December 2009
28 posts
Merry Christmas! And if you hate Christmas, Drone Zone, Groove Salad, Digitalis and Secret Agent are all Christmas-Free. http://somafm.com
I guess we’re going to have to develop a “channel” (i.e App) for the Roku. Tons of people have them hooked up to their TVs and stereos.
1. Jon Hassell - Last night the moon came dropping it’s clothes in the street [buy] 2. Nils Petter Molvaer - Hamada [buy]
3. Arve Henriksen - Cartography [buy]
4. Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Leucoctye [buy]
5. Jan Garbarek - Dresden [buy]
6. Fresu Youseff Aarset - Jazz Italiano Live 2008 (CD from the Italian weekly L’Espresso)
7. Markus Stockhausen - Electronic Treasures...
Thanks everyone for making The Christmas Lounge the #1 Christmas station on Shoutcast.com right now! Tune in at http://somafm.com
Today should be interesting.
We encourage this behavior: RT @nikmagick: someone just “hacked” the lobby PC to stream Xmas in Frisko through the PA system (excellent)
Rusty apologizes for not playing “The Cat Carol” enough this year on Xmas in Frisko. By request, we’ll be playing it more often from now on.
Groove Salad is working properly again. We’re adding more capacity for the holiday streams and OOPS! pressed the wrong button.
We just gave a bunch of money to Streamguys.com for tons of additional bandwidth for the holiday streams (and Indie Pop Rocks too).
We hit our all time concurrent listener peak today of 14185 listeners all tuned in at 12:44pm pacific time today!
The website is slow today; tons of new Christmas channel listeners. Welcome everyone!
Finally started getting complaints about offensive songs on Xmas in Frisko. We were kind of concerned that no one was paying attention!
MythTV users/developers: what’s the format for the streaminfo.xml file for an audio stream?
While we’re spewing statistics, we have 11,555 fans on Facebook, and 4,316 followers on Twitter; 450,000 visitors to SomaFM.com monthly.
I can tell it’s Christmastime: 1363 people tuned to Christmas Lounge right now!
[a photo Ellis took of the STS- 129 lift-off]
Ellis, who lives in Florida, is our listener of the month! Lately, Ellis has had the opportunity to watch two NASA shuttle launches and on both occasions SomaFM served as his soundtrack. As he says, “at points the interplay between the music and mission communication can be epic!”
While Ellis’ favorite station is usually Groove...
The San Francisco MusicTech summit is right around the corner! The 5th annual summit will feature panels on everything from music in games to finding funding for your new music-related venture.
Speakers range from Dave Allen - founding member of Gang of Four - to Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind. The summit is sure to be a great place to learn about advances in the field of music and the...
You may have missed it on Wednesday around noon when we had a contest to give away 9 tshirts. We’ll do it again sometime soon.
Every now and then we find some extra SomaFM shirts that aren’t the normal kinds we have on the website. Sometimes we give them away free.
The free shirts are all gone. Thanks to everyone who played.
Check out our new “stealth” black-on-black hoodies! Just in time for winter, SomaFM is making it’s stealthy, brand new hoodie design available to our supporters. So keep warm and subtly show off your support of SomaFM by wearing our stylish and high-quality zip-up hoodie. Hoodies are available with a $85 donation. They’re also available in bundles of our other premiums and...
Check out our new “Stealth Hoodies” http://somafm.com/support/hoodie/