The radio and I search for new bands online on sites like NME and Xfm. Or I'll just do a google search for indie bands for instance and youtube a few from the Wikipedia list sometimes finding something decent :)
Best seller lists on amazon can be good too.
Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you.
But there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
I aint no abacus but you can count on me.
Sarah: Give me the child.
Jareth: Sarah beware. I have been generous up till now. I can be cruel.
Sarah: Generous? What have you done that's generous?
Jareth: Everything! Everything you have wanted I have done. You asked the child be taken, I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me. Isn't that generous?
I used to use Pandora, and that was awesome.
But now that it can only be used in the United States, I'm mostly just searching around on the internet, usually youtube and similar sites.
Some of us fall by the wayside
Some of us soar to the stars
Some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with the scars
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
Pandora was LOVE. I'm sure there's a not-entirely-legal-way-using-proxys to get around the whole not being in the States thing. But its so much hastle. But I found SO many bands I adore through that site.
Back in the day, when I was young and only spent my money on gigs, train fare and CDs, I used to go into Fopp and pick up CDs for a fiver or less of bands that intrigued me, or Amazon had reccomended or something. Got a lot of good music from there.
These days its just mates and mass harddrive exchanges really.
And festival lists- if I go to a festival I try to obtain at least one track of every artist on the 2 biggest stages.
Wake me up before I change again
Remind me the story that I won't get insane
Tell me why it's always the same
Explain me the reason why I'm so much in pain.
When i go to festivals i check out 90% of the bands that are playing, some of the best acts i have seen have been in the unsigned tent or small stages.
You can buy me with a coffee,I'm so cheap. Got bitten fingernails&a head full of past;Got a broken heart&your name on my cast.
&&I wanted her to tell me that she will never wake me.
Life is about love, last minutes and lost evenings,
About fire in our bellies and furtive little feelings,
And the aching amplitudes that set our needles all a-flickering,
And help us with remembering that the only thing that's left to do is live.
I sometimes go to gnoosic.com. It's similar to Pandora, except that it's not streaming radio. It prompts you to enter the names of three bands, and then generates band/artist names based on your selections. It doesn't actually play the songs, though. I'm pretty sure it's not limited to the US; it offers translated versions. But I haven't looked too far into it yet.
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