Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week (opens in new tab)

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.

This exists:

https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/

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.

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!

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

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-5f...

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) is playing in Austin this week but you link to Whitney Houston (https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP).

That being said I like it and could see myself using this!

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

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

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!

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.

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)

This is just a thinly-veiled ad for Parabola

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