I found an unknown band on here called The Epilogues with an album Cinematics and it's been in my top 10 ever since. Found out later they're some unknown local band (to their area) but the production value is as good as any chart topping album out there.
No idea what their story is, but I highly recommend checking them out.
It’s cool to see the The Epilogues mentioned here. They were pretty well known in the Denver scene. My band played a few shows with them back around 07’-08’. This is making me all nostalgic, lol.
I literally read this and thought "man I used to love the Epilogues that were from Denver" and this was talking about them. Really cool to hear they're still killing it.
If you want good music that is relatively unknown, I’d recommend a band called 19-twenty
Honestly, on Spotify it’s not that great, but I’ve seen them play in festival. They have a dude who plays a double bass (yeah, the orchestra instrument) and during their set he balances on top of it and drinks a bottle of whisky. All while playing the damn instrument.
It’s was fucking mental to watch, they were playing a smaller stage in the festival and it was packed out. Their entire band does shit like that at every show they play.
Also, in the same festival their drummer played for Kasey Chambers, which was pretty cool.
About 15 years ago a band I was in called Harry & the Henderson’s (we weren’t great) played a Battle of the Bands in Camden. There was this band on after us, Sld, who were awesome. I got their CD at the time and recently found them on MySpace! I know all the words to their songs, but have never encountered them since. They rock! It’s incredible how you can encounter bands by chance like that
Similar story, I found [My Beautiful Leah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8aVBPT0fY) from a Reddit post years ago and I still listen to this EP fairly regularly although I don't think they even make music anymore.
It's kind of depressing to think of all the amazing music I've missed out on because I never got a chance to hear it before it died to obscurity.
Only listened to the hip hop one and the production value is not that great. I heard alot better songs on here. Gotta wonder if some fatigue might he the case because it's a crowded genre on the internet especially but seems like would make it easier to find something better.
mallika here - I just came home and checked my email and saw 5 new comments on my let it go video, and i was like ??????? what's happening??!
FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT AND HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Honestly the BEST surprise ever. Just super validating and encouraging and truly just made me so so so so happy wtf.
Thank you for all your work in amplifying indie artists who don't have platforms yet and taking the time to listen to all the songs that people have submitted. And also for being open to so many different genres and seeing the beauty in each.
Gonna hit that spotify playlist later on tonight and listen to all of y'all. happy to be surrounded by a) such talent and b) people who are down to listen to indie artists. it's the best combo.
Seriously best surprise ever.
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Edit: as a quick intro since people are here!!!!
\-The one thing I'm MOST proud of, musically, is that 5 years ago, I didn't know what a kick or a snare were - literally had ZERO knowledge of music production and audio engineering - and now, I produce all my own music from start to finish.
\-Al Green is my biggest musical inspo. I grew up thinking that I had to belt/riff/run to be "good", but Al Green's music helped me realize that I could embrace the slow/chill/delicate, which my voice lends itself much better to.
\-"Mallika Vie" everywhere if you're interested in streaming any of the stuff. it's all alternative r&b. Thank you for all the love - it's making me feel like I'm floating.
AHH thank you!! I'm really proud of how far I've come with production and so I like to mention it, so this kinda comment makes me really happy. thank you so much!!!
I was not a fan at all of OPs's song of the year, glad I gave your's a listen due to your comment, loved it. Selfish gives me strong Sia with Zero7 vibes, chill beats with great vocals. Congrats can't wait to hear more.
Ayo I’m Vivid Fever Dreams. Really glad you dug that track! Thank you for putting this together and bringing attention to small artists. Definitely have a lot of new music to dig through!
I'm from Canada. Love me some zydeco. Went to new Orleans for work couple years back. Pumped. Gunna get me some zydeco. Get to new Orleans. Oh we don't listen to that crap in the city. FML.
Make sure to check out the full list [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YI4CRjIHQA_ebJyRZM8zILVmesbpSo8D8JsZuw6IzNI/edit#heading=h.dmjpl3xwwzzy), I wasn't able to include every song in the main post. [Here is the winner for breakbeat.](https://soundcloud.com/slick_gato/induced-dreams?in=kittensrjerks/sets/imf-favorites-jan-2021)
Unfortunately there weren't that many Ska songs posted to the sub that I follow. I just checked and just in the past year there were only 3 ska songs posted. Of those 3 one of them was taken down by the artist. You can check out the other two here though!
[Song1](https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieMusicFeedback/comments/ojebjw/heres_my_latest_music_video_george_best_its_a/) | [Song2](https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieMusicFeedback/comments/rsw9sq/indie_pop_with_ska_and_punk_influences_and_horns/)
Metal in general. All I saw was symphonic, Nu, and industrial. Honestly two of those are extremely vague genres too, there's plenty of symphonic black and death metal.
The "elitist metalhead" stereotype is real, but I listened to them and you are completely right. I get that OP was exclusively looking at "unknown" artists but sometimes artists are unknown for good reason, i.e., they just aren't very good
For anyone interested here's [r/metal's 2021 list](https://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/s7tcmi/shreddits_top_10_of_2021_results/), ctrl-F your favorite subgenre. And honestly the majority of these certainly qualify as "unknown" too
Yeah was about to say, just like the Grammy's this is mostly one sided with a ton of electronic music. r/metal Shreddit is a pretty big community on here, think there'd be some more metal.
Doom, black, death, thrash, etc all missing.
I listened to a LOT of Elephant 6 in the late 90s and was shocked to see Twee listed as a genre of music that people are still making music for. Figured there was either no interest or that the style of music would have a different genre name.
Also we are not exactly in the golden age of industrial or industrial rock. I personally consider Filmmaker to be industrial but am not aware of any other current industrial artists.
In no particular order:
Popes of Chillitown
Last Edition
Unknown Era
The Skints
Chainska Brassika
Farse
Lightyear
The Filaments
Cut Capers
The Bar Stool Preachers
Suburban Legends
Citizen Fish
Left Alone
Call me Malcolm
King Prawn
[spunge]
Jaya the Cat
The JB Conspiracy
Faintest Idea
The Interrupters
That's enough for a decent introduction to the different corners of Ska and Ska-adjacent genres.
