Awesome Premium WordPress Band Themes

With the emergence of world class bands and musicians in the world from the likes of Myspace, it was inevitable that theme designers would find a niche area to design for. With only a minor amount of themes designed based specifically for this niche, I’ve put together a list of the best for all types of musicians.

Backstage

Backstage from WooThemes comes with;

• A home page slider showcasing band/musician photography.
• A home page dedicated module to the band/musician biography.
• Unique page templates for your discography/music archive, and image & video galleries.
• Neat theme integration with media attachments.
• Custom Woo Widgets for use in the sidebar and in the home page widgetized zones: A media widget showcasing images, videos or music, a recent news widget, an upcoming shows widget, Flickr and advertising widgets amongst others.
• 7 stylish alternate colour schemes to choose from.

You can pick up Backstage from WooThemes for as little as $70.

Musaic

Musaic is a fun and clean template geared towards music/band portals or sites. The layout can be easily utilized in all types of sites.

• Clean navigation with subtext
• Rotating header background image with fun transparency usage (can turn off the rotation)
• Unitpngfix applied for ie transparency
• Tableless design

You can pick up Musaic from Themeforest for $17.

Tribal

Tribal is a new urban WordPress music / media theme from Gorilla Themes.  It is big city meets grunge meets music. Key features include;

• Automatic Font Replacement
• Multiple Dropdown Menu Navigation
• Flickr Integration
• Easy paste Code for Audio Player
• Ad your own Logo and Styles Easily
• No Custom Fields
• Gravatar Support
• Featured Content Slideshow
• Widget Ready
• Feedburner Integration
• Extensive help and tutorial included
• Ad your Adsense or Image Link Code
• Turn all-or-individual banners on/off

You can pick up Tribal from Gorilla Themes for as little as $79.95.

THiCK

Although THiCK is a super-personal theme it could be easily adapted in to a band/music style theme. With both clean & grunge, dark & light styles, as well as 5 colour schemes for each, you’re sure to find one you like. With a plentiful amount of customisable widgets, you’re sure to find some way to use it.

Features include;

• 20 different styles & colour schemes available – including grunge & clean, and light & dark designs;
• 3 different widgetized spaces with oodles of custom widgets to allow you to move content around as your heart desires;
• An integrated lifestream to publish all of your online activities elsewhere; and
• Two alternative header layouts for  you to play around with.

You can get THiCK from WooThemes for as little as $70.

Poplife76

A feel good theme! PopLife76 is the first of the PopLife series from Aloha Themes. While the theme’s design is very versatile for a number of uses, PopLife 76 is a pseudo-throwback to 1976 Americana. The music, images and fonts are instruments to help turn back the clock, while also looking like a modern website.

Features include;

• Unique, multi-purpose design – easy to customize
• Smart navigation – Showcases categories and pages
• Integrated the WP-sIFR plugin to make managing your sIFR fonts easier (no more editing a config file)
• Comes with PSD files for home page ads, logo and content backgrounds (optional)
• Multimedia showcase – add a music player or a YouTube video
• Flickr Integration
• Gravatar Support
• Featured Content Gallery for your featured posts
• Widget Ready
• Feedburner Integration
• Banner ad managment / Adsense
• Compatible with 2.8.4

You can purchase Poplife76 for as little as $27 from Aloha Themes.

Groovy Video

Groovy Video is a powerful, colourful, funky video blogging theme which has many colour schemes to be adapted in to a music/band theme. Features includes;

• Super-easy functionality to create video posts;
• Videos are resized automatically and Groovy even publishes the embed code for your readers;
• Integration of the WP-PostRatings plugin for some added fun & interactiveness;
• A completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required; and
• 17 amazing colour schemes to choose from!

You can pick up Groovy Video from WooThemes for as little as $70

On Demand

With the all new On Demand theme, getting thumbnail images and videos posted to your WordPress powered website is easier than ever. The days of copying embed code and adding custom fields are over with the brand new Press75.com “Simple Post Thumbnails” and “Simple Video Embedder” WordPress plugins included with the theme. Video Flick is compatible with any video service that provides embed code, or if you want to host your own videos, On Demand is also compatible with FLV (Flash Video) and Quicktime formats.

You can get On Demand from Press75.com for as little as $75

Dilapidated

Dilapidated is 7-in-1 grunge style WordPress theme designed for personal blogs and general content websites, however could definitely be used for grunge style bands.

Features include;

• 7 skins (Classic, Blue Grunge, Haemoglobin, Steel, Purple Haze, Regal Light & Grunge Green)
• Admin Panel for extensive customization of theme
• Image content slider
• Images automatically resized and cropped in slider and index posts
• Areas for Google Ads
• Recent comment widget (with avatar and excerpt support)
• Built-in contact links (email, RSS , Twitter)
• Built-in post sharing fuctionailty (Twitter, Digg, Facebook)

You can get Dilapidated from Themeforest for $27