San Antonio · Texas
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San Antonio is the heartland of Tejano and conjunto, with a rock and punk underground on the St. Mary's Strip and a West Side tradition that shaped a whole genre. It's a big, proud music city that's never run on Austin's hype. Bandry connects its players, local-first.
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
San Antonio has the depth.
Tejano and conjunto home turf
San Antonio's West Side is where the music lives. The accordion-and-bajo tradition is alive, and Bandry's role posts help you find the players keeping it going.
The St. Mary's Strip
The rock, punk, and indie venues cluster here. Radius-filtered posts keep your search to people across town, not across the state.
Its own city, its own scene
An hour from Austin and nothing like it. San Antonio's bench is deep and underserved, exactly the kind of scene Bandry is built to surface.
On the ground
Where San Antonio plays.
A quick map of the San Antonio 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
Paper Tiger
St. Mary's Strip anchor, roughly 1,000 cap with a smaller side room, the main stage for touring indie, punk and hip-hop.
Hi-Tones
Tiny St. Mary's-area dive around 160 cap, indoor-outdoor, a beloved underground room for punk, hip-hop and rockabilly.
Sam's Burger Joint
Pearl-area burgers-and-bands music hall since 1999, a mid-size room widely called the best-sounding stage in town.
The Lonesome Rose
St. Mary's Strip honky tonk with a big patio, an intimate room for country, Tejano, indie and psych-folk.
502 Bar
Northwest-side craft-beer bar and small club running local and touring acts across genres since 2012.
Vibes Event Center
Downtown mid-size hall near 1,800 cap, heavy on metal, hardcore and touring rock packages.
Aztec Theatre
Restored 1926 downtown theater flexible up to about 1,500, the step-up room for bigger touring indie and headliners.
Record stores, studios and rehearsal
Hogwild Records
Record store. Tobin Hill, across from San Antonio College since 1982, metal and punk roots plus rap, R&B and rare vinyl.
Southtown Vinyl
Record store. Southtown on South St. Mary's since 2016, all-genre new and used vinyl plus DJ gear and in-store local sets.
Alamo Music Center
Gear shop. Downtown full-service instrument store since 1929, deep guitar, bass and keys stock plus repairs and rentals.
The Woodshed Rehearsal Studios
Rehearsal. Central rehearsal and recording rooms, hourly rates and gear rental, highly rated by local bands.
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 San Antonio
Every role in one place.
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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 San Antonio
How do I find musicians in San Antonio?
Post what you're looking for on Bandry's San Antonio 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 San Antonio?
Reading the San Antonio 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 San Antonio?
All of them: drummers, guitarists, bassists, singers, and keyboard players, plus producers, mixing and mastering engineers, photographers, videographers, designers, and studios. San Antonio's scene runs deep, and role-based posts cover the whole chain from forming a band to finishing a record.
How close are the San Antonio 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 San Antonio or out into the rest of Texas.