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Our take on SOPA/PIPA proposed laws, and why they're so dangerous and ripe to be abused. 18-Jan-2012
All electrical work at our datacenter is finished and all our channels are back. Sorry about the downtime, it was a bit longer than expected. 20-Jan-2012
Thank you for all your financial support in 2011. We couldn't have done this without our supporters, and we look forward to spending an excellent 2012 with you! 31-Dec-2011
Secret Agent back on the air, however AAC streams are down until we get some new hardware next week. Sorry about that. 24-Dec-11
If you're having trouble connecting to SomaFM from a saved bookmark in your media player, please update your links from our website. 22-Dec-11
Gremlins (or a hardware failure) have taken Secret Agent off the air. We're working on a fix. 22-Dec-2011
Happy Solstice! The days start getting longer from here on, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. 21-Dec-2011
SomaFM Android App now available in the Android Marketplace for $0.99 (0.50 Euros) through the end of 2011. 12-Dec-2011
Thanks to PDXHosting for donating additional bandwidth for this years Christmas Lounge! 29-Nov-2011
SomaFM's OSX App now available in Apple's App Store. 1-Nov-2011
Happy Thanksgiving! We're thankful that we have such wonderful and generous listeners. SomaFM Loves You!!! 23-Nov-2011
SomaFM has lost a good friend: our long time pal and musical mentor J.D. Falk passed away Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. Among many things, J.D. was a cornerstone of the downtempo electronic music community in San Francisco, a community that we are proud to be a part of. While this is a great loss to us, we celebrate the musical inspiration and overall awesomeness that J.D. brought to us, and we're deeply honored to have known him. 17-Nov-2011
Public beta of our Android app now available. 4-Nov-2011
Thanks to everyone who came out last night to our Williamsburg meetup. And special thanks to Mark at The Abbey bar, for being such an awesome host. 21-Oct-11
SomaFM founder Rusty Hodge will be speaking at the Audio Engineering Society convention in New York on Saturday, Oct 22nd at 5pm. The panel is "Improving the Streaming Audience Experience" and hope to see you audio geeks there. 18-Sep-2011
Thanks to everyone for their support in September. It's the first time in several months where we hit our budget goal and are now getting caught up on the bills that we had gotten behind on. 2-Oct-2011
August fundraising was behind schedule. Please help us to get caught up on our budget and pay our bills by supporting SomaFM today. 12-Sep-2011
We've removed Facebook "Like" buttons from our website as they we being used to track your activity, which is against our privacy policy. We respect your privacy and will in the future add a feature to opt-in to having the Like buttons appear on our site. 3-Sep-2011
Sad news: Barry Craig, the man known as ambient music artist "A Produce", passed away suddenly a few days ago. Barry's early music was a large inspirations for the creation of SomaFM's Drone Zone. We've been fan of A Produce since the early 90s, and Barry's music will always be a very important part of the ambient music. We will miss you Barry. 6-Sep-2011
Hoodies are available for ordering in all sizes again. 22-Aug-2011
We will have all sizes of hoodies back in stock in 2-3 weeks, and will be sending out backorders as soon as we receive them. 19-Aug-2011
Boot Liquor now available in 128k AAC for the highest possible audio quality, as well as 64 and 32kb aacPlus for much better than MP3 quality. Also, now in aacPlus 3GPP stream format for many cell phones including older Blackberry devices. 8-Aug-2011
Thank you to all our supporters in July! We rely entirely on you and we thank you so much for supporting SomaFM! 1-Aug-2011
Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles on STS-135. The last ever space shuttle landing after 30 years of space exploration. 21-Jul-2011
July fundraising is running way behind schedule. Please donate to SomaFM and help us meet our monthly operational budget. We rely entirely on you, and don't have sponsors or grants to pay our bills. If you haven't supported SomaFM this year, please help us now. 11-Jul-2011
The Launch of Space Shuttle STS-135 is exactly 1 Week away! SomaFM will carry the launch and entire mission live on Mission Control. 1-Jul-2011
Thanks to everyone for your support in June. Everyone really came through in the last week and we raised more than we expected. Thank you for making SomaFM possible! 1-Jul-2011
Secret Agent is back on the air after an equipment failure today. Sorry about that! 15-Jun-2011
Mission Control returns to mixing in archived Apollo program audio after the successful landing of Endeavour. 1-Jun-2011
Space Shuttle STS-134 and International Space Station mission audio on Mission Control this week. 20-May-2011
The launch of space shuttle Endeavour takes place Monday morning, May 16, at 8:56am EDT. We have live shuttle mission audio coverage along with news and photo updates from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Mission Control. 15-May-2011
Thanks to everyone who came out to our 11th Anniversary party last night. We sold out the Independent, really sorry to those of you who showed up later and couldn't get in. It's been a great 11 years, and we hope to be here for many, many more. 8-Apr-2011
Story, photos and audio from the final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery online now. 9-Mar-2011
Thanks you for all your financial support in March. A lot of people came through in the last couple days and helped us (for the most part) meet our fundraising goal. Thanks to all our supporters for keeping SomaFM on the air! 1-Apr-2011
SomaFM's 11th Anniversary Party in San Francisco: featuring Tycho and Inu. Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM (Doors: 7:30) $18.00 - $20.00, 21 and Over. Buy tickets here! 8-Mar-2011
Warning to iTunes users: the latest iTunes 10.2 has broken opening .pls files, which we and other online radio stations us to make our web links open in iTunes. Hopefully Apple will release a fix for this soon. 5-Mar-2011
Thanks to all our supporters in February, we hit our fundraising goal with a few hours to spare! 1-Mar-2011
Be sure to check out our coverage of STS-133, the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from SomaFM's team at the Kennedy Space Center. 25-Feb-2011
Live Space Shuttle STS-133 Coverage from Launch to Landing on Mission Control begins Thursday morning, Feb. 24, 2011. Discovery¿s launch at 4:50pmET/21:50 GMT on 2/24, we'll cover it and the whole mission live mixed with ambient music on Mission Control. 21-Feb-2011
SomaFM's 11th Anniversary Party in San Francisco: featuring Tycho and Inu. Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM (Doors: 7:30) $18.00 - $20.00, 21 and Over. Free Groove Salad CD to the first 100 ticket purchasers. Buy tickets here! 11-Feb-2011
Happy Birthday to SomaFM's Elise Nordling, the musical genius behind Indie Pop Rocks. You rock Elise! We're all so glad you're part of SomaFM! 7-Feb-2011
Happy Lunar New Year! 4-Feb-2011
Support SomaFM with a one-time $40 suscription and get our new Groove Salad compilation CD, 14 tracks picked by Rusty Hodge, including some of the most popular Groove Salad artists. 2-Feb-2011
iPhone users: make sure you get our new (Dec 2010) app, "SomaFM Radio" from the app store. It supports background streaming, Airplay support, aacPlus for high quality at lower bitrates, and more. 30-Jan-2011
Support SomaFM at the $40 level and get one of three CDs by Steve Roach, one of if not the top artist on SomaFM's Drone Zone. 18-Jan-2011
(More old news in the news archives.)
