LiveAndLoudList exists for one reason: to help local fans and local artists find each other, and to get more people out of the house and into a room with real music playing in it. It's not a business trying to squeeze value out of either side — it's a community resource, plain and simple.
That means no algorithm deciding what you get to see, no paid placement deciding who shows up first, and no artist ever pays to be listed. Open it up, see what's playing tonight or this weekend nearby, and go be part of it.
Artists keep their own schedule current with one gig sheet — it feeds their profile and every venue page automatically, so nothing goes stale from someone forgetting to update a calendar in two places.
Where an artist hasn't claimed their listing yet, shows are picked up from a light weekly check of local artists' and venues' own public schedules, so a room doesn't have to wait to be found.
Fans looking for something to do tonight or this weekend, close to home, without digging through five different social feeds to find it. Local artists who want an easy, free way to be found by the people already looking. Venues who'd rather have their calendar fill itself in than maintain it by hand.
Every show someone finds here is one more person in the room — that's the whole idea.