WordPress is a great blogging platform and is popular with musicians for building music websites.
Out of the box, it does 90% of the stuff you’ll need to build a music site. Here are some free add-ons, though, that can handle the rest.
Five Free WordPress Plugins For Musicians

Gigs Calendar - This plugin is geared toward bands [...]

Joey Fehrenbach’s Mellowdrama is a very welcome set of ambient/downtempo tracks. At its best, the CD mixes the beautiful otherworldliness of Brian Eno’s ambient classics with mellow beats, creating a future chill-out classic.

White Willow is doing its best to keep the progressive rock torch burning with its latest release, Signal to Noise.
On this album, White Willow moves from a more traditional prog-rock sound to a more modern sound, with a bit of a goth metal edge. The group, made up of, Trude Eidtang (vocals), Lars Fredrik Frøislie [...]