Obscure Music

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This is a community dedicated to sharing lesser-known music. Please try to submit and share lesser known music. I reserve the right to remove any music I feel is not obscure enough. Please don't take it personally if I do. It's just some people are sometimes not aware that a band or a project is bigger than they think.

Please try to format roughly like this:

Artist Name - Song Title [Genre] [Year]

Obscurity Guidelines:

Any artist with more than one song with over 2 million listens or views on Spotify or Youtube is not considered obscure.
Any sideproject of a popular band or musician or celebrity.
Covers and Remixes of popular songs that violate rule (1) on their own. Covers of popular songs tend to attract more attention than the band might.

Please do not post any artist more than once a week.

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How does everyone find their Obscure Music? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Forgive me if this isn't allowed, but where do people find their obscure music?

I use:

this instance
local small festivals
in Spotify they link similar artists. So, if I like the feel of one small artist I can find more like them
occasionally when I search for a specific song they will list not that song, but the title is interesting enough for me to try it

How do others find their obscure music?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

A whole lot of music communities, finding bands that tour with bands I like, review sites and forums for specific genres I like (feckingbahamas, angrymetalguy, progressive ears), the “if you like” thing at the bottom of Bandcamp pages, and the YouTube/spotify algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’ll browse venue’s email blasts for bands & check them out. In my area 250-500 capacity venues are the sweet spot imo for up & coming.

Another is if you dig a band, see who put out some of their records and check out some other bands in that catalog. Smaller ones tend to work with bands that share a vibe or whatnot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of Japanese live houses have youtube channels where they upload. I actually think it would be cheating to post most of what I find as the language barrier just makes it obscure by default.

I've found a few western clubs doing the same but not to the extent of the Japanese scene. I've been very lucky to find a local doing this.

There's also local radio. We have https://www.fbi.radio/ which focuses on local Australian acts, I would hope most places care about their local scene half as much.

edit: forgot to mention band camp. I like noise, ambient, power electronic, all stuff that doesn't really gain traction in the mainstream.

I also forgot about cassette uploaders. if you like Electronica then december 32nd, 1969 is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That is so cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Really often it is kind of a chain where one thing leads to the next. I shazam one artist's Song in a Cafe, I get the Album the Song is on. It features some other Artist that peaks my interest who then leads me to some compilation where I might find a whole new rabbit hole to go down. And so on and so on.