Creating a band website is a completely different animal than your normal run of the mill corporate or business website. Rules of usability and standards compliance go out the window in favor of creativity and innovation. Indie bands in particular do their best to portray how fresh they are and why you should listen to them. There is a fine balance between being functional and usable versus annoying and here is the top 30:
Random order and separated into 4 categories; illustrative, blog-like, photographic and miscellaneous.
ILLUSTRATIVE:
Broken Social Scene
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Beck
Kevin Drew
Matt & Kim
Tape n’ Tapes
The Dears
The Strokes
BLOG-LIKE:
Friendly Fires
Mates Of States
Neko Case
Richard Swift
Takka Takka
Titus Adronicus
PHOTOGRAPHIC:
The Walkmen
Art Brut
Flaming Lips
Interpol
Iron and Wine
Silver Jews
The Teenagers
Spoon
MISCELLANEOUS:
M.I.A.
Grizzly Bear
CUT COPY
Nine Inch Nails
Notwist
Tokyo Police Club
Vampire Weekend
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This is awesome. Great reference as I think about what I want.
http://www.kimdandthekillerbees.com and http://www.smartsetmusic.com are great too!
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This really helps with the site I am creating! Thanks
Only thing I need to find now is a good flash mp3 player.
These sites look rad! I found a band website theme site called http://www.bandthemer.com I might use for an upcoming project
http://themcrookedvultures.com – much better than a few here, in terms of unity of concept.
Plants and Animals also have a very nice & very unique website: http://plantsandanimals.ca/