Removed Drum Zone, a drum shop in Denmark. Drum Zone closed permanently in July.
August 22, 2026
Added a "Get the shirt" button to the detail page for shops that offer a store-themed t-shirt on their website.
August 21, 2026
Added We Got the Beat, a well-stocked, appointment-only drum shop in Calgary, Alberta.
August 20, 2026
Expanded the "Find your drum shop" feature on the home page to include a search radius. If you enter a distance in miles, the search will now find all the drum shops within that distance of the location you enter and display a map of the store locations. Or, if you leave the radius value blank, the search works just as before: it will find the single closest drum shop.
August 20, 2026
Added Sons de lOrient", a store in Paris specializing in percussion instruments from the East.
August 20, 2026
Added Surfdog Drum Shop", a very cool shop located in downtown Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
August 19, 2026
Added a "Share" feature to selected pages for sharing to social media.
August 17, 2026
Added RL Drums", a drum shop and custom drum builder in West Union, South Carolina.
August 15, 2026
Brought the Gallery" page back with all the images of the drum shops, but this time including a Logos" tab displaying all the drum shop logos. Many of these are works of art in their own right and deserve a look!
August 2, 2026
Removed Salt City Drums of Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt City Drums closed in March 2026.
July 28, 2026
Added shops from Asia and Australia.
July 20, 2026
Added shops from Europe and South America.
July 6, 2026
Removed Just Drums of North York, Ontario. Just Drums recently closed after 42 years in business.
July 2, 2026
Added population figures for a one-hour drive-time isochrone to each shop's demographic panel and description. This represents the number of people living within a one-hour drive of the shop.
June 27, 2026
Updated the site to allow for expansion into other countries and markets. First up is the UK. We've added 21 shops from Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Local Drum Shops list!
The Drum Shop Simulator now generates a Lean Canvas for the simulation. Lean Canvas is a one-page business model template designed for startups to quickly break down their idea into key assumptions
September 17, 2025
Added all the AI-generated drum shop images to the Gallery page. Previously, these could only be seen in the image carousel on the Drum Shop Simulator page, which was kind of slow if you wanted to see all of them. These images change pretty often as we discover new image generators and get better at using them to tell a story.
September 10, 2025
Added a FAQ to the About page for those wondering why the heck something so obscure as a web site dedicated to drum shops would exist.
September 7, 2025
Refreshed the drum shop data.
September 7, 2025
Updated the main crawler to look for the drum shops' web site technology vendors such as Shopify, Squarespace, etc. This was previously a manual process, and while moving it to the crawler means the site designers aren't included, automating it this way gives better stats on which sites are using the well-known vendors.
September 2, 2025
Removed Rupp's Drums from the list. Rupp's closed at the end of August after more than 40 years in business. :(
August 16, 2025
Updated the primary AI model for the Drum Shop Simulator to Gemini 1.5 Flash 8b.
August 9, 2025
Added 'Find your local drum shop' to the home page. Enter your zip code to find the closest drum shop.
Added a new menu system for the site that's more responsive on smaller screens. This will allow us to add more content and features without being constrained by the static menu we were using before.
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