Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Concert Subscription

Going to concerts is too difficult.  It’s not the day of the event itself; that’s fine. The difficulty for me is staying on top of the concert listings channels (typically aggregators) like Oh My Rockness, Tourfilter, and Songkick.  I use all three services regularly, and even still, I miss ticket sale dates, or just completely miss a band passing through town because they played an atypical venue not covered by aggregators (I feel like Phil Elvrum plays more beachfronts than he does bars).

So, here’s what I want.  A concert subscription service.  I pay $X/month. The service looks at my Last.fm feed or iTunes library and picks the best concert of the month for me and just sends me tickets.  Bonus points if it also takes my private iCal feed from Google Calendar to make sure I’m actually available the night of the show… but for the most part, I’d make myself available if some service would just handle the ticket acquisition hassle.

I can subscribe to a season of classical music or the Opera… so what can’t I subscribe to indie rock?

Right now, this hole I’m describing in the market is filled by the secondary ticket market. I have no love for scalpers and do whatever I can to not patronize them.

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