Book Review: What Are You Known For? (Building Your Legacy One Brick At A Time) by Rick Cua By Colin “Cruz” Strombeck Fans of 1980’s Christian rock remember Rick Cua as the man who sang “Wear Your Colors”, which in my opinion, is one of the top 10 Christian rock songs of that decade. […]
Angie Turner Darr, aka “Miss Angie”… put out two albums on Myrrh Records (that we Blast several songs from on The Middle Blastozoic Era) in her teenage years back in the late 1990’s. And now she is recording another album. The producer is none other than Gabriel Wilson, lead singer of Rock n Roll Worship […]
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/
