In the music industry, a road manager is a person who works with small to mid-sized tours (in terms of personnel involved, based on size of the production). Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• advancing show dates
• making travel & hotel arrangements (for all group members)
• hiring backline techs or recommending techs to be hired (depending on authority given by artist management)
• coordinating artist media obligations (normally while on tour, but could be anytime)
• ensuring artist rider requirements are met
• collecting payments due to the artist at show time (or signing off on amount due to be sent via wire, depending on arrangements made by artist management)
• making vendor payments (or submission of amounts due to vendors to artist management)
• handling personnel issues
• distributing per diem (depending on per diem schedule approved by artist management)

Road Crew were an American garage band from Los Angeles, California, formed in late 1983. The band consisted of future Guns N' Roses members Slash, Steven Adler and Duff McKagan. They auditioned a number of singers while writing material. However they disbanded the same year with no releases.

The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians or support personnel who travel with a band on tour, usually in sleeper buses, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians. This catch-all term covers many people: tour managers, production managers, stage managers, front of house and monitor engineers, lighting directors, lighting designers, lighting techs, guitar techs, bass techs, drum techs, keyboard techs, pyrotechnic techs, security/bodyguards, truck drivers, merchandise crew and caterers, among others.