Every so often (maybe once a year) I look through my music collection and then go “Oh, I forgot about this band that I used to love” and then look them up and see if anything new from them is out. If the band has broken up I also look up the band members to see what bands they are now in or people they have worked with etc. The Six degrees of separation thing works quite well.

Listen to the billions of songs made before 2016 lol. You got a lot of catching up to do.

New does not equal good.

Beyond that, follow trustworthy artists. The only way to fight the slop is with community and trust.

I don’t usually listen to anything newer than around 2010 anyway. 🤣

It’s much easier to find organic art in a community, outside the art industries.

Sure, unless you set up a lot of subscriptions it won’t just come on a consumption conveyor belt, and some people might want or expect that, but it’s much better to be in a place where you’re actually interacting with artists.

i recently discovered Tom Lehrer through some shit post. But I guess it depends on what you define as new

I only discover music through human curators I trust.

Currently it’s via the YouTube channel “worldhaspostrock”, though the word “new” might not be appropriate because as of late they’ve just been posting decade-old albums.

My main genre is hiphop I simply discover artists via recursive checking of features

I mainly listen to electronic music for the past decade or so and have several artists I’ve listened to consistently, they’ll collab with some new artist or do a mix and include their music so I check them out and it grows from there.

Record labels. For any band you like, go to their label’s website, browse the other artists on their roster or peruse the label’s past releases. The bands will likely be similar in style/sound, or at least worth checking out.

I’ve used https://www.music-map.com/ a few times but not lately, so I don’t know how exclusive it is in regards to AI music.

Blogs and small web stuff can be pretty useful.

Bandcamp

i stopped using spotify altogether and limit myself to yt music with adblock and sometimes look at the “discover” playlist or just let the platform autoplay songs

so far I haven’t been recommended AI slop that way

outside

Bandcamp, but also get to know the artist behind the music. Maybe follow their socials and see if they have other friends that publish music.