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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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.
Its truly amazing how easy it is to discover new music these days with digital audio and the internet compared to when I was a kid. Then, it was a few am and fm radio stations that were more varied than most today but still paled in comparison.

Nowadays, its more like there are so many options, which to use and spend time with?