Due to upcoming Facebook changes, your Music data on Facebook won't show on your profile and you'll stop getting concert alerts.
The service has two apps: One for regular profiles, where everyone can list favorite music/artists, get personalized concert alerts, create and share playlists, and discover and share new music and free MP3s.
To get around these restrictions, iLike is now asking for users' emails so they can send them concert alerts (which can be a very lucrative source of affiliate revenues) outside of Facebook.
Update: This notification is indeed in response to changes in Facebook's developer roadmap, which will eliminate two of iLike's top features: adding music to a profile and personalized concert alerts.
But with new Flexible Sentences, apps can post stories like "Tom tracked Muse to get concert alerts via Songkick.com" that attract more downloads, are less awkward, and make the Facebook news feed richer.
Songkick's comprehensive concert calendar, alerts, and its willingness to show gigs it doesn't sell tickets for makes it the prime place to find music.
You can open the app to check out available gigs or wait for push notifications about newly added concerts or alerts about which shows friends are buying tickets to.
I always carry my phone in my pants pocket and rely primarily on the vibration to alert my concert-deafened ears of incoming calls.
The Concerts feature will not only alert you to nearby shows, but also allows artists to reach out to Spotify's user base – something that puts the feature up against Apple Music, and its own "social" platform for artist-to-fan communication, Connect.
To announce his upcoming concert, Martin made his own PBS Pledge Drive alerting viewers they can receive a DVD and CD of his performance with a donation.
