Ride with bands
that actually gig.
Bandwagon Riders are the artist-development layer for local music. You sign 5–20 bands, coach them through the platform, broker their sponsorship deals, and earn 5% of their gigs — paid same-night via Stripe. No salary, no ceiling.
Built for hustlers who love bands.
Take 5% of your roster's Bandwagon-booked gigs. Paid same-night via Stripe Connect — at the same moment the band gets their cut, you get yours.
Broker a sponsorship deal? 10–15% of the sponsorship. Refer a vendor (sound, photo, lighting)? 10% of the booking. Real upside lives outside the gigs.
The Wagon dashboard shows every band's pipeline. Bandwagon handles contracts, payouts, vote graphs, contact history. You bring the relationship.
Pass Riders' Academy and you wear the Bandwagon Verified badge. It's a credential nobody else can grant — and bands shop our roster of Verified Riders.
On your first three signed bands, Bandwagon comps the platform's 5% cut for the first 90 days. Lower friction for the band, faster start for you.
Rosters are capped at 20 active bands so you actually have time to ride with each of them. We measure quality, not volume.
What 5% actually buys.
This isn't traditional band management.Real artist managers take 15–20% and handle contracts, taxes, label outreach, tour logistics, press. That's not the Rider role. We pay 5% because the platform does 70% of what those managers do — booking, payouts, demand signal, audit trail. You do the human 30%: coaching, vote campaigns, content cadence, venue introductions, conflict resolution.
Expect roughly 30 minutes per week per band for active riding, plus a monthly strategy call. A 15-band roster is about 8 hours/week of focused Rider work, plus the sponsorship/vendor brokerage you choose to do on top.
The math at scale. A Daytona band averaging $1,500/show and 2 shows/month puts $1,800 into your pocket per year. A 15-band roster of mid-tier local bands at that rate is ~$27k/year of gig commission. The seven-figure outcomes come from sponsorship deals — one $5k sponsorship that you broker pays $500–750. Real Riders earn 60% of their income outside gigs.
You can fire us, we can fire you. Quarterly review on every Rider. If a roster stagnates for two consecutive quarters, the Verified badge is suspended. Same way you can fire a band off your roster. Same-night accountability.
Tell us about you.
We read every application. Bar is taste, hustle, and local knowledge — not a resume.