Comments on: IDEA #59 – Music News and Concert Dates for your Favorite Bands

By: BobDobbs

BobDobbs — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:35:43 +0000

Tourb.us isn’t comprehensive. I live in Buffalo, NY — there’s nothing shown. I want a resource for news and concerts, for *my* bands — and for my city.<<<<

Enter your zipcode and distance you’ll travel for a show and you’ll find tons of concerts close to Buffalo, depending on your slate of favorite artists, that is. Livekick rocks.

By: BobDobbs

BobDobbs — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:32:27 +0000

Right now I don’t have a central place to see all the news related to music artists/bands that I like. Ditto on when they are coming to my town for a concert (the iConcertCal plugin for iTunes is the closest thing to good for bands I like coming near me to play a concert, but it only taps into what artists are found in my iTunes and it’s a plugin that works in the stand-alone iTunes software).<<<<

Check out http://Livekick.com Livekick does everything on your list. It snags your iTune artists to be sure but allows for manual inputting artists by search and by other digital music files on you computer as well as syncing with your iLike, las.FM, Pandora, Rhapsody, etc… the recommendation engine also finds shows by related artists. check it out. http://livekick.com

By: MfN

MfN — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:00:21 +0000

hey that nvivo looks pretty interesting – I wish I could read spanish!

Is it going to be map-based, or do you have to know the
place names in the top links to navigate to a region?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:05:51 +0000

We’re behind a startup in Spain covering live concerts and gigs called nvivo.es with concepts similar to last.fm and tourb.us but focusing on venues, social network, etc. As you’ve said, the idea is being built, lot of people have the necessity of live gigs information, let’s see wich project cover the most or attracts the most bands / venues / users…

By: MfN

MfN — Sat, 19 May 2007 14:05:05 +0000

OH and in reply to some of the other comments – I searched
http://gruvr.com for shows within 50 miles of buffalo and 21 days and it found 47 shows.

ANd here’s galtalk…

By: MfN

MfN — Sat, 19 May 2007 03:43:53 +0000

Eventful is kinda generic – they are venue-centric – they are aggressively spreading a ‘demand it’ widget on myspace though. Eventful reminds me of say upcoming.org

An interesting text-based, craigslist-like site is tourfilter.com – but they are venue-centric too, and not map-based.

IMHO the quiet hands-down winner in this category is gruvr.com ..their tour-map thing is spreading rapidly among myspace bands big and small. Has digg-like aspects to show you popular gigs… it’s map based, requires no signup unless you want notifications when your fave bands play nearby, or reminders of specific shows.

Here’s a myspace band page with both eventful and gruvr:
http://www.myspace.com/polyphonicspree

Here’s the spree tour map:
http://gruvr.com/band/polyphonicspree
I’m on this sucker every weekend and discovering house shows.

I’m sure I’m leaving a few out like

beethere http://beethere.net/

Pure Volume: http://www.purevolume.com/tours_and_shows

OnTour (slick graphics but kinda data-poor and hard to use)
http://concerts.ontour.net/

Loud is Relative http://loudisrelative.com/

In other words, the idea’s already being done…

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sat, 19 May 2007 00:42:16 +0000

I was reading Wired this evening and it mentioned a site called Eventful.com, which also seems to provide similar features.

By: David Cohen

David Cohen — Fri, 18 May 2007 23:26:03 +0000

This is the general direction I was headed in with earFeeder, before I sold it last year while it was an infant. It will be interesting to see where SonicSwap takes it. The idea there was to deliver this information via RSS. It didn’t have geography, but that was where I was about to go with it next.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Fri, 18 May 2007 20:22:12 +0000

Interesting idea.

However, I think it is similar to Earfeeder (here and here) – isn’t it? I’ve never used Earfeeder personally, but from what I’ve read – they are quite similar.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:02:07 +0000

Tourb.us isn’t comprehensive. I live in Buffalo, NY — there’s nothing shown. I want a resource for news and concerts, for *my* bands — and for my city.