Lubbock · Texas
Find Musicians in Lubbock, TX
Lubbock gave the world Buddy Holly, and the West Texas tradition never stopped: the Depot District venues, Texas Tech, and a Red Dirt and Texas-country pipeline that keeps sending acts out on the road. Bandry makes a proud, spread-out plains scene easy to navigate.
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
Lubbock has the depth.
Buddy Holly's hometown
Lubbock's place in music history is locked in, and the songwriting tradition behind it is alive. Find the players by role and radius.
Red Dirt and Texas country
The West Texas scene feeds the whole Texas-country circuit. Bandry connects the bands, pickers, and singers driving it.
Texas Tech and the Depot
A big university and a real venue district in one town. The bulletin finds the people; the Resources tab maps the rooms.
On the ground
Where Lubbock plays.
A quick map of the Lubbock 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
The Blue Light Live
A Depot District honky-tonk and listening room since 1999, the red-dirt launchpad that broke Flatland Cavalry and William Clark Green.
Cactus Theater
A downtown Buddy Holly Ave landmark from 1938, 383 seated, in-house sound and lights, local-to-touring acts Thursday through Saturday.
La Diosa Cellars
An intimate Depot District tapas-and-wine room with local and regional live music every Friday and Saturday night.
The Garden
A Depot District club on Buddy Holly Ave, a mid-size room booking touring rock and regional bands.
Jake's Backroom
A roughly 450-cap room on 50th St, the go-to stage for rock, metal and touring tribute bills.
Downtown Social LBK
A Depot District bar on Texas Ave, the former Backstage Lubbock, live bands, DJs and comedy in a flexible room.
Flippers Tavern
A small bar near Texas Tech on Ave Q with hot dogs, pinball and a steady calendar of local bands and DJs.
Record stores, studios and rehearsal
Ralph's Records
Record store. On 82nd St since 1980, Lubbock's largest locally owned shop with deep new and used vinyl and bargain bins.
Hub City Records
Record store. A collector-minded shop on Boston Ave since 2024, rare punk, metal and experimental vinyl with buy-sell-trade.
Amusement Park Recording Studio
Recording studio. Gold-record producer Scott Faris's Lubbock room, curated vintage gear plus modern Pro Tools rigs, a destination studio.
Mirrorball Studios
Recording studio. A bookable room on the Marsha Sharp Fwy with an engineer, one of few Texas studios with an MCI tape machine.
Tarpley Music
Gear shop. A full-line store on 50th St since 1986, guitars, amps, drums and keys plus brass, woodwind and guitar repair.
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 Lubbock
Every role in one place.
Find your people
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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 Lubbock
How do I find musicians in Lubbock?
Post what you're looking for on Bandry's Lubbock 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 Lubbock?
Reading the Lubbock bulletin and endorsing posts are free forever. Posting your own ad and linking up run on a subscription, $9.99 a month or $79.99 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 Lubbock?
All of them: drummers, guitarists, bassists, singers, and keyboard players, plus producers, mixing and mastering engineers, photographers, videographers, designers, and studios. Lubbock's scene runs deep, and role-based posts cover the whole chain from forming a band to finishing a record.
How close are the Lubbock 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 Lubbock or out into the rest of Texas.