What is your source for discovering new music?

Hevac reminded me that I also pick up a lot of newer pop/dance oriented stuff at the gym doing Les Mill's choreographed exercise classes.

If I hear something I like, I usually download the .mp3 for 99 cents or so from Amazon, if I can find it there.

Kinda reminds me of the good old days as a kid hitting the local department store (JC Penny) and picking up the latest tune I heard on the radio on 45 rpm "vinyl" for about the same price.

Hey, at least the album art pops up on my controller when the downloaded music plays! Most old 45s had no cover art although some of the label artwork was cool. Small favors!

Listing sources in no particular order:

Fellow members of the Houston Audio Society
Half Price Bookstore in Greater Houston Area
Amazon.com
Audiogoners
Pandora
Reviews particularly equipment reviews where the reviewer used certain albums to evaluate the equipment in question.

Last but not least I keep going back to the thread I created on Audiogon way back in 2003 which has till today received 200 responses. This thread is brimming with some fabulous music and can be a great resource for any music lover who is looking to find interesting music to discover. I am providing the link here for you to check out. I hope it will prove useful.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1070546159&openfrom&151&4#151

HDTracks, and ITunes. Treat myself when I hav a real good day at work. Took me forever to get out of habit of buying album, keep tryin' new tunes till I hit one says "yeah". After couple days maybe come back buy rest.

(1) New release emails from H&B Direct.
(2) Pandora. Quality is low, but it's OK at the office.

I have to be very selective what I buy now, I am overflowing with software, with nowhere else to put them.
1) I agree with Tom6897 list of labels to look for, but would add ECM and Stockfisch. Buy almost anything on ECM and there is a lot, great recording and artists and a knack for throwing odd artists together. There is a wonderful recent CD called Officium, pairing Jan Garbarek's Jazz saxophone with the Hilliard ensemble, an early music ensemble, it's great.

2) I agree also about Amazon, but look to user reviews and you can choose ratings as a filter in a search.

3) Of the print magazines, I find HiFi+ the best to introduce new artists

4) HiFi shows, that's one reason I go. You always find some new music being demonstrated in the rooms.