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Q: What are the advantages of IndieShows.net?
Below are some of the reasons more and more indie fans and bands are choosing IndieShows!::
  • Post and find independent concerts in your area no matter where you live!
  • There is no registration or login process that you have to go through which saves you time!
  • You can post 1 show at a time, or you can post up to 10 shows at a time!
  • You get to include a unique image of your choice and your web site's link with every event posting!
  • You can easily edit or delete your own events at any time by using a editing/deleting link we send you after you post your event(s)!
  • Fans can quickly search for events by keyword or by location!
  • Fans can add their name to any event's attending list, automatically get reminded about any event via e-mail, and easily send any event to a friend by using the "Tell a friend about this event" link!
  • You can now use our new widget on your website or myspace to help spread the word about your show and others!
  • We feature a variety of independent artists on our Featured Artist page and in our blog, so this is a great place to discover new music!
  • This site was started and will always be run by musicians. Not some huge corporation who cares about making a quick buck and not the band.
  • We're going to work hard to make sure this site stays "indie". It's tough in today's music industry, and independent bands deserve free promotional resources.
  • Did I mention we care? Feel free to e-mail us at any time by going to our contact page. We'll actually respond, unlike other sites.
Q: How do I post an event?
First of all, anyone can post events. You don't have to be in a band! If you know of upcoming shows in your area, please post them! Now having said that, when we say anyone can post an event, we mean anyone can post any kind of independent music event! Any other events will be removed! To post an event simply click on the "Create Event" button underneath our "blue ticket" IndieShows logo at the very top of the page. After you submit the event, you just have to click a link in the e-mail that is immediately sent out to activate your posting, and that's it!
Q: Can I post more than one event?
YES! When you click on "Create Events" from the IndieShows Main Menu above, or you can just click on "Create an Event" under our blue ticket logo, you'll be able to choose whether you want to post one event at a time or multiple events. We allow you to post up to 10 events at once using this form!! This Saves you time, energy, and well, that's about it... mostly it saves you TIME!
Q: How do I edit/delete my own event(s)?
You know that event activation e-mail we sent you when you posted your event? Below the activation link is also a editing/deleting link. Click that link, enter in the password you chose when you posted your event, and edit/delete away.
Q: How do I include an image with my event?
All you have to do is host the image at your website, or at any free image hosting site like photobucket, imageshack, and even myspace. Once you have the image uploaded somewhere on the Internet, just copy and paste the image's URL into the Event Image field on the event posting form. Posting an image is optional, and a default image will be posted if you don't include a URL. What's a URL? If you've come this far chances are you know what a URL is, but, if you don't... Google it!
Q: What if I'm not sure about the event's cost?
If you're not sure how much the event is going to cost, then just put "TBA", which of course means To Be Announced. You can also include a note in the event's description letting visitors know that you are unsure about the cost of the event. You can even direct them to the band's site which may have this information at a later date.
Q: How do I find events?
You can find events by country, state, city, date or keyword. Just go to our "Search Events" page and search away! Here's a tip when searching by city:: When bands/artists post their shows, they manually enter in what city their show/event is in. So, if they misspell the city, then it might not come up in the search results. You may try searching for "ind" instead of "indianapolis" for example, because that way any city that starts with "ind" will come up, so even if the city is misspelled, it may still come up as long as they at least got the "ind" part right. :)
Q: How do I "attend" events?
When viewing events, below the event information, you'll notice a box that will say how many people are currently attending the event, and it will ask you if you'd like to attend. If you do, just type in a valid e-mail address and your name (Just your first name or nickname will do!) and click "attend". You'll then be sent an e-mail. You must click the link inside that e-mail before your name goes on the attending list.
Q: How do I get reminded about events?
Let us worry about remembering when your favorite band is playing. Just find the show you want to attend. Sign up to attend the show and before you submit that you are attending, make sure you check the remind check box. That's it! We couldn't of made it any easier! Just confirm that you are attending by clicking the link in the e-mail we send you. About 2 days before the event is scheduled to occur, you'll get the reminder e-mail.
Q: Where/What is the tell a friend link?
The "Tell a friend about this event!" link is at the bottom of all the event detail pages just above the "Flag this event." link. It allows you to quickly send a friend an e-mail about that particular event. They'll be sent a link which will take them directly to the event that you recommended to them.
Q: Why do you ask for so much info.?
You may wonder why you must give us a valid e-mail, name, plus enter in a security code when posting an event, or attending an event... The reason is simple... security and spam. Hey, at least we don't ask you to sign-up or register to create an event like most other sites. Oh, and we don't sell e-mail addresses, or e-mail you annoying advertisements or anything. When you type in your e-mail address, the only thing we are using it for is to send you that event activation link and editing/deleting link. You won't get any other e-mails from us after that.
Q: What happens when I "flag" an event?
When you flag an event it alerts us, and tells us to check out the particular event that was flagged. If you see any events that look like spam, or look like they are not independent music events, please flag them and help us fight against spam!
Q: Why didn't I get an activation e-mail?
More than likely you just over looked it! The e-mail is going to come from "indiesho" with no "w" or "s", just indiesho. Make sure you didn't miss it! Also, your e-mail provider may mistake our e-mails as spam, so check your spam/bulk e-mail boxes! If you double check your inbox and your spam/bulk mail area and you still don't see an e-mail from us, you can... try posting the event again, or wait it out! Sometimes it could take up to 5 minutes to receive our activation e-mail. If it has been longer than 5 minutes, then you can also go to our contact page and let us know about it. We have noticed an issue with hotmail accounts... We recommend that you open a gmail.com account if you use hotmail or another e-mail service and you never get our e-mails.
Q: Was my event deleted?
If you can't find the event you posted, you may of posted it accidentally under the wrong country and/or state! So be careful when you post the event. Your event may also of been deleted because we thought it was spam or we didn't think that it was an independent band post. If you feel that your event was wrongfully deleted, please e-mail us by filling out the form on our contact page. In your message please include all the information that you used when originally posting the event. If we have to remove your postings multiple times, you may be banned from posting events.

