A great day for music lovers

VC Fred introduced me today to tourb.us, which promises to help you find local, live music. As he puts it “by simply entering my last.fm login info into TourBus, I now have this amazing service that tells me when the bands I like are coming to town.” Is there any need to point out that this is why building an API and opening your system up is so very important! It brings tears to my eyes, yes it does. And in other news, Om reports that MySpace is opening an indie record store online which will sell DRM-free music from over 3 million indie bands. The cool thing is each band gets their own “store”, and a small version of the store can be pasted into any MySpace page (viral). I predict that it won’t be long before the big labels take off their DRM condoms and start selling on the MySpace music store too. You simply can’t ignore over 100 million people. Hurray for music lovers!