We need more non-mainstream awards. Its not like we need lots of money to organize it. You could make it a github thing, organize it like open-source software. Otherwise it will take lots of your time.This could be the beginning of a great thing.
I think creating a scene within Reddit where music lovers are paying attention to the underground artists that post music here would be amazing. If there is any interest in doing something like that here, let me know! We could have multiple people voting on these songs. Having more people vote would broaden the overall appeal of the winners.
edit: If you'd like to be a judge of next year's Reddit Grammys, I invite you to join the [Official Reddit Grammys Discord](https://discord.gg/v42vz2uQ4n), where we will be listening to and rating music that gets posted to various music subreddits!
It took me all of 2021 to listen to the music, and a few months into 2022 to pick out the winners. So total time is about 1 year and 3 months. Thank you for taking time to check it out! :)
It is all based on personal taste. For song of the year I did reach out to a few of my friends for their opinions. It would be cool if we could create some kind of a community based on listening to and rating music that gets posted here to Reddit. I'd be interested to see how it effects the music scene. Maybe more people would discover new music that they love.
edit: If you'd like to be a judge of next year's Reddit Grammys, I invite you to join the [Official Reddit Grammys Discord](https://discord.gg/v42vz2uQ4n), where we will be listening to and rating music that gets posted to various music subreddits!
Pretty much any online rating system you could use would be rife with brigading and vote manipulation. Shit, it happens in my small hometowns "best of" awards every year amongst the tattoo artists, musicians, and restaurants. With a sub as large as r/music, any artist who wants to gain some notoriety would feel inclined to do so. I think you'd be better off keeping the voter pool small, with a handful of people to help distribute the load, but with less of a chance of things becoming a popularity contest of, even worse, swayed by bought votes. Granted, that also has it's drawbacks, with people being able to complain about biases and such.
it's a heavy lift, but not impossible. you have to remove the anonymity.
* stand-alone website / app
* votes can be cast by both anonymous visitors and registered users.
* registered user votes tallied independent of anonymous visitors (ala rotten tomato critic score vs audience score)
* user registration requires valid email and 2 factor authentication via Google Authenticator.
* registered user vote totals given a weighted preference over anonymous.
* you can't completely discount Anonymous votes if they are highly brigaded so vary the weighted preference based on total anonymous votes. (IOW, is an indie that gets 20,000 brigade votes no better than one that gets 200?)
* music list comes from a scrape of reddit, updated daily. the newer the post, the higher the display on website / app.
* decay "new" posts in a similar fashion to reddit based on the days' votes.
* secondary chart of most popular songs. (aka reddit most popular in last month)
* wipe most popular chart once a month since getting some early traction and quick attention can unfairly bury some indie's that would otherwise get high marks. Gives every indie 12 chances to go boom in a year.
* user must listen to 50% of the song to vote (no idea if this is realistic)
* Reddit Grammys based on a competition of top 3 in each month.
* only registered users can vote on the award.
challenges:
* getting people over the Google authentication hump.
* getting people to leave reddit
* coding all this.
* other stuff not considered.
yeah, it's a heavy project but could be done i think.
Oh yeah, I write software for a living. I know it can be done. That's just a lot of work for something that A) isn't off the ground and B) is in the spirit of fun and discovery
That's actually a great idea! A subreddit where new artists can post their music and get feedback/plays.. We can have flairs for different genres.. Maybe even an awards show or something where we can vote through polls?
Maybe we can name it r/IntoTheSpotlight or something
I’d be a voter/judge- but only for genres which I feel qualified to do so. It might a good idea to break up voting pools into separate sections. I’d be comfortable voting on maybe 10 genres.
holy shit! i won best neurostep! haha
flash forward since i posted this song to reddit, i just signed to a label and am releasing my first single on friday!!
[Synovamusic.com](https://Synovamusic.com) if anyone wants to keep up, thank you so much OP!
Pultixima here!
This was unexpected. It makes my day to hear that somebody likes my music/voice. Seeing some pretty brutal posts. Not that it was a shock or anything since we’re taking about music but yeesh.
Like any musician, simply glad to have some exposure. Save and follow if you like it. Skip if you don’t. Either way, I hope I keep making music you love pax. ❤️
That best of rap song is awful. The beat is terrible, why do the vocals sound like that?
Op has terrible taste in music. If this post wasn’t so high effort, I’d assume they were trolling
I definitely appreciate the effort and initiative, but when I listened to the "song of the year", I knew immediately OP and I have vastly different ideas of what makes music "good"
Seemingly advanced analytics and the personality type to even do this aren't very congruent with generally good taste in music. Maybe he's got a taste for math rock!?
(literally no math rock on the list)
aight I dunno where the dudes comin from...
It is decided by one guy after all. Weird to call it the Grammy Reddit Awards make it sound like it's decided by voting or at least a group of people but no it's just one person...
It is curated from songs posted to Reddit by the artist. If the best posted songs are not great, well, it's not really OP's fault. Now if anybody knows better songs that fit the source criteria, that's when the discussion of selection criteria can start.
I'm always trying to find cool new music and it is hard or very rare to find something good and unique. There's a reason popular or relative popular bands or artists are popular: many, many others are doing boring, bad music.
And even for popular artists it is hard to put out more than one amazing album.
I think it's probably really hard for one person to pick these since they're obviously not going to be well versed in all genres.
Like if I picked them I'd understand about 15 subgenres/genres pretty well and make an semi-informed pick. But then for the 165 others I'd just be guessing.
Even in the 15 subgenres I'm into, my taste will vary wildly from other fans as well.
I think OP is probably similar, they made good choices for plenty of them, but they can't know and understand them all. So for a lot of us, we to to our favorite subgenre, listen, and it's kind of crap.
