Oct 5 2006 10:00 AM ET

Hire your favorite concert act, cheap!

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Planning a birthday party, college reunion, or bar mitzvah any time soon? Don’t settle for your town’s local wedding band — aim high! Thanks to the corporate drones savvy businessmen at Clear Channel, all it takes is one click on this website and your favorite band, singer, or comedian can be up on stage at your event!

For example: Looking to recapture that Lilith Fair fun? The Indigo Girls are currently ”GA” (that means ”generally available”), and happy to make your backyard closer to fine for as little as $35K. Tired of wondering what Macy Gray is up to? Why not plan a funky jam for any time between May and September, and invite her? (She’ll also run you $35-$50K, but no way does she eat as much as the Indigo Girls.)

Of course, it doesn’t all make sense: The dulcet pop tones of RiloKiley ($15K) can be had for half the price of Sarah Silverman’s brayingcomedy ($30-$40K), and despite his ”general” availability, Huey Lewiswill still set you back a cool $150K, which is more than Bill Cosby andClap Your Hands Say Yeah combined.

My favorite? VH1 talking head Christian Finnegan, who asks $5-$7.5Kper appearance, despite the fact that he and I both got our start onthe same VH1 game show, Movies That Rock, in which we answered general movie trivia questions as well as questions about our specific Movie That Rocked: Cool As Ice,featuring the former Rob Van Winkle in a starmaking turn. And let metell you something, PopWatchers: No one is offering me $5,000 to leavemy house.

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  • Ep Sato

    Is Horatio Sanz going to drop his prices now that his availability is up?
    And duuude, I want Charlie Murphy to play at my next event. How hard would it be to raise $25k by the end of October?

  • Stephanie Travitsky

    Pauly Shore is generally available. Why am I not surprised? And a wedding is not a wedding without Charlie Daniels.

  • stereogum

    Buy Your Favorite Band

    The fine folks at Clear Channel have put together a handy list if you find yourself in the market for a band and mired in engagement-fee curiousity (via PopWatch). The sheet gives you prices and availability on everyone from 30…

  • jen

    Gavin DeGraw is avaliable for big money?
    Visions of 8 foot dollar bills dance in my head.

  • Ep Sato

    I wonder how much Yakov Smirnoff would charge and what his availability is like? What a country!

  • Stephanie Travitsky

    I think Smirnov has his own stage in Branford Missouri along with Andy Williams?

  • Roman

    He does, and its Branson, MO :)

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