Help me find livemusic I l like
August 31, 2011 1:12 PM
Is there an application or website that'll let me track when and where my favorite bands, singer-songwriters are performing in my city and a neighboring city or two?
So .. there was a time when I was "clued in" and kind of kept up with the musicians that I really enjoyed listening to. These days .. after work, playtime with kid, household chores et al, I simply dont have much discretionary time . Which is fine. But once in a while, I really feel like catching a great singer-songwriter at a local venue or someone like P J Harvey or Arcade Fire or Josh Ritter somewhere not too far from home. I dont get to find out in time for me to plan!
So what I am looking for is really an application or website in which I can select musicians and locations that I am interested in and then every time I log in, the website will show dates in which these musicians will be performing in these cities (or not!)
in case this is relevant, I live in Dallas. I am looking primarily at Dallas and Austin.
Possible?
So .. there was a time when I was "clued in" and kind of kept up with the musicians that I really enjoyed listening to. These days .. after work, playtime with kid, household chores et al, I simply dont have much discretionary time . Which is fine. But once in a while, I really feel like catching a great singer-songwriter at a local venue or someone like P J Harvey or Arcade Fire or Josh Ritter somewhere not too far from home. I dont get to find out in time for me to plan!
So what I am looking for is really an application or website in which I can select musicians and locations that I am interested in and then every time I log in, the website will show dates in which these musicians will be performing in these cities (or not!)
in case this is relevant, I live in Dallas. I am looking primarily at Dallas and Austin.
Possible?
SonicLiving's good. And if you use Last.fm, you can hook up your accounts and it automatically tells you about the artists you listen to.
posted by zsazsa at 1:25 PM on August 31, 2011
posted by zsazsa at 1:25 PM on August 31, 2011
I've used Tourfilter for this. Checking out the site, it has both Dallas and Austin available. You just put in a list of bands you like and it will email you when they are coming to your selected cities.
posted by meggan at 1:38 PM on August 31, 2011
posted by meggan at 1:38 PM on August 31, 2011
it's been a while since I've checked the plugin myself, but if you are an iTunes user, you can install the iConcertCal plugin. In a nutshell, it finds concert dates within a certain geographical radius for all the artists in your iTunes library.
posted by emelenjr at 1:39 PM on August 31, 2011
posted by emelenjr at 1:39 PM on August 31, 2011
In addition to Last.fm, you can also scan your iTunes into SonicLiving or connect your Pandora account. Also, stay tuned - the site's about to get a LOT better in the next few weeks. (Disclaimer - I run product development at SonicLiving!)
posted by judith at 1:49 PM on August 31, 2011
posted by judith at 1:49 PM on August 31, 2011
Thanks a lot everybody. SonicLiving clearly does it! and I do use last.fm (and Rdio instead of Pandora).
I'll check out Tourfilter, Songkick iConcertCal later at night; iConcertCal looks quite interesting ...
Thank you very much for your replies.
posted by justlooking at 4:30 PM on August 31, 2011
I'll check out Tourfilter, Songkick iConcertCal later at night; iConcertCal looks quite interesting ...
Thank you very much for your replies.
posted by justlooking at 4:30 PM on August 31, 2011
I know this is late, but I don't know what I'd do without Pollstar.
posted by Occula at 9:56 PM on September 6, 2011
posted by Occula at 9:56 PM on September 6, 2011
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posted by Lutoslawski at 1:18 PM on August 31, 2011