The Story of Tourfilter
tourfilter was nominated for a music webby!
We used to miss too many shows -- we'd hear about them after tickets they sold out, or worse, read about them in the Globe the day after. Maybe even in the Metro (oh, the shame!)
So we wrote a program to download all the area club listings daily, search for bands we liked, then send out email. That's Tourfilter. And it's not just for us, it's for everyone (chances are, we're in your city or coming soon).
Tourfilter allows you to:
- • Track as many bands as you can think of and send you an email when a show is announced.
- • Combine your friends' calendars into one place.
- • Get show updates via RSS and iCal.
- • Search for concerts and tickets nationwide
You'll never get spam from Tourfilter. And humans keep an eye on things to make sure the shows Tourfilter finds are the ones you're looking for.
In case you haven't noticed, Tourfilter is a work in progress. Please email us (info at tourfilter) with feedback, suggestions or issues!
- Tourfilter
What people are saying about Tourfilter
| “lean, mean, pretty cool .... delivers concert info with a grass-roots twist ... serves as a cool way to discover new artists ... could become the Craigslist of the concert-info-world ” | Rolling Stone Magazine |
| “I pay attention, but no way would I know about all these shows. Until now. ... What's truly fascinating about Tourfilter, though, is the depth of the bands. Anyone who knows every act listed on Tourfilter needs to get a life.” | Billboard Magazine |
| “In an online market already saturated with content, Marstall's creation is proof that the easiest way for fans to find music news is also often the simplest ... casts its net far wider than Ticketmaster, and offers a more dynamic Web experience than Upcoming.org ... [a] spare, uncluttered interface” | Boston Globe |
| “What's Wired This Month” | Wired Magazine |
| “Perfect.” | The Bostonist |
| “Eliminates searching through concert listings or giving your email address to mailing list bots ” | Boston Herald |
| “I have no idea why something like this hasn't surfaced sooner” | Fabulist |
| “the coolest thing to grace my inbox in some time. It's something that I've wished had been in existence for years! ” | I Guess I'm Floating |
| “finally made it on to this side of the Atlantic ... definitely one to bookmark now” | The Londonist |
| “I discovered and bought more tickets to shows this year through Tourfilter thatn through personal recommendations, last.fm, and ticket master emails combined ... these guys made my life easy, and they got me to buy a lot of tickets, thats a big success for a webapp.” | lifeinlists |
| “We wish all of the Internet could be this cool. ” | Philly Style Mag |
| “If you love music and hate missing shows, Chris Marstall has a site for you.” | Metro newspaper |
| “Great example of simplifying and streamlining information” | Springwise |
| “Top 99 Undiscovered Websites ” | PC Magazine online |
| “one of the single greatest websites i have ever encountered in my entire life, bar none.” | noise for toaster |
| “spread the word ... no more scouring the web for mentions of your favorite band” | out the other |
| “best use of the internet so far.” | The Brothers Root |
| “so very, very easy to use ... if you enjoy concerts then you need this site” | brooklyn ski club |
| “kicks ass ... a concert tracking service made with real music fans in mind” | The Hype Machine |
| “very simple: type in your favorite bands, and the site will send you an email when the band schedules a Chicago performance” | Gapers Block |
| “seems exactly the combination of needed functionality plus well thought-out usabilty I have wanted in a service to track bands and tours.” | Daisy Alva Blog |
| “a fantastic service and a great example of content aggregation by collaboration. This is AJAX powered, script driven WEB 2.0 stuff that really works and is useful.” | The Empty Vessel |
| “compelling ... appealing UX” | Infovore |
| “an entertaining cross between upcoming.org ... and ohmyrockness” | The Rich Girls Are Weeping |
| “an amazing new service ... easy to use” | Brewed Fresh Daily |
| “One of those "next big thing" tools” | My Helter Skelter |
| “allows you to track every band you could possibly imagine” | slap you in public |
| “a super-easy way to track when your favourite bands roll through town ... might just become a staple for the local young and restless on par with Craigslist” | Torontoist |
| “user-friendly, craigslist-esque ... a staggering array of music” | disco-not-disco |
| “quite excellent” | knifeparty |
| “changing the way we remember shit ... another idea i wish i had come up with first” | Captain's Dead |
| “handy!” | Sooz |
| “Track your favorite bands. See who else is tracking them. Never miss another show!” | Metafilter |
| “Get ahead of the schedule for local music ... what a great idea” | daleyblog |
| “a cool tool ... easy to use” | blog automatique |
