We make and curate free Spotify playlists of bands with tour dates in your city. They are continually updated with the top songs and bands that you can go see perform live near you. They are basically playlist versions of all your city venues' event calendars. (x-post from r/music)

We love live music and what we used to have to do to plan what shows we wanted to see was go to each venue's event calendar, then click the link to each artists page to listen to their music one at a time. It's a slow process, but how else are you going to discover cool new music you can go see live? Well, we thought we could make that process easier, so we made https://showgoing.com.

You just listen to the playlist and any artist you want to see live you can check out their tour dates in Spotify tapping on "Go to Artist" and it's under "Tour Dates", or if it's not there (sometimes Spotify doesn't list every tour date) all the tour dates are listed for each playlist at https://showgoing.com.

Right now we are in three cities (nyc, la, and dc) but if this gets popular it's totally scalable so we will hopefully have demand to grow to all the big cities.

From our site "About SHOWGOING™ WHY WE THINK THIS IS GREAT

It's free. It's easy.

Maybe you're listening and your favorite band comes on. You just found out they're coming to town!

Maybe you're listening and discover some amazing unknown band. Feel like impressing your friends with how in touch you are with the live music scene?

Maybe you're the type of person who would go to shows but you don't have time to figure out which ones you'd want to see. If only someone would just make a playlist for you...

This is for you. We made this because we love you :)"

Here’s a link to our Spotify profile where you can find all the playlists in case our shitty server gets hugged to death: https://open.spotify.com/user/showgoing Let us know what you think:

Are there other genres you'd like to see?

What other cities should we add?

Does this even make sense?

Any and all feedback is welcome. We're just trying to make something cool. We hope we're on the right track