This post contains analysis of the websites of three bands with similarities to Chaos Killed the Dinosaurs: Cage the Elephant, a band who had great success with their debut album, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, one of our musical influences with a strong female lead and the Noisettes, a band which also has strong female representation, all of the indie pop/rock genres.
This is the current front page of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's website, it features:
- band branding in the top left corner taken from their most recent album
- a blog on the home page giving users information on band news and pictures and videos of gigs
- a modern, simple font
- an easy to use navigation bar on the side
- a black and white colour scheme which helps the coloured band branding
- a background which appears to be a part of a body with moving bugs crawling on it which is confusing which draws in and fascinates the user
- links to social media in the bottom left hand corner
- a list of people listening with a link to their live blog
This is the current front page of the Noisettes' website, featuring:
- Branding of latest album through imagery, colours and font
- Links to buy first single and new album
- Large band picture
- Female lead of band is more prominent with composition and costume in image
- Bright, eye-catching aesthetics
- Links to social media at the bottom
- Animal imagery of cheetahs
- News about tours and performance on home page
- Links to new, blog, media and live performance at top bar on home page
- Institutional copy at bottom of page
- Iconic band font, different to album font
- black and white colour scheme
- scrolling image reel as main feature, including:
- aspirational tour video (a band member crowd surfing has good connotations about concerts and relationship between band and crowd/fans)
- link to buy latest album
- link to music store
- link to merchandise store
- branding of latest album in synergy with colour scheme and imagery of front page
- blog of latest news on front page
- link to sign up to their newsletter
- music player
- link to news, music, tours, photos, videos, biography and shop on navigation bar
- different fonts for album name and band name
- synergy between imagery on album and website
- what to put in our navigation bar as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Noisettes have minimal navigation options, however this may be because they are more established bands and have less need to promote merchandise to fans
- having a blog or news on our home page
- having a link to "buy" our debut single or album on the home page
- band performance pictures, although this only featured with Cage the Elephant, it is effective in promoting their live music
- having a scrolling reel on our home page as this bombards the user with promotion of the band
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