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Assign priority tiers to focus your listening. High = review first, Skip = hide entirely.
Assign priority tiers to subgenres. High = review first, Skip = hide entirely.
Paste the full share URL or just the code after ?import=
(Click the ? icon in the lower right to return to this tutorial)
Welcome to FestWiz. FestWiz is free to use. This is a tool for you to use to track + rate bands coming to Austin in March of 2026. If you like you can use our built in tools to give the bands you listen to a rating so you can more easily see when and where they're playing. If you don't have the time or inclination to listen to several hundred bands, I've already done that and built my recommendations into FestWiz. You can use FestWiz's schedule mode to track bands you're interested in seeing, and all of your personal ratings are saved in your browser's local storage. You can also share your ratings with friends or with your phone so that it's up to date.
If you prefer, you can watch a video walkthrough instead
Hopefully this is pretty easy to understand! Use filters and sorting to rate every post-punk band, every band from Ireland, or every band whose name contains the letter Z. If there's a band I'm missing that you want to track, you can add them in yourself with the +Add Artist button. Toggle on or off FestWiz's picks in the rating section as you prefer.
Use Genre Tiers and Subgenre Tiers to prioritize what you listen to. I don't think any of us will have time to listen to 1300+ artists, so check out performers who play genres you like, or who are playing shows with other acts you're into. Like rating a band, you can always change these tiers at any time.
Switch to the Schedule page to see all shows on a grid organized by venue, date, + time slot. Tap any performer to see details and update your rating. In all modes you can filter by how highly you rated an artist and admission type (Free, Paid, Badge).
I used to make a giant spreadsheet of all the shows I wanted to see and Grid view mimics this. Now view is intended for a quick glance on your phone to see which artists are about to go on and let you make some quick decisions on where to go. Plan mode exists to help you order your day to see as many of the acts you care about as possible.
Click Share to generate a URL that contains your ratings. This is how you can get your ratings from a desktop computer to your phone. Open that URL on your phone and magically your ratings can be imported. Also you can send this link to a friend — when they open the link they'll be prompted to import your ratings so they can benefit from how excellent your taste in music is.
The Export button gives you two options:
On the Schedule page, use + Shows to manually add unofficial showcases or day parties that you don't see in our grid. I will be adding shows to our list continuously, but I'm just one person so I might miss stuff, and this is your way to add in things on your own.
I'm Brian. I created FestWiz to help me rate bands coming to Austin and catch as many bands live as I could. Every year I spend hours and hours poring over which bands I like and building a big ol spreadsheet full of every show I can find. This year I decided if I'm going to spending that much time anyway, I may as well make something other people can use.
I want to be up front, I did use an LLM to help me build this app. I am a web developer and in theory I could have done, if not all of this myself, well, a bunch of it. But using an LLM made it viable for me to do this in the time I had. I have reservations about AI, and I want to acknowledge there are a LOT of related societal problems and this is feeding in to it.
As I am doing this in my free time and I have a job and at least 600 more bands to listen to, so I cannot provide reliable tech support, but I'll try to help if something goes wrong.
FestWiz is free to use. If you like it and want to do something supportive, you could subscribe to the newsletter of offbeat Austin events I produce with my partner, listen to my radio show on Kpiss.fm (the Golden Stream), or tell a friend about this app. Thanks for clicking on things and reading things!
— Brian
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