What is your source for discovering new music?


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I use Pandora primarily. Every now and then I get new discoveries on the internet jazz radio stations.

The local FM jazz station used to be my only source. I knew no other jazz fans personally. The SqueezeBox has opened up a whole new world for me.
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(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.
Mainly forums...music threads, and recommendations from friends. Sometimes youtube.
here's a really fun and nicely recorded new find:

we no speak americano by yolanda be cool.

I like roaming the Web with my Ipod Touch into the new ID100 digital dac from Cambridge audio...into a DacMagic.

I am mainly using the incredibly cheap .99 cents InTune app for hundreds of FM stations and Web radios from around the world.

I especially like the SKY specialized stations, showing cover art, and mainly pretty decent sound.

If I like something I touch the ''record'' button in TuneIn so I can go back and do a search on the artits that strikes me as interesting.