Sonicbids

Connect musicians and festival promoters, among others.

Website: http://www.sonicbids.com/

For a yearly and/or per use fee, Sonicbids uses their website to connect musicians and festival promoters (among other industry types) looking to hire or use new music.

5 Responses So Far

• 1

  Aaron

  Mar 3, 2008 at 4:19 pm

  I know many people are curious whether their monthly fees are worth it. Of all the companies we list, any comments from our users regarding this service would be great!

  There is a nice discussion thread on Harmony Central about whether Sonicbids is worth the investment in time and money.

  http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=1864737

  The basic gist is that most people think much of it feels like a scam, or as one person says: “They really seem like just another shark in the waters to me. Just like those “record labels” and “Publishers” who are really excited to “sign you” and only need $400 to produce the demo.”

  Some more discussion:

  http://www.projectopus.com/node/9661 (here someone from Sonicbids responds to concerns)

  http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum…d.php?t=690269 (here one a musician talks about her negative experience; she paid $45 to submit to CMJ and no one even listened to her songs)

• 2

  Dave

  Jun 24, 2008 at 6:46 pm

  Get your music heard by music industry for FREE – Not a scam or spam!!

  Hello Unsigned Artists/Bands/Musicians,

  Dave here formerly of ApathetiQ/Never Hide.

  I created a website by the name of youShowcase.com for musicians alike. I am now offering you an opportunity to present your music, photos, bios, videos, and more in press kit format to music executives worldwide. This service is FREE and is not considered SPAM or a SCAM. There are no hidden fees and youShowcase works on an advertising/CPC/R model. The artists/bands and music industry executives are real too.

  You can sign up your project by going to the following site:

  http://www.youshowcase.com (Registration takes under a minute to complete and clearance is granted right away).

  youShowcase.com wants your feedback too! Please do not hesitate to e-mail us with comments or questions at the following address:

  contact@youshowcase.com

  You can also add us here: http://www.myspace.com/youshowcase (Help us spread the word to other artists/bands/musicians)!!!!

  Thanks,
  David P.
  Principal, IT Director
  youShowcase

• 3

  Mark

  Sep 16, 2008 at 3:16 pm

  Sonicbids is a total scam. Our band was stupid enough to fall into it to. It didn’t take us long to figure out that they keep accepting submission money for events that the promoter has already CLOSED, they have never fixed their tracking service because they don’t want you to know that the promoter you just paid $50 to never even viewed your kit, and they have NO customer service. You never hear back or maybe after four months.

  We found a MUCH better service that doesn’t have the BS, doesn’t look like a cartoon, understands the struggling musician and works FOR us, and has customer service reps online up to 20 hours a day, seven days a week. Even on holidays!

  http://www.powerpresskits.com

  myPPK Power Press Kits. NO per-use fees, no pay-to-play. Graphic themes are great and you can make your own theme for cheap. We STRONGLY recommend everyone who has been scammed by soncibids check out Power Press Kits.

• 4

  Louis

  Jan 28, 2009 at 1:32 pm

  Sonicbids is a total scam. They claim that S.X.S.W. and C.M.J. have sonicbids submissions. You can go directly to the scource why go through Sonicbids like a middleman? This is ridiculous. I wish people boycott Sonicbids. I have applied through music festivals and gotten gigs but refused to pay additional to get through Sonicbids.

• 5

  JonLarsen

  Feb 15, 2009 at 6:14 am

  Sonicbids should just die. They are fucking bullshits and cheating people!

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