agreed. change "it's where the work gets done" to sth like "get your band noticed and booked TODAY!"
other than that, although the site is quite busy, I don't think it's distracting and you've got everything themed together pretty nicely.
You might want to look into using htaccess to have URLs like /post instead of URLs like index.php?action=post - better for
SEO and for users.
I can help with that if you want for a very small fee.
That bottom adsense leaderboard isn't going to get clicked. As both the homepage content boxes are pointing to the same link, I'd change the "
Do you need some work done" (leftmost) box to another adsense box, themed in line with the white bg/ orange/black text style. Why not have a link unit above the search bar?
Look into getting gig feeds to populate your data, or perhaps scrape other sites if you want to go down that route.
I think the site has a lot of potential. You need userbase, and a reason for them to stay, that's the most important thing for you to develop at the moment - don't add any more feature, concentrate on getting what's there working and used by people.