SomaFM News & Events
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SomaFM Network News
Congratulations to NASA on the successful launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130. We're covering this all week live on Mission Control. 8-Feb-10
Our popular Digital Bliss, Volume 2 CD is back in stock as a gift to our supporters at the $40 level. 2-Feb-10
We're testing our new "Pop Up" Flash-based player which will work even when you don't have a media player installed. 25-Jan-10
More super-high quality AAC streams are available now for many channels. 24-Jan-10
We're testing a 128k AAC feed of Groove Salad. We think it sounds much better than MP3 streams, and works with iTunes, Winamp and Foobar2000 players. Try it out and let us know what you think. 15-Jan-2010
We're giving the website a little facelift for the new decade. Drop us a note if you notice any formatting or compatibility issues. 9-Jan-10
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. 18-Jan-09
Hope we made the first workweek of the new year more enjoyable. 8-Jan-2010
More server capacity added. We're trying to make sure you don't get any more "Server Full" messages. 6-Jan-2010
Happy New Year! Thank you for making 2009 another successful year for SomaFM. 1-Jan-2010
A big Thank You to all our supporters who helped us meet our budget goals in 2009, and helped us raise almost $2000 more than our goal. Thanks for keeping SomaFM on the air and commercial free! 31-Dec-09
Happy New Year! Both our Holiday Channels will become "Auld lang Syne, All the Time!" at 2AM pacific time (10:00 GMT) when Kiritimati (Christmas Islands) is the first place to celebrate the new year. 30-Dec-09
Hope you have a wonderful holiday. 22-Dec-09
New Stealth Hoodies, black-on-black zip-up heavyweight hoodies now available for our supporters. 6-Dec-09
Happy Hanukkah! 12-Dec-09
Shop at Amazon.com and Support SomaFM: we'll get a 5% commission on what you buy if you use this Amazon.com link. Or use this to shop at Amazon.co.uk 5-Dec-09
Happy Thanksgiving. We're thankful we have such a wonderful group of listeners! 26-Nov-09
Space Shuttle STS-129 coverage on Mission Control this week. Live mission audio mixed with ambient electronic music. 16-Nov-09
Chck out the new long sleeve Tshirts and a new Digital Bliss CD compilation that fans of Lush and Groove Salad will enjoy.
More capacity added to Secret Agent and Indie Pop Rocks streaming servers. 8-Nov-09
We had some serious technical problems that knocked us off the air from 7:50pm until 9pm pacific time. But all is well again. 5-Nov-09
Holiday Streams are back! Xmas in Frisko and Christmas Lounge for your early holiday enjoyment. 1-Nov-09
SomaFM is entirely listener-supported. We need your financial support to keep us on the air. During the Fall fund-drive, please join the thousands of other supporters who make SomaFM's broadcasts possible. We have Tshirts, Mugs and more available to our supporters. 14-Oct-09
To all our friends attending Iceland Airwaves right now, please be assured that we're very sad that we're not there with you this year! 15-Oct-09
If you can't connect to Beat Blender or Lush (due to server capacity issues), try the "firewall" stream links.
It's World Space Week the largest annual public space event on Earth, celebrated in over 60 nations every October 4-10. This year's theme is education: so if you see any school kids, talk to them about space! 4-Oct-09
Telefon Tel Aviv is playing in San Francisco at Bottom of the Hill this Saturday, September 26th. Should be great to see them live. 24-Sep-09
The 10th anniversary San Francisco Electronic Music Festival starts tomorrow and runs September 16-19 at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. An interview with festival organizer Pamela Z along with music samples from artists performing there are now posted in our Podcast Player. 15-Sep-09
Space Shuttle will now land at Edwards AFB in California, due to weather conditions. Landing scheduled for 5:53p pacific time, deorbit burn at 4:47p pacific. Listen live on Mission Control! 11-Sep-09
Space Shuttle landing prep and landing live on Mission Control this Friday. Landing times at Kennedy tomorrow currently are listed as 2:48 p.m. and 4:23 p.m. Pacific, although those times may be adjusted. (Thursday's landing attempt was cancelled.) 10-Sep-09
Congratulations to the crew of Discovery on the successful launch of STS-128. You can listen in by tuning to Mission Control on SomaFM. 28-Aug-09
If you haven't supported SomaFM in the last year, we could really use your support.
After several aborted attempts, the Space Shutle launch is scheduled for 11:59 p.m. EDT tonight (8:59PM PDT/SomaFM Time). Forecasters call for a 60 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time. We'll be covering it live on our new Mission Control channel, mixed with ambient space music of course! 28-Aug-09
Mission Control is running Apollo audio until STS-128 is re-scheduled. 25-Aug-09
SomaFM needs your donation today. (here's why)
Space Shuttle launch aborted due to weather conditions, they'll try again in 24 hours (a little after 1AM EST Wednesday morning). 24-Aug-09
If you don't already, please please please support SomaFM.
We're currently covering STS-128: Space Shuttle Discovery's launch on Mission Control. 24-Aug-09
Beatblender has limited capacity on it's main server. If you can't connect, try the "Firewall" link which has additional capacity. 21-Aug-09
Windows Users: Corporate office friendly Windows Media 32k streams are now available for all our channels. 17-Aug-09
Our new Suburbs of Goa and Mission Control channels have been very popular and are sometimes maxing out their servers. We're working on getting more capacity for them, but if you can't connect, try again in 30 seconds. 7-Aug-09
Our buddies (and neighbors!) at The Bay Bridged are hosting an incredible sampler of Bay Area tunes, art and food Tonight, Friday, July 31st. at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco. [Details]
SomaFM celebrates NASA and space explorers everywhere with our new channel Mission Control: ambient electronica with live NASA audio. Currently featuring the 40 year anniversary Apollo 11 rebroadcast- exactly how it sounded back in 1969 (only now with a great soundtrack). 16-Jul-09
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, we invite you to listen to NASA's realtime rebroadcast of the original Apollo 11 mission audio at the same time you're listening to Space Station Soma, Drone Zone or your favorite SomaFM channel. 16-Jul-09
And with the scrub of the launch of the Space Shuttle just now, that concludes our mixing in audio of NASA's live feed with the music on Space Station Soma. Hope you liked it. We might do it again for the next launch attempt. 13-Jul-09
We're mixing in some audio NASA's live feed of the Space Shuttle launch today on Space Station Soma. 13-Jul-09
No, really, we need your support this week. Please don't put it off any longer!
SomaFM needs your financial support to stay on the air. Our fundraising for the first half of 2009 has been $30,000 less than we need, and we can only put off the bill collectors for so long. Please support SomaFM today! 24-Jun-09
(More old news in the news archives.)
