Share Music Taste & Find New Songs to Hear

The Best Way To Find New Music

Streaming recommendations stay close to what you already play. A stranger from another country or generation can point you somewhere completely different. Name an artist you love and ask for one song you've probably never heard. That works better than describing a genre.

Music Conversations That Go Somewhere

A few directions that rarely fail:

• The song that defined a particular year of your life
• Music that's huge in their country but unknown elsewhere
• Best concert they've been to, or the one they missed
• Guilty pleasures nobody admits to in public
• Instruments they play, or wish they did

Swapping Songs Safely

Share song titles and artists rather than links, and let the other person search on their own service. If you do share a link, stick to well-known streaming platforms and don't open shortened links from strangers.

Local Scenes Are The Real Subject

Streaming flattened global charts but did not flatten local scenes. Venue sizes, ticket prices, which genres get radio play and whether anybody tours through a city at all differ hugely. Asking what is happening musically where somebody lives almost always produces something you could not have guessed, and often a name you have never seen written down.

Playing Versus Listening

A decent share of people in music conversations make something themselves, even if only badly and at home. Recording setups, first instruments and abandoned bands are all easier to talk about than taste, and they carry a chat much further than comparing favourite artists does.