Each month, Eugene Gordin contributes VolumeSessions, a column about music, digital world, and everything in between.

Welcome to my first guest appearance on Mike’s blog. I want to take this opportunity to thank him for letting me help out, and for agreeing to even do a blog in the first place – if this blog puts into text even a fraction of Mike’s musical taste that he’s shared with me, then you guys are in for quite a trip. That’s enough formality for now, on with today’s topic.

As both a huge internet scavenger and a neat freak, I often search for websites that will help me merge all of my musical tastes together to help me achieve some goal which, in this case, is keeping track of all of the concerts in my area that I would be interested in. Luckily, a couple of weeks ago I ran across JamBase, a website that allows its members to add a list of their favorite bands, and input their area code, and Jambase will show all of the concerts in each member’s areas from the bands they love. To make it even easier, you can upload your iTunes Library XML file and Jambase will automatically import all of the bands in your iTunes library to your member profile (note: currently this is only for Windows iTunes libraries).

Jambase also has venue information, ticketing information, articles about your favorite artists, group creation to allow sharing of favorite artists, and much much more. If you are interested in finding out about concerts in your area, be sure and check out JamBase.

Eugene Gordin is the author of interesting finds, a blog about computer hardware, software, and technology in general. Views expressed in VolumeSessions are his own. Feedback is welcome at eugene_AT_gordin.net.