25 of the Best Websites of Bands and Musicians

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Websites from various types of entertainment-related industries can often be a source of design inspiration. Bands and musicians need to have a website that is attractive to visitors and provides all of the necessary information that fans will want to find. In this post we’ll feature 25 websites for your design inspiration. Also, please see 35 Inspirational Websites Designs from the Music Industry.

Chris Cornell

Chris Cornell

Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

Darryl Worley

Darryl Worley

Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake

Anthony Hamilton

Anthony Hamilton

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Francesca Battistelli

Francesca Battistelli

Rocket Club

Rocket Club

U2

U2

Daughtry

Daughtry

Death Cab for Cutie

Death Cab for Cutie

Jake Owen

Jake Owen

Zac Brown Band

Zac Brown Band

Brad Paisely

Brad Paisely

Darius Rucker

Darius Rucker

Madonna

Madonna

The Specials

The Specials

Jason Aldean

Jason Aldean

Maxwell

Maxwell

Jason Mraz

Jason Mraz

Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts

Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw

David Cook

David Cook

Mat Kearney

Mat Kearney

Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson

Kellie Pickler

Kellie Pickler

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56 Responses

Dzinepress September 24th, 2009

that’s really nice listing for music lovers.

Ray Pettersson September 24th, 2009

Nice selection. Thanks!

aledesign.it September 24th, 2009

wow wow is my dream! Chris Cornell is a good site but I appreciate even more the album, fantastic. The collaboration with Timbaland is good. And the site is clean and easy to view. Anthony Hamilton and madonna and Francesca Battistelli are so nice too.

Tommy Day September 24th, 2009

I just redesigned my music website, wish I had seen these before!

m a r c o September 25th, 2009

Very, very cool post… Thank you… I am being asked to design a site / blog by an up and coming actor, and this post is just the inspiration I needed to get in the zone…

Thank you again.

Mona September 25th, 2009

Some really nice sites in this list that I hadn’t visited before, thank you! I would like to recommend Tori Amos as well, her site is very well-designed.

designiac September 25th, 2009

Is it allowed to say that this collections sucks?! Sorry, that’s my opinion.

http://www.nin.com Nine Inch Nails

designiac September 25th, 2009

I must say that Chris Cornell hast nice photos showing him smashing a guitar, But that nearly all thats great about that website. Looking at the content the old soundgarden stuff is great off cause, but we are talking about design, inspiration, usability and functionality, right?

Alan Jackson (I don’t even know that guy – I’m glad): Okay, you can overview everything and find what your are looking for. good grid layout, usability is good…BUT the design sucks! and the big switching news banner under the navigation is annoying. looks horrible and is to fast. so good developer, bad designer!

Darryl Worley (maybe the author of this articles likes that kind of music :-P ) The first thing you recognize is this mouse-moved-landscape-perspective-simulation-thing. Some website made a great effect with this sort of thing in the past…. but this site doesn’t. It moves to much and the layers looking not so good. Often less is more, when you’re using effects. This flash thing looks like 15 min. of work.

Justin Timberlake: nothing annoying. in contrast to the previous mentioned Alan Jackson this switching trough news/photo is okay. fading makes also a difference.
The structure of this website is nice, so usability is good. The design is clean, which is nice, but nothing special. I think he had once a website that was more interesting.

Anthony Hamilton: I like the design, but really don’t like that iframe in the left bottom -know what I mean?!

Francesca Battistelli website is okay. It’s nice, but nothing that impresses you.

Rocket Club: I like how the logo/ name is integrated next to menu. I believe that not the verb I was looking for…. I hate the colors of this website. You got the visit it to see what I mean. This thumbnail here of it looks okay. But that maybe just my opinion.

U2 (yeah, a few great albums) They had better websites in the past. remembering that timeline U2-history thing? This is okay, but because it’s U2 you must expect something better… more unique….

maybe I find time to say more about the others later…
My point is that is collection doesn’t contain websites with unique intuitive navigation, great design working good together with the content or great ways to connect to the fans.

NP September 25th, 2009

I think Orba Squara’s website kicks ass! http://orbasquara.com/

Cody September 25th, 2009

Wow, these are really good designs. It nice to see a band website that isn’t a myspace page.

JJ September 26th, 2009

The Specials have really nice website.

Web Templates September 27th, 2009

I become frustrated with musician websites that are all flash, and don’t give visitors any alternate content if they don’t have flash installed.

S. Preston September 29th, 2009

Great set.. I wish you made this 2 weeks ago when I was designing a site for a musician. Great photography is such a key for this type of site.

I would add
http://www.katyperry.com/
http://www.wilcoworld.net/

Cheers.

