Find live music near you with Gruvr

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Find live music near you with Gruvr

by Brad Linder Sep 20th 2007

We've been using Pollstar to find local concerts for years. But sometimes we get the hankering for something a bit more web 2.0. Enter Gruvr. Not only does the site have web 2.0 cred with its lack of the letter "e," but it includes a pretty nifty Google Maps mashup and the company recently launched a widget you can embed on your own site.

But what does Gruvr do, and is it useful?

Enter your city, zip code, or other geographic info and Gruvr will pull up a list of concerts near you in chronological order, starting today. You can limit your search to shows within 5 miles, 10 miles, or some other interval. Gruvr also plots the location of each concert on a Google Map.

Here's where it begins to get a bit annoying. Gruvr will then show information from one location to another rapidly. Too rapidly. It's kind of hard on the eyes. You can also type in a band name and track their tour dates across the country. But the visual experience is a bit jarring. We'll probably stick with Pollstar for now.

[via Mashable]

Tags: bands, concerts, gruvr, music, pollstar

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

taybay said 7:00AM on 9-21-2007

The term "Web 2.0" has now been changed to "Wb 2.0" in accordance with the removal of all "e" letters in wb 2.0 startups.

Hire a Programmer said 7:01AM on 9-21-2007

Its really helpful to get update and information about music shows. i think in web 2.0 world we might find some sites with more and more functionality. really useful site, thanks for sharing.

http://www.sharpsourcing.com

FükenGrüven said 12:24PM on 9-21-2007

Hey! Thanks for the observation about the animation - we slowed it down a bit.

When we actually get around to launching this thing, we'll add some kind of speed control.... until then, you can a) click the logo or b) scroll down to see the list of shows.

Meanwhile, the point of the Mashable post was really about the little widget we are pre-releasing to find some partner blogs...

That widget is here: http://gruvr.com/locations/

It automatically detects where you are and puts up a geoRSS feed of very local shows (within like 9 miles). For anywhere on earth where there are gruvrs and concerts...

FükenGrüvr said 1:20PM on 9-21-2007

Oh and one more thing.

As to the name... well, it's also a cultural allusion to a pre-web 1.0 phenom!

Before you accuse us of being web2 copycats, note
the umlaut over the "u". As your dad what a "FükenGrüvr" is :-) He may start dancing.

See, once upon a time, there were these people who used to drive around following certain bands so they could keep dancin'. The favored vehicle was VW bus or beetle. Dancing. Driving...

In 1989, Volkswagon launched the Fahrvergnügen ads and bumperstickers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdQY_BZE2uE
It was a cool concept, with a little stick figure
illustrating the 'pleasure of driving'.

Well. One day, one of us gruvin' folks had a flash of inspiration and said 'Fahrvergnugen? I'm...I'm - FükenGrüvin!! ... and overnight, tons of VW vehicles of the era were sporting little parody stickers, with a Dancing sticky:
http://gruvr.com/sticky.gif

What made the parody funny was - well, it wasnt literal F*cking obscenity - so of course, you shouldn't spell 'groover' out either.

So, fast forward say 17 years... we still have people who love live music, like THIS:
http://gruvr.com/band/darkstarorchestra

See the connection? But since the perfect domain names were gone... it seemed apropos to slice off a letter or two. And if you sign up for gruvr, you get a funny little surprise to make the rest of the connection :-)

So now you know the REST of the story.
Good day.

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