New Music: Discovery

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It’s harder than ever for new rock bands to get noticed. Record companies aren’t signing. Audiences seem hard to come by. The media seems uninterested or ineffectual. Meanwhile, Spotify, YouTube, Bandcamp etc etc seem to offer a million ways to get your music out there.

How can new bands get noticed? How best can they build up an audience? These pages seek to offer new bands a chance to get heard and get feedback from their peers.

Listen, watch, comment and mark the bands out of 10.

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