Discovering New Music Using Spotify and Discogs APIs
Lately I’ve been in the mood for discovering new music. I had mostly been relying on Spotify for this, either looking for new material by bands I already know, or by using the Radio feature, or by searching public playlists. None of these were very satisfactory - I feel like Spotify tends to recommend you the same few bands, even though their library is vast. So I thought, OK, I’ll try searching myself. The genre I’m looking for is Doom metal - a very slow, heavy subgenre of metal with clean and death metal vocals and (of course) gloomy lyrics. I got into it via the “Peaceville Three” - three UK bands who are still my favourite bands today. Anyway, there’s a legendary forum on doom-metal.com which is an excellent source of information. In this case, one forum user had posted an incredibly helpful recap of the best releases from the last decade. Perfect! But how would I know whether they’re on Spotify or not? ...