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by iosonofuturista 2473 days ago
I don't really get why you are being downvoted. Honestly I kind of expected a US only app, which is by far more common.

But I have to say this is actually even worse. It's not just discover "music" in "your city".

Looking a it, it actually means, discover "mainstream music, in super mainstream venues" in "your city". 9-NINE-9 Venues for Paris?

GO take a gander a New York, with this app you can "discover", ZZ-Top, Madona & The Who for instance. Wow, what I have I been missing.

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Thanks for the honest feedback. We've been discussing this in the office, and we agree!

If I can convince the team, next week we'll implement some new logic in the Parabola flow so that we select more from the middle of the popularity graph of concerts rather than the top.

This is where crowd sourcing has value over curation. Let me tell you about this awesome little regional jazz ensemble playing down the street that others don’t know about.

You certainly can offer crowdsourced vs curated content, but if all you ever offer is curated then you can only scale so much.

Wouldn't it be better to try and select artists (or at least genres) the Spotify user "likes"?
Songkick, and spotify for that matter, already do that