Databruce 1.15 Update

Happy Bruce Tour everyone!

Had planned on this update happening before the tour started, but between thinking of last minute new features, and unavoidable technical problems due to my innate need to tinker, it took a bit longer than expected.

Before getting into the usual update, I want to mention that the site crossed 100 registered users last month. Most likely due to the bump provided by E Street Shuffle and also being posted in an FB group. Thanks to everyone who has signed up so far, and hopefully that number continues to increase.

- Added "Events by Type" page
- All event and song tables have been made consistent in terms of column widths and ordering/searching.
- [Advanced Search] Event type field now styled to closer match default dropdown
- [Advanced Search] Updated event type to allow multiple values to be searched.
- [Band Detail] Added event count badge
- [Band Detail] Fixed members event link not linking to event
- [City Search] Fixed bug where cities without states wouldn't show in results
- [Detail Pages] Added count badge to the tab buttons on most detail pages. This includes event count and song count for: Event Run, Tour, Tour Leg, Venue, City, State, Country. Tours also counts Tour Legs. This is loaded with the table, and will briefly show 0.
- [Event Calendar] Added many birthdays to event calendar. Only those who've been a member of one of Bruce's bands are shown.
- [Event Calendar] Past releases now show on calendar, they appear as a no fill orange box compared to the filled orange box for new releases.
- [Event Detail] Added "Nugs" button back to event detail header
- [Event Detail] Added "rumored" event type for events that were only rumored to have happened. This may be extended to events with little evidence that they happened.
- [Event Detail] Fixed gap calculation counting cancelled/postponed events.
- [Event Detail] Fixed onstage "note" column not showing notes
- [Event Detail] Tweaked the font size/spacing on the album breakdown card
- [Event Detail] Updated page so that "note" and "album breakdown" only show on the "overview" tab, and are hidden on the other tabs (onstage, notes, links).
- [General] Updated page titles and descriptions so that many show on opengraph embeds
- [Home Page] Fixed image having bottom rounded corners
- [Home Page] Fixed updates "new band" broken link
- [Home Page] New home page image
- [Home Page] Readded the "upcoming events" table
- [Home Page] Upcoming events card now includes current date when listing events
- [Reset Password] Fixed issue where email wouldn't send
- [Relation Detail] Added event count badge
- [Relation Detail] Born/Died now shows for many relations, least those with known birthdays.
- [Release Detail] Changed track num to text to allow for Vinyl releases, which follow a different format than simply counting tracks.
- [Release Detail] Fixed event link using wrong ID
- [Search] Updated search to ignore accented characters in query
- [Setlist] Fixed double single quotes in song names. `"I''ve Been Everywhere" -> "I've Been Everywhere".`
- [Song Detail] Added snippet, opener, and closer count to info
- [Song Detail] Last Played now shows "latest event" instead of "0 show gap"
- [Song Tables] These now pull songs listed as recording at private events in addition to songs during a "valid" set at a public show. This way, venues like the Record Plant will show all songs instead of 0.
- [Songs] Added opener/closer count to table
- [Songs] Fixed songs page search not searching song name and not showing certain songs.
- [User Profile] Added "albums" tab, which shows every studio album and the songs seen by the user
- [User Profile] Redesigned page slightly
- [Venue Detail] Added leaflet.js map to venue detail page. Most venues have addresses/coords, with those up through E having been manually checked.

Reset Password Form Fixed

Ran into an issue where the reset password email would never send due to an issue with the email. This has been fixed, and those who requested one have been contacted.

User Profile Changes

Redesigned the user profile page slightly. Rather than two stacked tables, they are now in tabs by category (Shows, Songs, and Albums.)

This profile is much more interesting looking than mine, also the user with the most shows logged (125)

Album Breakdown

This was one of those “last minute” ideas I had which I simply had to see through before pushing the update. This feature was inspired by MyBossTime, as well as Dripfield.pro.

