Mike Paschal/The Daily Texan
By: Brad Barry
Published in University of Texas at Austin’s The Daily Texan
What do you get when you combine two former touring drummers, music fans and the rise of social media? For Todd Hansen and Scott Miller, the result was a national database of free places to stay for traveling musicians.
Better Than The Van is an online community where bands and fans can connect through sheer practicality: Bands in need of a place to crash for one night can search the Web site to find people offering a bed, couch or spot on the floor. While in theory quite similar to Couchsurfing.com, a popular Web site where worldwide wayfarers find free places to stay during their travels, Better Than The Van narrows the scope significantly to include only traveling musicians on very short-term stays — usually just one night….Click here to read the rest of this article
