35 Inspirational Website Designs from the Music Industry
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Within the music industry there is a great variety in terms of the quality of websites. Some bands have excellent, creative websites, and others have sites that are not so friendly for visitors. In this post we’ll feature 35 websites from the music industry. Some are band websites and others are involved in the music industry in various ways.
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46 Responses
nice music websites, thanks for the list..
Great collection! I have one similar book about Music sites from taschen.com
Great post, some really nice sites there, although a few of them look like a standard template design??
I agree w/ Rishi. Some look like standard table structures. But, a lot of these are pretty slick.
Those are some awesome sites. Almost makes me want to start a band so I can make a site like those for myself. Unfortunately, I can’t sing.
Great list with some very beautiful designs.
“Industrial” design has really taken web design to a new level. It’s nice to see that throwing money at design sometimes actually works. Now give me the money.
This is a cool article. I always love music industry websites, they are fun to create as they are very artistic and heavy on flash. Very creative.
What a great insipiration website design all are from music industry, i enjoy the post.
Hi,
All Designs are really good, i like that all,
Thanks
I’m really amazed about the creativity involved in these themes
Very beautiful, thanks for share.
The prodigy should be on the list: http://www.theprodigy.com/. Graphicly rich, while being really useable too. Great design!
A lot of creative sites, but I wonder how many of them actually increase sales, which is supposed to be the purpose.
@Josh – “Increasing sales” is not always the purpose of a website. Especially for a musician. How about keeping fans informed and developing a relationship with them and most of all sharing music?
It’s amazing to know that some of them are powered by WordPress.
Thanks for the list.
Wow! Awesome sites. I’m just learning to build sites using Justin Tadlock’s Hybrid and Bliss theme frameworks. (No affiliation) Maybe these sites don’t increase sales but they are attention getting and thereby get more traffic. More traffic leads to higher page rankings leads to advertisers that will pay to advertise on your site. For a good example of this do a google search ” how Plenty of fish conquered online dating”. The guy is a multi-millionaire from paid ads.
Pearl Jam has also a great website.
you forgot Stereofame http://www.stereofame.com
Wow. There’s so much talent out there. Love how WordPress is powering so many of these sites.
Many of these designs are not search friendly. That is something that should be kept in mind when designing IMO.
I love how most of these sites have a great balance of aesthetics and cleanliness. I also agree with Andy, WordPress is awesome!
Wonderful and great designs. But i like so much Remedy Drive design. It began too creative.
It always depends. All the designs are good but most of them are too overburdened. Purevolume is the best in my opinion
Thanks,
I really enjoyed looking at these websites.
Hi I like all designs.
http://www.carrienewcomer.com
Margot Blanche was my favorite. Sexy cover and cool tune with the old Roaring 20′s intro then into smooth contemporary.
something for most tastes
I like the looks of them… But as a web designer, a lot of these sites are extremely terrible. I don’t mean to be negative, but someone’s got to do it… And the more the amatures know, the better.
One example, “The Blizzards” website, looks good yes… But what’s a good website if A. it isnt remotely cross-browser compatible (view their page using IE 7/8 or Opera), B. on main-stream browsers, half the stuff on the site doesn’t work properly.
1. Put some roll-overs on links and buttons… You can’t tell what you are looking at statically and what is user-interactive.
2. Use lightbox or shadowbox to play your embedded flash videos… For example, you have 9 videos you want to show off? Put a small thumb, and when you click on the small thumb, you launch a full-sized video. Minimization is far sexier in modern web practices.
Making a site look good is worthless if it doesn’t function properly. Nuff with the good looks and let’s get some actual functionality. Myspace layouts are dead people.
How come all 35 site is awesome to the max? I can’t really decide the best one. They’re all equally stunning.
Dont forget:
http://www.agagency.nl
http://www.jamezmusic.com
http://www.koi-amsterdam.com
You forgot… http://www.tylerbryantmusic.com
and http://www.rhettcanipe.com
The londonband website is already shut down. so much for being inspirational.
Was searching for music blog that have hip design did not find many, but your list is superb.