Songkick Devblog

Songkick offers a great solution for concert tracking. I use it all the time. It allows personalised tracking of artists that you like and much more. http://www.songkick.com/

Not sure whether this is supposed to be more than http://www.songkick.com/. But you should check that one out for a great user experience.

http://www.songkick.com/ (YC07) provides something similar to what you describe, though with a slightly different UX. It lets you import your listenings (bands/artists) from last.fm, pandora & itunes and creates a personalised calendar - location aware - of nearby gigs. I love it :)

I just posted this on avc.com, but might as well add to the discussion here: Songkick (http://songkick.com) nails this for first time users. You can go to the site and start tracking favorite bands without providing any sign up info. Only after you have tracked a reasonably large number of bands and you're invested in your list does it ask you to sign up. (I'm not affiliated with them, I was just impressed by the workflow)

First result for "when is portugal the man playing in my town?" via Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=when+is+portugal+the+man+playing+in+my… https://www.songkick.com/artists/400418-portugal-the-man The "Track Artist" button at the top of the page will let you subscribe to all future dates inside a radius of your town. Nightmare avoided. :)

Usually I just wait for something to pop up on my feed on Facebook, probably based on some of the bands I follow. Here's Osaka's most common metal venue: https://www.songkick.com/venues/269466-namba-rockets

>keep up to date on bands I like Specifically for this use case I like Songkick [0]. Lets me know when anyone I'm following is touring near me. Lets you import artists from Spotify too. 0: https://www.songkick.com/home

For music i find songkick https://www.songkick.com/ is very good. I usually get information for bands i like from them before i see it on facebook.

If you're currently missing concerts, have you tried http://www.songkick.com/ ?

You might wanna check out Songkick: https://www.songkick.com - it does exactly that and it's awesome.

You can use Songkick[1] for that or Last.fm's Events section. On the other hand, I've see Rdio promoting shows and pre-releases on their Twitter account. [1] http://www.songkick.com/

I use http://www.songkick.com for music, and http://www.meetup.com for social stff. London resident.

Just curious: Do you think popular music as a whole is a hopeless area or specifically companies that are looking to stream music? I agree in regards toward streaming music services, but there are a lot of startups focusing on other areas of music that seem to be successful: - http://bandcamp.com/ - http://limitedpressing.com - http://songkick.com/

Speaking of plaigarism, one of the apps from their '09 round looks suspiciosly like Songkick (a YC funded startup). See for yourself: Band in Town - http://www.bandsintown.com/home Songkick - http://www.songkick.com/

Songkick is hiring. We're based in London, Ruby on Rails (but if you're good, we'll help you make the switch), great team, growing rapidly. Currently looking for: Junior Dev, Application Dev, QA Lead. Due to need to get these roles filled we're favouring EU-based candidates, but if you're elsewhere we will be hiring throughout the year so get in touch regardless. We do sponsor visas, and already have a very international team. No remote working, however. See http://www.songkick.com/info/jobs

Have you tried http://www.songkick.com, also a YC startup? They are now doing music and concert tickets.

I have just quit a PhD after three and a half years of work. In the UK PhD courses generally last between 3 and 4 years so it was a large proportion of that time completed. But I decided that it was more important to be doing work that I enjoyed rather than slaving away on a PhD that was not interesting to me and irrelevant to my future career anyway. I've now got a good job in an exciting startup (http://www.songkick.com/) doing the work I wanted to be doing. What more could I want? Whether this is relevant to you I don't know. But I have strongly come to feel that unless you are going to be an academic, or work in a field for which it is specifically useful, like finance or pharmaceuticals, a Phd is not useful. But I have a vested interest in that being true so perhaps you shouldn't listen to me :-)

What would you say is the common theme between say Dropbox (http://getdropbox.com) and Songkick (http://songkick.com)?

First of all, the reasons artists are signing to labels are because of several reasons. For instance, if you (an artist) want to work with a well-known producer then you need to pay them immediately for their work which can range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars – which is before often generally taking a cut from sales of records too. Additionally, they also have to pay for the use of recording studios (even if the producer owns it), backing singers, special amp/FX required during the recording as well as, paying for the entourage of the producer to get to the recording studio etc. Most artists don’t have tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to immediately for this hence, they sign to a record label that can ‘front’ the money for doing so. Even if startups were disrupting this space - and there are some - the fact that artists have to pay producers up front etc is a challenge for them to overcome and record labels at the moment are a very good solution for this. I mean even Jamal Edwards (the founder of SB:TV – http://www.sbtv.com – he's used as part of Google Chrome advertising in the UK - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cKpvwlSGOI and even he has launched a Record Label albeit with Sony - http://www.rwdmag.com/2011/02/sb-tv-founder-jamal-edwards-signs-label-… and he was kind of disrupting the music industry by promoting artists that you may previously never of heard of. (For instance, I first heard about Ed Sheeran -…

Songkick (YC'07, London) is hiring again. We're a small company (about 20 people) that's working to improve the live music scene for everyone involved. We help fans track their favourite artists so they never miss them live, and we help artists get the word out about upcoming shows. In the last year we've seen tremendous growth in our user base and with our commercial partnerships, including integrations with YouTube and Yahoo! Search. We just launched our first major label integration with EMI and are working on plenty more. There's a lot of work to do scaling our team and our technology stack, making it a really exciting time to join us. If you, or someone you know, is an experienced and fast-learning developer into TDD and scalable web services we'd love to hear from you. We have a great team that's a joy to work with (you may have met a few of us at Ruby events), and we have a lot of challenging projects on our roadmap. If you're interested, check out our jobs page at http://www.songkick.com/info/jobs and get in touch with our COO Pete Smith at [email protected]

http://www.songkick.com/ are a london based yc company

The underlying source I believe they are using seems to have other cities. For example I checked out Cambridge UK as an example of a small city: https://www.songkick.com/metro_areas/24571-uk-cambridge

The Songkick devblog goes into some SOA decisions they took when their Rails app got a little too big: see http://www.songkick.com/devblog/2012/09/06/the-path-to-soa/ (and related posts)

Songkick in London, UK See http://www.songkick.com/info/jobs#systems_engineer for details. If you're interested, drop us a line at [email protected].

Proof is in the pudding. Here are your showcase NOLOH sites: http://www.noloh.com http://www.ecrimetools.com/ http://www.theprotectornetwork.com/ http://evolve108.com/#/section=home For comparison, here are some websites put together by companies that ycombinator has funded, and which, I believe, are html/javascript without the middleman. http://heroku.com/ https://posterous.com/ http://dailybooth.com/ http://www.justin.tv/ http://www.songkick.com/ http://www.scribd.com/

http://www.highergroundmusic.com/calendar/view/ vs http://www.songkick.com/venues/921-higher-ground/calendar (I reported via your "Flag a problem" as well) Edit: Looks like part of the issue is that the venue moved and you now have a dupe venue with different listings. http://www.songkick.com/venues/532296-higher-ground/calendar Higher Ground is no longer in Winooski, it is now in South Burlington (Burlington) like the 921 venue states.

Definitely check these guys out and download their itunes plugin (Songkicker) - it rocks: http://www.songkick.com/download