How to book the acoustic music series at the Ugly Mug

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

In today's high-tech music market, sometimes you just can't trust what you hear. Consider the ease with which artists can produce their own tracks bursting

 

Tips on how to book a show at Don Quixote's International Music Hall

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

Don Quixote's booker Tom Miller has been booking shows in Santa Cruz for more than 30 years, so when he tells you how to jump, you say how

 

 

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

Booking the music for a venue is usually not a group effort. Normally there is a "booker" and they are the end all, be all. Want a show? Get in line to talk to the booker. If the booker doesn't like "your kind,"

 

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

Tucked away behind Vintage Faith Church at 350 Mission Street, The Abbey Coffee, Art & Music Lounge has helped ignite a bit of a singer-songwriter revolution in Santa Cruz. Celebrating its second anniversary this

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Bikers, Booze and Bands

Tips on how to book a show at Henflings Roadhouse Tavern

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

The term "roadhouse" is said to date back to the mid-1800s. One history of the term originates from the gold rush. As travelers

  

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

If I could summarize exactly how to sell out every show in Santa Cruz, I would be writing this blog from my yacht in Spain, instead of at this faux wood desk. People with brains much bigger than mine spend

 

 

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

For all the musicians with pencils in hand agonizingly scratching out the perfect words to express their own "Private Idaho," there are just as many already warming up their amps to continue mastering the guitar

 

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

I've heard that what makes a good pub is its purpose and spirit. If this is true, local Westside watering hole The Parish Publick House is in good shape. In addition to providing an insane selection of beer and

 

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

My latest blog features Coaster's

Ask anyone with a little punk rock running through their veins if they've seen a show at a bowling alley, then stand back as they reel off a virtual who's who of punk rock

  

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

My latest blog features The Crows Nest

Sun in your face, salt water in your hair, hundreds of summer lovin' people ready to shake what their mamas gave them and become your next biggest fan. This isn't a dream,

  

Part of my series for the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

My first blog featured The Crepe Place.

As local bands come up the ranks from street corner to coffee shop to house party, they eventually reach the point where they're ready to hit the big stage.

  

Part of my new series featured in the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

This post focuses on tips for bands emailing venues or booking contacts for the first time.

There are people in the world who make your job easier and those who make it harder. In order

santa cruz's nocturnal sunshine has been amazing crowds since the beginning of the century. these are highlights of their performance at the "dancing in the streets" event that happened at the end of april.

 

 

 

Standing at the intersection of Pelton and West Cliff, the Surder Dude statue salutes the local surf culture.