TheBlast.FM stations recently changed streaming addresses for better connectivity from our main encoding site in Portland. Streams are now hosted in San Diego and are much smoother, as internet routing changes had made the connection from Portland to the Washington, D.C. metro much less stable. If you are listening on a third party media player, […]
Capstone is a Covid-casualty. Yes, unfortunately, the Capstone Music Festival has been cancelled for 2020 due to Covid-19 shutdowns in Indiana lasting into next month. The festival would have featured The Early Blastozoic Era (80’s) bands Bloodgood, Deliverance, Fear Not, Whitecross, plus Glenn and Wendy Kaiser of Rez/The Resurrection Band, and The Middle Blastozoic Era […]
If you had trouble recently listening to TheBlast.FM radio stations with our HTML5 players labeled 128k, 64k and 32k on our websites, those troubles are gone, as we have upgraded our streams to make them HTTPS-compliant. The streaming addresses have also been updated in our Android, iOS, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Blackberry apps […]
The Letter Black announces tonight that they are back together; they are signing a record deal; shows are getting booked and they are writing and recording album number 4! This is exciting news for listeners of The Blast and The Blastozoic Era, as The Blast has been playing them since 2007, prior to them signing […]
So, Google has decided to make life difficult for streaming radio and its listeners. The station won’t play in our HTML5 players on Chrome 80. Well, guess what? You CAN listen to TheBlast.FM radio stations via our HTML5 players in these browsers: Brave, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Microsoft Edge, and probably a host of others. On […]
Like a deep sea diver scouring a sunken ship for buried treasure, a Canadian classic computer aficionado has discovered treasure buried at the end of Christian new wave band Prodigal’s 1984 album called Electric Eye: a Commodore 64 program. Yep, software that will work on one of those ancient computers called the Commodore 64! Polygon 64 […]
Miss Angie is a modern rock/alternative artist that put out two records of that ilk in the late 1990’s on Myrrh Records. Well, guess what? She is back at it! She is working on a new album that will be produced by acclaimed producer Gabriel Wilson, who was the lead singer of The Rock n […]
80’s Christian metal band Zion has a new album coming out. Pre-sale orders are being taken now. As far as mainstream comparisons go, the band sounds most like AC/DC, musically and vocally. Here is a link to their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Zion-the-band-612822862202032/
70’s and 80’s Swedish Christian rock band has hired a Norwegian travel agency to plan an excursion to the city of Jerusalem, Israel in June 2020. It will be a time to be enjoyed by both the band and its fans…as the band Jerusalem plays concerts in the city Jerusalem. The band is inviting you […]
In case you’re wondering who this new group Blank Books is…it’s composed of brothers Aaron Sprinkle and Jesse Sprinkle, both formerly of the classic Christian alternative band Poor Old Lu: https://bit.ly/2TXqUbE
