[Lacerda69]

And the enshitification begins. Remember that you as users are next.

Find a sustainable alternative now. I personally recommend bandcamp + youtube combo. Yt to explore and find new music, Bc to buy the music I enjoy and __own__ it.

[Semaphor]

What works well for me is a metal discord community (run by writers of a review blog [0]). Tons of interesting recommendations, including sometimes non-metal stuff, my favorite album of the year so far is chamber folk / Americana [1].

For new music, I tend to at least give a few seconds to every new release that is of an even slightly interesting sub-genre, older stuff sometimes shows up in what people post they are listening to, but there are also listening pods (me and two others are currently doing a one album a day discography run of Necrophobic), and adopted months: March was Screamarch, where two people curated a list of Screamo and adjacent albums/eps for every day, now it’s Finlapril where a Finn curated 1-2 albums a day moving through the history of Finnish metal.

Since joining, my monthly bandcamp purchases went pretty far up, though. And I’m only buying digital albums, there are quite a few who do vinyl purchases for even higher bills.

[0] https://www.angrymetalguy.com/

[1] Vera Sola - Peacemaker https://verasola.bandcamp.com/album/peacemaker

[cageface]

I hardly ever listen to metal any more but I still often check Angry Metal Guy just because it's such a well run independent music review and community site.

Unfortunately such sites are increasingly rare these days.

[Semaphor]

And no ads/payment whatsoever. Purely volunteer-run, for the fun of writing/reviewing.

[paranoidrobot]

I find new music through YT fairly regularly - it's what got me into a whole bunch of artists I'd never seen/heard before.

Unfortunately with YT I've had to cancel my Premium subscription on - they want $34/month, and I'm not paying that.

I'll move to using third party apps/adblockers, and paying some of the creators I watch directly.

[dacryn]

why do they want 34? I pay 12

[nottorp]

Probably some dark pattern where they hide the actual price for just youtube music and show you the subscription for a bundle of services you don't want...

[paranoidrobot]

Australia, and Family plan.

Also, I got it wrong, it's $32.99/month.

> To continue delivering great service and features, we're increasing your price to A$32.99/month.

[Minor49er]

Discogs and RYM are great for discovery. Slsk is also still alive and well

[xlbuttplug2]

sputnikmusic is my go-to.

[baumschubser]

It is not exactly the new kid on the block, but I find tons of interesting music on the music blog aggregator Hype Machine. YMMV depending on your preferred genre.

[wiz21c]

Owning the music is the thing.