The Artemis astronauts. Something that’s happening now that in no way whatever sucks. A blessing.

icymi, I made a site that archives/transcribes audio from the NASA Artemis II mission feed, was finally able to deploy it publicly last night here's one of my favorite moments... the crew reporting meteor impact flashes on the moon (and mission control's reaction on stream) artemis.airplaneian.com

Oh AI. You'd be adorable if you weren't being used for anything in the real world.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

We were really excited a bit over a year ago to be at a panel with the Artemis II crew at SXSW.

SomaFM supporters Natalia & Falk at the 24th World Orchid Conference in Dresden, Germany

"SomaFM is like comfort food for me... Sometimes I just need somebody else to "take the wheel" on music, and not only with elegance, but with taste. Thank you all for doing what you do, and you're one of the few bastions on the internet that I still feel like I can trust." -- from Albuquerque, NM

So many crappy AI generated press releases about crappy AI generated music hitting our mailbox 😡

Born 24 March 1935 - Carol Kaye, one of the most prolific bass guitarists, who has played on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She is 91 years old today. #CarolKaye

Streamers are scammed by music made by bots listened to by bots. There are 60,000 fully AI-generated tracks delivered to Deezer daily. The AI-shitstorm never stops! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

There is a special place in hell for sites that pre-check the “sign me up for spam” button

One of the things we miss most about physical media is that it’s no fun to give someone a digital file. I Personally miss the joy of giving someone a CD of music I love, or a DVD/Blu-ray of a movie that really moved.  E-mailing a link or download code just isn’t nearly as fun

just learned of a new loscil pronunciation: "loss-kill". add to the list including "law-seal" "low-seel" and my running favourite, "low-skill"

Was not expecting Ninja Tune to sell out. I guess Matt Black and Jonathan More are getting older and ready to slow down. Still, did not expect Ninja Tune to end up with a company that (seems to have) made all their money on Smooth Jazz... djmag.com/news/ninja-t...

Not really clear why @somafm.com isn't giving all the other channels a day off and only streaming @thistleradio.bsky.social all day. I know I am. Just saying. somafm.com/thistle/

Please tell me the Nine Inch Nails after party is at DNA Lounge tonight. @dnalounge

If we've been quiet lately, that's because we've been busy dealing with a royalty audit from SoundExchange. There is a lot of annoying work that we have to do beyond the enjoyable part of finding and playing music for you!

"Just ordered my Drone Zone t-shirt. You guys are absolutely amazing. I can't stop listening to the fantastic sounds you keep streaming. Best of luck and lots of health to you all. To the next 25 years!" -- Alexander,

@RivalConsoles.bsky.social as well as @TristanPerich.bsky.social & James McVinnie to perform at this year’s @MUTEK.bsky.social in Montréal. Some of you might realise what this means… Book tickets: montreal.mutek.org/en/box-office

Wondering why a nightly maintenance program didn't run last night -- only to notice it was scheduled to run at 2AM and there was no 2AM last night! #daylightsavingstime

The @RivalConsoles.bsky.social Europe 2026 Live A/V tour commences tonight at MeetFactory in Prague with support from Ben Lukas Boysen, preceding shows across the continent and the UK later this spring. Tickets: www.rivalconsoles.net/tour

Very sad to learn the passing of Robert Kaye, founder of MusicBrainz. Not only we he extremely smart, but he was one of the nicest and friendliest people in the music technology space. He will be greatly missed. blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/24/r...

