May 14th? [expletive]!

[haltz]

OK, so tonight my roommate and I were watching FOTC youtube videos and talking about how awesome it would be to see them live, which led to a google search. Turns out, according to this website, they were here a week ago at a pretty cool venue (I think so anyway). It seems like this keeps happening to me, where I look to see when a band will be in town and it turns out they were just here. One instance may not be rantworthy, but I swear this has happened to me at least a half-dozen times over the last year.

I need a calendar with everything that's happening in the city I live in every day posted well in advance so I don't get this urge to go on a killing spree because I was so close. I know something like this exists, metromix I guess, but whatever. It's completely absurd.

[Richie Allen]

That sucks. We would have loved to see them too.

And that's happened to me before. Looked someone up, completely out of the blue, and found out that they were performing that very night (but too late) or the night before. Some sort of subconscious crap has to be going on there.

[G. Keenan]

Here you go haltz. Just check this once a week. Problem solved.

http://holiday.chicagoreader.com/music/early/

[mikechamp]

For concerts:

http://www.pollstar.com

[haltz]

Awesome. Thanks guys.

[Jocephus]

and i'll add jambase.com as another resource for live music

[lukethedrifter]

I've done that rant about why a band never plays here then find out they played here last night on many occasions. But one time I got to see a fave band out in SF when I had no idea they were gonna be there.

On the flip side, I just had this same thought yesterday about Lucero, a band I have liked for the last 3 or 4 years but not seen, and found out they are playing next Friday.