Hey awesome Steemians! Today a new episode of Bands About Bands is starting and we invite all of you to give a proper shoutout to a band or artist you discovered on Steemit. 6 (six) awesome reviews were written in season 2, episode 1 and we’ll also announce the winner of previous episode in this post.

16 amazing reviews have now been written and it’s really great to see this much engagement on Steemit 😊

In this post:

• Winner season 2, episode 1
• Rules / How to enter
• Prize pool / rewards
• Leaderboard season 2
• Bands About Bands contestants

More information on episode 2 in this post

Without further ado, we'd like to announce season 2 episode 2 of Bands About Bands today. We've come up with a reward structure that rewards all writers. ALL WRITERS will earn SBD when competing this season. Thanks to Hive account@prc's (Hive account@dsound) support, the total prize pool will be 15 STEEM in season 2 episode 2.

Winner season 2, episode 1

With 9 community votes, Hive account@d-vine is the winner of previous episode (S02:E01).

Find out about all contestants, votes and prizes in the table below!

Writer	About	Article	Votes	Prize (author / band)
Hive account@davenavarro	Hive account@spawnband	Link	6	1.25 SBD / 0.50 SBD
Hive account@grizzle	Hive account@theturtleproject	Link	2	1.25 SBD / 0.50 SBD
Hive account@d-vine	Hive account@edprivat	Link	9	6.25 SBD / 0.50 SBD
Hive account@allbums	Hive account@ko-may	Link	2	1.25 SBD / 0.50 SBD
Hive account@ando79	Hive account@tonesbeach	Link	0	1.25 SBD / 0.50 SBD
Hive account@that.bass.guy	#ScaleTheSummit	Link	1	1.25 SBD

Rules / How to enter

• Follow this account (Hive account@ftlob)
• Resteem this post
• Write a minimum of 100 words about a Steemian band/artist’s song, album, EP or music video
• Include a DSound / DTube link
• Include links to other platforms (Musicoin, Spotify, Soundcloud)
• Include artwork
• Use #BandsAboutBands as tag
• Tag the artist you're writing about
• Include link to this contest
• Add link to your submissions in the comments of the announcement post (this post)

You have 10 days to enter this second episode. Contest will end on May 24th after which the Steemit community will have 1 day to vote for their favourite review.

Prize pool / rewards

15 SBD total prize pool. 10 SBD will be devided between all writers and bands/artists (75% writers / 25% bands/artists).

E.g. 5 contestants = 1,5 SBD per writer + 0,5 SBD per band/artist

First prize 5 SBD for winning author

Every writer will get an additional 50 $INDIE for participating

$INDIE is the brand-agnostic reward token on Bitshares of The Indie Alliance - a collective of global Arts projects and blockchain awards brands.

Leaderboard season 2

Rank	Steemian	Article	Rewards
1	Hive account@d-vine	Link	6.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE
2	Hive account@davenavarro	Link	1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE
3	Hive account@grizzle	Link	1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE
4	Hive account@allbums	Link	1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE
5	Hive account@that.bass.guy	Link	1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE

Winner of season 2 will receive an additional 5 SBD + 100 $INDIE

Bands About Bands contestants

In episode 1, Hive account@pechichemena wrote about Hive account@olvidesantelmo (with Hive account@luisferchav , Hive account@vera.carla , Hive account@roman.musica , Hive account@matiasmenarguez and Hive account@ivan.deiana in the band), Hive account@darrenclaxton about Hive account@jonmagnusson and visa versa, Hive account@d-vine about Hive account@jeffleinwand and Hive account@ravenmus1c about Hive account@newenx. In episode 2, Hive account@seenitallfilms wrote about Hive account@juxtamusic. In episode 3, Hive account@samprock about Hive account@juxtamusic, Hive account@plugdeux about @Shakazula and Hive account@thexreposts about Hive account@spawnband and in episode 4, Hive account@allbums wrote an awesome review about Hive account@junkfeathers. In season 2, Hive account@davenavarro wrote about Hive account@spawnband, Hive account@grizzle wrote about Hive account@theturtleproject, Hive account@d-vine wrote about Hive account@edprivat, Hive account@allbums wrote about Hive account@ko-may, Hive account@ando79 wrote about Hive account@tonesbeach and Hive account@that.bass.guy wrote about #ScaleTheSummit.

Thanks to Hive account@prc for his support of community initiatives and helping the Steemit Music League reach its potential. If you trust and support Hive account@prc like we do make sure to vote for him as a witness here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses

Currently the following are the nine (9) contests in the Steemit Music League which is part of the Steemit Music Alliance (SMA) [click on contest/challenge name to go to most recent related information]:

SMA	Contest Initiatives
	Steemit Music League Challenge (#smlchallenge) (Hosted by Hive account@chiefmappster): An open music contest for rappers, MCs, singers, vocalists, musicians, and producers.
	Beat Battle League (#beatbattle) (Hosted by Hive account@chiefmappster): A challenge for music producers to produce an entry based off a theme or sampled material for that round.
	SMA Feedback Contest (#smafeedback) (Hosted by Hive account@inthenow): A feedback-based contest for music. Provide music for feedback and/or provide feedback and get rewarded for doing so.
	Chord Challenge (#chordchallenge) (Hosted by Hive account@antminer): A weekly challenge for music producers to create music by using the provided chord progression.
	Kill The Pad Challenge (#killthepad) (Hosted by Hive account@jamesgetsit): A weekly topic text-based rap competition for creative writers to show their prowess as a lyricist.
	Educator Showdown (#educatorshowdown) (Hosted by Hive account@novili): A bi-weekly competition for people who make educational content revolving around music.
	Poetry Slam (#poetryslam) (Hosted by Hive account@jamesgetsit & Hive account@scuzzy): A weekly spoken word contest in the traditional poetry slam competition format.
	Pitch Perfect (#pitchperfect) (Hosted by Hive account@alejandra23): A weekly challenge for original music creators.
	Bands About Bands (#BandsAboutBands) (Hosted by Hive account@ftlob): A weekly music review contest covering bands and musicians on Steemit.