Is The Musician’s Section on Craigslist Legit? We Asked Musicians

Tim Wenger | October 1, 2014

by Tim Wenger

The “Musicians” section on Craigslist is one of the more interesting music-centric pages to troll on the web. Whether you are looking to start a band, replace a member, make a music video, get a gig, or offer a service- usually at least a post or two can be found on just about anything that has to do with music. The experiences, much like the posts themselves, cover the gamut- from a cello player joining The Lumineers and achieving rock star status to cracked-out hobos showing up at your band practice, you can find it all on Craigslist. Here are a few stories from the Denver edition.

After my last band broke up, I decided to put an ad on CL to see if anyone was looking to start a band or needed a singer. I kept it anonymous and said, basically, “Here’s what I’m into and looking to do, hit me up if you’re interested.” Fred (guitar) responded and said, “I think I know who this is. Allout Helter is looking for a singer, you should hit me up.”
So, for me, Craigslist totally worked out. Here we are 4 years later, playing at Riot Fest Denver. On occasion, I make solid decisions and joining Allout Helter was one of the best ever.
-Ross Hostage

I found my bass player on there and we became best friends. Now we play in our band together and work at Violet Recording together. Nonetheless, before I met him, there were about 20 people I turned down who came and jammed. Now on Oct 30th we are headlining the Bluebird Theater.

-Caleb Kronen

Most are pretty good..You can usually get a vibe while talking on the phone first..

-David Ketelaar

TheHits originally formed all through the workings of craigslist and we still have 3 out of 4 original members!! lol we recently got a new singer and added another guitar player in which we hinted again through CL and we did have some very interesting people show up for auditions!

-Kristen O’Conner

I posted in there in 2012 asking local musicians to submit their music to my radio broadcast and had a lot of success with it. However, the email I used still gets an insane amount of spam to this day because of it. I imagine it got collected by a few email brokers.

-Stan Price

I have found amazing band members using CL…..I love it!!

-Grant McIntosh

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