Not a limited promotion. A standing program.
Independent small bands should not have to choose between a generic link page and a five-figure agency site. Dead North builds a fast, distinctive home for your music, shows, and story — because the local music ecosystem is worth showing up for.
The give-back price
$1,500
75% below the $6,000 standard scope
Four pages — home, shows, music, press — plus launch help and a free Still On Tour band-portal setup session.
See the small-band program →A site with a job to do
Make the case.
What the band sounds like, looks like, and why someone should stay.
Fill the room.
A clean, current place to find the next date and get out the door.
Press play.
Your releases, embeds, and links without a platform swallowing the story.
Get booked.
Bio, photo, links, and practical details for the people putting bills together.
Your project gets the good seat.
Builds, commerce, mobile apps, APIs and ERP integrations, custom .NET, AI, testing, and the Air Time maintenance program — your project rides in the bow, not in a ticket queue. And every price is printed below, which sounds ordinary until you go looking for a second local shop that does it.
Start with a $950 site health check · maintenance from $150/mo · every price on the page
See services & prices →We support sites we didn't build. Whoever built them.
Builder's gone, updates stopped, everyone quotes a rebuild? Think of a rescue like a portage: heavy for a stretch, then the lake opens up. A $2,500 flat assessment tells you what you actually have before you commit to anything.
How a rescue runs →Things that have to work
The house principles: improvise where you can, rehearse where you must, and take care of the people in the room.
CH 012026Still On Tour (opens in a new tab)
Design + build — a Dead North project
A full social platform for a live-music community — member accounts, profiles, friend requests, direct messages, crews, show walls, trips, ride and crash-space coordination, band workspaces, and a living concert archive giving every connection a shared place and time.
- Drupal 11
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- MariaDB
- Cloudflare
- CH 022026
V.I.N.CENT
Design + build
A fleet-monitoring platform watching 327 production sites — statistical anomaly detection against each site’s own history, an archive of what the host discards, and one rule everywhere: an unchecked site must never look healthy.
- Drupal 11
- Next.js
- Pantheon
- CH 032023
The Migration
Sole technical lead
A monolithic Drupal 7 application with millions of nodes, rebuilt as Drupal 10 while the site kept publishing — custom migration paths, counts reconciled every run, zero records lost.
- Drupal 7→10
- Migrate API
- Behat
A small studio, a lot of miles.
Led by Dane Petersen — building since 2013, Drupal to .NET, native mobile to cloud, with two contrib modules on drupal.org and a canoe in the garage. Small studio, big lakes: you talk to the senior lead, never an account layer.
Meet Dane →The Twin Cities in noir-o-vision — hover to lock the signalthe signal locks as you arrive
Notes from the field.
Learn it the way we do it.
How-to tutorials from the workbench — Drupal security updates done safely, WordPress updates that don't break the site, backups that provably restore. The same procedures we run for clients, published with the commands included.
Into the shop →Now booking · Fall 2026
Projects and Air Time seats both. The roster stays small on purpose — when it's full, it's full. The sign out front runs on the same truth, and it's already burning.
The roadside sign, from the lab — it wakes when you get here
Describe it roughly — rough is enough for a real answer, not a discovery call. Not sure it's my kind of project? Send it anyway: the first thing you get is honest advice, even when the honest advice is “don't hire me.”