openingbands.com - a source for local music
July 17, 2006 10:51 AM

openingbands.com - a source for local music
I've just made a whole bunch of feature updates and additions to openingbands, and am in the process of making more as I have decided to grow its geographic reach beyond Champaign-Urbana Illinois where it started. It's a resource for local/independent bands and has become prominent enough in its home to be partnering with newspapers, weeklies, as well as concert venues, etc. Feedback is requested - does it have the things that would make you want a [yourcity].openingbands.com? What does it need? What does your local music site have that wows you? Some features are so new they're not too utilized, such as pictures and mp3s attached to show listings, of which not many have been uploaded yet.

Not-so-obvious features: Bands can indicate they're in a band and receive access to edit their own info. Venue owners can indicate as such and be given access to edit their shows calendar at will. Fans can create buddylists, mark favorite bands and be notified of new shows, add shows to their calendar for email/SMS alerts, etc. Cool google-map-toy only works where there's shows listed.

Lastly: I'm about to develop an API to allow venues to take advantage of our (imho) huge and well constructed database to update their website listings and ours at the same time, ensuring we have as complete listings in other cities as we do in C-U. Email for details if you like.
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