Concert Listings Feed

I've been missing a lot of concerts lately. Maybe this is because I sold out on the city a while back, or maybe it's because there isn't a good notification system for concerts that I might actually want to see. I've been trying to solve the problem by looking up venues I trust and wishing on a lucky penny that they have an RSS feed of their concert calendar. About half of them do, mostly those who get their booking through Live Nation. So, I created a shared feed out of those I could find and put a Google Reader Gadget up on my blog (to the bottom right). As you can see, I'm having trouble displaying the listings by concert date rather than feed date.

While digging up shared concert calendars in Google Calendar, I stumbled upon JamBase. I seriously didn't know this site was still around. They actually have a really thorough database (at least for the Bay Area) and include most of the venues I wasn't able to import into my shared Reader feed. The problem with their site is that you have to manually add concerts to your calendar, but you can export as an iCal file and import that into Google Calendar. With this solution, I would have to constantly peruse the JamBase listings and add shows to my calendar. Doesn't sound fun, does it?

Enter iConcertCal. I may be late to the train discovering this iTunes plugin, but this seems like a failsafe solution. It will actually use my mp3 library to search JamBase and other concert databases to find shows by artists I might actually like. As long as the exported iCal file can periodically update, it should work. I am going to install this tonight and figure out if it works. I'll report back.