Playing Here News

You might wonder why we’re bothering with a new site for live music listings when several sites already exist for that. Well, we hope we can do live music listings better. One way we’re doing it better is by reusing information already posted on other sites, so bands don’t need to do any extra work to get listed on Playing Here. Another way we’re doing it better is by making these listings openly available for reuse elsewhere.

But probably the most important difference between Playing Here and other live music listing sites is that we’re not full of crap. By “crap,” I mean live music listings that aren’t live, or aren’t music, or aren’t public, or have the wrong venue name, or the wrong city, or even the wrong state. We’re trying to filter all of this out by moderating events. This moderation was initially a lot of work, but we’ve automated much of it. So now we’re ready for more bands. Have a band you’d like to see listed on Playing Here? Now you can submit the band. We’ll filter out the crap, and publish the live music.