We did a ton of live interviews and met a bunch of cool people at Download 08.  Here's the first, an interview with Louis XIV.

    

More interviews will follow in a couple days.

The weather is beautiful down here, and the crowds are starting to arrive in force. We had M83 and Tapes'n'Tapes come by for interviews - we'll have the podcasts of those up later, in case you missed them.

The live broadcast goes until 6pm pacific time, that means 4 more hours from now. Thanks for tuning in!

Tune in to the Download Festival San Francisco, live from Shoreline Ampitheater, Today from Noon-6pm. Music, interviews, more.

MP3: 128k and Windows Media: 128k feeds will be live a little before Noon today.

We'll be broadcasint live from The Download 2008 festival, this Saturday (7/19). If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, come out and visit our booth.  Loads of cool music for just $20.

More info

Here's The Line-Up

In addition to selling t-shirts and CDs, we will be doing live artist interviews for most of the day. Here is a partially confirmed list (I'll post the final list when I get it) of bands who are coming to visit us:

12:30: Tapes 'n Tapes*
1:00: M83*
1:30: Vedera*
2:00: Datarock*
2:30: Cut/Copy*
3:00: De Novo Dahl
3:30: The Duke Spirit
4:00: Mates of State*
4:15: Yeasayer*
4:30: William Fitzsimmons*
5:00: Louis XIV
6:30: Parlor Mob
7:00: Natalie Portman's Shaved Head*
7:30: Blitzen Trapper*

*Confirmed

So stroll on by our booth or holler at us!

Congratulations to winners of tickets to the Download Festival:

Sean D.
Lorinda Marie F.
Sergio F.
Troy T.
Matt E.
Shannon M.
James S.
Ryan D.
Heather C.
Sara D.

Thanks for listening to Indie Pop Rocks on SomaFM!

Until today, our iPhone/iPod Touch streams were only working on the current iPhones with the 1.x software. Now thanks to some testing by Mark Malone at Apple, we've updated our iPhone streams to work with the 2.0 software and the 3G iPhones coming out on Friday.

So now our streams work on both old and new iPhones and iPod touches.

We now have some white SomaFM t-shirts for summer, by popular request, in addition to the black and red shirts. The white shirts are perfect for wearing to the park or those daytime music festivals on a hot day!

Music industry blogger Glenn Peoples on defining "Indie":

An indie artist is one not signed to a major label. That's a fair definition, and the traditional one. Most people would probably agree.

But in the context of today's shift in artist-enabling technologies, the term 'indie artist' could mean just about anything. A singer-songwriter with a great management company and an indie label is an indie artist. A band that plays local pubs on weekends are indie artists. Someone who tours regionally, uses social networking pages to build a community and sells CDs and downloads through CD Baby is an indie artist."

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