Also, once your event has passed, it is automatically removed from the site. This is just to keep the site running as fast as possible. Plus, who wants to come to an upcoming event site like this and find old events?
Q: How can I get my music featured!?
In the beginning we would allow artists to e-mail us for the Featured Artist spot, but as you can imagine, this can get overwhelming if you have a large volume of artists e-mailing their information. So now, we either will seek out the Featured Artist ourselves, or we will get the Featured Artist from our new Battle of the Bands competition. Another way we might find our Featured Artist is if you post your information at our Forum. So you see, the best way to become our Featured Artist is to just participate here at the site... in our forum or in one of our contests.
Q: What is the Battle of the Bands all about?
To get information about how our Battle of the Bands competition works and to find out how to sign up, please click here.
Q: Why is the voting "disabled" on the Battle of the Bands page?
Voting could be disabled for a number of reasons. The most common reasons that voting would be disabled is because the voting hasn't started yet, or the voting has ended. Also, after you vote (since you can only vote once per band/artist) the voting button will say "disabled!!" above it and it won't allow you to vote anymore until the next battle. This is just to make the competition as fair as possible. To get information about how our Battle of the Bands competition works and to find out how to sign up, please click here.
Q: What if none of these questions helped me?
As it says below, you can contact us if none of the above questions helped you. Please don't be shy about it! If you contact us and your question is one that could help others, we'll then be able to post it here for future reference!



If none of the above Q&A's helped you, then just contact us.


Help Us Out!

Now that we've hopefully helped you, maybe you can help us out by clicking here and using one of our banners or widgets on your site to help spread the word! You can also help us get more shows posted and help the site grow by posting them yourself! Think of it as being part of the IndieShows Street Team! You don't have to be in the band to post the shows... If you're browsing around the net and find upcoming shows, come back here and re-post them!



About IndieShows

So in case you haven't figured it out yet IndieShows is simple. It is a place for independent artists to come and post their upcoming shows. The goal of the site is to get enough bands posting their shows here, that it becomes a well-known site for music fans to come and find shows in their area. This site was thought up by a musician who was in a band and was always looking for sites to promote his band's concerts on. Yes, there was myspace and other similar sites, however, he could never find a site that just specialized in independent music events ONLY. He came close to finding some, but they weren't for JUST indpendent bands and they always either required you to sign up and log in or they took 24 hours or more to make the concerts you submitted go live on the site. And so, IndieShows was born. A free, no-hassle, no-signups, no-logins, no-waiting post-it-yourself concert listing site for indie artists ONLY!! If you're an indie music fan, again, help us out! Post any shows that you know of that are coming up in your area and bands please do the same and post your shows! Wouldn't it be nice to have enough bands posting on this site so that no matter where you lived you could say: "Hey, let's check out IndieShows tonight and go watch some live music!"?




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