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How do people come across new artists that they like? Do you hear them on the radio? Get told about them by friends? Have iTunes recommend them as "similar to what you listen to"?

I have 13,000 songs in iTunes and even so I tend to listen to my "favorites" in my playlists a lot. I don't even listen to all the CDs I own already. So it's intriguing to think about going out and somehow "looking" for new music.

Sleeping with Sirens is my fav at the moment. I encountered them on youtube in the top rock videos. Its very emo but excellent.

It's interesting how much music has changed even in the past twenty years. It used to be I had a collection of 12000 songs in iTunes and I would listen through them. Now I barely ever touch iTunes. I never go back to CDs or records. It's all about online streaming and YouTube. That makes it so much easier to find new music, because you are constantly being offered 'similar songs' to try out for free.