Love hearing bands on-the-rise but too lazy to go out to a club to find ‘em? Well you could spend hours trolling the depths of YouTube ‘till you locate a couple of bands worth a listen or you could just ask your kid sister what she likes. However, in this age of information overload, we’ve adopted three-pronged approach and invite you to do the same so you wont miss a beat. Here are our favorite combo of old and new school outlets for new and interesting tunes:
INTERNET RADIO: Try http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/ for excellent new and classic "Brit rock" streaming live from London, try Absoluteradio.com. We’re fans because it’s helped us "discover" a bunch of great new bands we never would have found on our own. Better yet, when they toured the US, many of our discoveries played smaller venues where tickets went for less than $30 – and that totally rocks as far as we’re concerned.
MUSIC TELEVISION: And we’re not talking MTV, we’re talking "Fearless Music." We’ve been fans of this late-night, 30-minute, all-music show for a couple of years now because it’s simply brilliant – each episode features performances by 5 –to-7 up-and-coming bands, recorded live – with no fuss, virtually no patter and minimal introduction. Billed as "a real life concert brought straight into your living room with genres that span from Indie to Alternative to Hip-Hop and everything in-between," the show airs in over 200 U.S. cities, usually at 12:30 am on Friday or Saturday nights, but check your local listings – and set the TiVo.
MUSIC NEWSLETTER: Written and edited by professional music fans with really good taste, the OhMyRockness.com weekly email newsletter is like having a super cool buddy in the business who gives you the heads up on bands you should check out.
We’re signed up for their weekly show list email which serves up a comprehensive list of bands, large and small, who are playing in our town in the coming week. Included in the email are links to their handpicked selection of tunes from the OhMyRockness.com podcast, which are always worth a listen – and it’s all for free, which is OK by us.
