https://everynoise.com/

It plots every genre of music on a 2D spectrum (“The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.”)

You can click on any genre and get band recommendations.

Or you can search for a specific band and find other bands plotted similarly.

Without endorsing these liberal American news outlets,

https://text.npr.org/

https://lite.cnn.com/

Ad-free, js-free, tracker-free, bs-free news articles. Just text. Honestly, it’s a bit of a shock to me that these even exist.