10 Great Musician Websites: Strong Design and Fan Engagement
Looking for inspiration to create the perfect website for your music? Check out these 10 great musician websites that set the standard for design, functionality, and fan engagement.
10 Great Musician Websites
by Julia Kater via Bandzoogle
A music website is a must-have for every artist. It serves as a homebase where you can direct your fans, and it also shows industry that you are ready to take your career to the next level.
There are many elements of what makes a music website impactful – from the design and layout to the use of features such as a music player, store, and more.
In this post we’re looking at 10 powerful websites that were built using Bandzoogle. These examples provide a great cross-section of what’s possible when using Bandzoogle to build yourself a custom music website. After all, each of our website templates are designed with musicians in mind, and our team is mostly made up of musicians as well!
Here’s a look at ten of our favourite sites, each using a different website template available on all Bandzoogle website plans:
1. Coco Prosecco: Tonic template
Coco Prosecco‘s website is built using the ‘Tonic’ music website template. She’s combining a bright pop flare with a retro vibe in her custom logo, and this frequency is carried throughout her website pages — the flashy hot pink isn’t a color commonly seen so boldly in website design, and this isn’t a site someone will soon forget!
The menu items are few, and succinctly to-the-point: Home, Upcoming Events, Featured Mix, and an Electronic Press Kit, all set in a classy one-page format, where the menu buttons pull you down the screen to specific sections in the layout. This website communicates its purpose — and the artist’s energy — efficiently, professionally, and with striking style. Fabulous!
2. The Twang Brothers: Supro template
The Twang Bangers use the ‘Supro’ website template, setting up a strong split screen on loading. Their compelling header image is to one side, complemented by their memorable band logo clearly featured above an invitation to discover their music.
The site’s page menu is listed across the top of the screen, with clear titles — so you know exactly what sort of content you’ll find with each click. The call-to-action is clear at the outset: you’re encouraged to click the ‘learn more’ button to find out more about their new single, ‘Enough to Cry.’ This leads to a clean Smart Links page, where you can select which streaming platform you’d like to use to hear the new track. The band’s previous albums are also featured on the page for you to explore.
3. Holy Hannah: Acid template
Holy Hannah‘s music website uses the ‘Acid’ website template to great effect. Her professional logo is displayed with a great image filter applied in the header section, giving the site some dynamic overlay. With a different header image on each page, the visitor gets a good feeling for Hanna’s musical range while moving between her clearly-structured pages.
The EPK page effectively provides a succinct snapshot of the artist, displaying a short bio, music samples, quotes from media reviews, press photos, videos, a contact form, and a downloadable stage plot / input list — helpful details for any presenter!
4. The Trvlr: Pulse template
Another example of a great EPK is seen here, on The Trvlr‘s music website. With the ‘Pulse’ website template, this artist uses the ‘section shapes’ option to set up eye-catching page sections that keep the layout dynamic and interesting to navigate.
The colors selected for the page sections echo the colors seen in their website’s intriguing header image — always a clever technique to pull the look of a website together into a cohesive vibe. The artist’s name is front and center when the website loads; their social media links are clear and inviting; the site menu is subtle but accessible; and they’ve included a sitewide music player that displays across the bottom of every page, allowing visitors to seamlessly stream their music as they move through the website. Excellent.
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5. Amy Pitt: Anthem template
Amy Pitt has used the ‘Anthem’ website template to set up a richly subdued home for her music online. Her use of a video in the place of a header image has a subtle animated effect, as birds gently glide through the background sky of her artist image. The tone is consistent throughout her website pages, where the use of only black font sets and maintains a minimal aesthetic. Pages are clearly labeled and sparsely titled, leaving plenty of breathing room for the website’s quiet video and the artist’s name, cleverly rendered in a bold font.
6. Hey Violet: Tone template
The band Hey Violet has used the ‘Tone’ music website template to set up a page that is simple and compelling. They make good use of several header images, offering up a rotating slideshow of excellent band photos.
With their band name at the center of the loading screen, the layout invites the viewer to find out more about the project. This is a great example of a page that doesn’t contain a lot of content but still serves its purpose as a homebase for the band online. Fans arrive at their website to learn more and are rewarded with excellent photography alongside links to places where the band can be followed online: Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, X, TikTok, Bandsintown, and Patreon. Plenty of ways to support this band, all assembled in one convenient place, with an aesthetic that is uniquely their own.
7. Julian Taylor: Amelia template
Julian Taylor‘s website is built using the ‘Amelia’ website template, and with it he has assembled a classic look. With non-serif fonts alongside a black and white header image, the website captures the energy of a classic (and classy!) print magazine, inviting the viewer to explore further.
In addition to the crisp pages that outline his craft, Julian has included a page named ‘Giving Back’ — this page uniquely calls attention to a list of charitable organizations to which he and his band members have contributed over time, encouraging his supporters to learn about these organizations and do the same. A fabulous initiative to encourage and celebrate!
8. Lucy Morgan: Alma template
Lucy Morgan has used the ‘Alma’ website template to place a striking emphasis on her headshot. Her website uses a single page layout, with no menu items to move between sections. This is a great approach for a website that’s simple and uncluttered — the visitor simply scrolls down the page to view the six sections of the page: her bio, music to stream directly on the page, videos, a photo gallery of professional images, links to media reviews, and a contact form.
Cleverly, her social media links are visible in the bottom right corner throughout scrolling her website, encouraging you to check out her socials — a great feature of the ‘Alma’ music website template.
9. Waxie: Benily template
Instrumentalist and soundscape creator Waxie has used the ‘Benily’ website template to build a simple customized website. The use of the ‘shapes’ option within the header image creates a unique layout that isn’t frequently seen in website design, making for a standout header section.
His musician bio includes just the details you need to know about his background in sound production and instrumentation, and features a sample of tracks that can be played directly on the page. He has rounded this page out by a section of photos that display the range of gear he has available in the recording studio. The ‘Contact’ link in the top left corner leads to a custom form visitors can use to contact him, and the simple outlay of social media icons lead straight to his Instagram, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud profiles. Simple. Effective.
10. Corey Gulkin: Receiver template
The ‘Receiver’ website template is used perfectly by Corey Gulkin to build a unique music website. With a header image that boasts a bold colour and layout, this artist has assembled a homepage that provides everything it should about their craft: links to social and streaming platforms, an embedded music player, a mailing list signup form, live and produced videos, a calendar of upcoming shows, and a clear list of their team’s contact details (publicity / label / everything else).
This is another great example of a one-page website that features menu links to move you down the page to a specific section — expertly done on this customized website.