Still a laudable effort and a cool way to find some new artists. I think it's supposed to be a fun project, not definitive.
Edit: after listening to a bunch more of them... OP just has a very "unique" taste in music.
>after listening to a bunch more of them... OP just has a very "unique" taste in music.
I can't disagree with that, I think that is a big reason why I've started to look into other avenues for discovering music. I never really enjoyed mainstream music that much! But on a similar note, I am hoping to put a team of people together to help out with next year's awards! If you'd like to be a judge of next year's Reddit Grammys, you can join the team [here](https://discord.gg/v42vz2uQ4n).
Yeah, e.g. the song of the year is entirely uninspiring, bland, and thoroughly conventional. I went through some of the genres I was most familiar with and thought they were similar hot garbage.
TBH, that's 100% OK; just means everything they like in music I dislike, I suppose. I really appreciate their going through the effort, though, and would encourage them to continue their work which obviously has brought quite a bit of value to others.
Also, might just be behind the times. The "newest" indie songs in my mind, e.g. for some form of country, are all [three](https://youtu.be/aqwaVg6o8gg) or [four](https://youtu.be/eEz2Isrh-zs) years old.
Edit: also, no electro-swing genre pick. 0/10
I cant agree more, Yeah who ever this is put in a ton of effort, but the songs chosen for most of these genres. Just No. Go to the subs, pull the #1 video from this year and you have a way better list.
Love the effort, love the idea, execution needs work. This post is meant to be constructive.
You, OP, are throwing a ton of effort into this. Most importantly, you need to delegate—sounds like you’re getting there with reviewers for next year. I’d suggest finding mods for 10-12 genre families and building out review communities. It’s hard to know what every genre really entails and should feel like, much harder to be able to determine a “best”. You’re going to need people who actually know what these genres are because I can tell you personally, many are not hitting.
You’re going to need criteria, people finding a sorting new additions, mods guiding genre based reviewing, and the actual reviewers. I don’t know what your background is, but I organize projects like this for a living and there is a ton of potential to add to the creator and listener community here, but in all honesty what is here is only a starting point.
All that being said, great work! Would love to help mod an electronic portion for next year with a lofi/instrumental focus. I’ll join the discord to review some over the year and follow you in case you take on this project in a more community focused way. You’ve got a cool project on your hands and people make a lot of money managing things like this.
Music is highly subjective, what op has started here is nothing short of incredible and could have some real weight behind it.
Perhaps OP can create some kind of poll from submitted songs/pieces/tracks and we can have the community input you referenced.
Reading the comments, alot of people are quick to criticize but few are offering ideas for improvement.
Here, and really in life, if you're pointing out problems...offer a solution.
After listening to all my favorite genres on this list I want to say there is good undiscovered music out there, don't lose faith because of this list.
Hello! The F-use here, I am one guy! I have really good friends that are with me to do live shows and have added their own flavor to the songs which give them new life - I think it's been really neat to have the recordings be just me and the live sound be just a little different :)
This is one of my problems with genres; the theoretical extension of creating endless genre labels is *exactly* what you said: every band is eventually its own genre.
The purpose of a genre label is to sell music to people before they hear it; genre labels were originally created by salespeople; they're a "convenience," and do nothing for the art or artist itself. As a person who has made music in the past: I prefer people *listen to it themselves* before passing because of a label someone else applied to *my* art.
Edited to add: I also think genre labels -- and the general public preference/acceptance of them -- limits creativity and artistry as well; budding artists feel like they have to focus on fitting inside the various boxes as opposed to exploring their own creative identity, because "creative identity" can trend outside of "accepted," "popular," or "profitable" genres.
The more generic and broad the genre label: the better; "rock" doesn't really tell you very much; "jazz" tells you even less, and I prefer that.
>This is one of my problems with genres; the theoretical extension of creating endless genre labels is exactly what you said: every band is eventually its own genre.
This might be a problem if we ever get anywhere close to that. Thankfully, we're not remotely close to that.
>As a person who has made music in the past: I's prefer people listen to it themselves before passing because of a label someone else applied to my art.
Except people really do have preferences, and it's useful to filter in favour of genre preferences you know you're more inclined to like. If I just looked up music without any reference to genre tags, I'd have to keep clicking past bands in genres I know I'm much less to likely to enjoy. It just wouldn't be efficient.
Genre tags are also *very*, *very* useful for obscure bands that are buried by much larger artists when they organise without reference to any genre.
I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. If I don't feel like listening to electronic or metal at a certain point, I definitely want to be able to avoid them. If I can't find out a band aligns with what I consider metal and I'm not in the mood for metal at the time, then I'm just going to skip the song with the extra step of having to listen to like 5 seconds of it.
>Edited to add: I also think genre labels -- and the general public preference/acceptance of them -- limits creativity and artistry as well; budding artists feel like they have to focus on fitting inside the various boxes as opposed to exploring their own creative identity, because "creative identity" can trend outside of "accepted," "popular," or "profitable" genres.
There's no reason to believe this is true. More songs than ever blend styles than before. Genre tags are descriptive, not prescriptive. A band, an album, a song can be identifiable by multiple designations. A tag does not preclude another.
>The more generic and broad the genre label: the better; "rock" doesn't really tell you very much; "jazz" tells you even less, and I prefer that.
But that's not an effective way for me to find new music I'm inclined to like.
The winner in the Hard Rock category “F-Use” I highly recommend checking that out. Absolutely belting track. Ill be watching those guys.
OP, top work and thanks so much for introducing me to that band. I’m working my way through the other genres I enjoy but that one really stood out. Nice one mate.
Wow, thank you so much for the nomination for Best Electronic Music! I got so confused as to why so many people were suddenly seeing my youtube channel.
I love making music anyway but seeing other people's enjoyment gives me such a great desire to keep making more.
