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. 11 (eleven) awesome reviews have been written in season 2 already so this is turning into an awesome season! We’ll announce the winner of previous episode (three) in this post and announce episode 4 😎

21 amazing reviews have now been written as part of our contest and it’s really great to see this much engagement on Steemit 😊 Many reviews have also been upvoted by @illuminati-inc with support of @curie and its train of votes which shows the high quality of Steemian writers!

In this post:

• Winner season 2, episode 3
• Rules / How to enter episode 4
• Prize pool / rewards episode 4
• Bands About Bands contestants season 1 and 2
• Leaderboard season 2

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 @prc's (@dsound) support, the total prize pool will be 15 STEEM in season 2 episode 4.

Winner season 2, episode 2

The awesome @d-vine won season 2 episode 3 of Bands about Bands with her article about @onemedia.

Writer	About	Article	Prize
@d-vine	@onemedia	D-VINE @d-vine About Zig aka @onemedia - Bands About Bands S02:E03	8,75 SBD + 50 $INDIE
@allbums	@nathankaye	Nathan Kaye "One Man Symphony" Review For Bands About Bands S02E03	3,75 SBD + 50 $INDIE

@onemedia and @nathankaye both received 1,25 SBD for being the direct object of this episode :-)

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, 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 9 days to enter this fourth episode. Contest will end on June 14th 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	@d-vine	Link 1 Link 2	15	15 SBD + 100 $INDIE
2	@allbums	Link 1 Link 2 Link 3	7.5	5 SBD + 100 $INDIE
3	@ylich	Link	7.5	6.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE
4	@davenavarro	Link	2.5	1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE
4	@grizzle	Link	2.5	1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE
4	@jonmagnusson	Link	2.5	1.25 SBD + 50 $INDIE
4	@that.bass.guy	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, @pechichemena wrote about @olvidesantelmo (with @luisferchav , @vera.carla , @roman.musica , @matiasmenarguez and @ivan.deiana in the band), @darrenclaxton about @jonmagnusson and visa versa, @d-vine about @jeffleinwand and @ravenmus1c about @newenx. In episode 2, @seenitallfilms wrote about @juxtamusic. In episode 3, @samprock about @juxtamusic, @plugdeux about @Shakazula and @thexreposts about @spawnband and in episode 4, @allbums wrote an awesome review about @junkfeathers. In season 2, @davenavarro wrote about @spawnband, @grizzle wrote about @theturtleproject, @d-vine wrote about @edprivat, @allbums wrote about @ko-may, @ando79 wrote about @tonesbeach @that.bass.guy wrote about #ScaleTheSummit @jonmagnusson about @nakedverse @ylich about @yidneth @allbums about @jeffandhisguitar @d-vine about @onemedia and @allbums about @nathankaye.

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

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 @chiefmappster): An open music contest for rappers, MCs, singers, vocalists, musicians, and producers.
	Beat Battle League (#beatbattle) (Hosted by @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 @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 @antminer): A weekly challenge for music producers to create music by using the provided chord progression.
	Kill The Pad Challenge (#killthepad) (Hosted by @jamesgetsit): A weekly topic text-based rap competition for creative writers to show their prowess as a lyricist.
	Educator Showdown (#educatorshowdown) (Hosted by @novili): A bi-weekly competition for people who make educational content revolving around music.
	Poetry Slam (#poetryslam) (Hosted by @jamesgetsit & @scuzzy): A weekly spoken word contest in the traditional poetry slam competition format.
	Pitch Perfect (#pitchperfect) (Hosted by @alejandra23): A weekly challenge for original music creators.
	Bands About Bands (#BandsAboutBands) (Hosted by @ftlob): A weekly music review contest covering bands and musicians on Steemit.
	Sprout (#sprout) (Hosted by @playitforward): A contest with a seed as inspiration each week.