# BandSlate

> BandSlate is a directory of working bands, the venues they play and their upcoming shows, plus band-management software. Public pages state their facts in plain text and carry schema.org JSON-LD (MusicGroup, MusicVenue, MusicEvent). A fact the pipeline could not source is omitted or marked "Not on record", never guessed.

## Directory

- [Directory home](https://www.bandslate.com/directory): every listed band, A-Z, with state and genre filters.
- [Venues](https://www.bandslate.com/directory/venues): venues with shows on record, filterable by type, capacity and genre.
- Place pages: https://www.bandslate.com/directory/<city>-<state> (for example /directory/tulsa-ok) list the bands of a city; https://www.bandslate.com/directory/<city>-<state>/shows lists its upcoming shows; https://www.bandslate.com/directory/<state> lists a state.

## Entity pages

- Band: https://www.bandslate.com/band/<slug>. Name, genres, hometown, members, links, shows on record, rooms played, with the source of each fact.
- Venue: https://www.bandslate.com/venue/<slug>. Address, coordinates, upcoming and past shows, bands on record, shows per year.
- Show: https://www.bandslate.com/show/<slug>. Date, venue, city, lineup in billing order, ticket links, price and age policy when known, status (scheduled, cancelled, postponed).

## Machine-readable

- [Sitemap index](https://www.bandslate.com/sitemap.xml): children for pages, hubs, cities, genres, bands, venues and shows. Each lists canonical URLs with a lastmod only where a real timestamp exists.
- [robots.txt](https://www.bandslate.com/robots.txt)

## Notes for citing

- Cite the page URL. Dates on show pages are the venue's local calendar date.
- Ticket links go to the seller; prices are as last listed there.
- Public pages are cached for minutes, not days: a change appears after the next refresh.
- Product and pricing: [features](https://www.bandslate.com/features), [pricing](https://www.bandslate.com/pricing).