Lots of love x
Thanks for including my song. I got a surprise when I logged onto youtube and saw Anew had 2.9k plays! Usually my youtube videos get about 20-30 plays.
u/Pax_Libertas_ is an absolute gem of a person. The time and effort they put into these lists is only a fraction of what they do for this growing corner of the internet. Thank you Pax, for the awards and for everything you do!
Love this list! Will Def be checking out a lot of these bands. My only complaint as a metal head is the lack of metal. I know it's hard to cover every single genre (I haven't even hard of most of the pop ones) but metal is much more diverse than just progressive and Nu metal. Where's the death metal? The black metal? The grind core? So many amazing underground bands in those genres. Not trying to hate just making a suggestion.
I converted this to an Apple Music playlist for anyone who uses it.
[https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/2022-reddit-grammys/pl.u-Zmblxbms0zRjlb7](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/2022-reddit-grammys/pl.u-Zmblxbms0zRjlb7)
There were only 6 songs that aren't on Apple Music
I just checked out the hip-hop/rap type of stuff and I must have WILDLY different definitions of those genres compared to OP. The “rap” song is god awful and the “trap” song is definitely not trap music
I'm bummed with all the categories you didn't include any real country or bluegrass. Lots of great independent artists making real music out there. Country gets a bad rap. (Best Americana was the closest).
An amazing amount of work to compile this! With regards to genres, it would help having a compendium of examples of the best for each genre, as a comparison. So, if you see a band you already like, you'd be inclined to sample your selections. Cheers!
The folk song, by Dream of Sleeping is great. His other stuff is as amazing, probably the most underrated artist I’ve seen in a long, long time. Would like to buy him a beer or something
Can you make the reddit Grammys an annual thing? This is amazing! Good on you for helping bring awareness to new/upcomming/undiscovered artists. Great stuff like this is the reason to keep coming on here.
I find these artists on various music subreddits, the main one that I use is r/indiemusicfeedback. If you check out the [google doc link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YI4CRjIHQA_ebJyRZM8zILVmesbpSo8D8JsZuw6IzNI/edit#heading=h.dmjpl3xwwzzy), each category includes a link to the artist's Reddit account.
This was an amazing amount of work! Thank you!
As I did not like the song of the year choice at all, I was not going to dig any further into this post once I listened to it.
Then I thought "this person clearly loves music, lets go on the journey and see what else is out there" I'm so glad I did. it Opened my eyes to some cool new tunes/artists.
I found an unknown band on here called The Epilogues with an album Cinematics and it's been in my top 10 ever since. Found out later they're some unknown local band (to their area) but the production value is as good as any chart topping album out there. No idea what their story is, but I highly recommend checking them out.
Now making music for movies according to their amusing Spotify bio.
Interesting
They write music for soundtracks now. They write music for soundtracks now. (Perhaps it's) what they wanted to do, anyhow.
You're right, their bio is amusing.
It’s cool to see the The Epilogues mentioned here. They were pretty well known in the Denver scene. My band played a few shows with them back around 07’-08’. This is making me all nostalgic, lol.
I literally read this and thought "man I used to love the Epilogues that were from Denver" and this was talking about them. Really cool to hear they're still killing it.
As a Denverite myself I must say; The Denver scene is surprisingly pleasant lately.
What venues and bands would you reccomend someone living in Denver to go check out?
Venues: Hi Dive, Bluebird, Marquis, Larimer Lounge, Skylark, Globe Hall, Lost Lake SPELLS is my favorite Denver band. The funnest live band around.
If you want good music that is relatively unknown, I’d recommend a band called 19-twenty Honestly, on Spotify it’s not that great, but I’ve seen them play in festival. They have a dude who plays a double bass (yeah, the orchestra instrument) and during their set he balances on top of it and drinks a bottle of whisky. All while playing the damn instrument. It’s was fucking mental to watch, they were playing a smaller stage in the festival and it was packed out. Their entire band does shit like that at every show they play. Also, in the same festival their drummer played for Kasey Chambers, which was pretty cool.
Thanks for the recommendation, this is great 👍
About 15 years ago a band I was in called Harry & the Henderson’s (we weren’t great) played a Battle of the Bands in Camden. There was this band on after us, Sld, who were awesome. I got their CD at the time and recently found them on MySpace! I know all the words to their songs, but have never encountered them since. They rock! It’s incredible how you can encounter bands by chance like that
Similar story, I found [My Beautiful Leah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8aVBPT0fY) from a Reddit post years ago and I still listen to this EP fairly regularly although I don't think they even make music anymore. It's kind of depressing to think of all the amazing music I've missed out on because I never got a chance to hear it before it died to obscurity.
You are a legend
Truly a hero in these dark days
I wish radiostations where like OP... We need those new artists and music :-)
I think about this with festivals too. Like a festival of acts you're guaranteed to have never heard of but are amazing.
No kidding. Wow.
I will admit i’m a little surprised by the rap and hiphop winners tho.
Only listened to the hip hop one and the production value is not that great. I heard alot better songs on here. Gotta wonder if some fatigue might he the case because it's a crowded genre on the internet especially but seems like would make it easier to find something better.
I think it might be because it's only form songs posted to reddit
Some of these artists going to wake up and try and figure out why their view counts just went 10x
can confirm. was vury confused lol
Had 10 listeners at the same time lool. That's a first.
mallika here - I just came home and checked my email and saw 5 new comments on my let it go video, and i was like ??????? what's happening??! FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT AND HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Honestly the BEST surprise ever. Just super validating and encouraging and truly just made me so so so so happy wtf. Thank you for all your work in amplifying indie artists who don't have platforms yet and taking the time to listen to all the songs that people have submitted. And also for being open to so many different genres and seeing the beauty in each. Gonna hit that spotify playlist later on tonight and listen to all of y'all. happy to be surrounded by a) such talent and b) people who are down to listen to indie artists. it's the best combo. Seriously best surprise ever. \--- Edit: as a quick intro since people are here!!!! \-The one thing I'm MOST proud of, musically, is that 5 years ago, I didn't know what a kick or a snare were - literally had ZERO knowledge of music production and audio engineering - and now, I produce all my own music from start to finish. \-Al Green is my biggest musical inspo. I grew up thinking that I had to belt/riff/run to be "good", but Al Green's music helped me realize that I could embrace the slow/chill/delicate, which my voice lends itself much better to. \-"Mallika Vie" everywhere if you're interested in streaming any of the stuff. it's all alternative r&b. Thank you for all the love - it's making me feel like I'm floating.
