With the app, you can keep up to date on the band, where they're touring, if they're in studio, photo galleries etc. It seems really cool, I know there's other bands doing the same... makes me wonder, is this going to replace a traditional .com website for bands?
The need for an actual website has been shrinking with social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter, I've seen more then a few .com band sites simply being a place holder & directing web traffic to FB, Twitter, YouTube etc. Add mobile apps that are dedicated to giving you all you need to know about the band into the mix, it doesn't seem like there's as big a demand for a websites anymore. Granted, not every indie band will likely have the ability to get their own mobile app, for them a .com maybe but FB & the like are so much easier to manage. Plus there are millions if not billions of people on those social networking sites already that could stumble upon your band page. Less likely your website is to come up in a Google search.
Now we wait and see how it all goes down....
