Playing Near Here
We’re making it easier to find music in a town near yours with our new “area” search, now available only for select regions. This search groups together different communities that make up a metropolitan area.
At a Store Near You
Local businesses looking to target area consumers can contact us for more information on purchasing […]
Visit bands’ profiles on Playing Here and see that we’ve linked to Amazon’s MP3 Store for bands with mp3 albums available for sale. We like for bands to get their music out there, and we like to listen to bands before we go see their live shows. But of all the online music stores that […]
Playing Here currently has 578 registered users. You can see them all on the new user list. I’m not really sure why so many people have created accounts. There were previously only two advantages to having an account: you could leave comments and you could subscribe to email alerts. But less than 100 people have […]
Every city, state, and venue page now has an iCal subscription link. These links allow you to subscribe to event calendars in many calendar applications, including Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, and Google Calendar.
Other recent updates include browsing bands, states, and cities. The style has also changed to something that’s hopefully a bit more flexible […]
Just today we reached 10,000 shows listed on Playing Here. Sure, that’s not a huge number considering how many shows are actually happening, but it’s a good start. On to 20,000!
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 […]
This is where we’ll be posting notices of new features on Playing Here and other related discussion. For an example, you might be interested in the heat map we use to gauge where we should be focusing our search for more shows. It measures upcoming events on Playing Here per state, weighted against state populations.