New Music Release Discovery
For a number of technical, and above all, financial reasons, discovery on the Spotify music streaming platform for new songs, albums, and artists has recently become difficult.
This site attempts to remedy that, even though the site is biased towards:
- Indie, Indie rock, alt indie and surf rock genres.
- Australian and New Zealand music within those genres.
The site relies in part on an AI developed 'New Music Discovery' agent, that attempts to source new releases outside the Spotify data base, as it's impossible to access that database directly.
Spotify, in their February 2026 developer changes, appears to have modified its new releases feed. This code, assigned as part of the all important music metadata to a new artist or song release, is primary concerned with popularity by music market, not the origin country of the artist.
Whilst not a Spotify issue, in addition, and bizarrely, given the importance to the average listener, the band/artist origin metadata is only a voluntary requirement for inclusion by distributors, performing rights organizations (PRO), and music metadata collecting societies. Take a look at any artist profile in Spotify, and nine times out of ten, there is no mention of where they are from.
However, the lack of location information, added to the new Spotify developer changes have effectively made nearly anything, except number of plays irrelevant.
Why? The big number fallacy.
If you can boast that (whoever) has a billion plays on your music streaming platform, the marketing logic is more people will sign up, and more importantly, pay for access to all those billion play singers.
Meanwhile, other artists get left in music never never land.
It has led music streaming sites like Spotify to develop algorithms that do not care where the band is from, how they started, even who the members are, as long as that song has millions of 'plays'.
The other major platforms are not that much different. They all seem to more or less march to the same relentless music discovery drum: endless lists of the ‘most played’ songs.
This site is the attempt to bring new music release discovery back to its original roots. Looking at the normal human way of finding songs you like: you look at a country or place, a type, or genre of music and then you listen to songs as you discover them.
Once done, or rather found, you then get to decide if you like a song and want to listen to it again, or move on to the next one, it's that simple. You don't, or shouldn't care, if nobody else listened to it, or if hundreds of thousands have already done so.
Music is your personal choice to like, and no one else's. How you hear that song, how you feel that song, what mood it evokes, is entirely yours, and in your head.
No amount of 'likes' or 'plays' will ever change that.
Disclaimer: the music-release aggregator algorithm was vibe coded with Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Sonnet 5, and greatly assisted by Google’s Antigravity IDE; they were also the main coding platforms behind the development of the entire website. Additional research on music discovery was made using Perplexity and Gemini Pro.