Music marketing platform Nimbit has just launched a free WordPress plug-in dubbed Instant Band Site designed to make it easy for artists to create a website using one of the may free WP templates available and linked to their Nimbit account.  Users need a Nimbit account and web hosting with WordPress. They offer a free plan, but artists wanting online sales and other features will need to sign up for NimbitIndie or NimbitPro for $12.95 per month and up. The company also will set up the site and link it to their service for $199.

More & A Video Demo

The Instant Band Site includes a storefront to sell music (digital & CD), merchandise, & e-tickets, an artist bio, blog, news, and gig calendar, email list sign up and promo code redemption, an online music player, aocial network connection with Facebook, Twitter, etc. and  integration with photo galleries and other WordPress add-ons.  Updates in the Nimbit dashboard  are included on the website automatically along with linked storefronts on Facebook and MySpace.

Watch the video demo here.