Band site
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Goal is to provide an interactive community platform where fans can connect with bands as opposed to more traditional flash based marketing sites. It provides a central location for fans to join, share, and collaborate, providing large amounts of content that couldn’t be matched by editors and band members.
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Band tools
Easy wizard/site builder
- select from a set of default themes
- choose default and additional features (priced accordingly)
- add content/maintain without need knowledge of html or need of a webmaster
Syndication and distribution
- entry way into distribution such as CD Baby and the Orchard
- digital audio to last.fm, pandora, and other digital outlets
- News to myspace, facebook, and any other blog
- events to upcoming, eventful, myspace, facebook etc.
- photos/video to Flickr, Google, YouTube, MySpace etc.
Site features
- Product sales
- merchandise
- physicals
- downloads
- tickets
- Official photos and video
- Blogs for band and individual members
- RSS/mailing lists
- Extras
- wallpaper
- buddy icons
- ecards
- pre-sale ticket purchases
- band voice messages and new music
- discount on online store
- contests, drawings and giveaways
Fan interactive features
- Content rating and reviews
- Submit news and concert updates
- Upload/share/manipulte photos and video
- watch and attended list (for concerts)
- Fan blogs, forums and guestbooks
- Friend/buddy lists
Inspiration and examples
Drupal sites
Indie
- Curt Smith (Tears for Fears)
- Crosby, Stills & Nash - official site for Crosby, Stills, and Nash
- CSNY - official site for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
- Pete Droge - amazing integration of Flash and Drupal
- Graham Nash - another great example of Flash/Drupal integration
- Phil Wickham - amazing integration of Flash and Drupal
- The Guy Wilkins Band - great example of a simple, yet effective artist site
Sony/BMG
Warner
- Metallica - Metallica will put material from their forthcoming album online on their own terms
- REM - site for their 2008 tour
- Static-X
- Grateful Dead - Official Site of the Grateful Dead
- Ashley Tisdale
- Crime Mob
- Avenged Sevenfold - Example from WBR, first artist using Ubercart to sell fan club memberships
- Mastodon
- Michael Buble
Other open source solutions
Hosted solutions
- BandSiteLive - A hosted solution provided by Dragonfly Solutions, LLC.
- Hostbaby - A hosted solution provided by the folks from CDBaby.
- Bandzoogle
- Broadjam
