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Please support SomaFM! If you contribute $50 you'll get a SomaFM Tshirt! We your financial support to keep us on the air. Less than 10% of our regular listeners support us financially, so most of the time we just barely scrape by. Help us increase that by supporting SomaFM today! Thanks!
We did some updates to some of the streaming servers last night (around 2:30 am pacific), and all seemed well, but shortly after I went home and went to sleep, Groove Salad and Space Station's feeds broke and didn't get fixed until late this morning. All is well now -- Rusty, 11am pacific, 7-May-08
Rusty will be in Las Vegas today speaking at the RAIN Internet Radio Summit at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel, right next to the Las Vegas Convention Center. If you're in Vegas for NAB, come on by. 14-Apr-08
It was nice to see so many of you tonight at Yuri's Night, the World Space Party. 13-Apr-08
We've been broadcasting from NASA"s Moffett Field all day, and will continue until 2AM tonight, as part of Yuri's Night, the World Space Party. There are some excellent acts we'll be bringing you, as well as audio from the outdoor stages and surrounding areas. Check it out! 12-Apr-08
Starting at 2pm pacific time today, SomaFM will be broadcasting live from Yuri's Night: the World Space Party in the San Francisco Bay Area at NASA Ames Moffett Field. You can join us, along with 8000 others, including astronauts, scientists, artists, engineers, musicians and DJs. Live broadcast starts at 2pm pacific. 7-Apr-08
Oops. Forgot to pull some huge April Fools prank today. Maybe that's for the best. 1-Apr-08
SomaFM creates radio that we ourselves want to listen to. And that means music without those annoying commercials. But in order to do that, we need your financial support! Any amount helps, and if you contribute $50 you'll get a SomaFM Tshirt!
Happy St. Patrick's Day (assuming you didn't already celebrate it early last weekend!) 17-Mar-08
As SXSW comes to an end, we posted some pictures online. 16-Mar-08
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Bay Area Takeover Party today. We'll get pictures and sounds up as soon as we can, internet problems not withstanding. Plus we'll be blogging and podcasting from SXSW for the rest of the week.
Right Now: Broadcasting Live from Justin.TV at the Bay Area Takeover! in Austin!
In Austin for SXSW? Today is the Bay Area Takeover Party, Thursday, March 13th, 2008, from 12-6pm, at the Beauty Bar, 617 E 7th St (near Red River), showcasing artists from the Bay Area's best independent record labels. There are two stages, featuring these great bands: Two Gallants, Film School, Scissors for Lefty, Von Iva, Loquat, 60 Watt Kid, Scrabbel, The Blacks, Birds and Batteries, Music For Animals, Social Studies, D.W. Holiday, The Union Trade, Form and Fate, and Aim Low Kid.
We are blogging and podcasting from SXSW in Austin, TX this week. 8-Mar-08
Live performances from SomaFM's Noisepop Happy Hour are now online. 4-Mar-08
Happy 9th Anniversary, SomaFM! 2-Mar-08
SomaFM Presents Noise Pop Happy Hour, this Saturday, March 1st, 5-8pm at Thee Parkside in San Francisco. FREE! Come by! UPDATE: Thanks everyone for coming out tonight, it was a great show! Nice to meet everyone!
A big thank you to everyone who supported SomaFM in February. We are almost out of our Indie Pop Rocks CDs now, but we have a new CD on the way. We still have plenty of Tshirts available for our $50 supporters.
Groove Salad was having problems this morning due to an unauthorized "relay server" that someone had set up, which was publishing itself as the server with the most capacity and redirecting listeners to it from our other less full server, and listeners were getting lots of skipping and dropouts. We've restricted that from our servers now, so things should be back to normal. 27-Feb-08
It looks like we're going to be about $4600 short of our budget in February, so if you're not already a SomaFM supporter and you like what we're doing, please support us with either a monthly subscription or a one time payment. Thanks! (Update: As of 26-Feb-08, we made month budget requirement! Thanks for the support!)
Our friend and studio mate Josh Ellingson will be at Wondercon this weekend in San Francisco, so we gave him a bunch of SomaFM stickers to distribute. He'll be in the Artist Alley section of Wondercon. The show opens to the public on Friday, Feb. 22, and runs through Sunday, Feb. 24 at Moscone Center South.
