Intended Audience: Fans of Oklahoma City's weirdest sons, The Flaming Lips! This site is an excellent resource for both long time fans and everyday folks just slightly interested. It provides in depth history and information for those willing to spend the time looking, but also offers brief sound clips and videos for those stimulated by the multimedias.
Usefulness of Content: While some band websites are basically a front for the webstore, flaminglips.com actually offers quite a bit of useful and interesting content. The band time line/biography (of seven parts, no less!) is an excellent chronicle of all the sonic twists and turns the lips have taken through the years, and the news posts come pretty frequently as well. There is a webstore, and despite my earlier comments, it does offer a wide variety of the basics: shirts, posters, etc.
Consistency of Design: Relatively impeccable, actually! This is a very slick site, all hot pinks, large colorful graphics, and neat looking navigation tabs. One thing that may have bothered me at first was the complete lack of black text- always white on pink, pink on darker pink, etc- but I've gotten used to it by now. One music nerd note: this current incarnation of the site has been in existence since the band released "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" in 2002 (hence, the pinkness). While they did add a few new banner images with the release of their last album, the site still looks very much the same. It's nice, but a bit stale.
Ease of Use: The tabs at the top of the site make navigation breezy, and the content found beneath is usually kept simple and easy to follow without much clutter. My only qualm would be that while you can click around most parts of the site and stay in the same browser window, going to the store takes you to another one. It doesn't bother me that much, but it is something.
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