Bandloom
How the bands you love are connected.
Bandloom is an interactive map of bands and the people in them. Search for a band, a
musician or an album, open any member, and follow them into the other bands they played
in and the records they played on. Every line on the map is a relationship recorded in
MusicBrainz or Discogs: band members (current and former), supporting and session
musicians, collaborations and album credits, with roles and dates where known.
A route to start with
Camel and Fleetwood Mac are connected through Peter Bardens and Mick Fleetwood. Peter
Bardens played keyboards in Camel; in 1966 his band Peter B’s Looners had Mick
Fleetwood and Peter Green in it, a year before they formed Fleetwood Mac:
Camel → Peter Bardens → Peter B’s Looners → Mick Fleetwood →
Fleetwood Mac.
Another: Queens of the Stone Age → Josh Homme → Them Crooked Vultures →
Dave Grohl → Nirvana.
What you can do
- Search bands, musicians and albums, and start a map from any of them.
- See a band’s current and former members, and each musician’s other bands.
- Open a band’s discography and an album’s credits: who played on it, who produced it.
- Share a route as a link that retraces it, step by step.
Data from MusicBrainz and Discogs; photos from Wikimedia Commons; covers from the Cover
Art Archive. The map needs JavaScript.