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Thanks to our supporters, we've raised ~~$13,000~~ ~~$16,000~~ $20,000 so far in November, but we still need to raise at least $37,000 by the end of the month. Become a SomaFM supporter today! 18-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

I wish I had more non-budget related news to post! 20-Oct-08

We are still way behind on raising money for the operation of SomaFM, and at the rate we're going, we'll be about $35,000 behind by the end of the year. If you're not alreay a monthly or annual subscriber to SomaFM, please help keep commercial-free internet radio on the air and support SomaFM today! Thanks! -- Rusty (Founder / Program Director), SomaFM

Happy 7th Birthday, iPod! 23-Oct-08

For the 4th month in a row we're about $5000 short of our monthly budget (and over $25,000 down for the year). We could really use your financial support right now. 5-Oct-08

Rusty will be on a panel at CMJ Wednesday discussing The Internet Music Broadcasting Dilemma, 12:30 pm, Room 405 (Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square S., New York, NY)

The festival is over now, but you can check out our Iceland Airwaves 2008 coverage for pictures and reviews. 20-OCt-08

Are you going to Iceland Airwaves this week? Be sure to read our Guide to cost-effective eating and drinking in Reykjavik as well as our coverage of last year's festival.

Iceland Airwaves starts tonight. We're definitely going to Tunglid (aka The Moon) tonight for the Kimi Records showcase, and will try and get to Hresso for Mammut at 10:15pm. More coverage in our Iceland Airwaves section. 15-Oct-08

Mac users: We changed our Quicktime streams so that they launch in an external player, not in the browser. Among other things, this will let you listen to SomaFM in Quicktime, and at the same time listen to an audiobook in iTunes. 4-Oct-08

Contrats to Aviva from Oakland for winning the tickets to see Sigur Ros tonight at the Greek in Berkeley. 3-Oct-08

HR 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008, has cleared the House and the Senate and now is awaiting being signed into law. Thanks everyone who called in to congress to help get this passed! 30-Sep-08

Good news: HR 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008, has cleared the House and the NAB has dropped their opposition to it in teh Senate, so it looks like it's going to pass... if the Senate can get around to it tomorrow. It wouldn't hurt to call the US Senate and ask them to vote on it Tuesday. (More details) 29-Sep-08

The "Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008" has passed the House, now it's onto the Senate. We need you to call the US Senate before Monday afternoon and ask for the support of "HR 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008" in the senate. (Learn more)

Nice to see everyone at the Treasure Island festival last weekend. 22-Sep-08

SomaFM will be at the Treasure Island Music Festival, Saturday and Sunday, September 20th and 21st in San Francisco. We've got backstage interviews scheduled with Amon Tobin, Foals, Loquat, CSS, John Vanderslice and The Dodos. More info as we get it in our blog.

We are saddened by the recent passing of two great artists: Hector Zazou and Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright. May their work be always remembered. 16-Sep-08

We now have SomaFM T-shirts in Black (the classic SomaFM color), Red and now White, available exclusively to our supporters.

Congrats to Nicholas on "properly inaugurating" his swank new bachelor pad last night! 11-Sep-08

Congratulations to our friends at Shoutcast.com for the launch of their all new site! 11-Sep-08

Nitya, host of Sonic Universe on SomaFM is reporting from the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway this weekend. 4-Sep-08

Guitar man, American entertainer and Boot Liquor favorite Jerry Reed has passed away at the age of 71. He was a genuine original who helped bring country music to an untapped audience.

Our streams are back up after a three hour network outage in San Francisco 6:25am PST 20-Aug-08

There will be some network maintenance tonight which will affect our stream encoders, and take some channels off air for 10-20 minutes. 19-Aug-08 11:40pm PST

Issac Hayes: We'll miss you, but your music will live on forever. 10-Aug-08

SomaFM is now streaming on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Just go to SomaFM.com on your iPhone/iTouch and you'll get an iPhone webapp mini site with links to all our streams. (more info and comments in our blog...) 20-Jun-08

We've posted some interviews and photos from the Download Festival in our blog, as well as some full-length interviews. 22-Jul-08

We'll be broadcasting live from the San Francisco Download Festival at the Shoreline Ampitheater Saturday, July 19th from 11:30am until about 6:00pm Pacific time. Look for us there!

Happy Independence Day to everyone in the US! Take a moment to appreciate your freedoms and indepence, and remember not to take it from granted. We still have lots of work to do, giant Corporations (and their representatives, like the RIAA) are now the biggest threat to our personal freedoms. 4-Jul-08

Our email server is back online, and if you wrote to us in the last week and didn't receive a response (and expected one), please contact us again. We apologize for any lost mail. 6-Jun-08

Our email server is donw again because if a power problem at ThePlanet.com, our email host. We are in the process of moving our email and web to our San Francisco datacenter, but it's not going as fast as originally planned. Our email server is back online, and we'll be getting to all your mail within the next 24 hours. If you've emailed SomaFM and haven't gotten a response, please email again. It is likely that mail sent Saturday through Monday bounced and we won't get it.

SomaFM's email is still down due to an extended outage caused by an overloaded electrical circuit at our internet provider (The Planet) that hosts our mail server. For the last 48 hours The Planet has been promising to have it online within 4 hours, and it is still down. (While we can send outgoing messages, we have no access to incoming mail. Please be patient if you are awaiting an email response from us.) 4-Jun-08

Our web site was down this weekend due to a significant outage at our web hosting provider. We are back up as of 3:20am pacific time, Monday morning, 2-Jun-08, however our email server is still out, and we are not sure when it will be available. More details...

Our friends at Spacial Audio are conducting a survey about internet radio listening, it's a pretty quick survey. 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

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.

(More old news in the news archives.)