Great fun to discover this thread.
I have been blogging about 'new artists' for some years now at
https://gesprek.net/category/music/
I also compile various playlists which you can find on youtube, and a lesser degree, spotify, by searching for my avatar name "artsfols".
What I look for are performance oriented youtube videos that I can watch on the big screen while listening through my sound system.
At a quick skim through this topic, I see many artists I'm familiar with and really like, but also some new territory, so I look forward to viewing those.
Each year I produce a ranked top 40 (or so) playlist of the best (according to us) performance videos of the previous years.
For the year 2021 so far, we have published a 'discovery' list of 270 videos published through the most recent year. You can access this at the blog link I posted above; it's in the post that's top of the pile right now.
(You might be interested in the process I followed to compile this list. I first data mined youtube for 220 artists that I follow. This gave me a spreadsheet with 7000 videos with a hotlink for each one, and also a description to find the performance, acoustic or stripped videos I'm looking for.
After many hours combing through this list, I moved on to the next stage - going through all the new entries for Paste studios, KEXP, WFUV, et cetera, to which I subscribe. By the way I recommend subscribing to Mahogany. At one time KEXP was the best performance video publisher but they have really slipped. Mahogany currently leads the pack by a long shot.)
This 'discovery' list is designed for browsing - although I know some will go through the entire list. We'll short list this down to 60 or so, a panel will score, and then we produce our ranked list. It's all for fun, and I'll watch the end result over and over again through the winter. If I can also get more clicks for some of the undiscovered artists that we put on the list, so much the better.
There's some tremendous talent in the under 1000 clicks category, and you have to take a few rough edges with it on the production end.
My blogs and playlist are not monetized in any way; it's all for personal enjoyment.
Here is a link to the list we created last year - 2020.
Wow. Musical videos and streaming exploded this past year with live performance out as an option for the time being. We had a lot of material to look at, and four reviewers rated folk and acousti…
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If you are interested I would suggest diving into the top 10 to see if this is your cup of tea or not.