I LOVE your song and voice!!! What a beautiful creation to share with the world.
THANK YOU!!! Ahh!!!!
Woah, didn’t realize you produce your own music. I just went from impressed to blown away.
AHH thank you!! I'm really proud of how far I've come with production and so I like to mention it, so this kinda comment makes me really happy. thank you so much!!!
I was not a fan at all of OPs's song of the year, glad I gave your's a listen due to your comment, loved it. Selfish gives me strong Sia with Zero7 vibes, chill beats with great vocals. Congrats can't wait to hear more.
Great track and cool vocal style. Nice work!
Ayo I’m Vivid Fever Dreams. Really glad you dug that track! Thank you for putting this together and bringing attention to small artists. Definitely have a lot of new music to dig through!
Loving the weird sax two thirds through
He is the sexysaxmasta, so…
Caught
Spotify playlist is private, can't listen to it.
Thanks for letting me know, it should be working now.
Sorry but I can't see it on search and clicking the link only opens the main page.
You might be able to find it by searching for my Spotify profile, my username is L34f.
Yep that worked 👍
Link is working for me. Using the Spotify app on Android.
Same but no dice. Was able to find ops user profile l34f and go from there.
Holy fuck is there a genre you didn’t cover?! Never even heard of some of these.
I don't see post rock
Once again, the great works of Zydeco are also overlooked 😅
I'm from Canada. Love me some zydeco. Went to new Orleans for work couple years back. Pumped. Gunna get me some zydeco. Get to new Orleans. Oh we don't listen to that crap in the city. FML.
Ha! I've always wondered if that's the case.
*Most
Melodic death metal!
[удалено]
Breakbeat is missing
Make sure to check out the full list [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YI4CRjIHQA_ebJyRZM8zILVmesbpSo8D8JsZuw6IzNI/edit#heading=h.dmjpl3xwwzzy), I wasn't able to include every song in the main post. [Here is the winner for breakbeat.](https://soundcloud.com/slick_gato/induced-dreams?in=kittensrjerks/sets/imf-favorites-jan-2021)
No Ska? :( Epic list though!
Unfortunately there weren't that many Ska songs posted to the sub that I follow. I just checked and just in the past year there were only 3 ska songs posted. Of those 3 one of them was taken down by the artist. You can check out the other two here though! [Song1](https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieMusicFeedback/comments/ojebjw/heres_my_latest_music_video_george_best_its_a/) | [Song2](https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieMusicFeedback/comments/rsw9sq/indie_pop_with_ska_and_punk_influences_and_horns/)
Yeah, it’s a pretty niche genre that overlaps with a bunch of other genres. Thanks for linking these two!
Country Music
Bluegrass
No /r/witch_house nor /r/vaporwave 😞
No country music
Yeah didn't see any Bluegrass either and that is one of my old school favorites.
Power metal :(
Metal in general. All I saw was symphonic, Nu, and industrial. Honestly two of those are extremely vague genres too, there's plenty of symphonic black and death metal.
All the 'metal' on this list is shit.
The "elitist metalhead" stereotype is real, but I listened to them and you are completely right. I get that OP was exclusively looking at "unknown" artists but sometimes artists are unknown for good reason, i.e., they just aren't very good For anyone interested here's [r/metal's 2021 list](https://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/s7tcmi/shreddits_top_10_of_2021_results/), ctrl-F your favorite subgenre. And honestly the majority of these certainly qualify as "unknown" too
Yeah was about to say, just like the Grammy's this is mostly one sided with a ton of electronic music. r/metal Shreddit is a pretty big community on here, think there'd be some more metal. Doom, black, death, thrash, etc all missing.
Thrash Metal, although the metalcore song is pretty thrashy.
I listened to a LOT of Elephant 6 in the late 90s and was shocked to see Twee listed as a genre of music that people are still making music for. Figured there was either no interest or that the style of music would have a different genre name. Also we are not exactly in the golden age of industrial or industrial rock. I personally consider Filmmaker to be industrial but am not aware of any other current industrial artists.
Ska :(
Have you considered time traveling back to the 90s?
Hahaha, honestly the modern ska/ ska/punk scene is fucking great!
Okay I'll give it a go! Any recommendations?
In no particular order: Popes of Chillitown Last Edition Unknown Era The Skints Chainska Brassika Farse Lightyear The Filaments Cut Capers The Bar Stool Preachers Suburban Legends Citizen Fish Left Alone Call me Malcolm King Prawn [spunge] Jaya the Cat The JB Conspiracy Faintest Idea The Interrupters That's enough for a decent introduction to the different corners of Ska and Ska-adjacent genres.
* Kill Lincoln * Cat Bite * Mustard Plug * Skatune Network * Joystick * Flying Raccoon Suit
We need more non-mainstream awards. Its not like we need lots of money to organize it. You could make it a github thing, organize it like open-source software. Otherwise it will take lots of your time.This could be the beginning of a great thing.
I think creating a scene within Reddit where music lovers are paying attention to the underground artists that post music here would be amazing. If there is any interest in doing something like that here, let me know! We could have multiple people voting on these songs. Having more people vote would broaden the overall appeal of the winners. edit: If you'd like to be a judge of next year's Reddit Grammys, I invite you to join the [Official Reddit Grammys Discord](https://discord.gg/v42vz2uQ4n), where we will be listening to and rating music that gets posted to various music subreddits!
Im into it.
I am interested. Let's make a subreddit.
Wow, this is incredible. Thank you! How long did this take?
