What we list
Nights where anyone can sign up and play, read or do a set, in four areas: Greater Boston, MetroWest, the North Shore and the South Shore. Music comes first; comedy and poetry nights are listed too.
How a night goes up
Hosts, regulars and venues tell us about nights by email or through the site, and we look for them ourselves. A person reads everything that comes in, and decides what goes up. Nothing is listed until someone at Prestophonic has looked at it.
How we keep it fresh
Every listing says when someone last checked it. Confirmed means a host, a regular or our own phone call vouched for it in the last month. Seen online means we found it on the venue's own page lately. A listing nobody has vouched for in eight weeks says so, and we call the venue.
To see what the venues' pages say, we use our own crawler, PrestophonicBot, which follows each site's rules.
Who we are
Prestophonic is a Crow Studios product, for the people who play Boston's stages and the people who come to hear them. Write to us at info@prestophonic.com.