http://stagetrip.com/<p>Born from my frustration at finding good music and shows locally. This isn't a simple mapping aggregator, its (intended to be) a hand-curated local music discovery service.<p>Right now its really just a shell, as I haven't had a tonne of time to get music into it. The eventual vision is that navigating to a "place" (i.e.: your hometown) on stagetrip you'll be able to find local bands, download some of their music (free), and see when/where they're playing (via songkick api for now).<p>The other side of the experience is that it (in time) will provide a place for bands to connect with local fans and build traffic to their local shows.<p>For instance, there's 4 bands in LA:
http://stagetrip.com/places/united-states/california/losangeles
7 in california:
http://stagetrip.com/places/united-states/california
Etc.<p>Individual song pages include a bunch of stuff:
http://stagetrip.com/song/dont-move_416
http://stagetrip.com/song/faces_645
Obviously the download link, but also voting, location, genre, concerts, etc.<p>Where available, concert listings show up:
http://stagetrip.com/artist/phantogram
http://stagetrip.com/song/dont-move_416
...as do links to their social networks etc.<p>You can browse by:
Location: http://stagetrip.com/places
Genre: http://stagetrip.com/genre
Popularity: http://stagetrip.com/charts.php
Artist: http://stagetrip.com/artist<p>Something tells me that there's already someone doing this out there on a better/larger scale, but if there is, they're still pretty fragmentary.<p>There's no business model implicitly built into this - its really a "scratching the itch" scenario. Over time, with traffic, I'd like to monetize it with paid promotion by location - i.e.: "Promoted bands in Chicago this Week" sort of thing - a low cost, targeted way of driving traffic to shows.<p>Thoughts? Comments?