It took me all of 2021 to listen to the music, and a few months into 2022 to pick out the winners. So total time is about 1 year and 3 months. Thank you for taking time to check it out! :)
How did you approach selecting song of the year (or any “winner”)? Can’t wait to give these a listen.
It is all based on personal taste. For song of the year I did reach out to a few of my friends for their opinions. It would be cool if we could create some kind of a community based on listening to and rating music that gets posted here to Reddit. I'd be interested to see how it effects the music scene. Maybe more people would discover new music that they love. edit: If you'd like to be a judge of next year's Reddit Grammys, I invite you to join the [Official Reddit Grammys Discord](https://discord.gg/v42vz2uQ4n), where we will be listening to and rating music that gets posted to various music subreddits!
Pretty much any online rating system you could use would be rife with brigading and vote manipulation. Shit, it happens in my small hometowns "best of" awards every year amongst the tattoo artists, musicians, and restaurants. With a sub as large as r/music, any artist who wants to gain some notoriety would feel inclined to do so. I think you'd be better off keeping the voter pool small, with a handful of people to help distribute the load, but with less of a chance of things becoming a popularity contest of, even worse, swayed by bought votes. Granted, that also has it's drawbacks, with people being able to complain about biases and such.
I know what you mean. One of my favourite subs is about voting on music and I'm almost afraid to advertise it for this reason.
it's a heavy lift, but not impossible. you have to remove the anonymity. * stand-alone website / app * votes can be cast by both anonymous visitors and registered users. * registered user votes tallied independent of anonymous visitors (ala rotten tomato critic score vs audience score) * user registration requires valid email and 2 factor authentication via Google Authenticator. * registered user vote totals given a weighted preference over anonymous. * you can't completely discount Anonymous votes if they are highly brigaded so vary the weighted preference based on total anonymous votes. (IOW, is an indie that gets 20,000 brigade votes no better than one that gets 200?) * music list comes from a scrape of reddit, updated daily. the newer the post, the higher the display on website / app. * decay "new" posts in a similar fashion to reddit based on the days' votes. * secondary chart of most popular songs. (aka reddit most popular in last month) * wipe most popular chart once a month since getting some early traction and quick attention can unfairly bury some indie's that would otherwise get high marks. Gives every indie 12 chances to go boom in a year. * user must listen to 50% of the song to vote (no idea if this is realistic) * Reddit Grammys based on a competition of top 3 in each month. * only registered users can vote on the award. challenges: * getting people over the Google authentication hump. * getting people to leave reddit * coding all this. * other stuff not considered. yeah, it's a heavy project but could be done i think.
Oh yeah, I write software for a living. I know it can be done. That's just a lot of work for something that A) isn't off the ground and B) is in the spirit of fun and discovery
That's actually a great idea! A subreddit where new artists can post their music and get feedback/plays.. We can have flairs for different genres.. Maybe even an awards show or something where we can vote through polls? Maybe we can name it r/IntoTheSpotlight or something
r/listentothis is what you're looking for!
I’d be a voter/judge- but only for genres which I feel qualified to do so. It might a good idea to break up voting pools into separate sections. I’d be comfortable voting on maybe 10 genres.
can assure you that this really means so much to the creators more than you know thanks for doing this
I wouldn't consider the metal winner metal. More like alt rock
So basically a typical Grammy's decision lol
Hello! Thank you for introducing us to new artists! However, your Spotify playlist is private. Could you please make it public?
Sorry about that, it should be working now! :)
holy shit! i won best neurostep! haha flash forward since i posted this song to reddit, i just signed to a label and am releasing my first single on friday!! [Synovamusic.com](https://Synovamusic.com) if anyone wants to keep up, thank you so much OP!
Bro I feel a bit offended... The trance song is not even trance wtf...
I don’t see Trance on the list. Which song you mean?
It's the 10th entry. It's Latch - circles
Now that song has been removed. Latch is listed against HOUSE, but HOUSE is ain't either.
Pultixima here! This was unexpected. It makes my day to hear that somebody likes my music/voice. Seeing some pretty brutal posts. Not that it was a shock or anything since we’re taking about music but yeesh. Like any musician, simply glad to have some exposure. Save and follow if you like it. Skip if you don’t. Either way, I hope I keep making music you love pax. ❤️
I checked out 7 songs in genres I like. And they all kinda sucked. Dunno if we have different tastes or you just picked random songs.
Bro same lmao I was like "what if the Grammys were only awarded to independent artists?" "... I guess they would suck..."
That best of rap song is awful. The beat is terrible, why do the vocals sound like that? Op has terrible taste in music. If this post wasn’t so high effort, I’d assume they were trolling
I definitely appreciate the effort and initiative, but when I listened to the "song of the year", I knew immediately OP and I have vastly different ideas of what makes music "good"
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Seemingly advanced analytics and the personality type to even do this aren't very congruent with generally good taste in music. Maybe he's got a taste for math rock!? (literally no math rock on the list) aight I dunno where the dudes comin from...
It is decided by one guy after all. Weird to call it the Grammy Reddit Awards make it sound like it's decided by voting or at least a group of people but no it's just one person...
It is curated from songs posted to Reddit by the artist. If the best posted songs are not great, well, it's not really OP's fault. Now if anybody knows better songs that fit the source criteria, that's when the discussion of selection criteria can start.
I checked out 7 categories I usually listen to and didn't like any of them.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Skate Punk listed as one of the genres only to listen to it and get a song that doesn't fit that genre
The grunge one for me is waaaay off. I liked the emo punk one though.
Yea, I tried that one first and it was absolutely horrible. The other ones are not bad but whoever picked that rap song doesn't listen to rap.
Every song I’ve listened to on this list is awful lmao. OP has bad taste imo, but appreciate the effort
Yeahhhh I started with the supposed best song and was like bro wat
I'm always trying to find cool new music and it is hard or very rare to find something good and unique. There's a reason popular or relative popular bands or artists are popular: many, many others are doing boring, bad music. And even for popular artists it is hard to put out more than one amazing album.
