Why it’s in the Showcase: It was recently highlighted in a case study published by the Make.WordPress.org Marketing team.

The design and showing how versatile WordPress truly can be.

The official site for recording artist and author Alanis Morissette.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This site organizes a large amount of information in an easily digestible format, using a healthy dose of HTML5 and JavaScript tools for fluid transitions and embellishments throughout the site.

The official site for rapper and actor LL Cool J.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This simple one-page scrolling site with amazing imagery and AJAX-loading content allows for a clean and user friendly experience.

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, well known by his stage names Snoop Doggy Dogg, Snoop Dogg, and Snoop Lion. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Snoop Dogg’s site encompasses his entire online presence and seamlessly weaves in social media, video, music, and other multimedia for a content-rich experience for all his fans.

No Treble is an online magazine dedicated to all things bass. Music, videos, news, gear, reviews, interviews and more. We publish daily and we’re read by more than 100,000 bassists worldwide each month.

Why it’s in the Showcase: We’ve enjoyed running on WordPress since the beginning because of its extensibility. We’ve really made our installation our own, with lots of unique code added into the mix.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Blondie is one of the most iconic bands ever formed. They’ve created hits like “Heart of Glass”, “Call Me”, “Atomic” and “The Tide is High” to name a few.

Why it’s in the Showcase: DaveMatthewsBand.com is built on WordPress using a custom theme and homepage curation tools. It sits on a load-balanced, Varnish-powered multi-server setup to handle the massive traffic spikes DMB receives and uses a variety of custom-developed API tools to sync media across Flickr, Facebook and MusicToday.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Citizen Cope website is a one-page, smooth-scrolling HTML5/CSS3/jQuery-based site that uses WordPress as a CMS to control all site content, along with Facebook Comments, Soundcloud and other social integrations.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This website promotes the film Quadrophenia, a movie based on the album by The Who. It integrates social media, photo galleries, videos, and user-submitted content all within one WordPress-powered hub.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Pop ‘stache was built entirely in WordPress from the ground up using a custom theme and plugins. The site is gaining serious momentum in the Chicago music scene and is the main media sponsor for an official Lollapalooza pre-show.

Why it’s in the Showcase:  Coulton’s WordPress-powered site is chock full of music, news and merchandise. First established in 2005, Coulton’s website keeps fans updated on his music, shows, and Thing-A-Week project updates.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This site uses an HTML5 and jQuery powered theme, custom post types, and custom metaboxes to create a CMS-style experience.

Consequence of Sound (CoS) is a New York and Chicago-based online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Since its inception in 2007, CoS has reported on all of music’s breaking news, in addition to hyping new artists and cracking highly anticipated lineups for music festivals across the globe.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Consequence of Sound is a major music website that is powered by WordPress.

Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular heavy metal, alternative rock, punk rock , and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Lollapalooza is a world-famous music festival and uses WordPress to power its website, which includes information on the festival’s line-up, FAQs, and more.

Site for the world-class saxophonist James Carter — where fans can find audio excerpts from his latest work, a biographical video, and discography. Carter has won the critics’ choice award for baritone saxophone three years in a row from Down Beat magazine. He has played on albums with Cyrus Chestnut, Wynton Marsalis and the Mingus Big Band.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Jamescarterlive.com demonstrates the flexibility of WordPress in how a very artistic, non-blog, site can be developed on the platform.

Röyksopp is a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, formed in 1998. The group has been nominated for one Grammy Award, won seven Spellemannprisen awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums which have topped the charts in several countries.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Röyksopp’s well-designed website integrates music, photos, static content, and more. It is also makes use of the WordPress member system to keep fans in the loop and offer them unique content.

Kate Rusby is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times. In 2001 The Guardian described her as “a superstar of the British acoustic scene.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Kate Rusby is a major singer in the UK and has a well-designed website featuring a variety of content that is powered by WordPress.

The official site of Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants, the new side project by Foo Fighters’ guitarist Chris Shiflett.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site for Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants is a stylish, yet simple implementation of WordPress 3.0 with a wide variety of sharing tools, GigPress integration, and SoundCloud integration with a randomized background pulling from the album package designed by The Uprising Creative.

URB is a monthly American magazine devoted to electronic music, hip hop and urban lifestyle and culture. Based in Los Angeles, California, the magazine was founded in 1990 by Raymond Roker.

Why it’s in the Showcase: URB’s site uses over 60 plugins, gets over 10,000 hits a day, has more than 9,000 posts from 40+ contributors, is 99% flash free and has a completely custom build theme using tons of CSS3 and jQuery elements.

Katy Perry is a multi-platinum American singer-songwriter and musician.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Katy Perry is a famous musician and performer who uses WordPress to power her official website.

OffBeat is a monthly print magazine focusing on the music, cuisine and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana. Its first issue was printed in 1988. The OffBeat media family also includes the Louisiana Music Directory, a printed database of music businesses and musicians throughout the state of Louisiana; the Weekly Beat e-mail newsletter, recipient of a 2009 New Orleans Press Club Award; and the website, OffBeat.com.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Offbeat magazine was developed entirely using WordPress theme logic and some custom plugins. The development team created an easily managed visual archive of the magazine’s 20 years of backissues, a club directory system, a restaurants directory system (both of which can be updated with an Excel file upload), a club events system to list events at venues in New Orleans, and the soon to be released festival builder, which will allow site managers to update the events of a festival with just an Excel file upload.

Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, record producer, and musician. He has been requested by such artists as Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige and Lionel Richie.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Rodney Jerkins is a notable individual within the music industry and chose WordPress to power his entire website. Additionally, the site uses the WordPress framework to create login-based access to exclusive content like webisodes and music downloads.

Andrew Dubber’s New Music Strategies attempts to unpick and explain what’s going on in the online music environment – and from that, develop strategies to help independent musicians and music businesses cope and thrive in a changing media environment.

The Swell Season are Glen Hansard (from the Irish band, The Frames) and Marketa Irglova (classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist). In 2008, the duo won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

A popular Icelandic post-rock band with melodic, classical and minimalist elements.

Escovedo’s music has been widely lauded by the media, appearing in several high-profile publications including Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, USA Today, PASTE, HARP and Entertainment Weekly. He was invited onstage by Bruce Springsteen to join The Boss and The E Street Band, playing Escovedo’s “Always A Friend” before a packed Toyota Center in Houston on April 14, 2008. He has also appeared on Conan O’Brian, The Today Show, The Tonight Show and performed at the Democratic National Convention in Denver to a wildly enthusiastic audience.

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