Musician, Band & DJ Website Development
Streaming Hub, Tour Dates, Merch Shop, EPK & AI-Powered Fan Experience
Linktree is not a website. It is a list. Musicians, bands, and DJs need a real platform -- a streaming hub unifying Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp in one custom player, tour dates with ticket links auto-pulled from Bandsintown, a headless Shopify merch shop with zero transaction fees, a password-protected EPK for industry contacts, a newsletter fan club for recurring revenue, and a lyrics archive where every song title becomes an indexable page. For established acts: a Claude-powered fan experience that answers questions, recommends songs by mood, and knows the artist's entire catalogue. Custom platforms, not templates.
A custom musician website isn't just a prettier template -- it's a digital platform built specifically around who you are as an artist, what you've made, and how you actually make money. Here's the thing: most band websites are just slightly reskinned versions of the same five themes on ThemeForest. Yours shouldn't be. So what goes into one built properly? The streaming hub pulls together Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp into a single custom player -- not four awkward widgets fighting each other for space on the page. Tour dates auto-pull from Bandsintown or Songkick via API, or you manage them yourself from an admin dashboard, with a map view so fans in Austin or Manchester can see shows near them at a glance. The merch shop runs on headless Shopify -- real ecommerce with variant management, inventory tracking, and shipping zones, not a hobbyist storefront. And there's zero transaction fees beyond whatever Shopify plan you're on. The EPK sits behind a password-protected page built for labels, agents, and press: bio, hi-res photos, press quotes, rider, tech specs, all of it. No more emailing ZIP files. Your newsletter captures email addresses to a list you actually own -- not Instagram's algorithm, not TikTok's whims. The lyrics archive gives every song its own indexable page, so you rank for your own catalogue instead of handing that traffic to Genius. And for established acts, a Claude-powered fan experience can answer questions about your catalogue, recommend songs by mood, and recall your full touring history. The result is a website that works as hard as you do.
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How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Streaming Hub
Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp -- all four -- embedded inside one custom-designed player. Not a row of mismatched widgets that each look like they came from a different decade. One clean audio experience with album artwork, a proper track listing, and direct streaming links. It sounds like a small thing. In practice it changes how fans actually interact with your music on the site.
Tour Dates & Ticket Links
Tour dates auto-pull from Bandsintown or Songkick via API, so you're not manually updating three different places every time something changes. Or manage them directly from the admin dashboard if you prefer control. Either way, there's a map view of upcoming shows and direct ticket links through Dice, Eventbrite, or an embedded Stripe checkout -- no redirecting fans through four different platforms just to buy a ticket.
Headless Shopify Merch
Full Shopify ecommerce built into your Next.js site -- not bolted on, not a widget dropped into a corner of the page. Real variant management for size, colour, vinyl colour, whatever you need. Inventory tracking. Proper shipping zones. And -- worth saying again -- zero transaction fees above the plan cost. Not Big Cartel. Not a half-baked plugin.
Password-Protected EPK
Your EPK isn't a single bio and a couple of JPEGs. Done right, it's bio copy in short, medium, and long versions depending on what the publication needs. Hi-res press photos at actual download quality. Press quotes. The tech rider. A stage plot. Direct booking contact. All of it behind one password link you send out in about ten seconds.
Lyrics & Liner Notes Archive
Every song gets its own page -- lyrics, production credits, musicians, the story behind the track if you want to include it. But here's why this actually matters beyond the content: it's programmatic SEO. Every song title becomes an indexable page you own, ranking in search results that currently belong to Genius or AZLyrics.
AI Fan Experience
A Claude-powered chat embedded directly in your site, trained on your full catalogue, touring history, and FAQ. Fans ask which album to start with, what a specific lyric means, or which song fits a late-night drive. And it answers like a knowledgeable fan would -- not like a customer service bot reading from a script.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Music Video Gallery
YouTube and Vimeo embeds, filterable by album or era so fans aren't scrolling through a wall of videos trying to find the 2019 stuff. Auto-populated via YouTube API from your channel, so new uploads appear without anyone touching the site. Mobile-optimised throughout, with a poster image fallback for slow connections.
Newsletter Fan Club
ConvertKit or Mailchimp integration -- your choice -- with email capture on every page, not just buried in the footer. Subscribers get something real for signing up: early ticket access, behind-the-scenes content, demos. And for artists who want to take it further, recurring revenue via Stripe membership tiers is built right in.
Press Archive
Reviews, interviews, and features from press coverage all in one place, each with the date, publication name, and a pull quote worth reading. Google News schema for articles and structured data throughout -- because search engines treat credibility signals seriously, and so should you.
Guest Booking Page
For DJs and session musicians, there's a booking inquiry form that actually captures what you need: event type, date, duration, location, and budget. Routes directly to your manager or booking agent. No more generic contact forms where someone asks if you'll play their nephew's bar mitzvah for exposure.
Podcast Episodes
If you've got your own podcast or regular radio appearances, an episode archive with a built-in player, show notes, and guest list makes that content discoverable. Programmatic SEO per episode means every guest name and topic becomes a search-indexed page -- which adds up fast over 50+ episodes.
Multi-Language
International artists need their site speaking the right languages -- literally. Up to 9 locale support, with each language version indexed separately by Google. So a fan in São Paulo or Seoul can find you through local-language search, not just because they already knew your name.
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Artist Identity & Catalogue Audit
Week 1Before anything gets designed or built, we map your discography, touring history, press coverage, and commercial goals. Honestly, this is where most of the real work happens. Understanding your brand, your fanbase, and what you actually need the website to do -- that shapes every decision that comes after.
Custom Design -- Your Aesthetic
Week 2-3Not a band template with your logo dropped in. A design built around your actual visual identity: the palette from your album artwork, your photography style, typography that fits the genre. And mobile-first throughout -- because most of your fans are finding you on a phone, not a desktop.
Build -- Streaming, Merch, EPK, Fan Club
Week 4-6The core build covers streaming hub integration, headless Shopify merch, password-protected EPK, lyrics archive, newsletter integration, and tour dates via the Bandsintown API. These aren't optional extras -- they're the foundation of a site that actually does its job.
AI Fan Experience (Established Acts)
Week 7The Claude integration gets trained on your catalogue, your FAQ, and your interview archive -- so it actually knows what it's talking about. Then we test it against real fan queries, tune the tone to match your voice, and make sure it doesn't say anything embarrassing before it goes live.
Launch & Management Training
Week 8Before launch, you -- or your manager -- get trained on adding tour dates, uploading merch, updating the EPK, and publishing new releases. It's all designed to be manageable without a developer on call. And we establish a post-launch SEO baseline so you know where you're starting from.
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