On Bands About Bands, Steemian artists pick up the pen and write a review about a fellow Steemian band or artist. We invite all of you to give a proper shoutout to a band or artist you discovered on Steemit, or is active on Steemit. 27 amazing reviews have now been written so far.

Episode 1 of season 3 ended yesterday and oh my, what an amazing episode with such high-quality reviews! Compliments to all who voted and could pick a winner :-) We'll announce episode 2 in this post, as well as announce the winner of episode 1.

In this post:

Rules / How to enter episode 2
Prize pool / rewards episode 2
Winner season 1, episode 3
Bands About Bands contestants season 1, 2 and 3

Without further ado, we'd like to announce season 3 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 60 SBD in season 3 and 15 SBD in episode 2.

Rules / How to enter

Follow this 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, Choon, 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)
Submit your entry on July 5th at the latest.

You have 8 days to enter this first episode. The contest will end on July 5th after which the Steemit community will have 24 hours (until the new announcement post is up) to vote for their favourite review.

Prize pool / rewards

10 SBD will be divided 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.

Winner season 3, episode 1

With 20 votes cast, the Steemit community have spoken! Drums, please ... !

Winner of season 3 episode 1 is Hive account@onemedia with his awesome review about the amazing Hive account@d-vine! We've learnt so many aspects of Hive account@d-vine's career in his article. It's great to read about the woman behind the community member and awesome musician.

WATCH OUT! This gal will not only steal your heart, she's setting our world on fire as we speak...

Second place is for Hive account@yidneth with her article about Hive account@paintingangels. Such an awesome idea to Hive account@pechichemena #CoverASteemian contest with #BandsAboutBands! Yidneth's hauntingly thoughtful rendition of this song proves that she's a remarkably talented musician. With this article, she's also proven she's a great writer as well!

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Third place is for Hive account@davenavarro with his article about Hive account@gjart. This Spaniard and frequent participant of this contest knows how to write a review: in-depth, thoughtful and a ton of additional information to entertain his readers. Hope to see you again next round man!

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Hive account@d-vine Hive account@paintingangels and Hive account@gjart all received 0,85 SBD for being the direct objects of this episode :-)

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All prizes will be transferred soon!

Bands About Bands contestants

Hive account@pechichemena 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

Hive account@ravenmus1c about

Hive account@newenx

Hive account@seenitallfilms about

Hive account@juxtamusic

Hive account@samprock about

Hive account@juxtamusic,

Hive account@plugdeux about @Shakazula and

Hive account@thexreposts about

Hive account@spawnband

Hive account@allbums about

Hive account@junkfeathers

Hive account@davenavarro about

Hive account@spawnband,

Hive account@grizzle about

Hive account@theturtleproject,

Hive account@d-vine about

Hive account@edprivat,

Hive account@allbums about

Hive account@ko-may,

Hive account@ando79 about

Hive account@tonesbeach

Hive account@that.bass.guy about #ScaleTheSummit

Hive account@jonmagnusson about

Hive account@nakedverse

Hive account@ylich about

Hive account@yidneth

Hive account@allbums about

Hive account@jeffandhisguitar

Hive account@d-vine about

Hive account@onemedia

Hive account@allbums about

Hive account@nathankaye

Hive account@ylich about

Hive account@helyorsini

Hive account@allbums about

Hive account@faithcalls

Hive account@davenavarro about

Hive account@nostosmus

Hive account@onemedia about

Hive account@d-vine

Hive account@yidneth about

Hive account@paintingangels and

Hive account@davenavarro about

Hive account@gjart

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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 ten (11) 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.
	Sprout (#sprout) (Hosted by Hive account@playitforward): A contest with a seed as inspiration each week.
	Ambience (#pitchperfect) (#ambience) (Hosted by Hive account@soundbath): a music and sound-based experience involving community members creating something with mindfulness.