What's new on DopaHits
DopaHits just got a ground-up rebuild. The mission is the same, finding live music near you with the least possible friction, but almost every screen is new. Here's a tour of what changed.
The feed leads with shows, not venues
The home page is now an event-first feed: every upcoming show near you, grouped by when it happens: Tonight, Tomorrow, This week, and beyond. The answer to "what's on?" is the first thing you see. Filters for date and radius live in the URL, which means a filtered view is a link you can share or bookmark, and it survives a refresh.
Events carry their real-world status, too. If a show is cancelled, postponed, or rescheduled, the card says so, straight from the event data, before you've bought a ticket or driven across town.
Trending this week, computed for your city
The Trending rail ranks the artists heating up within 50 miles of you. It isn't a global chart: it's computed from the shows actually happening near you this week (how many they're playing, whether they're headlining, and how soon the shows are), then cached per metro, per day. Move cities and the list moves with you.
One search box for everything
The omnibox in the header searches artists, venues, and cities from a single input. Looking up a band shows their upcoming shows nearby; picking a venue jumps to its calendar; choosing a city re-centers the whole site on that metro: feed, trending, and venues.
A real venue directory
Where to go surfaces the venues near you with the most upcoming shows, and the full /venues directory is sortable by distance, name, and capacity, from 200-cap rooms to amphitheaters. Every venue page is a calendar of what's coming up there.
Detail pages that answer the actual questions
Event pages show the full lineup, door and show times, and ticket links across vendors, not just one. Artist pages collect socials, streaming links, and upcoming shows. All of it is structured data under the hood, so search engines understand it too.
Concert history that never disappears
Every show that passes through DopaHits is archived permanently. Per-city archive pages keep a record of what happened at the venues near you, long after the listings vanish everywhere else. Ask "who played here last year?" and DopaHits can answer.
A new look
The redesign is dark-first: an evergreen stage washed in mint and aquamarine, built for checking listings from a venue floor at 11pm. It's fast, too: every lookup is served from a read-through cache, so browsing stays snappy and repeat searches are instant.
DopaHits is built by Palm Tree Sec, with event data by JamBase. Found a bug or want a feature? Email chris@dopaminehits.com.