Truffling around
Marcus Berkmann on hunting down new music
Where do you find your music? Yes, I know, you go to the CD rack and there it is. Or, if you are as obsessed as some of us, you go into almost any room in the house and there is a pile of the stuff, because you can’t get rid of any of it, even the long-unplayed mid-period Elvis Costello CDs of everyone’s worst nightmares. But that’s not what I mean. Where do you find your new music, the stuff you haven’t heard before? There’s a vast quantity out there, waiting to be discovered. Where do you go looking for it?
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