From the GigAgent team
Practical guides for the part of the music business nobody teaches you — booking your own shows.
The 2026 starter list for indie artists who want to be taken seriously — updated for a world where a forty-second live clip carries more weight than a polished EPK.
Read the checklist
You sent the email. You wrote a good pitch. You never heard back — and you can't remember if you followed up. This is how indie artists lose gigs. Here's a system that fixes it.
Read the guideA breakdown of what makes a cold outreach email to a booker land — and the five mistakes that kill most pitches before they're read.
Stringing together a 5-city run without an agent is doable — if you plan your radius, target anchor markets, and sequence your outreach correctly.
Not every band needs an agent, and not every agent is worth the commission. A clear-eyed guide to the decision most artists get wrong.