Thanks to shitty AI we are now inundated with lots of spam like this 😠

Today I released "Closer to Home", a compilation of dub ambient and slow dub techno tracks. The album was mastered by Leon Bölting at @arclab_mastering on high end analog equipment. Thanks a lot to salt for the artwork photo. phelios.bandcamp.com/album/closer... #dubtechno #ambient

"...one more listener from Sweden :-) Mostly FolkForward or SpyLounge. Nice to find masterpieces which usually will not be broadcasted elsewhere." -- Robert

S1gns Of L1fe did this great introduction and review of my modules. He's such a wonderful ambient music artist and gracefully weaves the modules into play, while creating a song. #eurorack youtu.be/0NjVquImVGY

"Drone Zone is my near constant work companion. I've always loved atmospheric and ambient music, and I love nearly everything you play. For variety, I go to Deep Space One and when in a rowdier mood Underground 80's which makes me nostalgic for the New Wave band I was in during the 80s." -- Stephen

"Can't believe I never found this site before in all the time I've been online. Loving the genres here, they're definitely a lifeline getting me through university work right now! Thank you all!" -- Amelia

Huge tune 💃🏻

Great record store find in Strasbourg, France: "L'Occase de l'Oncle Tom" Surprised at how many people were buying CDs, but they were mostly priced new from 7-8 Euros and had a great curated selection. Vinyl on the second floor as well, new and used.

Concerto is an awesome vinyl and more shop in Amsterdam. Highly recommended.

FIVE KEY RECORDS: Kate Bush ‘Hounds Of Love’ remains Bush’s biggest and arguably best record, featuring her most recognised hits while pushing the limits of pop experimentation. www.normanrecords.com/features/fiv...

This looks really cool for our Amsterdam friends:

Sad to learn of the passing of Ray Lynch, whose early "genre-defying instrumental music" releases had a real impact on us. We'll be sprinkling some of his tracks around Deep Space One and Drone Zone. raylynch.com/tribute/inde...

"Love this place, especially Underground 80's (Huge Thomas Dolby, Depeche etc etc fan so it's great to hear some of those B sides) and Space Station Soma. (perfect for indoor turbo / cycle sessions and driving when the world is rushing by) Just donated" -- Dan

Some lovely floaty ambient here, #bandcampfriday and his 82-release discography is on sale for €55.50 today (considering that is about 4 CDs in the old days, this is a lot of listening for the price). astro-sphere.bandcamp.com/album/unfold...

Tomorrow is once again #BandcampFriday, when Bandcamp waives their revenue share from all music sales & passes the funds directly to independent artists such as myself. So a great time to pick up the new album or any of my releases available on Bandcamp. Thanks!! 🙂 ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com

Evening top-down commute vibes courtesy of @somafm.com ❤️

Gonna pour one out for Catherine O’Hara tonight.

⇒ Deezer: 28% of all music delivered to streaming is now fully AI-generated ⇐ They say there's over 100,00 new songs submitted every day. EVERY DAY!!! That's alot of AI slop dumped into streaming. Ugh, terrible junk.

Philip Glass is trending — and he’s not dead (relieved)

"Listening from Mexico. I owe this website literally my life, I am incredibly thankful for the Indie Rock station and how it made me lock in." -- snats

So many people ask if we take crypto, and now that we do, (and told them we do), they never donate any. Sometimes feels like they say "I only use crypto" as an excuse to not spend money. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A technical issue caused streams to be inaccessible for a little over an hour between 3am-4am Pacific time. The main issue is resolved but there may be some temporary/occasional issues in the meantime as we fix the root cause. Thanks for your patience.

You can now make tax-deductible donations to SomaFM with Crypto, Venmo, DAFs, Venmo and even donate stocks through our partnership with Every Org: www.every.org/somafm

Wow, the big corporations are all now bragging about all the data they’re tracking on you, as if they're doing you some kind of favor:

"Listening from the start and again after a long break! SomaFM was forgotten but restored in my mind by a friend, need it to work now, Groove Salad the best for me! Hugs from France. Long live soma fm <3" -- jhice

SomaFM resident DJ Merin MC has a new book we've mentioned, here's a video "Book Trailer" for it: www.instagram.com/p/DTyPo4xjDIF/ Se also says: Thank you all for the positive reviews on Amazon. If you've read it, I'd love it if you, too, could leave a short review. It really helps.

FYSA, NWS Bay Area WFO has a planned service outage tomorrow, no NOAA radio or radar data