So I'm looking for places to have my birthday party (Sept. 21-mark your calendars), and I'm looking at Nectar's calendar to see who's in town, and I see that Sadat X from Brand Nubian was here last night-and there was NO mention of it around here, so far as I could tell. AND Pharoah Monch is coming in October (Monday, Oct. 15, to be exact).

Looking at the Events page, I see a whole lot of Darude and Armin Van Buren, but no hip-hop acts at all. http://www.clubvibes.com/...Date=8/26/2007&city=4 And I know they come here, because I always hear about them after the fact!

I get that the folks in charge here get their rocks off on EDM, but how about a little variety? Who's in charge of event listings? Is it the promoter/venue, or does CV have someone posting stuff? I ask because I'll see Ron put something up for a show at, say, LSC, but you never know if that's coming from him or the venue.

I know this forum is sparsely populated these days, so maybe this will fall on deaf ears. But that was a show I would have liked to attend, so it's frustrating to hear about it after the fact, especially when this is the place where I come for information on Seattle's nightlife.

Thoughts?

Very good questions Dwight.

The venues and members create the listings on events that are out there. The only exceptions are when we are sponsoring an event. When I post something about a show, it's either 1. at the expressed request of the venue or promoter or 2. I love the artist.

Nectar, for example, isn't a venue that does much with CV. Hence... no lists for that venue. Though at anytime, they are welcome to post 100% of their events here.

If u want the official hierarchy, here ya go:

1. Venue Owners
2. Event Promoters
3. Anyone associated with the event
4. Artists and/or musicians
5. CV

That's the basic order of things. We tell them all the time to post their stuff up. Some are starting to more and more, others are still lazy. We have way too much going on locally to do this kind of project anymore. Although, if there is tickets being sold through our various ticketing vendors we have affiliations with, an event listing will be created with a link for ticket purchase. This is done by our content editor.

I totally understand you guys not having a lot of spare time to list every event. However from a business prospective your loosing a HUGE audience.

Right now there doesn't seem to be one website to find out who is playing where and when. (not just hiphop shows) You basically have to search each and every venues website to find out who is in town. If CV were able to consolidate all that information your opening a big 'resource door' that might boost CV's clientele.

just my 2 cents