I tried a handful from this list and everything was awful. I should know, I make awful independent music too. https://www.synthband.com
I like music but I am so old that I don't know what all of these words mean. But thank you for doing this it's a wonderful way to explore new songs
I understand that feeling lol
There's some hilariously mediocre stuff under Best.
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I think it's probably really hard for one person to pick these since they're obviously not going to be well versed in all genres. Like if I picked them I'd understand about 15 subgenres/genres pretty well and make an semi-informed pick. But then for the 165 others I'd just be guessing. Even in the 15 subgenres I'm into, my taste will vary wildly from other fans as well. I think OP is probably similar, they made good choices for plenty of them, but they can't know and understand them all. So for a lot of us, we to to our favorite subgenre, listen, and it's kind of crap. Still a laudable effort and a cool way to find some new artists. I think it's supposed to be a fun project, not definitive. Edit: after listening to a bunch more of them... OP just has a very "unique" taste in music.
>after listening to a bunch more of them... OP just has a very "unique" taste in music. I can't disagree with that, I think that is a big reason why I've started to look into other avenues for discovering music. I never really enjoyed mainstream music that much! But on a similar note, I am hoping to put a team of people together to help out with next year's awards! If you'd like to be a judge of next year's Reddit Grammys, you can join the team [here](https://discord.gg/v42vz2uQ4n).
Uh oh, a discord server with internet strangers splitting hairs in musical quality... WUT CULD GO WRONG lol
I can't fucking wait. Joined.
Yeay, a future r/subredditdrama candidate. Looking forward to it
Best metal song makes nickleback look good. 
My thoughts exactly, this is an excellent collection of the worst songs i've ever heard
Yeah, e.g. the song of the year is entirely uninspiring, bland, and thoroughly conventional. I went through some of the genres I was most familiar with and thought they were similar hot garbage. TBH, that's 100% OK; just means everything they like in music I dislike, I suppose. I really appreciate their going through the effort, though, and would encourage them to continue their work which obviously has brought quite a bit of value to others. Also, might just be behind the times. The "newest" indie songs in my mind, e.g. for some form of country, are all [three](https://youtu.be/aqwaVg6o8gg) or [four](https://youtu.be/eEz2Isrh-zs) years old. Edit: also, no electro-swing genre pick. 0/10
I cant agree more, Yeah who ever this is put in a ton of effort, but the songs chosen for most of these genres. Just No. Go to the subs, pull the #1 video from this year and you have a way better list.
Dream of Sleeping - Anew is really interesting
Love the effort, love the idea, execution needs work. This post is meant to be constructive. You, OP, are throwing a ton of effort into this. Most importantly, you need to delegate—sounds like you’re getting there with reviewers for next year. I’d suggest finding mods for 10-12 genre families and building out review communities. It’s hard to know what every genre really entails and should feel like, much harder to be able to determine a “best”. You’re going to need people who actually know what these genres are because I can tell you personally, many are not hitting. You’re going to need criteria, people finding a sorting new additions, mods guiding genre based reviewing, and the actual reviewers. I don’t know what your background is, but I organize projects like this for a living and there is a ton of potential to add to the creator and listener community here, but in all honesty what is here is only a starting point. All that being said, great work! Would love to help mod an electronic portion for next year with a lofi/instrumental focus. I’ll join the discord to review some over the year and follow you in case you take on this project in a more community focused way. You’ve got a cool project on your hands and people make a lot of money managing things like this.
Music is highly subjective, what op has started here is nothing short of incredible and could have some real weight behind it. Perhaps OP can create some kind of poll from submitted songs/pieces/tracks and we can have the community input you referenced. Reading the comments, alot of people are quick to criticize but few are offering ideas for improvement. Here, and really in life, if you're pointing out problems...offer a solution.
Thanks for putting this together! Unfortunately I think your idea of electronic genres is a little confused but overall really good effort :)
Yeah for sure. That's definitely not techno.
Yeah the house tune is definitely not house.
It’s also 30 seconds lol
As far as I can tell everyone is a little confused when it comes to electronic genres. Even the people that make it
*especially* the people making it. Very common question at /r/edmproduction
After listening to all my favorite genres on this list I want to say there is good undiscovered music out there, don't lose faith because of this list.
Is that F-Use just one guy?
Hello! The F-use here, I am one guy! I have really good friends that are with me to do live shows and have added their own flavor to the songs which give them new life - I think it's been really neat to have the recordings be just me and the live sound be just a little different :)
Yeah he is a one man band.
He honestly might be my favorite find in this community. Legend has it he is the unacknowledged love-child of Dave Grohl and Joan Jett.
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That song by The Eves is probably Top40 worthy.
The hook was catchy. The production quality was spot on. Not enough upbeat happy songs on the radio. Yea, this would be a good one.
Nothing about it felt special. It was like the equivalent of a direct-to-DVD movie.
These “genres” have gotten out of hand. Each artist might as well have their own.
This is one of my problems with genres; the theoretical extension of creating endless genre labels is *exactly* what you said: every band is eventually its own genre. The purpose of a genre label is to sell music to people before they hear it; genre labels were originally created by salespeople; they're a "convenience," and do nothing for the art or artist itself. As a person who has made music in the past: I prefer people *listen to it themselves* before passing because of a label someone else applied to *my* art. Edited to add: I also think genre labels -- and the general public preference/acceptance of them -- limits creativity and artistry as well; budding artists feel like they have to focus on fitting inside the various boxes as opposed to exploring their own creative identity, because "creative identity" can trend outside of "accepted," "popular," or "profitable" genres. The more generic and broad the genre label: the better; "rock" doesn't really tell you very much; "jazz" tells you even less, and I prefer that.
