the above into it. Then I trawl back through it to find new albums each Friday. Not the best use of time, but each month is averaging around 6hrs of new singles/tracks, so get a lot out of this.
• Various shows on 6 music
• Some good stuff floating around on Instagram (yellow button, margmp3, flavornotes ect…
• Paste, Brooklyn vegan, stereogum, resident records all get a cursory glance to find what they’re recommending

[JoJoMarty]

I usually have a look at Stereogum’s album of the week, which lists about 30 notable releases at the end (and a few more suggestions in the comments).
This comes out on Tuesday before release Friday.

[drastic_measures]

The UK Top 40

[paulo13]

@rich-t

I have a monthly playlist for singles. I chuck stuff from the above into it. Then I trawl back through it to find new albums each Friday. Not the best use of time, but each month is averaging around 6hrs of new singles/tracks, so get a lot out of this.

Assuming you use Spotify, do you not just ‘follow’ bands that you discover? Seems easier than scrolling back through old playlists and checking each individually.

My automatically generated Spotify Discover playlists are my main source of finding new music, and then I add the ones I like to a playlist and Follow the artists. Then they’ll pop up on my What’s New list each week if they release a new album (or new singles, but you can easily see which is a single or an album).

[SunnyB]

@bugduv

every year before February I’m just listening to my favourite records from 2007 again.

Preach

[SunnyB]

@mroc

The absolute best place is the weekly threads on here no joke.

Also preach

[AtTheBorderGuy]

I’m going the opposite way. I listen to too much new music and kind of miss knowing albums really well. Looked at my iTunes the other day and barely recognised some albums that are only 4-5 years old. My NY resolution is to listen to less stuff!

Saying that, I’ll probably still give the New Releases threads on here a flick through. Consequence’s Upcoming Releases page has a nice balance of some-but-not-all scheduled albums too.

[rich-t]

Have found that’s not worked too well in the past. Maybe the algorithm has changed. I’ll give it a go next year

[paulo13]

I don’t trust the Release Radar playlist, as that misses stuff out for me, but the What’s New option seems to pick up everything I’m following.

[UncleRetrospective]

The ways of exile

There’s my monthly blog if you’re into dance/metal/indie and related stuff.

[mroc]

Part of me is tempted to stick to one new album per week.

[hesastopsiiiiign]

This is my problem too. Any time I thought about my favourite albums of the year this year I struggled to come up with more than two that I listened to more than four or five times