Setlist Vault
A community-archive app for hardcore and punk fans to preserve live-show history, tributes, and stories of scene icons — so the music and the people who made it never go silent.
lifelong hardcore and punk fans in their 30s–50s who feel the loss of scene figures personally, plus scene zine-makers and podcasters documenting the culture
- Tribute Pages: crowd-sourced stories, photos, and flyers honoring scene figures, with family-approved guestbooks.
- Setlist Scanner: snap a paper setlist and the app turns it into a shareable, time-stamped archive entry with audio clips if available.
- Show Finder: see every documented gig by a band at a venue, with first-hand fan accounts and rare recordings.
- Family Tree: visualize the web of bands and side-projects connecting a scene across decades.
Lou Koller's death — after a public two-year fight with esophageal cancer — closed a chapter of New York hardcore that began in 1986, and a worldwide fanbase is actively looking for places to grieve, share memories, and keep the canon alive.
200+ DE searches during the obituary cycle reflect a global hardcore community in active mourningSick of It All's Lou Koller Dead - Rolling Stone ↗
No dominant platform owns punk/hardcore archival memory; Bandcamp is closest but genericSick of It All's Lou Koller Dead - Rolling Stone ↗
Fans are famously tight with money; merch cut or premium archival tiers are the only realistic playsSick of It All's Lou Koller Dead - Rolling Stone ↗
The hardcore scene is multigenerational; archival needs persist beyond any single death
Mostly user-generated content; AI helps with OCR of setlist photos and tagging