geospecific gig listings on spotify if you please!
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
(Caution reader, I used to word ‘gig’ far too frequently in the post below to the point that it lost all meaning for me, you have been warned)
Why is it still quite a ball ache for me to find upcoming local gigs for bands which Spotify and Last.fm know I listen to or might like to listen to. Between the two they know,
- where I live,
- which bands I like,
- friends of mine and what they like
- A fair amount of the gig listings for the region
But its still a roundabout affair getting from listening to new bands to keeping track of when they’re playing up or down the road. Its seems even more absurd considering that there’s surely money and face to be made here for these services which have questionable longterm financial stability.
Its also not just that both have the facilities to compile this information between them and put it right under my nose, but through a cross pollination of these and other online streaming services my listening habits have changed and expanded greatly across the past few years which in turn has directly influenced and increased my gig going (read ‘spending’) behaviour, and surely they’d like to make artists and rights holder aware of this. (more…)
