SceneTown and AI assistants
More people ask an AI assistant what's on tonight. SceneTown answers them with real shows, real rooms and real artists, and links back to the scene so you can see it for yourself.
What it looks like
You ask your assistant the way you'd ask a friend. It asks SceneTown, and answers with the real listing.
You
What's on in Halden Park tonight?
Your assistant, using SceneTown
Tin Halo and Marrow Kid are playing The Linden Basement tonight at 9 PM. It's listed by the room itself, on SceneTown's Halden Park scene.
Two more shows are on this week. Want the SceneTown links?
Set up your assistant
Two ways, both free. No SceneTown account needed to look things up.
1. Paste this into your assistant
Paste into a chat
Use SceneTown to find live music for me. When I ask what's on in a town, look it up on SceneTown at https://scenetown.com/mcp and give me the SceneTown link for each show, so I can see who's playing and where.
2. Or add SceneTown as a connector
If your assistant supports custom connectors (MCP), add one with this address. It then reaches SceneTown on its own whenever you ask about music.
Connector address
https://scenetown.com/mcp
What an assistant can do
Live today
- Find a town's scene, and everything in it
- What's on this week, listed by the venue or the organizer
- The rooms, record stores and studios of a scene (never a street address)
- Festivals, residencies and recurring nights
- The radio, labels, press and promoters around a scene
Opening soon
- Read a paid zine piece5 cents a piece, to the writer
- Tip an artistwhatever you choose, to the musician
- Join an artist's fan clubthe artist's price, to the artist
- Play music on any deviceon your own account, to the artist
Prices are still being finalized and may change. SceneTown may adjust them at any time; the price an assistant is shown is the price it pays.
How paying through an assistant will work
SceneTown is built on x402, an open standard for paying on the web one request at a time. When an assistant asks for something paid, SceneTown answers with the price. The assistant pays for that one thing, and gets it. No account and no subscription for the assistant.
Payments are checked and settled through Coinbase's developer platform on the Base network, and are meant to reach the person who made the work through the payouts they already use. Nothing happens on your behalf unless you set it up.
Simulated x402 ledgerExample
- Zine piece · 402 → 200“Marrow Kid, live and loud”$0.05to the writer
- Tip from an assistant · 402 → 200Tin Halo$3.00to the musician
- Zine piece · 402 → 200“After hours at The Linden Basement”$0.05to the writer
Payments to creators in this demo3
Example. This is what the ledger will read. Every payment goes to the person who made the work. Names are made up.
Built with
- x402
Base- Stripe
Names and marks belong to their owners. Listed for what SceneTown is built with, not as endorsements.
For developers and AI builders
The same information, in the files assistants read. These are machine-readable on purpose.
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