André Rieu is big with folks in my demographic.

Either him or these hokey Gospel shows that pop up with frightening frequency.

When I say that I’ve been to see Daniel Lanois or Willy Deville, I get blank looks.

So where do YOU find good new music?

MTV?

Billboard? This is their current Top 10

1 Rolling In The Deep -Adele
2 Party Rock Anthem – LMFAO
3 Give Me Everything – Afrojack & Nayer Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo
4 E.T. (feat. Kanye West) – Katy Perry
5 Just Can’t Get Enough – The Black Eyed Peas
6 The Show Goes On – Lupe Fiasco
7 Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) [Explicit] – Katy Perry
8 Good Life – One Republic
9 The Edge of Glory – Lady Gaga
10 Super Bass – Nicki Minaj

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along…

(Although I DID meet the Black Eyed Peas on a flight to Los Angeles. Nice enough bunch of kids. Even downloaded their recommendation from iTunes on the inflight WiFi)

I get a fair few samples of really, really good new stuff from a wide range of friends-in-a-networked-sort-of-way.

If they were a band, I’d called them “The Death of Disintermediation”.

They’re people who’ve got taste and a ear for music. They sort out the wheat from the chaff and let you have a listen so that you can go out and buy it.

Pretty much like my Tuesday Tunes

Here are a few places where you’re pretty much guaranteed to find some good stuff.

Aquarium Drunkard

Come Pick Me Up

Hits in the car

I am fuel You are friends

Popdose especially the Friday Mixtape

Quick before it melts

The Music Slut (seriously)

Any major dude with half a heart

BIRP (Blalock’s Indie Record Playlists – 100 Indie titles a month)

If you don’t know how to get these goodies, here’s a “Free Music 101”

You’ve got Firefox as your browser, right?

No?

Get it here.

Now go to Downthemall.

No, NOT “Down the mall” as in “Gone to the beach” – Down them all.

It’s an extension for Firefox and installs itself under “Tools”.

When you’re on a music site with stuff you’d maybe like to listen to, fire up Downthemall, define where you want your downloads saved, say you want mp3’s and click “Start”.

Then do something else while your music downloads.

Import it to iTunes.

Done.

Easy as…..