imusi On The Road

One-stop-Wesbite for Touring Artists to Launch December 5, 2010

http://imusi.com/ 

imusi links touring artists, venues and audiences like no other service. Artists get more visibility, more dates and more money on the road. Audiences express opinions on the artists they like best. Venues access region-specific market data to book the artists that increase the bottom line. imusi traveled the country, met with nearly a thousand venues and interviewed locals to learn what
tickles their fancy. Amusing? It's imusi.

The blog...
http://kmp.typepad.com/imusi

The website...
http://www.imusi.com
Coming December 5, 2010

Twitter...
@imusi

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For now... read this Blog for just some of places we have been.

WELCOME to imusi

Hello!

Welcome to imusi, serving Artists, Venues and Audiences to connect quality live music with communities that want them and the venues that pay. For over six years imusi staff has traveled the country, meeting with venues and talking with locals to discover what people want most.

We hope imusi will make your life easier and more enjoyable when you are on the road! We are traveling the country exploring live music venues, compiling a master database, and then sharing some of our thoughts with you! For each post we try to provide a feel for the city or town from a performer's perspective. We also try to share some local knowledge, such as where to eat after a performance when most places have closed....

Scroll down to see the play-by-play in reverse chronological order. Or choose a category on the left to see posts about a particular state.

Amazing, Amusing... imusi.

imusi Staff

Slight Modification

You may have noticed that many of the venues from Wisconsin had many more than 500 seats. This is because we have discovered something pretty amazing. Artists who think they can fill only a few hundred seats are being asked to perform in spaces with well over 1,000. The talent buyers at these venues obviously know their local markets well enough to trust a good hook when they see one. They know what sells.

As a result we have changed our mission! We are now visiting venues that hold any number of seats under 2,500.

Also, stay tuned for "The Venues that Pamper Artists Most."

Interesting article on live entertainment

We are in utter agreement with almost everything this blogger has to say about the near term trends in the concert business. "What concert business?" he asks. Check it out. You can no longer comment on that site, but feel free to comment here. We want to know what you think.

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2009/08/02/the-concert-business/

Why this blog? Why now?

Originally, we were touring the country to find venues for our clients. Now, with hundreds of venues in our database and dozens (and dozens) of data-points on each one, we want to provide an outlet to share our knowledge with the world. And, ya' know, it gets lonely on the road, so we started this blog to (virtually) bring others with us discovering venues in major cities, the burbs, small piss-ant towns, and, really, anywhere.

We focus on venues under 500 seats, which is great because sometimes these places showcase emerging talent and other times they surprise us with a star wanting to chill out in a more intimate environment. We would rather see the performers' facial expressions than try to catch a glimpse on a video screen from nose-bleeds seats. And besides, in our experience, the singers and musicians who play smaller rooms are simply more real in general. Just our opinion, of course, but even if it's an illusion, it's a darn satisfying one.