diff --git a/asteroid.asd b/asteroid.asd
index f5c456c..3c2ec23 100644
--- a/asteroid.asd
+++ b/asteroid.asd
@@ -40,4 +40,5 @@
                (:file "playlist-management")
                (:file "stream-control")
                (:file "auth-routes")
+               (:file "frontend-partials")
                (:file "asteroid")))
diff --git a/frontend-partials.lisp b/frontend-partials.lisp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..45a088d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend-partials.lisp
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+(in-package :asteroid)
+
+(defun icecast-now-playing (icecast-base-url)
+    (let* ((icecast-url (concatenate 'string icecast-base-url "/admin/stats.xml"))
+           (response (drakma:http-request icecast-url
+                                         :want-stream nil
+                                         :basic-authorization '("admin" "asteroid_admin_2024"))))
+      (when response
+          (let ((xml-string (if (stringp response)
+                                response
+                                (babel:octets-to-string response :encoding :utf-8))))
+            ;; Simple XML parsing to extract source information
+            ;; Look for <source mount="/asteroid.mp3"> sections and extract title, listeners, etc.
+            (multiple-value-bind (match-start match-end)
+                (cl-ppcre:scan "<source mount=\"/asteroid\\.mp3\">" xml-string)
+
+              (if match-start
+                  (let* ((source-section (subseq xml-string match-start
+                                                 (or (cl-ppcre:scan "</source>" xml-string :start match-start)
+                                                     (length xml-string))))
+                         (titlep (cl-ppcre:all-matches "<title>" source-section))
+                         (listenersp (cl-ppcre:all-matches "<listeners>" source-section))
+                         (title (if titlep (cl-ppcre:regex-replace-all ".*<title>(.*?)</title>.*" source-section "\\1") "Unknown"))
+                         (listeners (if listenersp (cl-ppcre:regex-replace-all ".*<listeners>(.*?)</listeners>.*" source-section "\\1") "0")))
+                    `((:listenurl . ,(concatenate 'string *stream-base-url* "/asteroid.mp3"))
+                      (:title . ,title)
+                      (:listeners . ,(parse-integer listeners :junk-allowed t))))
+                  `((:listenurl . ,(concatenate 'string *stream-base-url* "/asteroid.mp3"))
+                    (:title . "Unknown")
+                    (:listeners . "Unknown"))))))))
+
+(define-api asteroid/partial/now-playing () ()
+  "Get Partial HTML with live status from Icecast server"
+  (handler-case
+    (let ((now-playing-stats (icecast-now-playing *stream-base-url*))
+          (template-path (merge-pathnames "template/partial/now-playing.chtml"
+                                          (asdf:system-source-directory :asteroid))))
+      (if now-playing-stats
+          (progn
+            ;; TODO: it should be able to define a custom api-output for this
+            ;; (api-output <clip-parser> :format "html"))
+            (setf (header "Content-Type") "text/html")
+            (clip:process-to-string
+             (plump:parse (alexandria:read-file-into-string template-path))
+             :stats now-playing-stats))
+          (progn
+            (setf (header "Content-Type") "text/html")
+            (clip:process-to-string
+             (plump:parse (alexandria:read-file-into-string template-path))
+             :connection-error t
+             :stats nil))))
+    (error (e)
+      (api-output `(("status" . "error")
+                    ("message" . ,(format nil "Error loading profile: ~a" e)))
+                  :status 500))))
diff --git a/template/partial/now-playing.chtml b/template/partial/now-playing.chtml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ad60de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/template/partial/now-playing.chtml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<h2>Now Playing</h2>
+<c:if test="stats">
+    <c:then>
+        <c:using value="stats">
+            <!--<p>Artist: <span>The Void</span></p>-->
+            <p>Track: <span lquery="(text title)">The Void - Silence</span></p>
+            <p>Listeners: <span lquery="(text listeners)">1</span></p>
+        </c:using>
+    </c:then>
+    <c:else>
+        <c:if test="connection-error">
+            <c:then>
+                <div class="message error">
+                     <span>There was an error trying to get information from stream.</span>
+                </div>
+            </c:then>
+        </c:if>
+        <p>Track: <span>NA</span></p>
+        <p>Listeners: <span>NA</span></p>
+    </c:else>
+</c:if>