Finding the perfect WordPress theme drives us all a bit crazy.
If you’re anything like me, you just want a simple look that’s easy to setup so you can start adding your content?
So, we’ve selected 8 great musician WordPress themes for you today that fit the bill.
Enjoy, and let us know which theme you end up going with, even if it’s not on our list!
How To Make a Musician Website – Nuts and Bolts
WordPress is the #1 platform to create a portfolio website. It’s mobile friendly, great for selling music with eCommerce, and ranks well in Google so people can actually find your music. In fact over 30% of the best websites use WordPress.
Business-minded people are used to seeing WordPress websites so they’ll be more likely to admire your work, and there are tons of help communities (like this one!) making WordPress an ideal place to create a portfolio website.
If you’re still wondering the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, let me tell you the the main setbacks of WordPress.com are you don’t own it (so it can go down anytime) you can’t advertise, and you can’t use most themes and plugins.
That’s why we always use WordPress.org – it’s free too (you just need the domain and hosting setup) and is where 99% of professional bloggers operate.
So now that we’re set on WordPress.org, let’s see how to make your website (and you) into a professional success story.
All you need to begin is a domain name (your website’s address) and a hosting account (the virtual piece of land where we’ll make a portfolio website).
For the domain/hosting process we recommend HostGator. HostGator is the web host we’ve used for nearly 10 years at DearBlogger, is always affordable, has consistently good live chat people and you only need to click a few buttons to install WordPress and start creating.
What about costs? Isn’t everything getting expensive these days? Yes, but…
Thankfully HostGator is currently offering DearBlogger readers up to 62% off hosting, a free SSL, and a domain name for only $5.99! That’s practically free.
The step-by-step process you need to follow to pick a domain, lock in hosting discount, and install WordPress is covered in our Step-By-Step Guide to Launching a WordPress Blog in 10 Minutes or Less.
After you complete this guide (which usually takes people under 1 hour to complete) you will walk away with a brand new WordPress website you can show your friends.
Then, we can check out the best WordPress themes for musician / band website!
1. Obsidian
Osidian is a modern and clean approach to the musician WordPress theme. It gives you beautiful audio and video featured sections, discography, an area to manage your gig and full screen background images.
Also a major pro is the sitewide player than can be accessed from anywhere on your site. This one really earns it’s place as #1 on our list of musician WP themes.
2. Oxium
Oxium is a clean and sassy WordPress theme for musicians. Audio library, video, galleries, plus built-in artist pages, event management, and custom widgets.
The custom widgets are particularly cool because you can use them for social media event discovery.
Also a major pro, drag & drop page builders (therefore no coding required). You won’t be disappointed with a little Oxium under the hood of your website.
3. Kontrol
Kontrol is a modern and user friendly WordPress music theme. It has all the usual fixin’s like homepage slider, blog, galleries and featured players you’d expect on any high-quality WordPress music theme.
Also a cool feature are the easy to use variety of color layouts.
4. Music
Music is a powerful WordPress theme made just for musicians and bands.
What I really loved move about Music is the artist showcase feature allowing you to display multiple artists along with their upcoming tour dates. You can use this feature to create the next music bog or mashup blog.
5. Soundstage
Soundstage is a amped up WordPress music theme that makes it easy to sell your music.
It also has all the usual suspects like band features, discography, custom widgets, audio & video players, and a humungous homepage image slider. Go see it for yourself!
6. Promenade
Promenade is one of the easiest themes to setup on this list.
It comes with all the music WordPress theme criteria like event management, custom widgets, video library, responsive full screen image galleries and that’s only scratching the surface. Take it for a spin today!
7. Marquee
Marque is a WordPress theme designed for the musicians who want to be known for their high sense of style.
It manages to be simple in functionality but elaborate in the messages it sends to users.
Marge is #7 on our list, but really could be our first choice any day to create a WordPress website for a musician.
8. Brooklyn
Last but not least we have Brooklyn, NYC’s #2 burrough (just kidding all you artists!). Like the city itself, this theme is highly colorful. You’ll love all the easy to setup colorways.
It has many industries baked into it too – you can use Brooklyn for your event management business, or to run a music blog aggregator, or just to run your own blog.
That does it folks! Please do let us know which theme above was the best musician WordPress theme for you!
Thanks for sharing.I really loved reading your blog. It was very well authored and easy to understand. Unlike other blogs I have read which are really not that good.
Thanks Again.
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Nice post thanks for sharing
Nicely researched and presented. Thanks for delivering genuine information
Thank you, I try to tell my sister that WordPress would be a great CMS to create your musician site on. It’s seo friendly, mobile friendly, and you have access to almost unlimited plugins. Im going to direct her to this article. Great post.
Sounds great Larry! Plus all those easy features the wp music themes come with like music libraries and players. What’s holding her back?
Here’s a fast and easy tutorial whenever she’d like to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioI-fmyev4 🙂
Thanks a lot for taking the time and writing this post. Great help for me!
Thank you for providing the useful information.These are helpful in link buillding.
Gotta build a website before you build a link 🙂
Thanks for having one of the most sophisticated blog. I have come throughout in some time. Its just incredible how much you can take away from something simply because of how visually beautiful it’s! You have put with each other a great blog space.
We do try to maximize the value of our blog space! Thanks so much for these kinds words. Please come back! What were you able to take away / what should we make more of?
Thank you for this post, especially for Oxium, beautiful theme.
It’s a beaut! Thanks for commenting. Should have a video on how to make a musician website soonish too..
awesome article and very helpful.Thanks
Thanks and great to see ya Earli!