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Why
should you have to happen upon a certain day's newspaper
to find out one of your favorite bands from the 90's
grunge era (yes, that's officially classic rock now) is
having an impromptu concert down at the local college.
If you're like most people, your schedule doesn't
exactly permit for searching all the local rags for what
music is coming to town. You just want to know when
your favorite band happens to be around. Well do we
have something for you. The Music Channel on the Zipper
is your source to local music from the people that know
it...locals like you. Let's check it out Pearl Jam or
Toni Tony Tone comes to town (if you're into that kind
of thing...we're not judging).
It's
real easy and at the same time real powerful. Download
your free version of the Zipper app for Itunes or Droid
markets. There will be two selector pinwheels (which
are familiar to anyone with a smart phone) up top right
away. They will be set to the default "All"
settings...one for Location and one for Channel.
Location is pretty self-explanatory but Channel is the
one we want to look at. By clicking on the button, it
will bring up the various options such as traffic, news,
gossip, sports, and the one we want to concentrate on,
Music. Click on Music. This will filter all the Zips
or local news posts to only those that have been tagged
with the Local Music Channel filter. In a matter of
seconds, you just stumbled on the best source of local
music information available. Why does this matter?
In
the world of Ticketmaster and StubHub, you can always
find the biggest stars and their tours. You can also
keep track of your brother's band through his Facebook
posts or at least those that appropriate (not to mention
legal) to post. What about that vast area in between
these two...good local music. It can be small clubs and
bars or even the local bands that make good as they're
blowing up. Local music. Hidden gems of musical
ability that are hard to find and that's the main
problem we aim to solve with the Music Channel on the
Zipper. Making the hard to find local music stand out
in real time. Imagine if you could get the
information from everyone in your area about great local
music. You would constantly be plugged in to the scene
but let's face it. You don't know everyone and you're
not even sure you would want to. There's some strange
folk out there people. That's fine. We don't need to
"Friend" everyone. We don't want a relationship with
them but with their INFORMATION. That's the Zipper in
nutshell. Everyone's local music info becomes ours and
our local music info becomes there. So what's fair game
on the Music Channel?
Obviously, any kind of live music event of any scale
just screams for the Zipper and it's local Music
Channel. You can structure a given Zip or thread around
a certain band, a certain place, or event a certain
event depending on how you want to do it. Ultimately,
Zip readers will "vote" on what they want to see with
their Thumbs (both literally and figuratively) so play
around with it. Tickets for sale or a desire to buy
tickets works well and again, would probably fall
underneath the event Zip. Keep in mind this is real
time so it constantly evolve with new information. If
you're at a show, you can even snap pictures of the show
for a particular Zip and list the songs they played.
Musical instruments for sale and music lesson are also
fair game in the local Music Channel. Rezips allow a
perfect way to critique and comment on wares and the
Thumbs give a quick litmus test based on other's
experience. Local music is about to meet the Zip and
our ears will never be the same!
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