I have a theory that when it comes to musical discovery, that most people stop actively searching out new music sometime shortly after their college years. This is a generalization but for most, real life gets in the way and the pursuit of new music tumbles down the priority pole. But for that one decade from high school through college, you really knew your shit.
Finding 'what good' in new music is so overwhelming for most people. Where do you go? Who do you ask? Who do you trust? Forget it, just give me the greatest hits of whatever was happening during my senior year of high school. That's easy and safe, I mean, that's "classic".
You know how Amazon has a section in the music area where they say people who bought artist X, also bought artist Y. I often find that to be very helpful but what if you have no friggin idea who artist Y is either?
I think they should relate Artist X to a similar artist during that last 3-4 decades...for example, you may like Feist, if you liked Fiona Apple in the '90's, maybe Edie Brickell or Suzanne Vega in the '80's and Rickie Lee Jones in the '70's and I don't know, Nancy Sinatra in the '60's. The whole point is to help people relate to current music using references they understand.
I'd bet that you'd get more people at least listening to a track or sample online if