Thinking about traveling to Dubai? Be very careful!
Happy Valentine's Day! SomaFM Loves You!!!! 14-Feb-08
Happy Year Of The Rat! Not only is it the Lunar New Year (aka Chinese New Year) but today is also SomaFM's Elise Nordling's birthday as well. Happy birthday Elise! 7-Feb-08
Thanks to everyone who came through in the last couple days of January and supported SomaFM!
We're running about $2500 behind our budget for the month of January. I'm sure that everyone is paying off their christmas and holiday credit cards so cash is short. If you're not a SomaFM supporter already, please support us with a few dollars, it would really help. And we still have T-shirts and a limited number of our Indie Pop Rocks CDs left.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SomaFM is having a party Friday night in San Francisco, Jan 11th, from 8pm-Midnight. Drop by if you can!
San Francisco is experiencing a really big (for us) rain and windstorm. Power is intermittent in some locations, but our servers should be able to keep running on backup power. There may be delays in answering your email or other communications today. 4-Jan-08
Hapy New Year!!!!!
Thank you, everyone, for all your support in 2007!!! We love you! Rusty, Elise, Merin, Shawn, Roy, Tag 31-Dec-07
<-- If you have a small (or any size) business, and you play to SomaFM in your workplace, then in most cases SomaFM is a deductible business expense for "background music service". Doesn't matter if you support us annually or monthly. (Disclaimer: please confirm the details with your tax professional.) 23-Dec-07 -->
Merry Christmas from all of us at SomaFM! - Christmas Eve, 2007
From now on the days get longer and the nights get shorter. As Big Url says on Xmas in Frisko, "We'd like to wish all our pagan friends a Happy Solstice!" - 21-Dec-07
SomaFM is up for a PLUG Award again this year (Online Radio Station of the Year), and while we didn't win last year, we're hoping to this year. If you like us, please go vote for SomaFM for Online Station of the Year. Thanks!
Substantially more bandwidth added for the MP3 Holiday channels, you shouldn't have any trouble connecting now but they're already full again. We are working on getting even more. Try the Windows Media 32k streams in the mean time (which sound quite good). (This is costing us a lot of money, so if you haven't done so already, please support SomaFM today! 6-Dec-07
We have a new Windows Media server in place with tons of capacity, so no more buffering or connection refused messages. 5-Dec-07
Windows Media streams are back up and running. If you're still having problems, please contact us with the details of which stream and which speed connection you're using, and we'll try to get it all sorted out. 25-Nov-07
The holiday season has officially begun! Our annual holiday channels (Xmas in Frisko and Christmas Lounge) have returned.
San Francisco's Ambient Mafia is throwing a rare underground ambient party, Saturday night, "Two rooms of downtempo, ambient, trip hop, glitch, atmospheric d+b, midtempo, dub, and bossa nova in a virgin UG San Francisco location!" Saturday, November 10th, 2007 9pm - 6am // 18+ (21+ to drink) $10 at the door. (UPDATE: if you weren't there, you missed an exceptionally great party!)
Happy Halloween! 31-Oct-07
5.6 Earthquake in San Francisco 8:04pm Pacific, 30-Oct-07. We're OK, for the latest news on the quake listen to KGO 810, our local news station. USGS info on the quake.
Well, the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival in Reykjavik has largely come to a close; a few small things happening to day and one or two "secret shows" at NASA tonight. We'll be updating festival coverage blog throughout the day today. 21-Oct-07
SomaFM is on the road! Rusty and Merin will be at the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival in Reykjavik this week (17-21 Oct 2007), handing out stickers and even some Tshirts! And Elise will be at CMJ in New York City 18-20 Oct 2007. Maybe we'll see you there? Updates in a special section on the blog. 16-Oct-07
I'm getting reports of some people having problems connecting after some changes we've made to the site. If you can't connect and could before, please please contact me with the details of your problem, include the type of computer, browser and media player you're using and we'll get it straightened out. 15-Oct-07
(More old news in the news archives.)
