Yep. They can’t compete so they buy things and close them down. Tourdates.com was a great concept but they killed it by merging it with non-Indie DIY majors and turned it into sort of a last.fm pre-cursor Launch.com, then Launch.Yahoo.com then… plop. Nothing. At its apex Tourdates.com had user created content in every major city in the USA. They had reps that would clue you into the clubs if you were a touring band or to bands if you just were new to town and looking for a show to go to. IndieOnTheMove.com is the next best thing to it. But Yahoo is a shit stain. Honestly I didn’t know Alta was still around.
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