6 Social Media Accounts That Changed How I Rediscover Music

Dear listeners,

Sometimes, to listen to music, you have to do something more than just listen.

Personally, I spend a significant — disproportionate? unhealthy? — amount of time on social media, and I find myself drawn to accounts that are music-adjacent, or perhaps music-enhancing. They’re not criticism or reporting, but through a hammered-home gimmick (all great accounts have them) they serve up extremely engaging information about certain styles and scenes that you might otherwise allow to float on by.

Here’s a list of some of the accounts that fill my screen, along with a song that each one either brought me back to or introduced into my life.

Get your scroll on,

Jon

Listen along while you read.

1. Drumeo (TikTok, YouTube)

Drumeo’s videos are created as an extension of a drumming-education platform. The clips feature drummers talking about their craft, and the account’s most intriguing recurring series forces well-established drummers to invent a part for a song they’ve never heard and which is outside of their usual style. The results can be chaotic: Dennis Chambers, a jazz fusion and funk legend, treats a Tool song like an unwelcome pop quiz that he then casually rewrites; Dirk Verbeuren from Megadeth takes a surprisingly patient approach to “Mr. Brightside,” perhaps finding the Killers not quite muscular enough; and Liberty DeVitto, who played for decades with Billy Joel, takes a wry joy in pounding along to Deftones, as if unleashing a lifetime’s worth of backlogged pugnacity.

A rediscovered song: Bring Me the Horizon, “Can You Feel My Heart”

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