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

He knew it: "Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

In an age of AI and Algorithms, it's been nice to just go back to listening to a radio station of human curated music. @somafm.com has been doing an amazing job with putting together some quality stations. My favorites have been Metal Detector, Groove Salad, DEF CON Radio, and ThistleRadio.

Join us Sunday for a listening event with Chris Russell to preview the upcoming album, “Lumen,” before its official debut. Live Q&A / chat while we #listentogether. 5PM PST / 7 PM CST / 8 PM EST cutt.ly/lumenlp

Lush is such a lovely musical escape, on SOMA.FM. I highly recommend it.

Lovely sunset tonight (as seen on the KPIX Salesforce Tower camera)

Just a friendly reminder that the exemplary humans at @somafm keep #defconradio going all year long. Stream the vibe immaculate at somafm.com/defcon/. #defcon #grooves

No. No. No!! Gmail added AI summaries to email. Stop it with the AI! I have reading comprehension. AI is horrible and invasive. Gmail: To turn off AI summaries: Settings > See all settings > General Scroll to "Smart features and personalization" Turn off "Smart features"

Listening to Herr X by Ultravox on Underground 80s on @somafm.com 45 years after it's release and i'm just hearing this version now?!? 🧡

Some nice feedback about our Christmas Rocks! channel:

🎧 #SomaFM promo queue Nice ambient one now. Was a couple of collections of dance floor tracks prior. 💻 Work Cleaning up some small issues from the big January 1 changes. Every year health care changes a ton Jan 1. I work mainly with codes / setting up the data to support them. ☕️

#SomaFM review queue 🎧 Lunar Ipona - Fragments I see I liked their album back in 2024. I like this new one too they just sent to our review queue. Some happier stuff. Some melancholy. Overall really nice album. #ambient lunaripona.bandcamp.com/album/fragme...

Well this is a surprise. There should be a law REQUIRING this. www.theverge.com/news/858501/...

Sometimes we like to drop a surprise on Lush...

Again to post about something other than the horrors I need everyone to know that @somafm.com has a "classic groove salad" channel so that you can EXACTLY RECREATE the experience of being a teenager on a bondi blue iMac listening to chill music in the middle of the night in 2002

I love @somafm.com. I send them $10 every month to help keep the lights on. I do most of my music buying through @bandcamp.com. Such a useful way to find new music and support artists.

@lemonodor.bsky.social You see this? "most aviation radio frequencies were hit by massive interference, forcing a precautionary shutdown of Greek airspace" www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Last year, SomaFM played over 30,000 different artists and more than 116,000 different tracks across 45+ channels

Sometimes, people send us money in the mail, and include awesome notes...

I recently rediscovered @somafm.com after many years away (I think I started listening in ~2002) and so many of the channels make excellent soundtracks for writing. I'm so glad they're still out there after 25 years. Currently writing and jamming to The Trip.

In the latest from our mailing list, "2025: A Year of Loved Songs" - we give some stats on the music we played last year and what were the songs most loved by listeners: somafm.com/mailinglist/...

A quick reminder: you can still use discount code adios2025 for 25% off any of my releases on Bandcamp (including my Full Digital Discography) through January 2nd, 2026. Wishing you a happy, healthy & safe New Year, & thanks as always for supporting #IndependentMusic! ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com

SomaFM supporter James showing off his Vintage Black Corduroy SomaFM hat. Thanks for the support, James!

My favorite tracks of 2025. Definitely an eclectic mix, but likely a little something for everyone. Best played on shuffle. Enjoy! (Spotify version linked in comments) tidal.com/playlist/2be...

Timelapse of the San Francisco Bay today, a few scattered clouds and a brief appearance of a rainbow. Courtesy of the KPIX/CBS5 Salesforce Tower cameras at www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

Northern lights could be visible on Christmas Eve in these states - ABC News apple.news/AEX9vtB1FTnm...

21 Years ago today, Xmas in Frisko was the #1 channel on the old Shoutcast directory!

Thank you @somafm.com for making long drives more fun

I listen to SomaFM year round, but it's ESPECIALLY perfect at Christmas!

If you don't know about @somafm.com, this is the best week of the year to check it out somafm.com/xmasrocks/

I'm giving away 100 ebook copies of "The Perfect Specimen" which is the prequel to "Six." Register to win one here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...