CNET.com music and tech blog recently reviewed http://livekick.com and they liked the fact that you can easily add all artists and composers from your desktop iTunes library and other music web services:
“Livekick lets you import them directly from iTunes, as well as online music services such as iLike, Pandora, and Last.fm. (Last.fm is a part of CBS Interactive, which also publishes CNET News.) This not only saves hours of time–the import took about 10 seconds for more than 600 artists–but it also helps you remember artists you wouldn’t have thought to follow.”
We’ve built these features so you don’t have to enter your favorite artists manually. We provide another way to automatically track your favorite artists tours – We have free low-touch desktop widgets for both Mac OS X and Windows that allow you to automatically add all the artists you listen to on your desktop to your livekick account. Once your artists are in your account, you’ll get personalized concert alerts when these artists announce a concert near you and you’ll also get recommendations for similar artists on local tour. For the Mac OS X, the widget is a dashboard widget that also gives you concert recommendations in your dashboard. For windows, the widget is a tray-icon app that works in the background and uploads artist names to livekick as you listen to new music in Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes or add new music to your Windows music folder. If you are fanatic about finding out when your fave artist is in town next, download and install these widgets.
More info on the Livekick desktop software. Here’s the CNET.com blog post about Livekick.
