From past experience doing these things during the music dotcom glory days, the key thing is to remember what that set of fans of that particular are after. Example - a certain once hugely popular boy band’s site I put together focused on new photos, TV appearance dates, tour information (great point about all age shows and other venue information) and useless facts about the “Boys”. No need for heaps of audio, discography and so on - you didn’t need to sell the band to them!

Similarly, I eschewed the obligatory Flash intro’s so prevalent at the time; these sites had core teenage audiences that visited daily and just bookmarked past them anyway to where the real news was.

Basically - look to your audience and fanbase and find out what they really want, and not what the label thinks they want (although if designers are stil landed with a press release, a faxed list of tour dates and half a dozen photo’s from the label that count as “content”, I can sympathise to an extent).

Last but not least, keep talking with management, not so much the labels and inevitably you’ll find there’s one ‘geek’ in most bands who will do their bit and help champion your ideas.