Local music + concerts...

[MiccyNarc]

Helplife2.net, lend me your aid! I was curious if anyone knew of good resources to find local concerts...I've got time to kill this summer and was hoping to find some good music locally... I enjoy metal mostly, and I know there's some pretty good underground metal scenes, but I don't know where to look to find them.
thanks all

 

[Dog--]

Well since it's local chances are we can't help you with it, just google things like *your town* music/concerts, and shit like that.

My area has a huge underground music scene, so here you can just go to some club or bar and a line up of like 4 bands is usually playing, chances are 1 of them would be good.

 

[gFrohman]

Yeah, I think what Dog's talking about is your best bet. Try Google or just go to the local bars & clubs to find out who's playing. Do you know anyone in your town that's into the local music scene?

 

[Laivasse]

If you use last.fm at all, its event search feature is pretty good for this kind of thing. You can look for gig based on your listening preferences (relies on you having scrobbled a lot of tracks to your profile) and filter them based on distance from your location.

I think it's all dependent on another user adding the gig you're interested in, though, and that doesn't always happen.

 

[Ennui]

+1 to Last.fm, but what I do is just check the coming shows lists of all the local venues I know about and then myspace the artists that look interesting. If they're good I go (or if it's super cheap).

 

[Warped]

speaking of which my father is putting on a local concert with his band coming soon. hope it goes well

 

[dfc05]

I usually google search [location] + showlist or show listing... sometimes people will have a website where they list all the shows. You can also check the website for whatever newspaper you have there... generally they have an Events page that might be pretty comprehensive.

And then once I get the hang of what types of bands play where, I do what Ennui does (checking the websites of specific venues).

Sadly, I hardly ever go to any shows though . I just look at the listings and wish I were there.