VOL. 04 · ISSUE 12 · TOUR SEASON 2026
UGround
$0.00 · FAN EDITION
“Tickets, before the feed wakes up.”
NewWatchlist-powered presale alerts.

Catch the show before the feed wakes up.

Follow the artists, venues, and cities you actually care about. UGround watches public ticket sources and pings you the second something moves.

A packed concert crowd under red stage lights
COVER · 04.12
Tonight’s wire
● LIVE
FROM THE EDITOR
An issue about moving first.
The good shows still sell out before the algorithm tells you they exist. UGround watches the venues you care about, the artists on your shortlist, and the cities you live in — and pings you the second a date drops, a status flips, or a presale cracks open.
IN THIS ISSUE
  • I · How It Worksp. 02
  • II · Coveragep. 04
  • III · By the Numbersp. 07
  • IV · Field Reportsp. 09
  • V · Start Watchingp. 11
WATCHING THE SOURCES YOU ALREADY USE
TicketmasterEventbriteSongkickBandsintownAXSDICETicketmasterEventbriteSongkickBandsintownAXSDICETicketmasterEventbriteSongkickBandsintownAXSDICE
Chapter I · How it works
PP. 02–03

You follow. We watch. You go.

Tell UGround which artists and venues matter. We poll the public sources every minute and surface the changes that actually mean a ticket — nothing else.

01
Follow
Add artists, venues, and cities to your watchlist in seconds.
02
Watch
We poll Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, AXS, DICE & more — every minute.
03
Detect
Status flips, new dates, earlier presales — surfaced the moment they appear.
04
Notify
Email, Discord, SMS — your fastest channel wins. We don't sit on a flip.
Chapter II · Coverage

Watch wide. Notify narrow.

PP. 04–06
Essay 01 · Watchlist

Follow the lane.
Skip the firehose.

Add artists, venues, cities, or radius rules. Import a Spotify playlist if that’s easier. UGround only watches what you actually care about — no calendar of every show in the country, no algorithmic guesses.

Build your watchlist
YOUR WATCHLIST
5 ARTISTS · 12 CITIES
Geese
Bowery Ballroom · NYC
WATCHING
MJ Lenderman
The Echo · Los Angeles
ON SALE
Wednesday
Lincoln Hall · Chicago
PRESALE FRI
Hotline TNT
Empty Bottle · Chicago
WATCHING
Slow Pulp
9:30 Club · DC
+2 DATES
LIVE FEED
POLLING · EVERY 60s
STATUS FLIP
12 sec ago
MJ Lenderman
The Echo · Los Angeles
Ticketmaster moved to ON SALE
NEW DATE
4 min ago
Slow Pulp
9:30 Club · Washington DC
Songkick listed 2 added shows in your radius
PRESALE OPEN
2 hr ago
Wednesday
Lincoln Hall · Chicago
Code MAGNOLIA accepted on AXS
Essay 02 · Detection

We don’t list shows.
We list changes.

Status flips from announced to on-sale. Presales cracking open early. New dates landing in your radius. UGround surfaces the moment something becomes a ticket — and gets out of the way otherwise.

See the numbers

"My phone buzzed forty seconds after Ticketmaster flipped. I had two seats before the announcement hit Twitter."

— DANIEL ORTEGA · BROOKLYN, NY
Why UGround

The difference is the difference.

PP. 07
A

Seconds, Not Hours

We poll once a minute and push the second something flips. No nightly digest, no batched email.

B

Watchlist-First

You decide who's worth a ping. We don't pretend every show in your city is interesting.

C

Real Sources

Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Songkick, Bandsintown, AXS, DICE — the platforms that actually sell the seats.

D

Your Channels

Email, Discord, SMS. Pick one, pick three. Whichever buzzes loudest when it matters.

Chapter III · By the numbers

The receipts.

P. 08
6
Sources watched
ticketmaster · eventbrite · songkick · …
60s
Poll cadence
every artist, every minute
3
Notification channels
email · discord · sms
< 90s
Median alert latency
flip to phone
Chapter IV · Field reports

From the front row.

PP. 09–10

I'd been refreshing the venue page for a week. UGround pinged me at 11:43 on a Tuesday and I had wristbands by 11:45.


Maya Chen
Photographer · Brooklyn

The watchlist import from Spotify did half the work for me. It just knows the bands I'd actually drive for.


Jordan Park
Tour manager · Atlanta

Three small-room shows last quarter that I would have missed entirely. That's three more good nights than I had before.


Eli Thornton
Show-goer · Chicago
Chapter V · Begin

Catch your next show first.

Build a watchlist in two minutes. Pick a channel that buzzes loud enough. We’ll handle the refreshing.