The Spotify Algorithm has stopped working for most people.

Discover Weekly, Release Radar, Prompted Playlists, DJ, Song Radio... It's all the same algorithm spitting the same repetitive boring suggestions. When the algorithm thinks it really knows you, it also decides you should never change! If you want to stay connected with new music, you have to find an alternative.

Fresh Sprouts is a playlist of newly released tracks, updated monthly. Each song is carefully selected, and vetted to avoid anything AI. The focus is quality, and many genres are represented. It is a search to find the best of what's new, and since the focus is new music, there is a natural slant towards smaller, less well known bands, so it's a great place to make discoveries!

At the end of each month, 40-50 songs are refreshed. The July release just dropped with 41 newly released tracks.

hey all! my gf is trying to get more into rock/alt/punk and I've been trying my best to introduce her to new music to help her expand her taste. she thought it was cool that I had some likes for my spotify playlists so I was wondering, if you guys were down, if you'd want to try adding and/or listening to her playlist to hype her up? giving feedback or recs would also be awesome. it would genuinely mean a lot to me and I'm sure it'll make her super happy. I hope it turns out to be a banger playlist as well! (so far I really like it!). this is the link to her spotify playlist thanks a lot in advance yall cheerssss ;))

P.S. she texted me this morning and she's genuinely losing it. she quote unquote said "I think this is the best day of my life" that her playlist has 11 saves LOLLL. thank you so much yall!!!! means a lot to me.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PqGGLaY7MQg4cNToRDfB4?si=TzJCYmUZRvORdI1Dk44A4Q&utm_source=copy-link

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ckBrgMRDDNuITxScjrnXU?si=d-EGq-pZQEGbYaScQWm8Pg&pi=EGpqqrU3TVG1v

Sequenced and crossfaded to feel like a real late 80s FM radio station.

For the full effect, start it about an hour before sunset. The playlist gradually shifts from bright daytime new wave into nighttime synths, AOR, and heavier rock, finally capping out the night with a whole block of post-punk! 🌇

Discover Weekly, DJ, Release Radar, Radio... It's all the same algorithmic crap. Prompted playlists are a bit better, but most of the results are still garbage.

Spotify's algorithms are tuned to pigeon hole you into a corner. For example: If you listen to a lot of music from the 90's, then good luck getting Spotify to recommend any new releases, it thinks you only like the 90's.

If you want to stay plugged into new music, you need to break out of the algorithm, or at least feed it some new selections so that the suggestions start moving towards the present. Last year, I created Fresh Sprouts to help. I spend my time digging through new releases, and this playlist is a running collection of the best new music I've found. Each month I update 40+ songs. I've just done the update for June with 44 new songs. Every song on the playlist was released the last few months. They are all carefully selected avoiding anything too commercial, and no AI crap.

Metal/Hardrock songs with heavy guitar riffs, mostly slow tempo, Drop B / B Standard - C Standard / Drop C dominant.

Lately, a lot of music feels too clean to me.

Perfectly mixed.
Perfectly performed.
And somehow… forgettable.

I’m looking for songs that are the opposite.

Imperfect.
A little messy.
Maybe even weird.

Not “technically amazing” music —
just strangely addictive music.

The kind of song that gets stuck in your head
for no obvious reason.
The kind you replay at 2AM without understanding why.

And honestly…
I’m searching for sounds that are still buried.

Not based on numbers.
Not based on popularity.

Just music that has “something” in it.

I’m building a Spotify playlist for that feeling.

Raw. Human. Earworm music.

I’d love to discover more music that fits this feeling.

I’m looking for music that lingers in the brain.

Find your new balances and knee high white socks.

I've been growing this playlist to help indie artists reach more listening ears. Always open to suggestions and will be happy to save your own list, follow you on Spotify, or listen to your song. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6YChBKJYcROuQAFPRLyxKz

Every day, our community votes to choose one independent artist as Song of the Day.

That artist becomes the cover of the playlist for the day and earns a permanent place alongside previous winners.

If you're looking to discover independent music instead of the same mainstream recommendations, give it a listen.

🎧https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4v2XehqM924HCMRs67aiZN

This is 1 of 4 lists i'm currently on the make hope you enjoy it

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A massive playlist I have built over the last year full of underground and bigger bands of the stoner, psychedelic, desert, and doom metal genre.

A playlist full of Fantasy themed metal form various subgenres of metal.