Site: Songkick
by Chris on 11 June 2011
http://www.songkick.com/
Track your favorite artists instantly
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Pros
Songkick is a great way to keep up to date with bands, artists and venues that you want to keep track of.
The easiest way in is to let Songkick connect to your Facebook account which means you can swing right in without faffing about with user names and logins (which we are all getting sick of.)
Once you have connected you can feed Songkick with all the data it can eat via three easy portals, Pandora , Last.Fm or iTunes. This will save you the tedious task of entering in by hand the artists you want to track.
There is a handy calendar where you can get a quick overview of events that are on for the month, which is probably Songkick’s finest feature, and the main reason why you must get involved.
To sum up easily the best way yo stay on track with the the hell is going on (music wise) in your town or city.
There is a rather sexy mobile app that is free to download as well, grab that here.
Lovely stuff
Cons
With all the great stuff going on with Songkick we still think they could push the service a bit further, it would be great if there was a way to sync the events you are tracking with google cal for example (or any other desktop calendar).
Agree or not? Give us your opinion. Or don't (no-one will make you).
Hi there,
Thanks for the write-up guys! Just wanted to point out that we do have an export to Calendar option, it’s located on the Upcoming Events tab: http://www.songkick.com/calendar (although this is only available on the web version, not the app!), and will export any concerts that you’ve said ‘Im going’ or ‘I might go’ to
Let me know if you have any other questions at all!
Emily.
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Songkick.com
Needs to sync with Spotify playlists too