Concert Attack for the Live Show Junkie

New to the social music scene is Concert Attack. This new site wants you to take an event that is already social, a concert, and make it even more so. It takes many of the aspects of a social music site like MOG or a social networking site like MySpace and applies them to the live performance scene.

I think Concert Attack is a terrible name for what is actually a simple and engaging concept. Not much the site creators can do about their choice now, but it certainly has negative connotations or something supposedly meant to encourage being social. If they were trying for tongue in cheek, they missed.

Regardless, the site is focused like a laser beam on its prime directive: shared live music life experiences. There is no extraneous garbage floating around. The site is nothing to write home about in terms of design, weighing in with a very basic and bland pale blue, grey and white scheme. Even so, it is easy to navigate and has a fairly straightforward user interface.

The site offers a variety of profiles. Unlike some sites that limit profiles to musician/artist and user, Concert Attack goes a bit further. It offers an artist/band profile, a user/fan profile and a profile for the live music show itself. The concert page is a bit reminsicent of FaceBook 's event pages, but with an interactive feeling behind it.

Having a profile for the live show means never having to search through an artists entire back log of shows on their page - you can jump right to the show you want. Users can also upload video footage of live shows, photographs from live shows, create reviews of the shows, write reviews, keep tour diaries and more.

One interesting facet of the site is that photos and videos also get their own page, though not a profile page for each one, just, a new page to house all of the comments, ratings and reactions the video or photo gets. You might expect this to make the site operate slowly, but it actually seemed to make ot overall more efficient.

Not only can you write reviews and interact with the other artists, you can  talk to your fellow fans in the forums. You can browse things by tag, artist name, venue, date, and more. It's a very efficient system they have created. I'm not sure if it will change the online live music world as we know it, but it will certainly become a cornerstone for the music trends of the future. It definitely has a place along side sites like MySpace Music.