Today marks the closing of mojam.com and musi-cal.com, two sites Wolfgang’s Vault has been managing for a few years.
For those of you unfamiliar with them, mojam was a concert finder – you could search for a band and find out where they were currently on tour. Or you could search for a particular city and find out who was playing on a given date. musi-cal was a sister site to mojam, a back-end system into which promoters and club owners could upload their schedules.
As a site dedicated to live concert recordings we felt mojam was a good companion that could be useful to our visitors, but the small number of visits it drew told us that you were using other tools for finding upcoming shows. There are a few; one of our favorites is songkick.com, a superb site with an excellent new iOS app; if you were using mojam before we highly recommend songkick.
Managing our vast concert recording archive is our most important task, and we’ve chosen to dedicate our resources to doing that. We hope you’ll understand. Cheers!
33 Comments
Musi-cal will be missed.
If would have been nice to get a message or something. Interesting timing though. My laptop was eaten by a virus about the same time my smart phone went for a swim. With little paper back up, I was able to restore my calendar based only on my Musi-Cal page. You guys will be missed as Alvin says. Thanks for years of good service. But, hey, a dinner, flowers, or at least an e-mail would have been nice if you’re breaking up. –Tom
TWO WAY STREET COFFEE HOUSE has posted all our weekly shows on Musi-Cal for many years. You’ve provided a useful service with a terrific search engine. Sorry to see you go! http://www.twowaystreet.org
I used both mojam.com and musi-cal.com on a regular basis. You will be missed!
Musi-cal was a valuable tool to both artists ,venues and fans, most of whom would probably be willing to pay to use it if you brought it back!
I’ve used musi-cal for quite some time & it has been more than very helpful in helping with my musical outreach! Hardly EVER, ANY problems to speak of! ALWAYS, informative to the ABSOLUTE! More than user friendly, even for me!! I will TOTALLY miss being a part of the musi-cal family! Who knows! MAYBE, a change of heart will happen! I do hope so! You will be missed!
Dana Silvercloud
I hope you reconsider and bring back your site. You offer a valuable service and we’ve appreciated it! Come back!
Thanks for your many years of a great service well done! I’ve always felt good about listing my concerts with you and linking from my website. Thanks for the referral to songkick, and I wish you all the best with your concert archives.
Warmly,
Lui
You provided a valuable service to the community. Thank you for doing such a great job all these years.
We’re sorry you’re leaving but hope someday you’ll have a change of heart : ).
Best of luck,
Kathy
for Houston Jones
You will be missed.The one place where as a venue and fan I could search by what ever perimeters I chose .Good Luck with your future endeavors.
Paul Zimmerman
Maple Street Chapel
Folk Concert Producer
Thanks for so many years..
You were most patient when there were difficulties adding listings.
Thanks for letting us know, I was rebuilding my site lists on new puter and glad to know I wasnt’ just crazy when it would not be found.
What will you do with all your free time now????
I am very sad to hear this news…i always made sure I had my gigs posted on musi-cal . Thank you for your time all these years … you will be greatly missed! All the best, Joanne
so sorry to hear about you guys shutting down. You were always very helpful to me when I had trouble posting my tour schedules. The web world is a fickle one!
best of luck in all future endeavors.
Robin Greenstein, NYC
http://www.folklib.net/index/musi-cal.shtml
I have been using Musi-Cal since January 1995 and promoting its use on the above now obsolete page since 2001. Musi-Cal had a complete set of features that no other Itinerary site has. I will REALLY miss its being on-line. Between links to specific musician’s intineraries, links to its many Wisconsin venue database entries, and search links to concerts for scores of Wisconsin cities, I only have 1,196 links to “musi-cal.com” that need to be deleted from my domain’s pages now. All that valuable artist and venue information all gone!
Now I need to re-do the stations website Since 2006 for one of the features I was able to provide was the concert mojam system, sorry to see that go…
I hope you do well in your endevors. Thanks from the team of
The Right Country Radio Network.
Songkick does not compare with the ease of Musi-cal. What a pain to set up! With Musi-cal, you just put in whatever city you were traveling to and you got the information right away. No hassle. So sorry you felt this needed to be done.
uh, ok… i better go and figure out where i’m playing… hope i wrote it down elsewhere!
So sorry to see your website go. I was able to closely follow one of my favorite musicians, Dana Silvercloud, and, his schedule on your website.
Musi-Cal was the only site that had local folk music listings, all the other listing services, including songkick.com which you recommend, seem to be mostly for rock music.
I’m gobsmacked. Best wishes.
What the…? Aw man this sucks.
I’ve used your service for over a decade and I appreciate your efforts. Best of luck to you, and thanks.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Sorry to hear. I’ve been using musi-cal for over 10 years, esp. when I’m going travelling. I hope there are other sites that include folk/singer-songwriter to the extent that you did. So how will I find out who might be performing in Cape Cod, for example, when I go visit there?
Thanks for all the years of service!
Will truly miss musi-cal.
Pity. Musi-cal was useful to smalltime artists and venues, but it is all about traffic. Thanks for doing it so long, good luck!
Sorry to hear.Best of luck to you, and thanks.
Pity. Musi-cal was useful to smalltime artists and venues, but it is all about traffic. Thanks for doing it so long, good luck! I think so !
I hope there are other sites that include folk/singer-songwriter to the extent that you did. Thank you 1″
so sorry to hear about you guys shutting down. You were always very helpful to me when I had trouble posting my tour schedules. The web world is a fickle one! I think so !
:P
So sorry to hear about you shutting these services down. Thanks for all you’ve done over the years and best of luck in your future endeavors.
With Musi-cal, you just put in whatever city you were traveling to and you got the information right away