Music Festivals, Concert Tours Website Designs

A bit dissappointed by my findings so far...

I must be missing some major summer 2008 events for sure, help me out? 

Anyways here's the current list, if you have any recommendations of hot summer music concert event websites, add the link in the comments section so we can all have a look at it. 

 
Bonnaroo.com

Lollapalooza.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollapalooza

Ozzfest.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzfest

ACLfestival.com

Bumbershoot.org - Seattle

Handyblues.org

Musikfest.org

RothburyFestival.com

HardRockCalling.co.uk - Hyde Park London

Summerfest.com

MileHighMusicFestival.com

American Pop Music Tours

TrueColorsTour.com

Tour.AmericanIdol.com

MusicBuildsTour.com

Hey maybe there's something happening this summer after all count me in on this hot ticket!

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http://www.newconcept.hu

Weblog and Portfolio of Szabolcs Bakos a small-town Hungary web designer. Bold use of color, typography and just a smashing user interface, love this site.

http://www.devotchka.net/

A nostalgic flash animated website, this one from the Symphony gallery, where they had this to say about it...

"Since Symphony is based in XML, it's the perfect tool to drive a Flash site. The band can add news, shows, albums and songs all through the Symphony back-end. All the content is then formatted into XML documents that are loaded dynamically by Flash. I can't think of any CMS in existence that would have allowed me to do this as quickly and cleanly as Symphony did." A nice testimonial for flash dev's.

http://www.5pieces.com/

A longtime ExpressionEngine resource, and the second redesign in less than a year. I like this version even more than the previous incarnate, nice job Vinnyio!

eight6.com

This seems to be the week for new Wordpress sites. This one, eight6 is for a one-man design studio in Detroit, founded in ‘98 by Noel Jackson. One possible reason for all of the new Wordpress sites is the milestone release of version 2.5+ back on March, 29th.

http://www.darrenhoyt.com

DarrenHoyt.com gets a redesign, and a fresh new take on who or what is the Darren Hoyt blog. Namely a decent resource for all things web design and Wordpress.

Antiphrasis.com

What can I say Iguanas, Wordpress, and Validating Xhtml are all cool!

Vacation Travel

http://sessions.collectiveidea.com/

A hands-on training session event site for the Ruby-on-Rails set, taking place in scenic Holland, Michigan later in June.

http://macallanridge.com

http://www.powerset.com/

A smooth design and excellent super-fast and easy research tool utilizing wikipedia and others. They have done a sweet job on the user interface of the results page. Can you say whick-etty - wicked - wiki!!

Contest of the Week:

http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/the-snoop-dogg-crestock-wallpaper-contest-120.aspx

How 'bout this schwag-a-mania special... official Crestock Design-A-Wallpaper contest! If your Wallpaper Design is chosen as the official Snoop Dogg wallpaper winner, you'll be Ego Trippin' and rolling in the shizzle mo-nizzle!

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Min.frexy.com

Vietnamese talent Min Tran, a one man web design Tour de Force, is fresh and sexy ...well not sure about all that, but it's a nice site from a talented designer.

Flavert.com

Flavert Media Lab's Hypothesis Version, über cool!

http://www.citrusdesign.ro

Rounding out the international flavored portfolio sites topping the gallery this week, this one from Romania.

CarnivaleDuvin.com/2008/

Cajun Carnivale Ringmeister, Emeril Lagasse does it again! Emeril's web dev team throws some more "Bam" on it, with his Foundation event website, nice work.

http://www.ladyandsons.com

Another Cooking Channel personality Paula Deen –the "Queen of Butter", gets a new site this week. This one a relaunch on the ExpressionEngine CMS. Is it lunch yet?

http://www.coalmarch.com

http://dereksholl.com

Fixie

A mootools accordion graces the homepage of Fixie Web Consulting. The transparent header treatment of the accordion sections makes it appear to be something unique. I love the design... on the other hand, a user not familiar with accordion menus, might not know what to click. A little more visual cue on the accordion link styling might be a good idea.

http://www.theseen.biz

A standout Flash portfolio, vivid colors, typography and textures.

And finally trailing the pack this week is "The Boss's" new site (and you thought the boss was Bruce Springsteen). The EllisLabs site got a redesign by none other than Rick Ellis himself. The new site is clean, spacious and eloquent. Be sure to check out the comic book Superhero art treatment of staff members on the Our Team page. Contributing the illustration work was one, Cliff Persaud. Derek Allard talks a little about the illustration works and shows pencil renderings for each in this post,"GREATEST about us page of all time".

Quote of the week:
"Code is art... art is Code."

WebDesign Is Art wallpaper

New Kid on the Block

A new media lightbox script Shadowbox—a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application built entirely in JavaScript by Michael J. I. Jackson (I think the JI stands for Jedi Intellect) . This script works independently of your other javascript frameworks, and there are already some adapters for the major js libraries, jQuery, etc. Check out the demos...

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