# Live Music Forecast

> Colorado's 7-day live music event discovery platform. We connect music lovers with the artists and venues that make Colorado's music scene special.

Live Music Forecast (livemusicforecast.com) aggregates upcoming live music events across Colorado, sourced from the Ticketmaster and AXS APIs, and publishes them as a browsable, searchable WordPress site. The homepage shows a rolling 7-day calendar of shows. Events can also be browsed by month at `/YYYY/MM`.

## Site Structure

- **Homepage** — 7-day live music forecast grouped by day, sorted with featured events first
- **Events** (`/event/<slug>`) — individual concert/show pages with date, time, venue, artist lineup, ticket links, and Schema.org Event JSON-LD markup
- **Artists** (`/artist/<slug>`) — artist profile pages with photo gallery, Spotify embed, genre tags, and upcoming shows
- **Venues** (`/venue/<slug>`) — venue pages with address, Google Maps embed, and upcoming events
- **Monthly archives** (`/YYYY/MM`) — all events in a given month
- **Artist archive** (`/artists`) — browsable list of all artists in the database
- **Venue archive** (`/venues`) — browsable list of all venues

## Content

Events are pulled from the **Ticketmaster Discovery API** and **AXS** (limited to Colorado, music classification). Each event is linked to one venue and one or more performing artists. AI-generated descriptions (GPT-4) supplement event, artist, and venue pages where no editorial copy exists.

Custom post types: `event`, `artist`, `venue`
Taxonomies: `genre`, `artist-category`, `venue-city`

## Key Features

- Rolling 7-day concert calendar on the homepage
- Weekly email newsletter with curated show picks
- Sponsored show placements ($10 to feature an event)
- Schema.org JSON-LD on every event page for rich search results
- Spotify artist embeds on artist profile pages
- Chart.js artist data visualizations

## Technology

- WordPress (custom PHP theme)
- Node.js ingestion scripts (`ticketmaster.js`, `axs.js`) run on a schedule to import events, venues, and artists via WP-CLI
- Google Maps API for venue location display
- Ezoic display advertising

## About

Built and maintained by Renrah Ltd. (renrah.dev). The goal is to surface smaller, local shows that get lost in the noise alongside bigger acts — so Colorado music fans never miss a show worth going to.