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What is Bandnews?

Bandnews.org is a search engine keeping track of what is going on in the band scene. A bot collects the news from official band websites and magazines so you can read them on one page.
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About Bandnews.org

Bandnews.org – Music News. Live from the Web

Bandnews.org is a search engine keeping track of what is going on in the band scene. A bot collects the news from official band websites and magazines so you can read them on one page.

What can I do here?

Search and browse in over 800 news sources, read about the latest band information and discover new bands in the genre sections.

Login to myBandnews to personalise your own newsfeed by selecting your favorite bands.

You can also suggest new bands, we haven't included in the system yet.
Click on Suggest a band here or in the menu above.

For who is Bandnews.org?

For Fans

Bandnews.org is devoted to the numerous fans always seeking the newest information about their favorite bands.

Features

  • Know exactly what's happening in the band world at the moment
  • Fast and easy to use search tool
  • Encounter great bands here you may have never heard of before
  • Listen to sound previews and much more

For Bands

Our website is dedicated to all the various bands out there living for what they do: create their own style of music, perform live on stage and most importantly push the crowd forward. We want to give those bands props through this website by making them known to an even broader audience.

Features

  • Immediately make thousands of people know when you update your website
  • Attract a lot more visitors to your homepage throughout the day
  • No work involved on your side, everything happens automatically!
    Except for updating your own website ;-)

How it works

Our searchbot picks the latest news entries from band websites worldwide and automatically arranges them to present the most recent news first.

The newsfeeds are updated continuously throughout the day, so you're always getting the information as quickly as possible.

More about the Bandnews.org Robot

The Bot is registered as official indexing Spider and strictly follows the rules of the robots.txt file on any webserver. Due to this restriction it's not possible for us to catch certain band news. We're sorry but rules are rules.

Why Bandnews.org?

We like a lot of bands and are somehow sure you do too ;-) That's why we all together browse to so many websites everyday just to grasp the latest news.
Since this is utterly impossible we thought about a system who would do the job for us, Bandnews.org was born.

Who's behind Bandnews.org?

Two guys addicted to music. One programmer, one designer.

Alexander Kirk

Concept, Data engineering, Programming, Brain power
alex@bandnews.org

Nader Cserny

Concept, Design, HTML/CSS, Music, Marketing/PR, Text
nader@bandnews.org

Thanks to our Band Staff

Theresa Meiksner
theresa@bandnews.org