Weekly music discovery
Every week, B-Side hands you a radar of new albums you don't know yet — pulled from the edges of your own taste. No charts. No replaying what you've already worn out. Just the good stuff you haven't found.
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How it works
Link Spotify, Apple Music, or Last.fm — or just tell us a few artists you love. The more you connect, the sharper it gets.
Not just your top artists — the genres, eras, and adjacent corners that say what you'd reach for next.
New albums you don't know, each with a one-line reason. Play them in your app of choice, or export the whole radar as a playlist.
The Radar
Your radar is pure discovery — we never recommend what you already play, and once you've seen a pick, you'll never see it twice. Every album comes tagged with why it's here: a closest match, a side door, a gateway into an artist, or an adventurous pick to stretch you.
New Releases
The moment an artist in your world puts out something new, it lands here — fresh releases from the past 60 days, newest first. It's a focused feed of just your artists' new music. Not the everything-firehose. Tap any one to play it in your default player.
Best of Lists
Pitchfork, Stereogum, Rolling Stone, Paste, Consequence, The Guardian — we take their best-of lists and re-sort every one by how well each album fits you. You see where it landed on the critic's list and where it ranks for your taste, with a personal match score. "#23 on Pitchfork · #1 for you."
Why it matters
Open any album and you get the real story: why it fits your taste, the standout tracks worth starting with, and context on the artist and the moment it came from. Then play it in Spotify or Apple Music, save it for later, or add it to a list — one tap each.
More of what's inside
Spotify, Apple Music, and Last.fm merge into one profile. Add a new source later and nothing you've built gets lost.
We never recommend what you already play, and never repeat a pick. Every album is something genuinely new.
Open any pick in your default player, or turn a week's radar — or any list — into a real playlist you can press play on.
Keep a running stack of what you want to hear next. Save from anywhere, organize into lists, export when you're ready.
Too safe? Too far out? Tell each pick what you think and the next radar adjusts to how you actually listen.
A fresh radar arrives each week with a notification — no doomscrolling for something to play.
Why B-Side
Streaming got really good at playing you what you already like. B-Side is for the other thing — the dusty crate, the record-store clerk's "oh, you'll love this," the flip side of the single. We do one job: put genuinely new music in front of you, every week, and make it easy to play.
Flip the record. There's a whole other side.
Questions
B-Side is a music discovery app that gives you a fresh, handpicked radar of new albums every week — chosen from the edges of your own taste. It also surfaces new releases from artists you already love and re-ranks critics' best-of lists for you. The whole point is music you don't already know.
It builds a taste profile from the services you connect and the artists you tell it you love, then looks beyond your top artists to the genres, eras, and adjacent corners of your taste to find new albums that fit. It never repeats a pick you've already seen.
You can connect Spotify, Apple Music, and/or Last.fm to shape your recommendations — as many as you like. To play full albums and export playlists, you use your own streaming app. You can also skip connecting and just pick a few favorite artists to start.
Those are tuned to keep you listening to what you already like. B-Side is tuned to find what you don't know yet, never repeats a pick, and pulls from critics' lists and new releases — not just one platform's listening signals.
A focused feed of brand-new albums from artists you already love, surfaced the week they drop and kept for 60 days — newest first. Just your artists' new music, not a firehose of everything released.
We take critics' best-of lists (Pitchfork, Stereogum, Rolling Stone, Paste, Consequence, The Guardian and more) and re-rank each one for your taste — showing the critic's rank, your rank, and a personal match score for every album.
No. Sources are additive — each merges in without overwriting the others. Connect Last.fm months after Spotify and you keep everything you've built; the picks just get sharper.
Yes. Open any album in your default player (Spotify or Apple Music), and turn a week's radar or any list into a real playlist you can press play on.
[Pricing copy — fill in: trial length + monthly/annual price.] Cancel anytime.
We use it only to build your recommendations — never sold, never shared for advertising. See our Privacy Policy for details, and delete your account and data anytime from the app.
B-Side is a mobile app for iOS and Android. [Add store links when live.]
