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I sometimes go and search for lists of new artists of the music genres I like to listen to, but most of the time I just end up listening to the same band, composer, etc I've been listening since my teens.
I'm not closed to "new" music, but I rarely get attached to anything new, so I end up listening to the same things almost every day.
Where most of my friends are getting stuck listening to the same music they've been listening to when they were young I try to actively look for the new artists/styles too. Not everyday of course, but definitely at least one a month.
Every so often I'll put on some of the old jams. But man, I'm just not angry enough anymore to listen to the old hardcore punk stuff I used to be into. Every so often I'll put on a few albums though and think about those old times. Lately though I've gone down some crazy rabbit holes from jazz, ambient new age stuff, lots of lo-fi and lo-fi adjacent stuff. I recently discovered Macroblank and Monodrone, those two artists have taken up a lot of my time lately. I went through a pretty heavy vaporwave and futurefunk phase a few years back when I was trying to find more eletronic/funk style music like Breakbot. So all the stuff I listen to now is a far cry from the punk and metal I used to listen to back in the day!
I try to find new music, and have found some cool new groups. And some old favourites have fallen out of favour. I feel like my tastes evolve and change, so I'll try to find new music that speaks to me at this current point in my life.
A year from now I could be into a totaöly new style of music.
Actively searching for new music is fun to me. I ask for recommendations from close friends, family members, people I know online, and just the internet in general. Typing 'artist that sounds like _______' into a search engine has been surprisingly successful, almost on par with the other methods, lol.
I also just recently discovered Bandsintown, which suggests artists playing live in my area that are similar to the ones I am already following (i.e., willing to pay money to see). I listen to a few of their songs and if I like them enough, now I have a new performance to go to!
For every song I listen to from my teens/20s, I listen to at least 2-3 songs from artists I discovered much more recently. The amount of good music is never the problem - there's just not enough time in the day!
Nah my tastes are all over the place, but finding new new bands is kinda hard, and I never make time to actually do it. My s.o. has impeccable taste luckily so she's always showing me new stuff, most of it is older, deep cuts etx, but like you said it's new to me. I'm just starting to cycle back into stuff I listened to 10 years ago though. It's nostalgic and still amazing.
If you stream I find curated playlists and sometimes even radio stations based off of songs to get me to new acts. I've found some of my favorite acts this way.
It doesn't help with finding new genres, though. I've actually found the occasional odd ball in my YouTube recommendations are decent for this, but not great.
For me it's both, and it depends on what I'm doing. I have a lot of tolerance for returning to the bands and songs I love and relistening to the same albums over and over again. I'm the type of person that will listen to a song 10x on repeat if I love it. But in those situations, the music is the primary activity. I might be driving or something but most of my mental processes are focused on the music.
I love discovering new music, though, and I find that it's better for me to listen to new music while I'm focused on something else, the opposite of my "old" favorites.
It seems counterintuitive, but every night I play video games for a couple of hours before bed and that's when I put an album I've never listened to on. Maybe I'll hear something that will pull my attention away form the game and I will repeat that song a few times (this happened recently with 'That's all for everyone' from Tusk), or I will be humming it the next day, and that will kind of form the neural pathway in my brain to cause me to seek that album/song out for more active listening.
It's been a great way for me to discover new (to me) music.
But there is nothing like the comfort of a well-known and well-loved song at the right moment.
I used to be that way, but recently I've been only listening to bands I'd never heard of before. I've had Spotify for about 10 years and only recently started using the Discovery Weekly playlist. It was only ok at first, but now I heart about 50% of the songs each week.
I have discovered so many great bands using Discovery Weekly! Not all the suggestions are the best, but I usually can understand why they were suggested.
There are bands that I will always listen to, for sure. But I listen to a much wider selection of music these days.
Its a mix. Finding new music is difficult and time consuming. But sometimes I actively try to find "new" stuff. But being in my late 40s that means basically anything less then 10 years old.
Back in "the olden days" the sieve of radio made me listen to a lot of stuff and I could pick what I liked. Post listening to the radio (because these days they are all either just playing the same stuff or gone).
But with a little effort I've found stuff.
I've recently found Bury Tomorrow and I'm liking a lot of their stuff.
On another genre side I've found Hugo Kant and really dig his stuff a lot as well.
I also found a throw back sort of trip hop band called Mirrors for Princes that I like though they don't have many songs.
i listen to the same genre of music i listened to as a teenager, which is, music for teenagers (receipts in profile links)
More varied taste for me, plus I make more of an effort to seek new music outside of algorithms. Hello Mary, Spiral Drive, and Chat Pile are three new-ish bands I love
Mostly the same stuff. I'll occasionally find a new band/album that I like, but it's always by chance. I've been missing a good place to find new music ever since what.cd got shutdown.
I was guilty of this until very recently (my phone is still loaded with all my 90s/00s favourites). But I got back into playing music and then started to want to listen to more folk music as inspiration. Now I hardly want to listen to anything else, and I was largely into metal before. Sometimes you just need to try something new.
Listen to a heap of new stuff, as well as a lot of old stuff.
Picking up the guitar to learn start of last year has put me on a journey of exploration into several areas and a lot of new music
I travel a lot and am always looking for new music wherever I am! Love going to local rock bars and live venues and seeing whatever's on on a particular day.
I love seeking out new music, trying new genres, ever expanding my liked-songs playlists. But yeah, inevitably I always end up putting my old favourites on repeat every now and then.
I'm always looking out for new music, but there's so much always coming out that it's hard to separate what I want to listen to from all the stuff I don't.