Mike Sawicki September 30th, 2009

The fact that Daughtry’s Logo is simply the Bleeding Cowboy free font kind of ruins his site for me. Nothing against the font, but be creative and change it up some.
http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=bleeding_cowboys&page=1&nb_ppp_old=10&text=DAUGHTRY&nb_ppp=10&psize=m&classt=alpha

Mark Carter October 3rd, 2009

Very interesting to see the commonalities here … and how few break away from convention. Perhaps it’s just the type of music/musicians being showcased? I guess coming from the now ‘old-school’ punk rock generation, so much of modern music related matters seems so safe.

Peter Mikes November 12th, 2009

These sites look rad! I found a band website theme site called http://www.bandthemer.com I might use for an upcoming project

Ankara Parke December 22nd, 2009

The Specials have really nice website.

seo December 23rd, 2009

They have some really cool designs and navigation! Nice sites!

Corey January 25th, 2010

Some excellent examples of some great looking designs. Independent musicians can follow suit and get some great designs done too!

Kezzirt January 26th, 2010

hello:

I think Depeche mode deserves to be included in these amazing sites :)
Thanks for those amazing blogs :D

http://www.depechemode.com/

Vally Mortenson January 28th, 2010

A very stylish list of great web sites. Thanks for collecting all these links.

US Jazz vibes player, Joe Locke, recently had his site re-designed and I think it’s outstanding: http://www.joelocke.com/ (not just my opinion).

Woodsdog22 March 3rd, 2010

These are much more professional than other ones i’ve been looking at recently. I also like the design of http://www.rockhardfoundation.com . Although the font arrangements could be better.

oyunlar March 24th, 2010

The Specials have really nice website.

ric calles July 28th, 2010

I love the selection, great sites! I think the following site is pretty good too for an indy artist:
http://www.webstarts.com/brianrivera

Check it out

Denizli WEB TASARIM July 30th, 2010

I have a plan to design musician site. Thats very helpfull.
thanks

Rockon October 13th, 2010

Really nice listing for music lovers.

R+ October 25th, 2010

check out the new rammstein website. Think this is an interesting approach too.
Wondering why the most artist websites run of the mill instead of beeing an important
part of artist identity.

andrew November 23rd, 2010

most of these websites look horrible. boring. cheesy. commercial.

Craig Pennings December 8th, 2010

Very nice collection, thanks for sharing.

Ashley January 30th, 2011

Thank you for a great article regarding music websites. We just stood up our site (www.semitonemusic.com) and have made some progress, but these sites really give us a good idea of ideas we can incorporate. As I click through the list, I notice more and more things that we will use to continue our pursuit of a top notch website!

Again thank you for a great article packed with resources!

-Ashley

Chris Hatcher February 8th, 2011

Just about to design our new band website. Thanks for some inspiration!

Fi March 1st, 2011

I love Francesca Battistelli’s site nicely laid out.

Big fan of this one Dave Anderson and the Wine Merchants
http://www.daveanderson.com.au

Aaron May 13th, 2011

That’s some good inspiration. Thanks for the post.

oyna June 13th, 2011

Some really nice sites in this list that I hadn’t visited before, thank you! I would like to recommend Tori Amos as well, her site is very well-designed.

Elliott Samuel July 12th, 2011

Unfortunately, most of these have been updated since this post and aren’t nearly as cool! But thanks for the post!

fishman17 August 1st, 2011

To this day I haven’t found a musician’s website that is easy to navigate, has appropriate amount of content per page, and actually has all the content a fan would want to see. A sad reality considering so many options are available nowadays.

Tom September 30th, 2011

I have used Bandmo (http://bandmo.com) to create my band’s website and the results are awesome.

I find it much more simple than other solutions out there.
Good luck!

NeoClassic December 1st, 2011

Nice clean sites but if creativity and interesting design was a factor, most of these wouldn’t factor into the top 20. I think Jason Mraz, Death Cab, The Specials, Rascal Flatts, Francesca and maybe U2 and Madonna have something here.

Just for comparison, try anything Jack White… thirdmanrecords, White Stripes or the Raconteurs for fun concepts and design.

I think there may be some bias here with the country music. Seems like A LOT of country and ironically, these are the sites that are lacking a unique design. The sites do have some nice photography, the layout is organized and easy enough to navigate with most of them but there isn’t anything fun or artistic, which isn’t surprising as I find most “new country” quite soulless and void of artistic value… =P

Kayla April 23rd, 2012

Wow, these are really good, but making one like this is probably way over my budget. We’re sticking to a theme, probably http://www.mybandtheme.com/
I love the use of color on some of the sites for example the Francesca Battistelli site, or the Anthony Hamilton site. But the black and white one is good as well, but basically you make anything B&W, and it’ll look stylish, so no surprise there :-)

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