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.

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.

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.

some_guy,

I receive tons of marketing emails from companies like Ticketmaster, LiveNation (or whatever it’s called, etc, because I’ve bought tickets online from them in the past. I don’t mark them as spam because I want to catch shows that interest me. Oh, right, someone mentioned that venues also send emails. I get those, too.

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.

bob_wiley,
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  • jayemar,

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

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

    FarFarAway,

    Our local radio station has all the shows within that genres of music they play, on thier website. I also somehow got signed up for emails from the only venue in town that would host the other genre I listen to.

    I wouldn't be interested in much else. I'm not heart broken to not learn Taylor Swift is comming to town...

    burrito,

    For Seattle area this guy is my hero www.nocleansinging.com/nw-metal-calendar/

    BananaPeal,
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    Oh I get all of the information I need about that from having kids, being 40+ and being an introvert. Ticketmaster prices help too.

    BigBananaDealer,

    spotify usually has a notification for that, or it’ll be on the artists page

    criitz,

    Songkick.com

    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

    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.

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