Favorite new to you music and how do you find it?

A pandora station for a band you like and they play other similar or influencing artists.

Currently, I have been listening to Gaslight Anthem. On their station they play punk bands, garage rock, 80s alternative and Zac Bryan. It has opened up my eyes to a bunch of bands that I may or may not have heard before. I.e. bouncing souls, face to face, the menzingers, etc.

I also listen to Little Steven’s Underground Garage. Just a fantastic station when in the car.

Spotify is great for helping to find new music but it is dependent on you telling it what you like by liking albums and artists. Today is Release Radar playlist; I try to run through that every Friday but usually have to skip through some crap. Monday is Discover Weekly playlist; i try to go for an hour plus bike ride and listen and like a few. Those likes will bloom into more suggestions. I still have a bunch of college buddies and we share music in group chats and in Spotify (you can combine to form a mixed playlist). Some of the newer artists i have found are Kevin Morby, Kurt Vile, Big Thief, Waxahatchee, Sheepdogs, Angel Olsen, Amyl and the Sniffers, Ty Segall, Ron Gallo, Gaz Coombes, The Murlocs, King Gizzard...., Rose City Band, Low Cut Connie, The Bones of J.R. Jones, Black Pumas, flipturn, Jamie Wyatt, Sierra Ferrell, Charlie Crockett, Caroline Rose, Idles, Nation of Language, Amen Dunes, SchoolboyQ, Matt Champion, Hermanos Guiterrez, Yard Act.

As I find new music, i store it in a playlist for the year it came out.

Favorite new to me song is Nobody's Sweetheart by Caitlin Rose. I heard it after recently discovering that one of our local HD Radio stations plays xponential radio. I looked her up and could not believe she is considered country. I was thinking more in the lines of Waxahachie/Soccer Mommy etc.

Anyway, that station plays enough stuff I know to keep me interested, then throws out stuff I have never heard. here's a list from today:
10:54 AM Say Yeah by Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust
10:51 AM Ain't Too Proud To Beg by The Temptations - Gettin' Ready
10:48 AM Life Is by Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
10:43 AM Invisible Man by Joe Jackson - Rain
10:40 AM Walk Out by Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
10:37 AM Meeting Across The River by Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
10:33 AM Burn the Hard Drive (ft. Mura Masa) by Jade Bird - Burn the Hard Drive EP
10:30 AM Gepetto by Belly - Star
10:29 AM Namaste [instr] by Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
10:25 AM Who Have You Been Loving by Bobby Long - Dirty Pond Songs
10:22 AM Hang Me Up To Dry by Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
10:18 AM Good People by Mumford & Sons x Pharrell Williams - Good People (single)
10:15 AM Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might Be Giants - Flood
10:09 AM Chicago by Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinois
10:06 AM Could You Be Loved by Bob Marley & The Wailers - Uprising
10:03 AM Someday, Someday by Pete Yorn - single
10:00 AM Closer To Free by Bodeans - Go Slow Down
9:59 AM Brother Ray by David Sanborn - Here & Gone
9:54 AM Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode - Violator
9:51 AM Chain Lightning by Steely Dan - Katy Lied
9:48 AM Keep Going by Guster - Ooh La La
9:46 AM Brand New Cadillac by The Clash - London Calling
9:40 AM People Say by The Meters - Rejuvenation
9:37 AM Angel by First Aid Kit - Palomino
9:33 AM Passing Judgment by Been Stellar - Scream From New York, NY
9:30 AM Bad Bad Pain by North Mississippi Allstars - Polaris
9:29 AM Walk, Don't Run '64 by The Ventures - The Best Of The Ventures
9:26 AM Hot Burrito #2 by The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace Of Sin
9:22 AM Waterloo Sunset by David Bowie - Reality
9:18 AM Head On by The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic
9:14 AM Wild God by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
9:10 AM What You Need by INXS - Listen Like Thieves
9:07 AM On and On by Grace Cummings - Ramona
9:04 AM I Lost My Job of Loving You by Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale - Buddy and Jim
8:59 AM Dark Eyes by 80 Drums Around The World - Ultra-Lounge Vol. 9: Cha-Cha De Amor
8:53 AM The Killing Moon by Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain