#music-discovery

#music-discovery

The 2025 Contest winner Ruby Ibarra concluded the 10-city Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour, which celebrated music discovery with local artists and surprise headliners.

"Working in the office, [our product] is something - a new blush, say - that we're around all the time. We go to meetings about how products are made every week. It doesn't feel necessarily thrilling from the inside when you're in it for a year and a half."

Jagger was in his 20s, not far removed from a suburban-London boyhood spent steeping in the American blues. I pictured him eagerly leafing through Chess Records LPs and J&M 45s until he came across a chocolate-brown 12-inch record—Chenier's 1967 album Bon Ton Roulet!

I chose two albums by this band Yanti Bersaudara, an Indonesian band from the '70s. I think they maybe did some albums in the late '60s as well. But this is one of my favorites.

Schnur's serendipitous discovery of emerging artist Lola Young reflects a modern effort to curate diverse video game soundtracks that resonate with a wide audience.