Where do you search for or how do you find new music?

It's used to be simple. There were plently of ways to find new music.

Radio stations would play an entire new album at midnight. Often it was a from a less popular group that had good buzz about it. Radio stations also played a bit more variety that they do now. Sure, DVE hasn't changed their playlist in decades, but other stations used to take up the slack. 104.7 WYDD played a wide variety of music.

Groups also had loads on venues to play locally: The Stanley, The Syria Mosque, and of course, The Civic Arena. Two are gone and the third is on it's last legs. Places like Palumbo Center are around but there just isn't the traffic there used to be.

Rolling Stone magazine had articles about music. It's hard to imagine but it's true.

MTV used to play alot of different music even thought it refused to play rap. Now, there's very little variety played on MTV. There's lots of american idol pop & hip hop but very little of anything else.

We're left with YouTube, public radio stations, and word of mouth.  Finding new & different music takes real effort these days and that's a shame. When you look at the top cds from 2009, you see that one of them Susan Boyle. Record companies seem to only want to sell to the 12-22 year old market but the evidence seems to indicate that they are ignoring a large number of potential customers. James Taylor, Van Morrison, and Kate Bush continue to release new cds but where would folks hear them? If they cannot get air time, then what are the chances that Sia or Those Darlins will get played?

To find new music, I rely on several sources: WYEP, NPR's All Songs Considered, and word of mouth.

There is an untapped market and someone will figure this out and begin selling to it. The real question is how long it'll take.