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How To! | Discover Music You’ll Love

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Music streaming services like Spotify offer huge libraries of songs and albums—with recommendation engines that can feel unadventurous and repetitive. On this episode of How To!, Carvell Wallace welcomes online tastemaker and podcast host Derrick Gee to discuss the shortcomings of music streaming algorithms. And, they sit down with R.J. and Brie—two music fans from different generations—to offer up tips for finding hidden gems and obscure jams that might reinvigorate your own music-seeking journey. Recommendations from this episode:   Internet radio: KEXP (Seattle), KALX (UC-Berkeley), NTS Radio (UK), and KVRX, “None of the Hits, All of the Time” (Austin, Texas) Podcasts and online features: Speaks Volumes With Derrick Gee, Bandsplain, NPR’s Song of the Day Derrick G’s playlists If you liked this episode check out How To Write the Perfect Breakup Song (with special guest Ben Folds).  Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.6

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0:24.4

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0:30.1

I mean, I still do have that thing where if I hear a song on the radio and I like it and I pull it up on Spotify, and I find the song has like, you know, 11,000 plays.

0:38.3

I'm like, yes, you know what I mean?

0:40.3

And if I find it has like 30 million plays, I'm like, oh man.

0:47.3

Welcome to how to. I'm Carvel Wallace and I love music. I always have. Some of my earliest memories involved me lying on the floor of my bedroom when I was supposed to be cleaning it, but instead just staring at the ceiling and listening to Michael Jackson singing Lady in my life.

1:10.4

Which I contend then and contend now is by a wide margin the best song on

1:14.8

Thriller and maybe even of his whole career. I don't care. You can fight me about that.

1:19.0

I would get lost in that song. I would get emotional. I had this experience a lot back then

1:24.3

in the 80s with prints and musical youth and men at work, don't judge me.

1:29.7

I was eight. And when I grew older, I would get overwhelmed listening to Fishbone and NWA and

1:35.4

Spice One and John Coltrane and Jimmy Hendrix and Sonic Youth. I would take the bus down Ventura Boulevard

1:41.0

in the valley and spend all day flipping through tapes and CDs at the

1:45.0

warehouse music and video store where I would later have one of my first jobs.

1:49.0

I could only afford to buy one thing and so I had to choose carefully.

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