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10 Best Venues in Each City
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| This websites theme is giving listing of the best 10 places to see live music. You can search any state and most major cities and it will give you the best live music places and contact info and what style of music they play. This is a good site to use for traveling to a place for the first time to see where are good places to play. |
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Sonicbids
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| Sonicbids connects bands with people who book gigs. They have over 150,000 registered bands/artists and over 14,000 music buyers. The costs start at $49.95 a year and go up if get more services. Have policy if they can’t book you a gig in 6 months you get back your money. |
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Couch Surfing
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| Couch Surfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the communities they visit. It allows the travelers to stay at their home for free and make new friends in that community. They are in over 200 countries with over 600,000 people volunteering a free place to stay. They report a 99% positive member experience. Over 900 bands joined the network in 2008. |
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Gig Leader
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| Gig Leader helps consumers book bands for parties by genre – get your band listed on this site so you can have a chance to be booked for a party and make money. They have no charge for basic account set up, but charge for premiere services. |
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Indie on the Move
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| Indie on the Move is a free site that allows you to find venues to play at with all the key contact information and reviews by other musicians. Also great feature that tells you if all ages, 18 and over or 21 and over. Navigation by state is cool feature. They include Touring Tips as well. |
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Better Than The Van
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| Better than the van is a community of free places to stay for bands on tour. A great way for bands and music fans to connect with each other for a practical reason. |
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Indie Venue Bible
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| This site has contact info for 26,000 venues in the US and Canada to help you find the best place for you to play. |
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The Music Phone Book
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| The Music Phone Book has 10,000 live music clubs and venues with key contacts to use for booking gigs. The cost is $39.95. |
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Tourzag
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| Tourzag is a free online band tour manager tool. It allows you to add tour dates and give you the best route to take, get organized with all essential details like load in and stage times, manage venue contact lists, and keep track of all your merch sales by club date. It also has Twitter integration and SMS blasting to your fans. |
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Armed Forces Entertainment
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| For over 50 years they have brought America’s best entertainers to the world’s largest theater. Gain exposure to military men and women and the satisfaction of performing for a most appreciative audience. There is no cost for you to apply to go on their tour. |
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Band Promote
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| Band Promote offers tour consultation and booking. If you are planning to get your band on the road, they will book the trip for you. They claim to have access to virtually every club, venue and concert hall on the planet. They claim to have booked tours all over the US and even the UK. |
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Cube Passes
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| Security credentials and backstage passes for music concerts such as laminates, satin passes, luggage tags, wristbands, and more |
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Everything you need to know about house concerts
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| House Concerts are a growing trend that brings musicians right to music fans homes. This 15 part video series shows you step by step how to have a successful house concert. The best part about house concerts is the intimate setting and musicians usually make more doing this then playing a local bar, so everybody benefits. |
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Gig Masters
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| This site will help you book gigs locally or across the US. Prices for booking start at $59 for 3 months up to $249 for a full year of listing your band for potential shows across the nation. They book shows at private parties to weddings, to corporate function. They don’t appear to book clubs. They have been in business since 1997 |
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GigNation
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| GigNation is a free site that bands can upload songs and links to your video. The service allows you to type in a city you want to play and see the other 5000 plus GigNation bands in the database and you can email them to see if you can play with them. This may make it easier to book a gig and break into a new market. Also, GigNation has a service where they pre-book a venue with previously screened bands who want to sell tickets directly to their fans. Each band must guarantee a min amount of tickets. |
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Online Gigs
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| Website offers services to automate the touring process. They charge $19.99 per month for their services. They actually don’t book the gig but give you contacts to book as well as other services to promote your tour. They have over 9000 venues, colleges, festival and media contacts for you to view. Gives tips for booking your tours |
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Pollstar
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| A leading concert industry trade publication that provides music business professionals with reliable and accurate concert information, music news and contact directories in print and online. |
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