You can still get notified and be up to date with the world even while caring about privacy and not bothering with social media. Just pretend like its 2002 again. Where do you get notified about your favorite bands new music? Your favorite band's website. Where do you read about shows coming to town? Your local venues website. If you don't want to keep checking manually there are services today to generate an rss feed or an email. Where do you find new music related to your existing music? Your local record store. Where do you see whats popular? The billboard 100 or who is on festival setlists.