This was surprisingly more complex than you’d think

This new tab on your user profile will show you all the songs you’ve seen broken down by studio album. Only the main albums are included, plus Nebraska ‘82. More will likely be added as I sort out which would make the most sense.

Venues now have maps!

R.I.P. Pierre, I will continue your legacy of hating corporate venue names

This was teased in the February update, as well as the roadmap of “coming eventually” features. But the venue detail page now shows a map for most venues on the site.

There are 1,500 venues on the site, so I used geopy, a geocoding client, and OpenStreetMap to handle the venue lookup. This wasn’t perfect, and required quite a few to be found manually. I then went through and double-checked to make sure they were good. Venues from A-E have been checked and have been verified correct, or at least as close as possible. Some interesting ones:

• D’Scene in Sayreville, NJ burned down in the 70s, and no one seems to know where it was. The closest I could find was a stretch of Route 9 where it might’ve been.
• Alpha Sound Studios in Richmond required some research to track down it’s former location, finding an advert to confirm the address.

The process definitely wasn’t perfect. Many venues could only be tracked to their city, some only state. If you notice any errors, or have info on a venue with an unknown address, please get in touch.

Happy Birthday

The reason this site exists at all

Using musicbrainz, I went through and grabbed as many artist birthdays as I could. They also have many death days as well, and I got through as well because why not? Like the venues, this was an automated process, and some people might have incorrect info. Others could be tied to the wrong person with that name (The Roots guitarists name is Kirk Douglas, not to be confused with some actor from the 50s). Again, get in touch if a birthday looks wrong.

Table Search Improvements

Search Fixed

In an attempt to improve the search on all tables, I accidentally broke the search on all tables. Sorry about that.

The cities table search was broken as well, only showing results that had states. This was an issue as most of the world doesn’t have states.

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I added an “unaccent” extension to the search so now table search is “diacritic-insensitive”. This was an issue on the cities table in particular, where “São Paulo” would not be found when searching for it unless you typed in the accented “a” character.

Count Badges

I don’t expect that songs number to increase drastically

Any page with a table in a tab will now show the count in the tab button. This applies to nearly every “detail” page. Including: Event Run, Tour, Tour Leg, Venue, City, State, Country. Tours also counts Tour Legs. This is loaded with the table, and will briefly show 0 before being updated.

Advanced Search: Now Slightly More Useful

A barely held together search gets another barely held together feature

Events can now be searched for by type. Multiple types can be searched at once as well. As of writing, the following “types” are present on the site, and more are likely to be added at some point.

Most of these were borrowed from Brucebase

New Page: Events By Type

This only made sense given the feature above

Continuing off the last addition, it is now possible to view a list of events by type.

New Tour, New Home Page (Mostly)

With a new tour comes a few additions/returns to the home page.

A new main image is shown on the site. This is from the tour opener in Minneapolis, and was taken by Kara Gerke. This image can be seen as the header on this page as well.

The “Upcoming Events” card has been added back, since there are actually upcoming events to keep track of.

And since we have a regular stream of shows with setlists taking place, the “featured show” card will now default to the most recent show with a setlist.

Event Calendar Additions

The last thing to cover in this update is changes to the Event Calendar.

“Past” releases now show on the calendar. To differentiate from “current” releases, they have a different style to them.

Certain birthdays have also been added. Originally I said “okay lets show all the birthdays”, this quickly got a bit ridiculous

Would you believe me if I said this was one of the less busy months?

I cut it back to just those who have been a part of one of Bruce’s bands. This cuts down from 1,800 to just 70, much more manageable and less of an eyesore.

Wrap Up

Congrats for getting this far! I swear when writing these I don’t intend for them to end up as long as they are, hell I think the more I write the longer they get.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome via the contact page. Whether you like the site or find it useful and want to let me know, or you have ideas or suggestions, I’d love to hear from you!

Thanks again! Lilbud (April 3, 2026)