Dec 10 2008
LiveKick Private Beta

I just signed up for LiveKick,

LiveKick founded by Aviv Eyal and Yarden Tadmor.

LiveKick helps users find live concerts in their area and buy the cheapest available tickets for them.

Get in on the beta for TechCrunch readers , here.

The interface is really slick and easy to use and has options to import from other services like iTunes.

From the LiveKick About Us Page:

About Livekick
Livekick is a live concerts recommendation and tickets search engine

Livekick helps you discover great local live concerts based on the artists you like, and to find the best and cheapest available tickets online.

Livekick is simple. You import your iTunes artists, PC music libraries, favorite artists from web music services such as MySpace Music, Last.fm, Pandora, iLike or Rhapsody, or manually enter your favorite artists. Based on these artists and where you live or travel to, Livekick gives you live concert recommendations via the web or email.

Once you’ve found a concert you like, Livekick helps you find the best and the cheapest available tickets online from many ticketing web sites. Buying tickets early can save you hundreds of dollars and ensure that you never miss a concert because it’s sold out.

Under the hood, Livekick has developed a robust live concerts search engine that continuously searches large ticket web sites such as Ticketmaster, Livenation, Stubhub, Tickets.com and eBay as well as user-generated content sites such as MySpace Music. The Livekick search engine already includes about 70,000 concerts in the US and daily-updated ticket pricing info.

Key Features
  • Personalized concert recommendations based on users musical taste from a database of about 70,000 live concerts nationwide
  • Synchronization with all major media players and the most popular Internet music services
  • A robust live concert search engine spanning major and Indie artists alike
  • A comprehensive concerts guide for every US city and metro area listing popular artists on tour, tours by musical styles, top venues and recently announced concerts
  • Up-to-date tickets listings from all the major primary and secondary ticketing web sites, ticket auction sites, and user-generated concerts sites
  • For each performing artist, get complete tour info listings such as calendar, map, venue info, user-generated tour videos, sample songs audio clips, artist news, bio, links to artist’s MySpace profile and Wikipedia bio, ratings, set-lists and reviews.
  • Venue pages for thousands concert venues. Complete upcoming concert listings, venue map and address for each venue
  • Concert recommendations delivery to iPhone, iCal, Outlook, OS X dashboard, iGoogle or any RSS reader
  • Downloadable widget for PC and Mac that auto-checks your digital music libraries for changes and recommends concerts based on what it finds
  • MySpace Music playlists importer

Welcome email:We’re so glad you’re here. You can instantly get started finding concerts in your area or anywhere in the US by your favorite artists.
But first a bit of housekeeping.
You email address (your login) for this account is xxxx and your password is xxxxx
Please save this email someplace safe to help you recall if for some reason you forget.
To sign in to your account and get started go to https://livekick.com/ and click on ‘Sign in’ at the upper right corner.

Okay, what next? Some first steps to get you started:

1. Click on ‘My Location’ and tell Livekick where you want your default search for concerts to focus on. Choose a state, city or zip code and chose a distance for listed concert. Click done.

2. Click on ‘My Artists’ and add your favorite artist manually by entering their name or by importing from your iTunes library, Rhapsody, Last-fm, Pandora or iLike.

3. After adding some artists, click on ‘My Concerts’ to start getting concert recommendations. You’ll also get an email alert with new upcoming local concerts by artists you like or artists similar to artists you like as soon as these concerts are announced.

Getting the best out of Livekick:
– Start in checking out concert listings, buying tickets and inviting your friends to go to concerts with you. Click on ‘Find Tickets’ for any concert you discover on Livekick.com . Livekick will list the best available tickets for the concerts from multiple ticket sales web sites.
– Browse our artist pages for complete artist and tour information for currently touring artists. Read artist bio, listen to sample songs, watch live concert videos and browse tour calendar and map.
– To get the most out of Livekick, go to https://livekick.com/download/ and install our small Desktop app for Windows or OS X to automatically track add artists iny our digital music library. This app will find and add artists from iTunes, iPod, Winamp, Windows Media Player and your Windows Music folders. It’s lightweight, spyware and adware free and well, free!

Thanks for joining Livekick. we’re glad you’re here.

— The Livekick Team —

Feedback? Write to us at info@livekick.com

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