I wrote a while back about Pollstar Premium going away. That service allowed you to follow up 100 artists and be notified by email when an artist on your notify list was coming to town. It also allowed you to follow venues and cities the same way.
Today I found a replacement. It’s called Tourfilter and is specific to the following cities:
atlanta austin chicago dallas dc detroit dublin houston london los angeles melbourne nashville new orleans new york philadelphia portland providence seattle sf bay area toronto twin cities vancouver western mass
Unlike Pollstar, this service has RSS and iCal feeds - eschewing email (as more companies should do). Some nice features are the fact that it recommends bands based on the artists you add, it allows you to see the tour lists of other members, and if you insist on email - there’s a weekly newsletter. Best of all it’s free (Pollstar Premium cost $10 a year).
It’s definitely worth checking out.
Ostensibly A Rubber Door is about anything that's on my mind. Mostly that seems to be about politics, music, sports, and arguing with others about all of the above. I took the name of this blog from a Michael Penn song called Me Around. Check out Michael - he's about the best singer/songwriter there is.
Merujo
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 am
I found tourfilter totally by chance about a year and a half ago (looking for Thomas Dolby stuff) and I like it. Sorry I didn’t think to mention it to you!!
Spencer
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 am
I didn’t really look for a replacement until my Pollstar subscription died - that was yesterday. If it works, this is better.
Howard
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
If you happen to see they are covering Denver, would you let me know? You’re swell.
Kim
June 18th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Thank you so much for posting this. I subscribed to Pollstar Premium for years and have not been able to figure out a replacement since they (for no apparent reason) did away with their auto-notify service.
Thank you SO MUCH!!