There are dozens of music apps out there, but one in particular is a must for fans of live music.
For as long as I can remember I’ve been obsessed with music.
As a baby, my parents could only get me to sleep by driving me around the neighborhood while playing Pink Floyd. I bought my first single (Madness’ version of It Must be Love) aged six and by my early teens I had discovered The Clash. And that was that – I was hooked. At college, I was music editor on a campus magazine, and I eventually ended up working on a music magazine/website for six years.
So yeah, music is important to me, and always will be.
That much is clear by looking at my Google Pixel 6’s homescreen: Spotify, Sonos, the BBC Sounds app and YouTube are all given valuable real estate, and all are regularly used as I either immerse myself in old favorites or seek out new playlist fodder. But if pushed, I could do without them all; I have stacks of vinyl and a turntable; I have hundreds of gigabytes of MP3s ripped from the CD collection that’s now been consigned to the shed; I have a DAB radio; I have one of the best Bluetooth speakers. I’d manage.
The app I couldn’t live without, though, is Songkick. Taking center stage
Songkick is a music discovery service, but more specifically it’s a way to find out about upcoming concerts you might want to go to.
It’s far from new; the service has been around since 2007 and the app arrived more than a decade ago, in 2011.
