I’m a big fan of RSS and of giving people the ability to build web services around your data. One of the things I’ve been hoping for was for the record labels to start offering RSS feeds of their tour data.

EMI has gotten all their labels to do it (see Capitol’s artists page), and it appears that Suretone has as done it, too. Suretone is a subsidiary of UMG, and as far as I can tell, unlike EMI, Universal has not implemented this across any of their other labels. If there are others out there that I’m missing, let me know.

Why is this important? Why do nerdy things like RSS help people who like music? The truth is, this is huge. For one project I’m working on we want to be able to show you all upcoming tours from your favorite bands, without having to log into a different website/MySpace/whatever for each band. The RSS feed is how we would get this data.

Basically, once more labels start doing this, you’ll start seeing tons of exciting new applications that make use of this data in ways we still haven’t imagined yet.