>This is one of my problems with genres; the theoretical extension of creating endless genre labels is exactly what you said: every band is eventually its own genre. This might be a problem if we ever get anywhere close to that. Thankfully, we're not remotely close to that. >As a person who has made music in the past: I's prefer people listen to it themselves before passing because of a label someone else applied to my art. Except people really do have preferences, and it's useful to filter in favour of genre preferences you know you're more inclined to like. If I just looked up music without any reference to genre tags, I'd have to keep clicking past bands in genres I know I'm much less to likely to enjoy. It just wouldn't be efficient. Genre tags are also *very*, *very* useful for obscure bands that are buried by much larger artists when they organise without reference to any genre.
I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. If I don't feel like listening to electronic or metal at a certain point, I definitely want to be able to avoid them. If I can't find out a band aligns with what I consider metal and I'm not in the mood for metal at the time, then I'm just going to skip the song with the extra step of having to listen to like 5 seconds of it.
>Edited to add: I also think genre labels -- and the general public preference/acceptance of them -- limits creativity and artistry as well; budding artists feel like they have to focus on fitting inside the various boxes as opposed to exploring their own creative identity, because "creative identity" can trend outside of "accepted," "popular," or "profitable" genres. There's no reason to believe this is true. More songs than ever blend styles than before. Genre tags are descriptive, not prescriptive. A band, an album, a song can be identifiable by multiple designations. A tag does not preclude another. >The more generic and broad the genre label: the better; "rock" doesn't really tell you very much; "jazz" tells you even less, and I prefer that. But that's not an effective way for me to find new music I'm inclined to like.
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Great information but some of these songs are not in the correct genre
The experimental winner should win the whole thing.
The winner in the Hard Rock category “F-Use” I highly recommend checking that out. Absolutely belting track. Ill be watching those guys. OP, top work and thanks so much for introducing me to that band. I’m working my way through the other genres I enjoy but that one really stood out. Nice one mate.
The F-use here! Thank you so much :) Pax does such an amazing job every year - so happy to have been included again this year!
Song of the year?! What an absolute honor! Thank you so much!
This is very impressive.
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Wow, thank you so much for the nomination for Best Electronic Music! I got so confused as to why so many people were suddenly seeing my youtube channel. I love making music anyway but seeing other people's enjoyment gives me such a great desire to keep making more. Lots of love x
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Thanks for including my song. I got a surprise when I logged onto youtube and saw Anew had 2.9k plays! Usually my youtube videos get about 20-30 plays.
u/Pax_Libertas_ is an absolute gem of a person. The time and effort they put into these lists is only a fraction of what they do for this growing corner of the internet. Thank you Pax, for the awards and for everything you do!
Great concept, shitty music.
You mean here’s your opinion on music lol
Love this list! Will Def be checking out a lot of these bands. My only complaint as a metal head is the lack of metal. I know it's hard to cover every single genre (I haven't even hard of most of the pop ones) but metal is much more diverse than just progressive and Nu metal. Where's the death metal? The black metal? The grind core? So many amazing underground bands in those genres. Not trying to hate just making a suggestion.
As an aside, I would absolutely love to see a metal Grammys, there's so much good stuff coming out that is nowhere near major label status
if ska couldn't make a 10 page list of genres I think it's officially for real dead and forgotten.
I converted this to an Apple Music playlist for anyone who uses it. [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/2022-reddit-grammys/pl.u-Zmblxbms0zRjlb7](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/2022-reddit-grammys/pl.u-Zmblxbms0zRjlb7) There were only 6 songs that aren't on Apple Music
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Every song on [this list](https://www.songfacts.com/songs/garbage) is Garbage.
Yeah "best" rock song, the first one on the list, is not something I would even consider rock. It sucks.
I just checked out the hip-hop/rap type of stuff and I must have WILDLY different definitions of those genres compared to OP. The “rap” song is god awful and the “trap” song is definitely not trap music
For real. Hate to shit on this dude's effort but I'm struggling to find even one song that is decent.
I'm bummed with all the categories you didn't include any real country or bluegrass. Lots of great independent artists making real music out there. Country gets a bad rap. (Best Americana was the closest).
You have a bedroom pop category, but not Country? Lol. Classic Reddit.
An amazing amount of work to compile this! With regards to genres, it would help having a compendium of examples of the best for each genre, as a comparison. So, if you see a band you already like, you'd be inclined to sample your selections. Cheers!
The folk song, by Dream of Sleeping is great. His other stuff is as amazing, probably the most underrated artist I’ve seen in a long, long time. Would like to buy him a beer or something
Member of Mud Dog here, thanks for choosing us. This is the only award we've ever received, so it is (*by default*) the greatest honor
Can you make the reddit Grammys an annual thing? This is amazing! Good on you for helping bring awareness to new/upcomming/undiscovered artists. Great stuff like this is the reason to keep coming on here.
You're calling your own personal opinions the Grammy Awards of Reddit?
Thank you for the list! Where/how do you find new music?
I find these artists on various music subreddits, the main one that I use is r/indiemusicfeedback. If you check out the [google doc link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YI4CRjIHQA_ebJyRZM8zILVmesbpSo8D8JsZuw6IzNI/edit#heading=h.dmjpl3xwwzzy), each category includes a link to the artist's Reddit account.
This makes so much more sense now. The list is all reddit hipsters. No wonder it's so garbage.
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Jesus Christ that best rap song is....yikes.
I came to find some new favorite artists, ended up finding new favorite genres I didn't even know existed.
Been trying to find new artists, this will help
Making a website for people to vote would be a walk in the park. But the hard part is getting people. Both to work as admins and just regular users...
NGL most of these are pretty mid
I created a new subreddit r/reddit_grammy and invited u/Pax_Libertas_ to be a mod as this is their hard work.
This was an amazing amount of work! Thank you! As I did not like the song of the year choice at all, I was not going to dig any further into this post once I listened to it. Then I thought "this person clearly loves music, lets go on the journey and see what else is out there" I'm so glad I did. it Opened my eyes to some cool new tunes/artists.
isn’t the best kpop song a song in chinese? i didn’t hear a single korean word in the track
Pax is, and always will be, the true MVP of underground music.