Brooklyn · New York
Find Musicians in Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn is the DIY engine of New York music. Bushwick lofts, Williamsburg venues, basement shows that turn into bands that tour. The talent's stacked and finding collaborators still happens by flyer. Bandry fixes the finding part.
Why Bandry
Built for finding people locally.
Local, not regional
Radius-filtered means you see people who can actually make it to your rehearsal, not someone hours away.
The full music chain
Studios, mixing engineers, photographers, videographers, designers. Everything to take a project from rehearsal to release.
Direct contact, always
No in-app messaging to babysit. Link up, and they reach out to you directly. Off-platform, on your terms.
The scene
Brooklyn has the depth.
Bushwick to Greenpoint
Dense and walkable, exactly what radius-filtered posts are built for. See who's a train ride away, not a flight.
DIY to professional
Loft shows and pro studios in the same borough. Bandry's posts work across the whole spectrum.
All five boroughs
Set your radius wide and the bulletin reaches Queens, Manhattan, beyond. Local means whatever you can actually get to.
On the ground
Where Brooklyn plays.
A quick map of the Brooklyn scene: the indie-reachable rooms and the shops that keep it running. Bandry connects you to the players who fill them, and the Resources tab pins the rest near you.
Venues worth knowing
Union Pool
Williamsburg standby under the BQE since 2001, an intimate roughly 150-cap back room for indie, punk and rising local bands.
Warsaw
Greenpoint music hall in the historic Polish National Home, mid-size around 1,000 cap, punk, indie and hip-hop with pierogi at the bar.
Barbès
A tiny Park Slope back room with live music every night for 20-plus years, jazz, global, Afrobeat and folk up close.
Sunny's Bar
A historic Red Hook waterfront bar, an intimate back room hosting nightly bluegrass, folk and jazz sessions, deeply local.
The Sultan Room
Bushwick venue at Turk's Inn with a rooftop, a stylish mid-size room booking indie acts and genre-bending DJs.
Public Records
Gowanus audiophile sound room in a converted ASPCA building, an intimate hi-fi space for experimental, electronic and club nights.
Pete's Candy Store
Williamsburg's original nightly venue, free shows in a tiny train-car back room that launched Norah Jones and Sharon Van Etten.
Record stores, studios and rehearsal
Academy Records Annex
Record store. Greenpoint, one of Brooklyn's largest independent record stores, deep new and used vinyl plus stereo gear.
Human Head Records
Record store. A Bushwick crate-digger favorite on Meserole St, thousands of new and used records and unpretentious staff.
Figure 8 Recording
Recording studio. Prospect Heights, a respected multi-room studio with vintage Neve and SSL consoles and tape, a go-to for indie sessions.
Retrofret Vintage Guitars
Gear shop. A Carroll Gardens vintage guitar showroom and top-tier lutherie shop, established 1983 for collectors and players.
Pirate Studios
Rehearsal. Self-service rehearsal rooms in Bushwick and Gowanus, bookable by the hour 24/7, with drum, band and DJ spaces.
A starting map of the local scene, not a directory or an endorsement. Rooms and shops change, the people you meet on Bandry are how you stay current.
Who's on Bandry in Brooklyn
Every role in one place.
Find your people
Looking for a specific role?
Resources tab
The places, not just the people.
Beyond the bulletin, Bandry's Resources tab pulls in nearby studios, rehearsal spaces, venues, repair shops, and music stores from Apple Maps. Everything you need to actually make the record, all in one app.
Looking for a specific place? Recording studios, rehearsal space, music stores, instrument repair, music venues, or vinyl pressing near you.
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Finding musicians in Brooklyn
How do I find musicians in Brooklyn?
Post what you're looking for on Bandry's Brooklyn bulletin and set your reach to local. Musicians within your radius see it, and when someone's interested they link up, sharing their contact info so you can reach out directly and take it off-platform. No DMs and no inbox to manage.
Is Bandry free to use in Brooklyn?
Reading the Brooklyn bulletin and endorsing posts are free forever. Posting your own ad and linking up run on a subscription, $12.99 a month or $129.99 a year, after a 14-day free trial of everything. Bandry never takes a cut of any gig or arrangement you work out.
What kinds of musicians and pros are on Bandry in Brooklyn?
All of them: drummers, guitarists, bassists, singers, and keyboard players, plus producers, mixing and mastering engineers, photographers, videographers, designers, and studios. Brooklyn's scene runs deep, and role-based posts cover the whole chain from forming a band to finishing a record.
How close are the Brooklyn musicians Bandry shows me?
As close as you set. Bandry's local posts are radius-gated on both sides, so you only see people who can realistically make it to a rehearsal or session, whether that's across Brooklyn or out into the rest of New York.