25 of the Best Websites of Bands and Musicians

Published September 23rd, 2009 in Galleries

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

Alan Jackson

Darryl Worley

Justin Timberlake

Anthony Hamilton

Francesca Battistelli

Rocket Club

Daughtry

Death Cab for Cutie

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35 Responses to “25 of the Best Websites of Bands and Musicians”

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 ) 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.