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Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: ...

2026-07-12T21:01:02Z

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: Mr. Dreamstream, Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel, Matt Borghi, Jeff Talman, Jaja
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

We have updated our streamservers to improve their reliability, ...

2026-07-12T21:00:39Z

We have updated our streamservers to improve their reliability, but it's possible we may have introduced some bugs our testing didn't reveal. If you're having any issues, email dj @ somafm .com and let us know the details (app/browser version, device type, etc) Thanks!

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works ...

2026-07-12T16:01:02Z

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works by: Steve Roach, Disturbed Earth & Shane Morris, Robert Rich, Phase47, Michael Peters
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: ...

2026-07-05T21:01:01Z

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: Mathias Grassow, Scott Lawlor, SPOOL, Ade Hodges, Another Neglected Hobby
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works ...

2026-07-05T16:01:01Z

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works by: Steve Roach, Spheric Lounge, Solyaris, James Shain, Robert Rich
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Just a reminder: We do not accept AI music submissions (e.g. ...

2026-06-30T21:55:01Z

Just a reminder: We do not accept AI music submissions (e.g. Suno, etc) as SomaFM is a human-centered radio network. We especially hate AI agents repeatedly submitting AI music to us. If you're a developer, don't do this.

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: ...

2026-06-28T21:01:02Z

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: Robert Rich, Tom Middleton, Max Corbacho, Si Robinson & Jim Mortimore, Matt Borghi
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Getting reports that some Alexa users can't get to our App. ...

2026-06-21T22:37:45Z

Getting reports that some Alexa users can't get to our App. If that's the case, try saying "Alexa end early access" and our app will work again. We are working on an update that's compatible with future Alexa updates.

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: ...

2026-06-21T21:01:01Z

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: White Origins, Scott Lawlor, Martin Sturtzer, Mathias Grassow & Eyes cast down, Simon Slator
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works ...

2026-06-21T16:01:02Z

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works by: Steve Roach, Another Neglected Hobby, Simon Wilkinson, Robert Rich, White Origins
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Love this track playing on Space Station Soma now so much, ...

2026-06-15T23:13:11Z

Love this track playing on Space Station Soma now so much, "Desert Dwellers - Seeing Things (Eat Static Remix)" what a great collab!

https://somafm.com/spacestation

We still have a few Women's style DEFCON 31 Chillout tshirts ...

2026-06-06T18:45:32Z

We still have a few Women's style DEFCON 31 Chillout tshirts left... only $25!

https://store.somafm.com/products/def-con-31-chillout-lounge-shirt?variant=40242958663793

we’ve tried to keep our streams open and easily accessible on ...

2026-05-23T08:44:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…lm8f
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we’ve tried to keep our streams open and easily accessible on principle

Not sure how long we will be able to keep doing that though

Which is really sad and leads to more enshittification of the Internet

Projekt Records label boss and good friend of SomaFM, Sam ...

2026-05-18T21:31:50Z

Projekt Records label boss and good friend of SomaFM, Sam Rosenthal, is doing a kickstarter to release Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Rope (40th anniversary edition), and just needs a few more backers to get it funded:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samrosenthal/therope

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: ...

2026-05-17T21:01:01Z

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: Eguana, Kent Sparling, Scott Lawlor, Phobos, Wings Of An Angel
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works ...

2026-05-17T16:01:02Z

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works by: Louigi Verona, theadelaidean, dreamSTATE, Robert Rich, Har
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

A problem with our website "Old Player" not playing ...

2026-05-12T22:02:20Z

A problem with our website "Old Player" not playing Groove Salad 2 has been fixed (we forgot to include a 128k MP3 stream, which the old player uses)

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: ...

2026-04-19T21:01:01Z

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel, SAVO, Disturbed Earth, Mark Harris, Sam Rosenthal
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

probably to appease US TV audiences

2026-04-19T17:51:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…v2ce
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probably to appease US TV audiences

That attack is happening via all sorts of services- ...

2026-04-19T17:37:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…3reg
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That attack is happening via all sorts of services- invites/declines, mailing list signups, etc.

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works ...

2026-04-19T16:01:03Z

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works by: Steve Roach, Environments, Oenyaw
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

wasn’t dissing them. They were ahead of their time. Spectacle ...

2026-04-19T03:54:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…ecxs
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wasn’t dissing them. They were ahead of their time. Spectacle is a good thing

Milli Vanilli rolling over in their graves* while watching some ...

2026-04-19T00:52:34Z

Milli Vanilli rolling over in their graves* while watching some of the acts at Coachella...

* yes they're not dead yet, just a euphemism.

not today. Got a really big one the other day tho.

2026-04-12T22:20:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…j9qn
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not today. Got a really big one the other day tho.

that’s kind of what it was! Squall lines blowing across the ...

2026-04-12T22:18:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…ewys
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that’s kind of what it was! Squall lines blowing across the city.

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: ...

2026-04-12T21:01:00Z

Drone Zone Long Form Sunday continues with long-form tracks from: Another Neglected Hobby, Perpetual Ocean, Jaja, Autohypnosis
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Some heavy downpours coming through SF this morning... #sfwx ...

2026-04-12T19:52:36Z

Some heavy downpours coming through SF this morning... #sfwx #sanfrancisco
(TL of the KPIX Salesforce Tower cams)

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works ...

