An editorial calendar for people who go.
Showbase is a live-event discovery site covering Chicago, New York, Denver, Miami, and Seattle. Every concert, comedy show, and live event we list comes from a verified ticketing source — Ticketmaster, DICE, Resident Advisor, Eventbrite, AXS, and direct venue calendars. We don't sell tickets. We don't resell tickets. When you click Get Tickets you're sent to the original ticketing site for that show.
What Showbase does
- Aggregates. We pull listings from 26+ sources and merge duplicates so a show that appears on three sites only shows up once.
- Ranks. Every event runs through a transparent 0-to-100 scoring engine — venue reputation, source trust, artist popularity, metadata completeness. No editor picks; no promoter pays. The full rules are at /how-it-works.
- Filters noise. Eventbrite networking mixers, MLM seminars, and tribute-band-on-tribute-band shows are dropped before they hit the page.
What Showbase is not
- Not a ticket reseller. We never sell tickets, hold inventory, or take payment. Every link goes to the original ticketing partner for that event.
- Not pay-to-play. Promoters cannot buy a tier, a rail slot, or a digest mention.
- Not data-hungry. The only personal data we collect is what you give us — an email if you subscribe, a follow list if you sign in. See /privacy.
Contact
Bug reports, takedown requests, missing venues, broken listings, press, partnerships — one inbox.
Operated independently · Made in Chicago