People who don't have any social media *besides Lemmy of course* how do you keep up with the news of your favorite music artists going on tour? (Edited)

I was thinking of creating an anonymous ticketmaster account using public wifi since they block VPNs and just have them email me updates, but they required a phone number for the sign up so I scrapped that idea.

Edit: I decided to sign up for songkick as someone else here mentioned. It seems pretty polished and its entire purpose is concert discovery. It never asked for any unnecessary extra information either such as first and last name and phone number, just an email and a password and boom.

MrFunnyMoustache,

I follow artists I like on twitter without having an account, I use the Squawker app for that.

flashgnash,

If you use YouTube for music it tells you when the band you are listening to is doing a concert

sour, (edited )
@sour@kbin.social avatar

have school

no time for concert

rikudou,
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I don’t. Thanks for reminding me that I should check from time to time. I usually used to use goout.net.

redballooon,

Their website. I don’t have that many favorite music artists. Checking them out once a year to see that they won’t be performing anywhere close to me satisfies this desire 100%.

FunkyMonk,

When I have anywhere near enough time or money free to worry about shit like that I start googling it and then maybe 8 months later I can make something happen.

cobysev,

My wife tracks them for me. I’m not a fan of live concerts. But my wife enjoys them, so she actively searches for concerts in our area and notifies me when a band we both like is passing through.

Nemo,

Pick up the local paper / zines / newsletter and check the concert listings.

My hometown used to have a message board for concerts, too, but it was small enough that one person (or the same twenty people, in reality) could go to every single concert in town, because there were never more than two in a given week.

Sabata11792,
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What makes you think I'm willing to pay to stand in a room full of people?

Sonotsugipaa, (edited )
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I went to a concert once, I am glad to announce that I’m willing to pay not to stand in a room full of people

bob_wiley,
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    jayemar,

    Similar, and I also just checked the bands’ websites on occasion to see if they’re touring

    Rubezahl,

    That’s a problem. I used to get news almost immediately from Reddit. Now I am a bit stuck on that front and so far there is no reasonable alternative.

    For example, I like to follow chess news. I stumbled upon a piece of news on the wider internet that Hans Nieman and Magnus Carlsen had resolved their dispute. It wasn’t very much reported on, so I checked old.reddit/r/chess to see what’s going on. The first detailed thread on the matter had been opened and active, like, 5 minutes after the announcement.

    At this point, nothing on the internet can compete with this.

    It is kind of the same with world news and Ukraine war coverage.

    So, yeah. After getting off of Reddit, I have lost the ability to be quickly informed about news. Mastodon is not much help and I don’t want to fuel Elon Twitter’s BS, so I am stuck.

    Dark_Arc,
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    I don’t, and last.fm is kind of social media… but I think last.fm could help you with this.

    v_krishna,
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    bay area list (started as just punk and hard-core now has most everything)

    otherbarry,

    Not sure about your area but where I’m at a ton of smaller venues are using the dice.fm app for ticketing, it also allows users to follow venues/bands for upcoming shows.

    Bandsintown also tracks bands on tour & could be useful though I get the feeling it’s better for tracking bigger bands/artists.

    Slightly old school but also keep in mind lots of venues/promoters still have email lists you can subscribe to for news/updates.

    Beyond that I still keep an eye on Facebook/Instagram for keeping track of those things (I know that’s not the answer you want sorry), a lot of times that’s what the bands/artists are actually posting to.

    Fizz,
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    Spotify or word of mouth. But I don’t really keep up with live music.

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