The Filter: Team Blog

BandStalker was created by The Filter, which was co-founded by musician and digital pioneer, Peter Gabriel to “optimize entertainment”. The Filter provides consumers, publishers and aggregators with intelligent systems and applications to aid navigation and discovery of content.

With BandStalker you have instant access to the latest news, information, concerts and videos of your favourite bands and artists, on the go, as it happens. Track your favourite artist from 100s in the BandStalker database.

For each artist you follow you’ll get: news from the best music and entertainment sites on the web; new music videos from YouTube; Twitter updates from other fans; and the band concert dates worldwide, including fully interactive Google map technology using location services to find the nearest gigs to you

BandStalker uses The Filter’s recommendation algorithms and search intelligence, along with the most advanced iPhone technology, to create the most efficient and compelling way to stay in touch with the bands and artists that you love.

FEATURES

• Get a daily news feed for each artist you follow.
• View top YouTube videos by chosen artists.
• See up-to-date concert listings for artists you follow, ordered by date and proximity.
• Flip your iPhone to see a global map of concert venues and itinerary.
• Zoom right in to see detailed view of the venue.
• Read live updated twitter feed of fans discussing your chosen artists.
• Updated tweets (where available) from the official Twitter feed from the artists.

Artist bios from AMG // Concert information from BandsInTown

REQUIREMENTS

• Requires OS 3.0

SCREENSHOTS

1. Pick the artist you want to follow

2. Read the artist biography (supplied by AMG)

3.1 Read up-to-date news from the most authoritative sources on the web

3.2 And turn your iPhone around to get a newspaper view

4. Scan through the latest music videos for the artist you are following…

… and then turn your iPhone around to watch your chosen video

5. Check out gig listings for your favourite artist based on date…

… or based on proximity…

… and then see the gig venues plotted on a Google map

6. Read through up-to-the-minute tweets mentioning the artist you are following…

… or read the official tweets from your favourite artist

You can now download the application from the iTunes apps store here 

FEEDBACK WELCOME!

Use the comments below to let us know what you think of BandStalker, report bugs, suggest improvements or make request for artists that we should add to the database.