It's time for my annual post-Xmas push for new tunes. My drive to listen, alphabetically, to all 8700 of my tracks has almost reached the W's, and in all modesty my "top rated" file is a fabulous read.
But if you don't update your music you rust and grow old. I've hit some sampler sites that offer single tracks (or some portion) and have concluded that music has improved of late. So it's time to gorge and download. here's my plan of action:
1. There's nearly 5 pages of this read to dig back through; that should yield some leads of both new and known artists.
2. References from friends. A weird source: I hit 'like' for Garbage, who released one of my favourite albums of all time (self-titled, 1995; GET THIS ENTIRE ALBUM). They recommended a band called Far From Alaska. I found 4 tracks on Youtube and LOVE them! Unfortunately they don't have a page on Wikipedia, and Torrentz hasn't heard of them either. Brick wall. And my vpn just bugged (I think it's me, not the GFW) so FB won't be any help for the moment.
3. Best-of album articles for 2012. I had a tremendous yield off of 2010, a more meagre one from 2011. The trick is to hit a variety of sites: don't be too snobbish to check out the top 40; accept that half of the hipster list won't be findable; and when in doubt, download first, listen later.
I'll start shortly and update here. Hope we can all get in on the dialogue.