Foursquare has been rolling out a bundle of new updates this month, from inline photos and tip lists to redesigned apps, and is now introducing yet another new feature: events. Users previously could only check in at places, but Foursquare is now adding major events to their database. They gave events a test-run during SXSW conferences and are now partnered with ESPN, MovieTickets.com and Songkick. The partnerships mean that when users go to check in on Foursquare, they’ll see official pages to check in at sports events, movies and concerts.

SongKick is a United Kingdom based company that has raised $1.8 million in their fourth round of funding according to an SEC filing. SongKick is aiming to build an IMDB-like service with a musical history for artists. SongKick also provides alerts, ticket sales, and APIs for other partner websites to display upcoming concert dates on artist pages. Vevo is one of SongKick’s biggest partners. SongKick has raised a total of $7.5 million. [ReadWriteWeb]

Songkick is a website that does everything to help you find concerts.  They can find concerts near you by having you entering your location.  They can e-mail you alerts when concerts come up.  They’ve got a plugin that helps you find concerts of the artists that you have in your iTunes, Winamp, iTunes, and Windows Media Player libraries.

“We’re always adding more listings because we want to make sure we have every single concert in existence—no matter how obscure the band or tiny the venue,” states the company’s About page. “We even index bands’ MySpace pages to make sure we have all their dates.”

Songkick is based in East London and was founded by Ian Hogarth, Pete Smith, and Michelle You.  The investment was provided by several personal investors.  One of the investors is Saul Klein, founding partner of The Accelerator Group.  Y-Combinator provided Songkick with their initial funding.

The company website is available at: www.songkick.com. VentureBeat broke the funding news.