Have you ever heard too late that a favorite band or performer is going to be playing live in your city and missed your chance of getting tickets before the venue sold out?
Thanks to the Internet, you can be alerted to the latest news about the music you love, and virtually anything you are interested in.
For example, login to Ticketmaster and customize your "PerformerAlerts" to list performers you are interested in, and Ticketmaster will email you when they are going to be playing in your area.
Fun with RSS
Be one of the first to know when a favorite band is releasing a new album: use Google Reader or a similar aggregator to subscribe to RSS feeds published by a favorite band web site, or music magazine.
I found these and subscribe to them...
NME news: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/nmecom/rss/newsxml
Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/rss
Pitchfork Media: http://feeds.pitchforkmedia.com/pitchfork/today
...but would love to hear about any favorites you might have. If it wasn't for these feeds, I would never have learned that Spinal Tap will soon be touring North America or who is playing live on which TV show this week.
Other feeds you can subscribe to include a performer's Flickr photostream (even Barack Obama has one), or You Tube channel, for example, here's the one for Sigur Rós.
Just look for the RSS Feed icon: 
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