City guides
Where the scene actually books.
Six metros and three Kentucky and Ohio cities, written for someone trying to find collaborators there: the neighborhoods, the rooms, the nights, and how a session or a show really gets booked. Tap a city.
- Los Angeles, CA 3 on KollabMe LA has more working producers, topliners, players and shooters than any city in the country, and almost none of them are findable from the sidewalk. The scene runs on referral: a co-write leads to a session, a session leads to a sub call, and geography splits it further, since a Highland Park band and a Sherman Oaks writer room can go years without crossing paths. HollywoodSilver LakeDowntown+2 more Read the guide
- New York, NY 5 on KollabMe New York rewards people who show up. A producer, a drummer and a shooter can live on the same subway line and never meet unless one of them plays out, so the scene sorts itself at bandstands, late sets and DIY shows rather than in inboxes. Every borough has its own working layer, and the map keeps sliding east. Lower East SideWilliamsburgBushwick+2 more Read the guide
- Atlanta, GA Atlanta runs on pull-up culture. Beats, verses, engineers and shooters move hand to hand through studio lobbies and club nights, and a name travels faster than any tape. Where you work matters: the rap and R&B economy sits on the Westside and in the suburbs, the band and songwriter scene sits east, and the two rarely overlap unless somebody drives. West MidtownEast Atlanta VillageDecatur+2 more Read the guide
- Nashville, TN Nashville is a writers town first and a session town second, and everything else grows out of those two facts. Co-writes get scheduled through publishers, players get hired off charts and hangs, and the rounds circuit is the audition process for everyone from country hopefuls to pop writers priced out of LA. The non-country scenes are real, and they run on the same handshake economy. Music RowBerry HillEast Nashville+2 more Read the guide
- Miami, FL Miami is the Latin music industry's capital and a dance-music capital at the same time, with a rap lineage running from Liberty City to Carol City underneath both. The metro is long and flat, so the Wynwood band crowd, the South Beach DJ economy and the Miami Gardens rap producers can go months without meeting. What connects them is a small circle of engineers and shooters who work all three. WynwoodLittle HaitiLittle Havana+2 more Read the guide
- Chicago, IL Chicago is a city of institutions and neighborhoods, and the working scene runs through both. House and footwork, the AACM and the Green Mill, the all-ages DIY circuit that keeps sending teenage bands to Matador: each one is a room or a night you can walk into. Bookers trade notes, engineers come included in the hourly rate, and a strong Tuesday at a small room travels fast. Wicker ParkLogan SquarePilsen+2 more Read the guide
Kentucky & Ohio
- Lexington, KY Lexington has no Berry Hill. It doesn't have a block of rooms where producers wait for the phone to ring. Most records here start in a home rig and get finished either in one of a handful of real rooms or by sending files to Nashville. The town also has more players than it has paying sessions, which is good news if you're hiring. Home rigsThe Distillery DistrictNorth Limestone+1 more Read the guide
- Louisville, KY Louisville is a club city. Bands come up through a handful of rooms on the east side, play bigger stages downtown, and record in studios that range from vintage department-store builds to 24-hour rap rooms. If you're looking for bandmates, a producer or a session player here, the people you want are already playing out. You just need a faster way to reach them than a comment under a flyer. GermantownButchertownIrish Hill Read the guide
- Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati's scene runs on two neighborhoods and a river. Over-the-Rhine and Northside hold the rooms where local bands play for free most nights, and Northern Kentucky across the Ohio holds a good share of the studios. The city is big enough to have every genre and small enough that the same few dozen players show up on everyone's records. Getting into that circle is most of the work. Over-the-RhineNorthsideClifton Read the guide
Local first
How KollabMe treats your city.
Local means a 50-mile radius around your location, and it applies to the Feed and to Spaces. The Match deck ranks by distance but does not fence you in, so a producer two states over can still turn up if the fit is strong.
- Start local. Sort the deck by Nearest and filter the Feed to My City.
- Widen when you need to. Spaces goes to 100 or 250 miles when the room you need is not close.
- Not in a big city? The Feed has a Global audience and the deck never runs dry on distance alone.
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