How to Make an Electronic Press Kit Without Paying for Another Service (Introducing Press Kits)

Reach out to a venue, a festival, a promoter, or a label and the first thing they ask for is your press kit. Not a link to your Instagram. Not a dropbox of loose files. A press kit, the one page that tells them who you are and lets them hear you in about ten seconds. Having one isn't a nice-to-have anymore. It's expected.

Most musicians don't have a real one. They've got a Google Drive folder, a few photos, and a PDF that went out of date three shows ago. And the few who do have a proper kit are usually paying a second monthly bill for it, to a service that does nothing else. Bandry just fixed both of those.

Introducing Press Kits

Bandry now builds your electronic press kit, right in the app, and it's included in your subscription. No second service, no extra login, no extra bill. Open your profile, tap Press Kit, and put it together: a hero photo, your name and tagline, a short bio, your genres, your music and video links, press quotes, career highlights, the rooms you've played, and a booking contact. Pick an accent color and the whole thing themes to match your brand.

What a Press Kit Is, and Why It Decides Whether You Get Booked

A booker, a talent buyer, a playlist curator, an A&R rep, they all want the same thing: one page that answers "who is this and what do they sound like" before they've finished their coffee. The kit that wins puts the music right on the page, because if they have to leave it to go hear you, you've already lost them. Then it backs the music up with the things the industry actually trusts: real photos they can use on a poster, live video that proves you can do it on a stage, the venues you've played, any press you've earned, and a clear way to reach you.

Get that page in front of the right person and it does more than land a Tuesday slot. It's what puts you on a festival bill, into an editorial playlist, and on a label's radar. It's the backbone of how booking actually works.

A Real Link, Not a File Rotting in Someone's Inbox

Here's the part most people get wrong: the format matters as much as the content. A web page beats a PDF, and a PDF beats a Google Drive folder, every single time. Bookers click, they don't download. They're on their phone, somewhere between load-in and soundcheck, and if your kit makes them pinch and zoom or wait on a spinner, they close the tab and move to the next email.

Publish your Bandry kit and you get a clean, professional link, something like bandry.app/your-band-name, that anyone can open in any browser. No app to install, no account to make, no sign-up wall in the way. It loads fast, it reads like a real release, and it's always current, because it's a live page, not a file you emailed back in March. Change a show or swap a photo and the link everyone already has updates itself.

And a PDF for When They Want a File

Some contacts still want something to download, drop into a deck, or print and pin to a board. So every kit also exports as a clean PDF one-sheet, the same design as your page, ready to attach to an email. The people who book for a living say it best: lead with the link, keep a PDF in your back pocket. Bandry hands you both from the same kit, with nothing extra to set up.

Built Around What Gets You Booked, Not Vanity Numbers

Your kit leads with what bookers believe: your music, the real rooms you've played, real press, and honest feedback from your peers. That feedback can come straight from your Showcase reviews, and you choose exactly which notes to feature. What you won't find anywhere on it is a follower count or a monthly-listener flex. The industry has learned not to trust those, so we left them out on purpose.

You do get one number, and it's only for you: private analytics on how many people have opened your kit and roughly where they are. No public scoreboard, just a quiet read on who's looking, so you know your link is landing.

It's Yours, and You Can Run More Than One

A Bandry press kit is its own thing, separate from your personal profile. So a band member can build the band's kit even if the account is under their own name, and you can keep more than one, a band, a solo project, a side thing, each with its own page and its own link. It starts filled in from your profile to save you the blank page, then it's yours to shape however the project needs.

Everything in One Place, Without Paying for Five Apps

This is the whole point of Bandry. The services built just for press kits, Sonicbids, ReverbNation, Bandzoogle, charge you another five, ten, twenty dollars a month, on top of everything else already on your card: your distributor, your website, your storage, your tools. It stacks up fast, and half of it sits unused.

Bandry rolls the press kit into the one subscription you already have. The same membership that lets you find a bandmate, get real feedback on a track, sell a pedal, find a studio, and link up with the people in your scene now builds and hosts your press kit too. One place. One bill. Nothing new to learn, log into, or pay for. That's the promise: everything you need to run your music, together, instead of scattered across a dozen separate platforms each taking their cut.

How to Build Yours

Open your profile, tap Press Kit, and start filling it in. Add your music and video links, your photo, your shows, your press, your highlights, and a booking contact. Hit publish and you've got a link to send and a PDF to attach, ready for the next venue that asks. New to Bandry? Head to get started, build your kit, and send it to the first room you want to play.