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Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

88 points by alexyaseen 7y ago

tmnarayan 7y ago
Hi HN! I'm Trevor from Parabola.io. We're excited to show off Discover Local. Music is really important to our team, and we look forward to helping others discover new artists and see more shows. If you want to know a bit more about how we built this, I linked a post that goes into more detail down below. In short, we pull in concert data from Songkick, then compile song data and create playlists with Spotify before sending it all on to Webflow for display. The best part is that Discover Local was built with absolutely no code over the course of a few afternoons! Feel free to ask us any questions you might have! https://medium.com/parabola-labs/discover-local-playlists-5fc322c362e7 https://medium.com/parabola-labs/discover-local-playlists-5f...
bengotow 7y ago
Oh man this is exactly what I've been looking for. Spotify has the "Browse > Concerts" tab which shows upcoming concerts in your zip code for bands you've listened to on Spotify, but I've always wished I could just hit "Play." Requested Nashville (c'mon, no Music City, USA??), look forward to giving this a spin!
- slashblake 7y ago
  https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/nashville https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/nashville
riffic 7y ago
This exists: https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/ https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/
- slashblake 7y ago
  Hi! Thanks for the shout out!
- volkk 7y ago
  along with many many many others, e,g jukely.com that actually has a ton of cities but catered towards people who like to discover artists more so go to giant popular shows (has subscription fee)
pugworthy 7y ago
I am learning to ignore any kind of application that has the "in your city" message. Basically it is, "in your city if it happens to be a major metropolis" - which is not where some of us live.
- iosonofuturista 7y ago
  I don't really get why you are being downvoted. Honestly I kind of expected a US only app, which is by far more common. But I have to say this is actually even worse. It's not just discover "music" in "your city". Looking a it, it actually means, discover "mainstream music, in super mainstream venues" in "your city". 9-NINE-9 Venues for Paris? GO take a gander a New York, with this app you can "discover", ZZ-Top, Madona & The Who for instance. Wow, what I have I been missing.
  - tmnarayan 7y ago
    Thanks for the honest feedback. We've been discussing this in the office, and we agree! If I can convince the team, next week we'll implement some new logic in the Parabola flow so that we select more from the middle of the popularity graph of concerts rather than the top.
    - kingosticks 7y ago
      Wouldn't it be better to try and select artists (or at least genres) the Spotify user "likes"?
      - thejoeflow 7y ago
        Songkick, and spotify for that matter, already do that
    - pugworthy 7y ago
      This is where crowd sourcing has value over curation. Let me tell you about this awesome little regional jazz ensemble playing down the street that others don’t know about. You certainly can offer crowdsourced vs curated content, but if all you ever offer is curated then you can only scale so much.
TurkishPoptart 7y ago
Hi! I really like your site's design! Thanks for providing the Medium link too. Very surprised that no code was needed to build this; I inspected the page and saw over 5,000 lines of JQuery code in there. Well done.
siempreb 7y ago
Hmm, it only works with a Spotify account which I don't have neither want..
ninetax 7y ago
Neat design! I tried this a few years ago by making http://bandsoftheweek.com/ http://bandsoftheweek.com/, but I haven't kept up with fixing bug or improving it. Perhaps I can finally take it down.
hnruss 7y ago
This appears to be limited to well-known musicians. IMO those musicians don't need the help-- people are already finding their shows just fine. There's a ton of great musicians out there that want to be discovered by wider audiences, but are regularly ignored by various music directories like this. Seems like a lost opportunity, considering that they're probably more willing to pay for inclusion than already well-known artists.
- slouch 7y ago
  right, songkick and bandsintown doing just fine and work in any city
dclowd9901 7y ago
I made an app like this a long time ago called "Showhopping". Its intention was to get people out to more music events by helping them discover artists similar to the ones they liked. I really just earnestly felt like people weren't going to enough music events, and missing out on a great activity to engage in! I eventually ran out of steam on it when BandsInTown and others joined the scene, but it was great fun for a while, and I even ended up on lifehacker at some point. Good luck with your venture!
jon1628492 7y ago
This looks pretty nice! But I’m curious how you match the artist up to Spotify; for instance, Whitney (https://open.spotify.com/artist/32aUoW94mJ7xTJI7fG0V1G https://open.spotify.com/artist/32aUoW94mJ7xTJI7fG0V1G) is playing in Austin this week but you link to Whitney Houston (https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP). That being said I like it and could see myself using this!
turbostyler 7y ago
This is just a thinly-veiled ad for Parabola
monksy 7y ago
As someone that struggles to find good music events, this is awesome. Where do you source the event data? EDIT: Due to Festivals my playlist (Chicago) is filled with mostly stuff from Riot Fest (this weekend)
davidwitt415 7y ago
FYI Site Blocked by our corp network admin for some reason..
Ductapemaster 7y ago
The design of this site seems identical to the graphic design that Adafruit used for their I2C address compilation advertisement art[0]. I don't want to jump to the conclusion that this is a ripoff - is this a standard design template that someone offers? [0] https://learn.adafruit.com/i2c-addresses/overview https://learn.adafruit.com/i2c-addresses/overview
- behindsight 7y ago
  Probable source in question: https://photofunia.com/effects/retro-wave https://photofunia.com/effects/retro-wave

