Monthly Archives: December 2006
Podbop: Find cool music
In a comment on another post, D. Keith Robinson reminded me of the cool Podbop site.
In a nutshell, Podbop grabs concert data from Eventful, and mixes in (legal) mp3’s with this concert date. So for example, I can search for San Francisco, and be presented a page that not only shows me all the concerts that are coming up, but will also let me listen mp3’s from those bands. Great idea, and great implementation as well. The site looks gorgeous. As an optimist, I also dig the wiki-like editing of artist information.
Of course, I have a few suggestions…
For what’s it’s worth, one thing that I would love to see is the sites XSPF feeds publicized on the ‘listings’ page (perhaps stuck under “Subscribe as a Podcast”). I am a huge fan of XSPF, and it’s certainly ‘mashup’ friendly… By publicizing the XSPF feeds, others could use podbop as a foundation for further mashups. I can see the feeds are there (http://podbop.org/cities/us/ca/san_francisco/xspf), so why not make them more public?
It would also be great to get listings for individual venues. For example, I’d love to do a search for upcoming shows at my new favorite venue The Bottom of The Hill, and get a podcast of those artists.
This site kind of fits in to the same (rapidly expanding) category as Tour Filter, Tour Bus, and Sonic Living.
All in all though, a very cool idea.