GigMaven: Book Gigs Online for Free
uPlaya artists, we work hard to develop relationships with other music sites who we think may be useful to your music career. Here's a look at our newest affiliate partner, GigMaven:
GigMaven is a booking platform that lets musicians and venues book gigs online. They book gigs in Austin, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Ohio, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington DC, and a number of college markets throughout the US.
The website gives musicians an effective artist profile that can be completed in less than ten minutes by uploading mp3s, photos, YouTube videos and a bio. They can then search by name, genre and location to find and apply to venues.
Venues like to book artists through GigMaven because it makes booking easier. Venues filter artists by genre and location. They can filter applying artists by genre and location while listening to artist mp3s, which means that they can work through a high volume of applications quickly to find the right acts for their venue.
Brooklyn's Year of the Tiger is one of the artists booked online for GigMaven's 2010 CMJ showcase at Canal Room. Check out these photos of the gig they booked online, and learn a little more about them.
What’s your favorite album of all time?
Henry: Donny Hathaway’s self-titled album. His voice makes me want to be a better person.
Sable: I guess it would have to be a Christmas album since you never listen to those often enough to get sick of them and when you do they always make you feel good inside. That being said, maybe the Mariah Carey Xmas album. Or actually just that one song about "All I want for Christmas." I love that song, and I don’t care how much of a dink that makes me. However, the first album I ever bought was Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill and I stand by that, by GOD I stand by that.
Henry: I would like to add that my first album purchased was an Alice in Chains cassette (the neon green one with the 3 legged dog).
Kevin: Unity By Larry Young. Great line up and great tunes.
Are you a vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian or meat enthusiast?
All: MEAT
What neighborhood do you live in?
We all live in Williamsburg. It is what it is.
When did you get your first instrument, what was it?
Henry: When I was 13, I got an electric guitar, though my parents had a piano I fiddled around with a lot.
Sable: I begged my parents for piano lessons when I was 5 because all the cool kids were having piano and tap lessons. And then I got it and was subjected to 11 years of classical piano training which I resented because it meant I actually had to practice for 2 hours a day. But ask me to play a sonata now and I’m total shit.
Kevin: Like Sable, My first instrument was introduced when i was 5 and it was piano.
What’s your favorite movie?
Sable: I’ll watch anything with zombies or wizards. Or Clive Owen. Or Steve Buscemi.
Henry: The Notebook. No, just kidding. From Dusk Till Dawn.
Kevin: Pans Labyrinth takes the cake...not to be confused with Labyrinth.
What’s one thing we should know about your music?
Henry: It’s all recorded in my room? And Sable sang into a bookshelf a few times when we didn’t have a mic stand.
Sable: It seems that the more annoyed Henry’s roommate is by our rabble-rousing the more successful the song turns out to be. That’s how we gauge it, pretty much.
Kevin: Umm what they said!?!?