Ed Zubrow asks:

>So, all you eclectic savants: how do you find the Iris Dements,
>Melachrinos, Esquivals, and Dennys (none of whom I have heard of
>much less heard) of the world?

Same way one does in the classical realm -- find a set of reviewers whose
opinions you can calibrate.  BTW, I have found NPR's "All Songs Considered"
a reliable source of interesting new directions.

   http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/

len.