Originally Posted by: maggiorYour idea of discovering at least one new (to you) band each week is a good one. With the internet radio services available today, it so easy to do. It would have been so cool to have had this available to me when I was a kid. "Back in the day" we did this by listening to the radio and swapping records.

At first I thought wow, 52 bands, that might be tough. But the more I thought about it, it won't be. Good new year's resolution!

Yeah, I know it sounds like a lot, but considering that in the last 8 days, I've already found at least 4 new artists (AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Jeff Beck and Alice Cooper), I'm off to a pretty good start! And there are still hundreds, if not thousands of artists for me to discover. I usually just use YouTube, though. Find a song I already like, then look through the recommended videos for songs by other bands and I keep going until I'm satisfied. I just get the feeling that it'll become harder to find more bands as the year goes on. But when that happens, there's still venues with up-coming bands. I've never stated that my rule is that the bands I find must be successful and have released albums. They just have to be bands I don't listen to right now (and I can support fellow musicians by paying to see them play live).