Comments on: How do I get alerted when my favorite bands come to town?

Question: How do I get alerted when my favorite bands come to town?

pennstatephil — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:01:48 -0800

How do I follow all my favorite musicians on tour and find out when they'll be coming to my town?

I'm currently in Denver, and I want a way to list my favorite artists and be alerted when one of them is coming to town, say, within 60 miles. I know that pandora allows you to search based off your music seeds, but I want either an RSS feed or alerts when a new show pops up. Any ideas, hive mind?

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:06:16 -0800

iConcertCal

By: mannequito

mannequito — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:06:45 -0800

You can do something like this with last.fm based on your location and the artists in your library, and I think they have rss feeds too. Can't comment much more on it cause I've never looked in to using this feature of the site.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:08:15 -0800

You might also want to check out Pollstar if you haven't already. Another decent concert listing site.

By: politikitty

politikitty — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:11:56 -0800

Sonic Living has also expanded their city list enough to be useful. (I uploaded my entire artist list first and then noticed they only had New York and San Francisco last year). The website is clunky as hell, but I enjoy their email updates.

By: Brother Dysk

Brother Dysk — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:18:24 -0800

Last.fm (as suggested by mannequito) can be either quite good, or depressingly bad, depending on your location and musical taste. The reason for this is quite simple: the only 'events' (to use their terminology) are ones added by other users. I've often seen major gigs not show up on Last.fm, festivals with half the bands arbitrarily left off, and gigs advertised on several dates (where most of them turn out to be erroneous). Around a major US city, this may be better, but don't expect much luck with bands that aren't popular with the core of Last.fm's userbase.

By: iknowizbirfmark

iknowizbirfmark — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:21:58 -0800

I use Tourfilter for this. The page defaults to Boston but I think that it does about 30 cities total.

By: Jon_Evil

Jon_Evil — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:51:03 -0800

Seconding tourfilter. It can also suggest other bands you might like, based on your tracking list, and will play you their music.

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:08:37 -0800

One of my coworkers -- the guy who runs scourlist, also does a Facebook app called ConcertShout which does just that. Link is blocked at work, but I think it lives here. If you have your favorite artists added as friends, it'll alert you when they come to town.

By: amb

amb — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:20:15 -0800

"Bandloop is simple and powerful - Add bands to your loop, then we alert you to their local shows and new messages."

By: knile

knile — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:46:30 -0800

You can set this up on JamBase (not limited to "jam bands", despite the name), to get e-mail alerts, and possibly an RSS feed of the Denver scene, but I didn't have any luck integrating that with Google Reader when I tried it just now.

By: soleiluna

soleiluna — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:03:13 -0800

Seconding Sonic Living - hearing about & getting tickets to shows I want to see has never been so easy.

By: kidsleepy

kidsleepy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:15:15 -0800

Crap I missed it! Good for concerts, TV shows, new albums, books, etc. Emails you ahead of time.

By: valadil

valadil — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:32:10 -0800

Are there any services like these, aside from last.fm which I already use, that report shows by RSS instead of email? Alternatively are there any good email to RSS services out there?

By: librarina

librarina — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:56:35 -0800

Yeah, Sonic Living is great, if you are in an area they cover. It's super fast.

By: ourroute

ourroute — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:38:39 -0800

Seconding Jambase as well. I find it very helpful. I don't live in a large city like Denver that gets a lot of concerts but it's nice that I can specify how many miles away I want the search to cover.

And if you enjoy festivals, they keep track of all of those as well.

By: pennstatephil

pennstatephil — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:26:57 -0800

Crap I missed it uses JamBase as a source, but I like the fact that I can get email alerts when they put out new albums, too! A nice added feature.