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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

There is a bug in our iPhone app related to the 3.0 upgrade. Fix is coming soon. Work-around and more info 18-Jun-09

It's a tough economy, and SomaFM is feeling the pain. Please support SomaFM and keep commercial-free radio on the air.

We have a great new interview with the band Weinland (as heard on Indie Pop Rocks) in our interview and articles section. 15-Jun-09

Jonas in Germany: SomaFM's Listener of the Month for May. 30-May-09

If you haven't supported SomaFM in the last year, we could really use your support.

SomaFM's iPhone App is finally available to the public! 21-May-09

Is it officially summer now? Doesn't feel that way in San Francisco yet. 1-Jun-09

Follow Groove Salad DJ Rusty Hodge on Twitter @SomaFMRusty 13-May-09

One of our favorite local artists, Loquat, is performing at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco tonight. Hope to see you there! (directions) 14-May-09

We have an update on the royalty situation on Rusty's blog. 13-May-09

Please support SomaFM!

This Weekend! The How Weird Street Faire 2009 happens Sunday, May 10th, from 12-7pm @ Howard & 2nd Sts. in San Francisco. Ten blocks of art and celebration, and ten stages of music. Plus performances and colorful costumes, vendors from around the world, food and drinks, and much more!

The trippy, psychedelic echo sound problem on Indie Pop Rocks has been fixed by our engineer. Sorry about that. 10:30am PST 8-May-09

One of our favorite local artists, Loquat, is performing at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco tonight. SomaFM's Elise Nordling will be DJing between sets as well. Hope to see you there! (directions) 7-May-09

We raised about $24,500 in April, but we didn't raise everything we need. Hopefully things will pick up in May and we can get caught up on our bills. 1-May-09

Happy May Day and International Workers' Day! Though we're still working to bring you the tunes. 1-May-09

Happy Earth Day. 22-April-09

Meghan Logue is reporting via Twitter from the Coachella festival this weekend. 17-Apr-09

Our friends at Shoutcast have a new new Radio Toolbar that works with SomaFM and your other favorite stations. 9-Apr-09

If you haven't already bought a Tshirt, Mug or Hoodie, now is the time! 5-Apr-09

Boot Liquor back on the air; there are some lingering problems with the aacPlus feeds that we don't have an ETA as to when they'll be working properly. Use the MP3 feeds instead. 7pm pacific time, 4-Apr-09

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGHAN! 31-Mar-09

Budget update: We are about $3000 under budget for March. 25-Mar-09

Thanks everyone for making the Bay Area Takeover a great success. We posted a few pictures and will post more later.

In Austin for SXSW? Come to the Bay Area Takeover Party, a free day party on Thursday, March 19th, 2008, from 12-6pm, at the Beauty Bar, 617 E 7th St (near Red River), showcasing artists from the Bay Area's best indie record labels.We're at SXSW now and hope to see you! 18-Mar-09

SomaFM relies on your donations to stay on the air. (here's how you can help)

4-Mar-09

We have SomaFM tshirts, hoodies and mugs, as well as a new compilation CD as gifts for our supporters. 28-Feb-09

32k Windows Media streams now available for all channels. These streams often work in corporate settings where 128k MP3 streams are blocked. 14-Jan-09

Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Happy New Year! 1-Jan-09

Thanks for all your support in 2008. We couldn't have done it without you. 31-Dec-08

If you're not already a SomaFM supporter, become one today. SomaFM is supported entirely by our listeners.

We now have SomaFM hoodies and mugs, as well as a new San Francisco indie rock compilation CD as gifts for our supporters.

Happy Hanukkah and Happy Solstice! 21-Dec-08

Due to a software problem, Xmas in Frisko was off the air for most of Sunday. It's back now. 6:30pm 21-Dec-08

If you're flying on Delta Airlines this holiday season, we have a present for you. A special presentation from Groove Salad will be on Delta's In-flight audio, on channel 8.

Some internet-wide outages have been sporadically affecting our streams today. The good news is that these outages have lasted usually less than 10 minutes. They're also not affecting all our streams at the same time. So if you can't connect, try another channel in the mean time, or try again in 10 minutes. 2:30pm 15-Dec-08

UPDATE: Thank You!!! We've raised $36,861.01 in November. Thanks to everyone who supported SomaFM in November. 1-Dec-08

It's Thanksgiving time in the United States, and all of us here at SomaFM would like to give thanks to all of you for listening to and supporting SomaFM. THANK YOU! 26-Nov-08

We're in the middle of our end of year fund drive right now. If you haven't supported SomaFM in the last year, please support us now! SomaFM is entirely supported by our listeners. Thanks.

Happy Halloween! Don't forget to tune into Doomed for some dark and scary music! 21-Oct-08

(More old news in the news archives.)