R+P Post 11: Artist websites that have inspired and influenced my ideas

It was important for us to consider how the websites of various bands and artists are used, whilst thinking about how we could shape our own website. With this in mind, we looked at and compared a number of different artist websites and formats before targeting artist websites more specific to our ideas.

The Killers:
We looked at this website as The Killers is a well-known indie rock band. As our band shares this genre, we hoped to generate some ideas.

The website for Ellie Goulding
does little other than push products
at the audience.

The first thing which is immediately clear is that there is a big emphasis on their recent music. By placing the band's latest music video on the front page like this, it pushes the view that music is the real passion of this band. When we compared this to the websites of mainstream bands and artists such as Ellie Goulding, it became clear that many popular music artists are branded to sell products rather than for a love of music.

Nothing But Thieves
As we are considering one of their songs for our music video, we decided to observe how this band presents themselves. Many of the music videos for Nothing But Thieves' songs have multiple conceptual aspects, so it wasn't too surprising to find a similarly unique home page on their website. 

Clicking on the name of each song will cause it to play, with the waves in the center moving in time with the song. Whilst this may not be feasible from a technical stance, it would help to signify our genre if we could find a less mainstream style for our website similar to this.