Ever wanted to travel on the cheap, crashing for free, eating organic, rocking out with the best indie bands and avoiding the usual tourist traps? Well, now you can do just that without having to make your best friend move to Paris, or Madrid, or New York City. Book Your Own Fucking Life, the do-it-yourself resource guide spawned by the magazine MAXIMUMROCKNROLL in 1992, has now gone online! Although it was intended for use by indie bands wanting to book tour venues, BYOFL is so much more than that – it’s a veritable treasury of alternative travel sites. That’s because every year, the San Francisco-based Amoeba Collective spend hours compiling thousands of database entries of bands, labels, promoters and venues, radio stations, record and book stores, zines, crash pads, printers, publishers and hangouts across the world. When you consult BYOFL before heading off to a new city, the world suddenly becomes a smaller, friendlier, more interesting place. Using the website is easy, because you can search the entries by category or by country/state. This guide is an invaluable resource for all alternative types who plan to venture out into the big, big world. (EPW)
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