Everyone who owns a guitar and took a months worth of lessons thinks they are a legit musician. If you’ve ever been to the dive bar in your college town with the stage, you know that most college bands legitimately suck. The most unfortunate thing is there are those college bands that are actually pretty good, but the get lost in the sea of the bad ones. In New Paltz there were one or two that were actually really good, but the sad truth is those bands have just as much of a chance of getting introduced to the right people as the stuffty ones. That’s where SonicBids.com, the social platform for bands, promoters and licensers is here to help.
The way it works is simple: If you are a band, you sign up as a band and upload your music, pictures, links to your website and any other applicable information. If you are a promoter, you can go into the backend and search for bands based on whatever criteria you are looking for. Once you’ve found a band, you can get in touch with them and book them easily for whatever show or festival you are trying to promote. One of the biggest gaps in the entertainment industry, unknown bands and promoters, has finally been bridged.
If you are a local band with a decent following, trying to come up in the world, or you’re a local promoter on campus trying to take things to the next level, this is an absolute must. Or lets say your just a simple civilian trying to throw a sick party and want to add a little live music, you can book a band in as much time as it takes you to find a hot girl to stalk on Facebook.
According to Sonic Bids themselves, they are trying to empower an “Artistic Middle Class.” As weird as that may sound, if you think about it for a second it makes a ton of sense and it’s actually really admirable. The CEO, who goes by the name of Panos, claims he worked as an agent for years and was just too overwhelmed with bands wanting booking to be able to give all of them the proper attention it would require to introduce them to promoters. So one day he quit his job, and maxed out his credit cards starting SonicBids.com, streamlining the whole booking process and cutting out the middle-man position that he once occupied.
The truth is i’ve had about 5 people come up to me over the last couple of years, all aspiring musicians, and pitch me this same exact idea, and every single time I thought it was awesome. In the age of Web 2.o, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to get in touch with anyone, for any purpose. Props to Panos for going out and getting that stuff done. Socialite Approved.
