Chad Burgess is the Marketing Manager at SeatGeek, a forecasting and search web application that helps fans save money on sports and concert tickets. You can find more from Chad on the SeatGeek Blog or follow him on Twitter at@chadburgess.

We’ve previously shown you how to discover music, how to find concerts online, and how to share setlists. If you’ve got those areas of social music covered, you might now be looking for concerts when you are on-the-go.

If you want to simplify the concert process on your smartphone, mobile apps make it easier than ever to find and attend concerts in your area. These five apps will evolve your music lifestyle so that you never have to miss another concert again.

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1. Local Concerts

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Local Concerts (by iLike) is the “#1 concert app” on the iPhone. This simple app allows you to browse concerts in your area based on music in your music library. The search function lets you perform both artist and venue searches. You can also set up alerts so that you don’t lose track of your shows.

Being able to access just “My Artists” is the core benefit to most of these apps, as it simplifies the browsing phase by eliminating random artists and bands. The ‘Venues’ screen is extremely comprehensive, but does not allow for filtering. The ability to sort by ‘Most Popular’ venues in your area would be a really nice feature for general navigation.

Summary: Local Concerts has been one of the most popular concert apps since its debut. If you are looking for a simple UI and an easy way to find concerts, this may be the app for you.

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2. preAmped

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PreAmped provides popular concert apps for the iPhone, Android, and the Palm Pre. PreAmped was created to “capture and share the experience of a concert.”

Once you have found the event you are looking for, the app has options to share with your friends (by e-mail,Facebook, or Twitter), find tickets, and view directions to the show. The app features “Shows,” “Artists,” and “Venues” screens, and also offers the ability to toggle by location on the venues screen. This feature lists the venues closest to your GPS location.

Similar to most top apps in this space, the preAmped app allows you to see upcoming concerts based on your music library.

Summary: If you are constantly on the go and like to easily discover new venues in your current location, you will want to check out this app.

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3. Gigbox

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Gigbox is an app for Android that allows fans to find relevant, local events tailored to their music tastes. Gigbox has a rich social feature set including live chat, ratings, and picture publishing. “Live” mode is designed to enhance the shared experience of concertgoers by surfacing pictures, ratings, and “mood” sourced from all users in the audience. This content is then aggregated and published on the Gigbox website for future reference. Although these features require a high adoption rate, they are unique and potentially useful.

Gigbox is integrated with Last.fm, which provides comprehensive data, streaming music, and the ability to sign in with your Last.fm account.

Summary: A socially ambitious app that you should check out if you are active on Last.fm and/or an Android user looking to enhance your concert experience with social media.

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4. StubHub

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StubHub’s app is another great download. Currently only on the iPhone, it offers the ability to sort by “Upcoming,” “Events,” “Favorites,” or “Search,” and then ultimately purchase tickets within the app.

“Upcoming” provides a complete list of events in your area including sports, concerts and theater, with corresponding tickets. The UI is a little cumbersome as you have to scroll to the end of the long sports section to access the concerts. An “Events” screen allows for easier filters by “Sports,” “Concert,” “Theater,” and “Venue” which can be improved in future releases with additional sub-category sorting options (currently it is alphabetized).

The “Favorites” screen allows you to toggle to “iPod Artists” to view only tickets that match artists in your library. What separates StubHub ticketing is that they offer a tightly integrated buying experience directly in the app. Tickets can be purchased by credit card or with an existing StubHub or PayPal account.

Not to be left out on the social side, StubHub offers social media integration via Facebook and Twitter, so you can share upcoming events with your friends.

Summary: StubHub is best for those looking to easily purchase tickets on-the-go.

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5. YP Mobile

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From YP.com (the redesigned yellowpages.com), YP Mobile is the sleeper hit on this list. Even though it is within the umbrella of a traditional media company and is not strictly for finding concerts, this app (available on iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, and Pre) has partnered with Zvents to produce some surprisingly robust event data.

YP Mobile allows you to search thousands of events by venue or city in addition to offering all the “what” and “where” search capabilities that we are accustomed to on YP.com and other local verticals.

Summary: If you want a single app to find a local concert, a restaurant to go to before, and a bar to go to after, this might be the choice for you.