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. 9 (nine) awesome reviews have been written in season 2 already so this is turning into an awesome season already!
We’ll announce the winner of previous episode (two) in this post an announce episode 3 😎
19 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 2
- Rules / How to enter
- Prize pool / rewards
- Leaderboard season 2
- Bands About Bands contestants
Without further ado, we'd like to announce season 2 episode 3 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 
Winner season 2, episode 2
With 5 community votes, 
| Writer | About | Article | Votes | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Priscilla Hernandez Music from a magic world | 5 | 7,50 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
 |  | Jon Magnusson about Nakedverse (Deggsy) – Bands About Bands S02:E02 | 3 | 2,50 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
 |  | Jeff and His "Peace, Love and Sillyness" Bands About Bands Review S02:E02 | 3 | 2,50 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
7.50 SBD to
2.50 SBD to
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Rules / How to enter
- Follow this account (
)
- 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 first episode. Contest will end on June 4th after which the Steemit community will have 24 hours to vote for their favourite review.
Prize pool / rewards
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 shared equally between author and band/artist
On top of this, we’ll reward every entry (that qualifies) with 50 $INDIE.
$INDIE is the brand-agnostic reward token of The Indie Alliance - a collective of global Arts projects and blockchain awards brands. Sign up to Bitshares to be able to receive them.
Leaderboard season 2
| Rank | Steemian | Article | Points | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Link | 7.5 | 7.50 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
| 1 |  | Link | 7.5 | 6.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
| 3 | | Link 1 Link 2 | 5 | 3.75 SBD + 100 $INDIE |
| 4 | | Link | 2.5 | 2.50 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
| 4 |  | Link | 2.5 | 1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
| 4 |  | Link | 2.5 | 1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
| 4 |  | Link | 2.5 | 1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE |
Winner of season 2 will receive an additional 5 SBD + 100 $INDIE
Bands About Bands contestants
In episode 1, 
Thanks to
Currently the following are the ten (10) 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  ): An open music contest for rappers, MCs, singers, vocalists, musicians, and producers. |
 | Beat Battle League (#beatbattle) (Hosted by ): 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  ): 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  ): A weekly challenge for music producers to create music by using the provided chord progression. |
 | Kill The Pad Challenge (#killthepad) (Hosted by  ): A weekly topic text-based rap competition for creative writers to show their prowess as a lyricist. |
 | Educator Showdown (#educatorshowdown) (Hosted by  ): A bi-weekly competition for people who make educational content revolving around music. |
 | Poetry Slam (#poetryslam) (Hosted by &  ): A weekly spoken word contest in the traditional poetry slam competition format. |
 | Pitch Perfect (#pitchperfect) (Hosted by  ): A weekly challenge for original music creators. |
 | Bands About Bands (#BandsAboutBands) (Hosted by ): A weekly music review contest covering bands and musicians on Steemit. |
| Sprout (#sprout) (Hosted by  ): A contest with a seed as inspiration each week. |