News from the live music scene

To be honest, we at Capsi don't even know yet what we'll be having for dinner this evening or whom we'll sleep with tonight. But bands plan ahead and we have new tour dates from August all the way to December!

Look at for Flogging Molly, who will bring their Irish folk punk back to Europe after a succesful spring tour. Or watch Nashville Pussy support the never-tiring Reverend Horton Heat accross the east coast of the United States. The west coast and Canada can look forward to Radiohead's August tour instead, while Give It A Name debutants My American Heart prepare for their UK tour.

Capsi favourites Rise Against tour the entire USA in October and November.

Other bands with new tour dates since Wednesday:

• A Day To Remember,
• Agua De Annique,
• Ani Di Franco,
• Atreyu,
• Avenged Sevenfold,
• Bløf,
• Blood Red Shoes,
• Bullet For My Valentine,
• Cansei de Ser Sexy,
• Dimmu Borgir,
• Eagles Of Death Metal,
• Elle Bandita,
• Epica,
• Fandangle,
• The Feeling,
• Feverdream,
• Goldfrapp,
• Guus Meeuwis,
• Hatebreed,
• Hawthorne Heights,
• Hayseed Dixie,
• Iggy Pop,
• In Flames,
• Krezip,
• Kylie Minogue,
• Ladytron,
• Leaf,
• The Matches,
• Mimi Soya,
• Motion City Soundtrack,
• NOFX,
• Pennywise,
• Pete Philly & Perquisite,
• Simple Plan,
• This is hell and
• Whitesnake!

Enjoy!

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New pop centre Watt in Rotterdam (previously Nighttown) has announced its opening act: Iggy Pop and the Stooges will bring new life to the venue!

Tickets go on sale Saturday morning at 10am and we expect them to go fast based on the massive attendence when Iggy played at Lowlands festival last year.

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Our user community has added new concert dates for Feeling, The, Agua De Annique, Ellen ten Damme and Within Temptation!

And don't forget that registered users get personalised concert recommendations and notifications by e-mail when their favourite artists play in the area!

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In the very early morning hours, we completed a long-awaited update to Capsi. Although we had to fix a couple of issues, the update went smoothly. We hope you'll enjoy the new look and feel as well as the new features! (We'll be explaining them one by one in upcoming posts.)

Users of Internet Explorer might experience some layout problems on pages with forms. We're looking into it. (And we recommend
Firefox, but let's not start a browser debate.)

Let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or feedback. We'd love to hear from you and make things better!

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For the past five hours, the Amazon S3 network has been experiencing severe outages. These problems have affected Capsi because several files required for the Capsi web site (images, stylesheets, Javascript files) are stored on S3.

We've worked hard to resolve the issue on our end by changing some settings to load the affected content from other servers.

Update: Just in from Amazon:

2:03 PM PDT We have restored all internal communication between hosts in the EU and we are continuing to make progress in the US. Once all internal communication has been restored, we will start a multi-step process to begin accepting requests across Amazon S3 locations.

Update: all is well again!

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Since our last tour news update on Sunday, we have added new tour dates for Atreyu, The Automatic, Bullet For My Valentine, Cute Is What We Aim For, Dimmu Borgir, From First to Last, Funeral For a Friend, Goldblade, Lioness, The Matches, Mötorhead, Motion City Soundtrack, MxPx, Neil Diamond, Nine Inch Nails, Panic! At The Disco, A Day To Remember, Aborted, Agnostic Front, All Forgotten, The Apers, The Berzerker, Beth Hart, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Blackout, Blood Red Shoes, Blood Stands Still, Bonne Aparte, Coldplay, Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dwarves, Emilie Autumn, Enter Shikari, Fall Out Boy, Fast Reaction, Flogging Molly, Girls Aloud, Good Charlotte, Hadouken, Helloween, I Am Ghost, James Blunt, Jeremy's, Kill Hannah, Kill The Arcade, Lenny Kravitz, Less Than Jake, Lords Of The Highway, MC Lars, McFly, Mewithoutyou, Mimi Soya, My American Heart, Mybe, New Found Glory, Nickelback, NOFX, Papa Roach, Partyshank, The Pink Spiders, Poison The Well, Porcupine Tree, Rancid, See You Next Tuesday, Silverstein, Simple Plan, Sonic Syndicate, Suicide Silence, Supergrass, Tiger Army, Tokio Hotel, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Warriors and Wednesday 13!

