How to know when the bands you listen to are coming to town

If you house your music collection in iTunes for OS X, and like going to concerts, this little chain of tips will be worth its weight in gold records.

Download iConcertCal for iTunes - iConcertCal will send your artist names to JamBase and create a calendar of shows for the city you specify
Set the preferences to Sync with iCal
Get an account with icalx.com. They’ve been providing free hosting for iCalendar data since 2002.
Publish from iCal to icalx.com
Subscribe from the calendar in Google Calendar
In the Google Calendar settings click HTML button and you can generate a customized auto-updating calendar.

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Published:: 4.15.07 / 11am

Category:: Apple

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An alternate and easier interface is available with http://BeeThere.net. Steps:
* Create username & password
* Click “load from iTunes”
BeeThere will send you one email per week of matches. You can also get an RSS feed of upcoming, or recently announced concerts to put on your Google or Yahoo home page.

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