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August 18, 2025
Sonique Drums Announces Dale’s Drum Shop as Newest Authorized Retailer
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July 18, 2025
Rupp’s Drums Announces Closure
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June 24, 2025
The brand new Max Maxwell's Drum Shop is a drummer's paradise
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May 1, 2025
Rising from the Ashes: The Beat Makers
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February 6, 2025
Moorhead Drum Store Beats the Odds
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November 11, 2024
CEOs say personalization is the key to success in music retail
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February 29, 2024
Meet Mike Carbone
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February 16, 2024
'Just loved this place': Ben Stiller gives Badges Drum Shop in Mason, Ohio, his approval
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December 11, 2023
Customers of Ray Fransen's Drum Center Throw Store Surprise Party
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October 27, 2023
West Chester Weekly News Roundup: October 27, 2023
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June 23, 2023
Jungle Drums
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February 23, 2023
CHBO Drum Store Gets a New Home in New Paltz
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October 17, 2022
Meet Charlie Andrews
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August 8, 2022
A Look at Wood and Weather Drum Shop with Joseph Barthelette
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January 25, 2022
How drum educator Saikou Saho is building community space
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October 10, 2021
Conversations with Charlie Andrews
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September 1, 2021
Wood and Weather Drum Shop
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August 2, 2021
His drums are in Singapore and China, but this craftsman makes them in Jackson
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July 15, 2021
Virtue Drums Owner Jeff Stutzman Building Instruments of Integrity
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November 12, 2020
Boutique Music Instrument Retail in Raleigh, N.C.
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September 22, 2020
10 secret spots in Kensington Market you might not know about
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August 3, 2020
RSB Percussion Opens Doors At New Northport Location
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April 4, 2020
A drum maker’s long journey
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February 6, 2020
For Tez Sherard, keeping the beat is a family thing
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October 15, 2019
The Beat Goes On
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April 29, 2019
BTN Field Trip 2019!
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March 9, 2018
Q&A – LoDo Drum Guy to Support 303 Music Fest This May
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February 24, 2017
NAMM Oral History Program: Dana Bentley
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September 30, 2016
These Two Exotic Car-Loving Brothers Also Own The World's Most Expensive Drumset
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August 2, 2016
New beat on Water Street
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July 24, 2016
Colorado brothers won't sell world's most expensive drum kit
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April 13, 2016
Local hero: Greg Millson at Century Drum Shop
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January 15, 2015
Becoming the Lodo Drum Guy
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January 6, 2015
Drum Excellent With One Another: An Interview with Rufus Drum Shop
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October 24, 2011
Business Spotlight: A Drummer's Tradition
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October 4, 2011
Niche Market | African Drums
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October 23, 2003
Jack’s Drum Shop: drumming to a different beat
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October 13, 2025
Each of the AI images in the Gallery now includes an AI-generated feasibility summary.
October 11, 2025
The Gallery page now supports navigating directly to a specfic tab via URL query parameter.
October 8, 2025
Added the drum shops' meta description to the Shop List page.
October 3, 2025
Added Mark's Drum Shop of Charleroi, Pennsylvania.
September 23, 2025
The Shop List is now searchable by shop ID.
September 22, 2025
The Drum Shop Simulator now generates a catchphrase for the simulation.
September 21, 2025
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.
August 6, 2025
Added Drum Shop of the Day to the home page .
July 27, 2025
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.
July 26, 2025
Added The Cymbal Boutique of Boston, Massachusetts.
July 26, 2025
Added Big Tez House of Drums of Greenville, South Carolina.
July 26, 2025
Added Cedar Mountain Drums of Portland Oregon.
July 23, 2025
Added The (Ghost) Note of Denton, Texas.
July 23, 2025
Added Wild Bill's Drum Shop of Odess, Texas.
July 23, 2025
Added Fort Worth Drum Emporium of Fort Worth, Texas.
July 19, 2025
Added Lodo Drum Guy of Denver, Colorado.
July 19, 2025
The Shop List now includes appointment-only drum shops with an option to toggle visibility.
July 2, 2025
Added Jungle Drums of Huntington, West Virginia.
July 2, 2025
Added Otto's Drum Shop of Wilmington, North Carolina.
July 2, 2025
Added Drummer's Journey of Moorhead, Minnesota.
July 2, 2025
Added Anansi Beat of Portland, Oregon.
July 2, 2025
Added Keur Djembe African Drum Shop of Brooklyn, New York.
July 1, 2025
Added Max Maxwell's Drum Shop of Jefferson, Indiana.
June 26, 2025
Added Garden State Drums and Percussion of Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
June 1, 2025
Added Drum City Guitarland of Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
May 28, 2025
Refreshed the drum shop data.
February 28, 2025
Removed Drummers Hangout of Aurora, Ontario because they've up shop. :(
February 8, 2025
Removed Resurrection Drums of Hollywood, Florida after they closed. :(
January 9, 2025
Added Hawthorne Drum Shop of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
December 18, 2024
Added Drum Flip of Vista, California.
November 11, 2024
Removed all remaining Sam Ash stores of the lists of nearest competitors.
December 24, 2024
Added Junk Rock Drums of West Chester, Pennsylvania.
June 16, 2024
Added Rochester Trum Trade of Rochester, New York
January 24, 2024
LocalDrumShops.com goes live.