2026-04-12T16:01:03Z

Today on Drone Zone it's Long Form Sunday, featuring works by: Louigi Verona, theAdelaidean, Remote Vision, Cousin Silas
http://somafm.com/dronezone/

Watching Worship on the Coachella feed. Does it really take 4 ...

2026-04-12T07:25:13Z

Watching Worship on the Coachella feed. Does it really take 4 dudes to work some CD decks? The spectacle is the visuals and lighting design tho.

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2026-04-11T00:33:41Z

Happy (and relieved!) that Artemis II has returned successfully!

Network issues on the "internet backbone" are interfering ...

2025-10-03T02:04:57Z

Network issues on the "internet backbone" are interfering with our streams for some listeners in Europe, Canada and the East Coast of the US. It started around 5pm Pacific time, and is ongoing. We are working with our bandwidth providers to get the issue resolved, and moved most of our traffic to servers that are on a different backbone in the mean time.

It’s actually raining in SF right now. ...

2025-09-19T05:14:30Z

It’s actually raining in SF right now.

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2025-08-11T21:50:01Z

De-enshittifying the internet since 2000 (or at least trying to)

We are back at DEF CON in Las Vegas broadcasting live on ...

2025-08-10T17:26:21Z

We are back at DEF CON in Las Vegas broadcasting live on https://somafm.com/player24/live/
Starting with Merin MC right now, and later Rusty
Going until about 3pm today #defcon33

We are live from DEF CON in Las Vegas with Merin MC with kampf, ...

2025-08-08T17:52:42Z

We are live from DEF CON in Las Vegas with Merin MC with kampf, rusty and djdead coming up later in the day. Tune in at https://somafm.com/player24/station/live or the SomaFM Live channel in your app

SAVE THE DATE! SomaFM 25th Anniversary party in San Francisco on ...

2025-06-04T19:41:46Z

SAVE THE DATE! SomaFM 25th Anniversary party in San Francisco on Sep 20th, 2025. More details and ticket info in the coming weeks!

That feeling when you send 900 people a fundraising message that ...

2025-05-20T18:24:06Z

That feeling when you send 900 people a fundraising message that says:
"We’re aiming to raise ,000 by the end of May" because of a typo :(

Things you won't find on SomaFM: "branded ...

2025-04-16T21:55:20Z

Things you won't find on SomaFM:
"branded experiences"
"influencer activations"
"experiential marketing"

Things you will find:
"good music"
"no advertising"

At the #FediverseHouse at #SXSW for the @npub1psa…j5uh ...

2025-03-10T23:38:41Z

At the #FediverseHouse at #SXSW for the 404 Media (npub1psa…j5uh) takeover. Support independent media!

We've changed our Web Player and Song History / Top Artists ...

2025-02-26T23:12:15Z

We've changed our Web Player and Song History / Top Artists pages to now do a web search for the song/artist rather than default to Amazon.

Thanks for the folks who tracked this down on HN and pressured ...

2025-02-17T21:43:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…u4yj
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Thanks for the folks who tracked this down on HN and pressured the guy remove our streams and embed public SoundCloud tracks instead!

A tech bro decided to "launch" a product using our ...

2025-02-17T09:45:00Z

A tech bro decided to "launch" a product using our streams without so much as talking to us or getting our permission. Costing us real $$ in royalties, taking credit for the audio from our streams.

I guess the AI companies have normalized this kind of behavior.

You may get momentarily kicked off a stream as we do some ...

2025-02-05T21:13:33Z

You may get momentarily kicked off a stream as we do some security updates today. Some clients will reconnect automatically, others you may need to hit stop and play again to reconnect.

If you find yourself in Tokyo in the next couple months: ...

2025-01-24T19:16:57Z

If you find yourself in Tokyo in the next couple months:

https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en/exhibitions/RS/

Good thing we don't have investors or shareholders. That way, ...

2025-01-14T18:22:04Z

Good thing we don't have investors or shareholders. That way, we can focus on what's good for our listeners and humanity rather than what benefits our shareholders.

Just a reminder, if you haven't donated this year, we're ...

2024-12-30T21:58:23Z

Just a reminder, if you haven't donated this year, we're still hoping you will. We are entirely supported by our listener's donations.

https://somafm.com/donate

Thank you for making SomaFM possible for almost 25 years now!

In todays email: 2 nice people (and supporters) sent holiday ...

2024-12-03T17:45:29Z

In todays email:

2 nice people (and supporters) sent holiday wishes and thanks.

One person angry there are sounds in our Mission Control channel that wake him up when he's sleeping (not a supporter)

Another person wants us to "update" our channel logos with "fresh, new AI images" (also not a supporter)

Just another day with the inbox :)

We have 5 (FIVE!!!) Holiday & Christmas channels this year ...

2024-12-02T21:21:10Z

We have 5 (FIVE!!!) Holiday & Christmas channels this year again. You can find them all here:

https://somafm.com/holiday/

"Currently on the CA Zephyr, barreling through desert ...

2024-10-28T03:13:43Z

"Currently on the CA Zephyr, barreling through desert watching the Nevada sunset, while listening to Groove Salad Classic. Thank you Rusty and gang for the soundtrack. What a time to be alive." -- john

(The California Zephyr is a passenger train from the SF area to Chicago)

"I listen SomaFM for about 15 years. I mostly listen groove ...

2024-10-27T20:39:40Z

"I listen SomaFM for about 15 years. I mostly listen groove salad, deep space one and drone zone. This great selection of music accompanies me through a great life and I can never imagine living without it. Thank You" - Znojmo, Czech Republic