Access The Night: See What’s Happening Now In Clubs Via Social Media
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.
Concertgoers, nightlife lovers, and actually anyone who’s looking for something to do in their city or town might have a friend in Access The Night (free, iOS).
With a mere glance at the app, you can get somewhat of a sense of what’s happening at the live music venues nearby, as well as other places, like nightclubs — anywhere people are taking photos and posting them to Instagram.
“It basically shows you moments as they happen,” explained Access The Night co-founder Sam Kessler. “You could be sitting on your couch, you could be out with friends — you open our app and you’re going to be looking at a feed and a photo map of photos taken at concerts, bars, restaurants, live music venues — all around you within your vicinity, in real time… We’re kind of like a real-time Yelp, minus the reviews. Instead of looking at reviews and pictures from a year ago, you’re looking at real-time pictures that were taken in the last five or ten minutes.”
The app gets these photos from Instagram, and tags them with Foursquare’s venue data, identifying each location as a live music venue, movie theater, bar, or restaurant. It’s not possible to filter for just the music venues within the app, but if you’re looking for a last-minute idea for something to do, this app can give you a different sense of your options, in something close to real time.
Access The Night is currently available for iPhone, with an Android version scheduled for a June 12 release.
