How do I find new music today?

[ For long, I cannot access Vox.com at all without proxy. Firefox showed the "connection reset" page every time. What I can do is to wait for the day Great Firewall removed Vox.com from its black list. Dammit. ]

I'm listening to Linkin Park's latest album Minutes to Midnight... and thinking about how I find new singles, albums, and artists nowadays.

Why this Linkin Park album? Because it includes the theme song from Transformers the movie, What I've Done. Blockbusters are the most obvious way how we find some good music. However, it's not the best way because of the huge delay on the process of communication.

TV shows are much faster and more helpful than its silver screen competitor. The first Facebook page I opened is Brett Dennen's profile, which was being maintained by his fan. Lots of passers-by left same messages on the page as me: "I heard your song Ain't No Reason from House M.D. yesterday."

Millions of TV shows, which could be downloaded via BitTorrent from the feed-sharing sites like IsoHunt or PirateBay, are transmitting the latest highlights of American cultures to the outside world day by day. For people in the countries where it's forbidden to have satellite dishes at home, say China, BitTorrent and eMule are the most important online tools they cannot live without.

Lots of my friends set Verycd.com as their default homepage. On Verycd, which was founded by some Shanghai natives, Chinese eMule users can find zillions of gigabytes of resources like the latest movies, television shows, albums, digital books and magazines.

The top DJs and music critics in mainland China consider Verycd as their bridge to the outside world. Thanks to the efforts of 0day organizations, the newest music from all over the world could be found on the frontpage of Verycd, even days ahead of the official releasing date.

As Fortunes magazine said, we're running from the age of searching, to the brave new world of discovering. Definitely, the music discovering engines like Pandora.com are pretty cool and useful for the American internet users. But the answer from their Chinese counterpart? Doubtless, Meiju - It's how they called American TV shows.