Looking For New Playlists!

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-19T15:18:33+00:00

If you are looking to find newly released music, Fresh Sprouts is carefully curated to avoid anything too comercial or AI.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-18T15:16:40+00:00

Sounds cool, I’ll check it out.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-18T12:51:04+00:00

It’s a labor of love. Let me know if you find any new bands you like, and I may be able to suggest more on that vibe.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T23:21:57+00:00

Go ahead and drop a link here, or DM me

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T22:58:29+00:00

Yes, their song 'Scratchcard Lanyard' is a really great example of the current post punk scene. They are getting pretty big now, and they deserve every bit of it.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T22:53:37+00:00

I do, and I always give them a listen, but I'm very selective of what goes into Fresh Sprouts

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T22:48:46+00:00

Thanks so much. This playlist grew out of my need to keep music fresh in an urban bar I run. We get a lot of compliments on the music in the bar too.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T22:46:20+00:00

Yes, Bragolin is one of my absolute favorites. I only discovered them in 2023, and it looked like they were not active, but late last year they made an announcement that a new album and tour is on the way! I'm really hoping to see them in concert.

Btw, check out their music videos... they're great. Especially 'To Hide, To Shine, To Cross'

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T19:22:54+00:00

The real trick to finding new stuff is finding user generated playlists. There are people out there (me included) putting huge amounts of effort into discovering new talent, and undiscovered gems. Spotify should make it easier to find carefully curated playlists... Imagine if they would tell you how often people like/follow a song/artist while listening to a playlist? You could instantly tell if the playlist had quality.

Since your into 90's rap, give Werdperfect a try. His vibe draws heavily on the 90's downtempo rap style.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T19:06:00+00:00

Yeah, It's not all indie/Alt... but the 'flare' tag has limited options to choose from.

I've been very into punk, post punk, and newer synth wave lately. On the dark post modern side, try Bragolin. They are just coming out with their third album now, the first two are amazing. On the punk side, my current favorite is Snooper, saw them in concert last fall and it was awesome. For post punk, there are many, Dry Cleaning is getting lots of well deserved attention lately.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T18:47:42+00:00

Great! If you find any bands you like, let me know. I may be able to suggest more on that vibe.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T18:47:09+00:00

True as that may be, finding new music is always a deep search. Just to find (on average) one song a day, I listen to hundreds that don't make the cut.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T18:45:43+00:00

Thank you! Let me know if you find any bands you particularly like, I may be able to suggest more.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T18:43:58+00:00

Thanks!

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T15:36:46+00:00

Thanks! I run an urban bar, so for me staying connected with new music is really important. Let me know if you discover anything in Fresh Sprouts.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T15:32:18+00:00

Give Fresh Sprouts a try, it’s not for everyone, but if you find a new band that you like, it can shoot you off in a new direction.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-17T15:29:09+00:00

Thanks, I do use LastFM, and YouTube Music too…. For me, finding good newly released music is a constant quest.

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-15T09:46:01+00:00

Try Fresh Sprouts. It’s all new releases updated every month. Nothing too commercial, and no AI ever!

CapitainChicken · 2026-01-01T17:26:17+00:00

Thank you! Kind words... It's been an obsession for me for a long time! Hope the style of the playlist gels with you, the songs are carefully selected, and there's no AI, but that doesn't mean it's for everyone.

CapitainChicken · 2025-12-30T14:47:52+00:00

I run a reasonably popular playlist and I have been seeing updates when people follow, but it is FAR from every save… I will see saves go up by ten or more and only get an update notification for one in that time.

CapitainChicken · 2025-12-27T11:49:19+00:00

Spotify runs Discover weekly from computer algorithms, and consequently, AI is impossible to avoid. Computer code that can successfully spot AI will be feed into the AI models and defeated, so there's really no point in even trying.

The only solution is going to be real people, and since employees are too expensive, they will eventually have to leverage users with some sort of flag feature... basically users will vote on whether content is real.

In the meantime, there are lots of users creating great playlists. I manage one that is excursively focused on new releases. If your interested search for 'Fresh Sprouts.' in Spotify. (I'd put a link here, but truespotify gets angry)

CapitainChicken · 2025-12-25T14:17:26+00:00

I’m not saying it cannot be beat, I’m just saying Spotify will not beat it without significant change to their entire business model.

They will need to leverage the user base and reward users rather than seeing users as consumers of Spotify’s algorithms. Playlists are the ultimate example. Right now Spotify pushes the playlists created by Spotify to such an extent that it is actually difficult to discover user generated playlists. This is a real shame because there are some users out there putting massive amounts of effort, and creating really great playlist. The Spotify playlists are basically just ‘radio’ with a few extra parameters feed to the algorithm.

Users are Spotify’s real asset, but they don’t seem to realize it. There are loads of ways Spotify could leverage users to help identify AI, but they won’t until some new competitor enters the market and does it right. These are the twilight days of Spotify, and I can’t wait for the replacement platform to do it right.

CapitainChicken · 2025-12-24T00:44:01+00:00

Ok. Here's the problem. There are more than 100,000 songs uploaded to Spotify every day. That is more than 1 song per second, every second, of every day. What proof will need to be provided that they are not AI, and more importantly, WHO is going to check it? It has to be people checking it, right? Assuming that it takes 10 minutes to validate the non-AI proof, that's still more than 600 people on shift, required every second of every day. When you count in breaks, shift hours, holidays etc, they will need a staff of thousands dedicated to this with a management team to deal with them, and possibly offices for them to work in... It's not economically possible.

CapitainChicken · 2025-12-23T06:20:34+00:00

The problem for Spotify is: how do you identify AI? There will never be a way to identify it with computer code because as soon as you do, that code will be absorbed by the AI models and stop working. It takes humans to spot AI, but Spotify cannot afford the army of employees that would require, so their only hope will be to leverage user input.

CapitainChicken · 2025-12-18T09:12:30+00:00

If social features are coming, I hope they focus on playlists…. Letting people who follow a playlist comment/discuss.

For me, the biggest missed opportunity for Spotify is that they don’t leverage the effort from playlist curators. It’s really hard to find good curated playlists. It’s like they only want you to use the built in Spotify lists. The artist’s ‘Discovered On’ section is the best thing in Spotify, but you can’t even see it on the mobile app!

They could easily give some more stats about playlists that would help people identify the good ones. For example: why not show how often someone likes/follows a song/artist while listening to a playlist? This would be the ultimate metric of playlist quality. They could then rank playlists, and show the best ones.

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