Our user community has also added new concert dates: Gamma Bomb, Soulfly and Trigger the Bloodshed.

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Our tour crawler has been improved once again.. and found hundreds of new tour dates!

Since our last tour news update on Thursday, concerts for the following bands have been found: A Day To Remember, Agnostic Front, Amorphis, Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Cute Is What We Aim For, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dimmu Borgir, Epica, Fear Before The March Of Flames, Finntroll, I Am Ghost, Johnny Truant, Kill Hannah, Kill The Arcade, Mötorhead, Meg & Dia, Meshuggah, New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Suicide Silence, Tegan and Sara, Thrice, The Warriors, Wednesday 13, 36 Crazyfists, Alicia Keys, All Forgotten, Anti Flag, Apocalyptica, Beth Hart, The Blackout, Bomb The Music Industry, Bonne Aparte, Converge, Cult of Luna, Dream Theater, Duffy, Exit Avenue, Girls Aloud, Gob, Good Charlotte, In Flames, James Blunt, Jeremy's, Lacrimosa, Ladytron, Last Chance at Rampton, Lower Class Brats, Madball, Mewithoutyou, Mindless Self Indulgence, Motion City Soundtrack, My American Heart, Nailpin, Neil Diamond, Nickelback, NOFX, Papa Roach, Paramore, The Pink Spiders, Plain White T's, Poison The Well, Rancid, See You Next Tuesday, Shaped By Fate, The Showdown, Sieben, Six Point Five, Sonic Syndicate, South Central, Tiger Army, Tokio Hotel, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Whitesnake!

Wow.

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(Looking for the Capsi homepage?)

The renewed Capsi site is getting closer and closer to its launch - and just in time it seems: our current logo seems to be falling apart already!

So what kind of changes can you expect?

First of all, a new streamlined style. Not that Capsi is hideous at the moment, but when streamlining the interface it just felt better to soften the tones and use far less contrast.

The new action bar. We will post a more detailed update on the action bar when it is introduced, but the idea is simple: the bar keeps you up-to-date with notifications and gives you quick access to common features of the site. We'll be starting with the simple basics and will then add more functionality to the bar gradually after its initial launch.

Improved friends and top friends management. Sort your friend in any order you like, and place as many (or as few) friends in your top list as you want.

Many bugfixes and "behind the scenes" improvements for an even better codebase.

And that's just the first update of many. With the newly refurbished code in place, we can start making gradual improvements again, such as a profile theme editor.

We currently expect to launch the improved Capsi on July 23.

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It's almost as if some magic pixie dust landed on Capsi.. But none of that! We simply started working on an Internet crawler finding, standardising and submitting new tour dates to Capsi.

The crawler found plenty of new concerts yesterday, but it still wasn't very brilliant at parsing them. Today, while still not brilliant, it's doing a little better: when reparsing the cached results it found new tour dates for: A Day To Remember, Amorphis, Anti Flag, The Blackout, Bomb The Music Industry, Cute Is What We Aim For, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dropkick Murphys, Enter Shikari, Exit Avenue, Finntroll, Flogging Molly, Good Charlotte, Heather Nova, In Flames, James Blunt, Ladytron, McFly, Meg & Dia, My American Heart, Neil Diamond, New Found Glory, Nickelback, Papa Roach, Rancid, Shaped By Fate, Sonic Syndicate, Suicide Silence, Tegan and Sara, The Warriors, Wednesday 13, Whitesnake, Aborted, Agnostic Front, Alicia Keys, Apocalyptica, Atreyu, Blood Stands Still, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Cephalic Carnage, Converge, Cult of Luna, Dimmu Borgir, Furious Styles, Heavy Heavy Low Low, I Am Ghost, Lacrimosa, Lemuria, Less Than Jake, Lostprophets, Lower Class Brats, Madball, Meshuggah, Motion City Soundtrack, My Passion, New Model Army, Paramore, Pendulum, Plain White T's, The Pleasure Kills, The Riplets, See You Next Tuesday, Serj Tankian, Simple Plan, Supergrass, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, Tiger Army, Tokio Hotel, Vanilla Pod, Voodoo Glow Skulls, We Are Scientists and Within Temptation!

(We promise that these updates will become a bit more focused and detailed when the crawler is fully operational and most listings will actually be brand new instead of catching up!)

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Since our last tour news update earlier today, we have added new tour dates for Good Charlotte, Ladytron, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Koopa, Lostprophets and Madball!

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