88 points by alexyaseen 7y ago

Hi HN! I'm Trevor from Parabola.io. We're excited to show off Discover Local. Music is really important to our team, and we look forward to helping others discover new artists and see more shows. If you want to know a bit more about how we built this, I linked a post that goes into more detail down below. In short, we pull in concert data from Songkick, then compile song data and create playlists with Spotify before sending it all on to Webflow for display. The best part is that Discover Local was built with absolutely no code over the course of a few afternoons! Feel free to ask us any questions you might have! https://medium.com/parabola-labs/discover-local-playlists-5fc322c362e7 https://medium.com/parabola-labs/discover-local-playlists-5f...

bengotow 7y ago

Oh man this is exactly what I've been looking for. Spotify has the "Browse > Concerts" tab which shows upcoming concerts in your zip code for bands you've listened to on Spotify, but I've always wished I could just hit "Play." Requested Nashville (c'mon, no Music City, USA??), look forward to giving this a spin!

slashblake 7y ago
https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/nashville https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/nashville

riffic 7y ago

This exists: https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/ https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/

slashblake 7y ago
Hi! Thanks for the shout out!
volkk 7y ago
along with many many many others, e,g jukely.com that actually has a ton of cities but catered towards people who like to discover artists more so go to giant popular shows (has subscription fee)

pugworthy 7y ago

I am learning to ignore any kind of application that has the "in your city" message. Basically it is, "in your city if it happens to be a major metropolis" - which is not where some of us live.

iosonofuturista 7y ago
I don't really get why you are being downvoted. Honestly I kind of expected a US only app, which is by far more common. But I have to say this is actually even worse. It's not just discover "music" in "your city". Looking a it, it actually means, discover "mainstream music, in super mainstream venues" in "your city". 9-NINE-9 Venues for Paris? GO take a gander a New York, with this app you can "discover", ZZ-Top, Madona & The Who for instance. Wow, what I have I been missing.
- tmnarayan 7y ago
  Thanks for the honest feedback. We've been discussing this in the office, and we agree! If I can convince the team, next week we'll implement some new logic in the Parabola flow so that we select more from the middle of the popularity graph of concerts rather than the top.
  - kingosticks 7y ago
    Wouldn't it be better to try and select artists (or at least genres) the Spotify user "likes"?
    - thejoeflow 7y ago
      Songkick, and spotify for that matter, already do that
  - pugworthy 7y ago
    This is where crowd sourcing has value over curation. Let me tell you about this awesome little regional jazz ensemble playing down the street that others don’t know about. You certainly can offer crowdsourced vs curated content, but if all you ever offer is curated then you can only scale so much.

TurkishPoptart 7y ago

Hi! I really like your site's design! Thanks for providing the Medium link too. Very surprised that no code was needed to build this; I inspected the page and saw over 5,000 lines of JQuery code in there. Well done.

siempreb 7y ago

Hmm, it only works with a Spotify account which I don't have neither want..

ninetax 7y ago

Neat design! I tried this a few years ago by making http://bandsoftheweek.com/ http://bandsoftheweek.com/, but I haven't kept up with fixing bug or improving it. Perhaps I can finally take it down.

hnruss 7y ago

This appears to be limited to well-known musicians. IMO those musicians don't need the help-- people are already finding their shows just fine. There's a ton of great musicians out there that want to be discovered by wider audiences, but are regularly ignored by various music directories like this. Seems like a lost opportunity, considering that they're probably more willing to pay for inclusion than already well-known artists.

slouch 7y ago
right, songkick and bandsintown doing just fine and work in any city

dclowd9901 7y ago

I made an app like this a long time ago called "Showhopping". Its intention was to get people out to more music events by helping them discover artists similar to the ones they liked. I really just earnestly felt like people weren't going to enough music events, and missing out on a great activity to engage in! I eventually ran out of steam on it when BandsInTown and others joined the scene, but it was great fun for a while, and I even ended up on lifehacker at some point. Good luck with your venture!

jon1628492 7y ago

This looks pretty nice! But I’m curious how you match the artist up to Spotify; for instance, Whitney (https://open.spotify.com/artist/32aUoW94mJ7xTJI7fG0V1G https://open.spotify.com/artist/32aUoW94mJ7xTJI7fG0V1G) is playing in Austin this week but you link to Whitney Houston (https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP). That being said I like it and could see myself using this!

turbostyler 7y ago

This is just a thinly-veiled ad for Parabola

monksy 7y ago

As someone that struggles to find good music events, this is awesome. Where do you source the event data? EDIT: Due to Festivals my playlist (Chicago) is filled with mostly stuff from Riot Fest (this weekend)

davidwitt415 7y ago

FYI Site Blocked by our corp network admin for some reason..

Ductapemaster 7y ago

The design of this site seems identical to the graphic design that Adafruit used for their I2C address compilation advertisement art[0]. I don't want to jump to the conclusion that this is a ripoff - is this a standard design template that someone offers? [0] https://learn.adafruit.com/i2c-addresses/overview https://learn.adafruit.com/i2c-addresses/overview

behindsight 7y ago
Probable source in question: https://photofunia.com/effects/retro-wave https://photofunia.com/effects/retro-wave