For decades, you didn't have to look far to find the tastemakers in music. They were radio DJs and music writers for the most part, concentrated into a handful of stations an publications. They set the standards and people followed them.

But, now that those days are long behind us and we can all carry around the entire history of popular music in our back pocket, how in the world to we sift through the tangle of songs and discover stuff we really want to listen to.

Certainly streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and others can help, but they aren't exactly incentivized to help you find everything you want. Their goal is quantity, not quality.

Fortunately, a number of music discovery tools have tried to fill the void, many of them developed independently, free from the cons

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