SiliconBeat blogs about Podbop a site that combines podcasting and local. It allows you to hear podcasts of bands that are playing in the local market. One can search by artist or location. The site links to Eventful.com, which provides the venue information.

Local events are a relatively still undeveloped area online - probably a feature or rss-based feed rather than a stand-alone application or destination in my view. Along those lines Yahoo! not long ago acquired Upcoming.org. And IAC's Evite has pushed into local events as well.

Jambase is another local music events and community site.

Podbop launched today, and for music lovers it may be the most interesting Mashup we've seen yet. They've combined concert events from eventful and mashed the data up with band sites that include downloadable music.

The result? search for any city in the U.S. (hopefully this will soon expand to become a worldwide service) and get results (including RSS for future events) that include all upcoming live music and links to download music supplied by the band. If the band has no music available, Podbop will show a blogdigger search for that artist along with the eventful data.

Here's the best part. Subscribe to any search (Los Angeles, CA, for example), and the MP3 files are included as enclosures in the RSS feed.