# Battle of the Bands - Explore! — Explore your local music scene

> Explore your local music scene (iPhone/iPad app by LEE HARRISON HARROLD.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/battle-of-the-bands-explore/id6788138694 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [LEE HARRISON HARROLD](https://appshunter.io/developer/6788134917)
- Category: Entertainment
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-15
- Data updated: 2026-08-07
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/battle-of-the-bands-explore/id6788138694/reviews.md

## What is Battle of the Bands?

Battle of the Bands is a turn-based band brawler featuring musicians from your local scene. Draft acts from real venues, put them on a stage, and fight the set out one move at a time.

Recruit team members by scanning stickers, sold at participating venues and by the bands themselves.

WHAT YOU DO
- Draft bands from a roster of local acts, and carry each one's win/loss record from show to show
- Fight turn-based sets: pick who acts, pick the target, time the tempo. Or hand the set to Auto and watch it rip
- Discover new bands as you play. Beat a scene and the next one opens up
- Add friends by code or QR and challenge them head to head
- Queue up in Jam Session and get matched against a real player by skill

REAL BANDS, REAL TRACKS
This is not a game with a stock soundtrack. The bands are real, and the music playing under every fight is theirs. Win a battle and you are hearing a local act you can go see. Then learn more about them on their profile page and see them play live!

Free to play.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-08-06

The battle got a new look, and the app got its voice back.

Fights now play in portrait, so you can pick up a show without turning your phone sideways. Turn it anyway and the stage opens up wide.

Health and BPM meters are drawn by hand now: crooked boxes filled in with marker, the way the rest of the game looks.

The tutorial fights on the same stage as a real show, instead of its own screen of roster cards.

Sound everywhere, not just mid-fight: button clicks, menu stings, and Maestro Magnus has a theme.

Your bandmates show up as their actual photos on stage instead of emoji.

New music from nopeople, including "Outside My Head", plus seven songs from Annie Babie on the green-room radio.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-07-17

Inferno joins the starter bands. The hip-hop pick in the tutorial used to be a placeholder crew with invented names and no faces. It's a real act now: R1xxy, GeoFire, JVN, and D3V, four rappers and producers from Inferno Records, with real photos.

More tutorial: Maestro Magnus asks your name in the intro and uses it from there on, synergy kicks in the moment your band first fields three of the same genre instead of waiting on a full lineup, and you can tap any new bandmate's reveal card to open their spotlight.

The battle radio plays a whole setlist now, crossfading between songs instead of looping one track for the entire fight.

You can delete your account from Settings. It asks for your password first and spells out what goes away.

New logo and app icon: a stamped guitar pick with a lightning bolt through it.

### 1.0 — 2026-07-15

No release notes.

## More apps by LEE HARRISON HARROLD

- [vibecatcher](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vibecatcher/id6788134915)
- [Traps - Get Better](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/traps-get-better/id6788889217)
- [Guitar Chords - Learn!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/guitar-chords-learn/id6792884432)

All apps by LEE HARRISON HARROLD: https://appshunter.io/developer/6788134917

## Related topics

[manly bands](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/manly-bands) · [bands app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/bands-app)

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