London - Songkick on Wednesday introduced its live music recommendation service, which scan's a user's music library and alerts users when a band they like -- or may like -- is playing in their area.

The U.K.-based company also announced that it has raised an undisclosed sum of new funding, co-led by Accelerator Group founding partner Saul Klein and Softech VC founder Jeff Clavier; Dan Porter, Peter Read, Betaworks and others also participated.

In addition to alerts, Songkick also provides direct links to ticket inventory from 16 vendors across the U.S. and U.K.

The service additionally offers music bloggers a way to make money, with a widget that identifies bands on tour mentioned on their blogs, and inserts tour information and ticket vendor links that can be tracked for referrals.

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