SomaFM

SomaFM is a non-commercial, commercial-free Internet radio station with 20 radio stations to different styles of music ranging from electronic music to indie rock. The station was founded in San Francisco in 1999 uses server capacity of Shoutcast and is funded through donations. This allows the radio program will be offered free of advertising. A current list of the songs you hear is available. The data formats aacPlus, MP3 and Windows Media Stream stream are available.

Radio stations

The stations of the transmitter are each limited to a certain genre of music. There you will also find topics again, which should represent the individual radio stations and on the basis of which the tracks are selected. The current 20 stations are:

  • Beat Blender: Music between deep house and chill-out
  • Black Rock FM: 102.3 MHz in Black Rock City and live stream on SomaFM
  • Boot Liquor: Americana
  • Cliqhop idm: Minimal Dance
  • Covers: only cover versions
  • Digitalis: Post-Rock
  • Doomed: Electro, EBM, Neofolk and (Post- ) Industrial
  • Drone Zone: Ambient
  • Groove Salad: chill-out and ambient. The most listened to station on SomaFM
  • Illinois Street Lounge: Lounge music
  • Indie Pop Rocks: Indie
  • Lush: Downtempo
  • Mission Control: Ambient Dance. Live broadcast from the NASA Space Shuttle mission mixed with ambient
  • PopTron: Indie electro and indie
  • Secret Agent: Soundtracks from spy films of the 1960s and music in a similar style
  • Sonic Universe: Nu jazz and avant-garde
  • Space Station Soma: futuristic ambient and electronica pieces
  • Suburbs of Goa: Asian world music
  • Tag's Trance Trip: Trance and Techno
  • Underground 80s: Early 80s UK Synthpop and New Wave

Lawsuit with the RIAA

SomaFM has become, among other things by a legal dispute with the influential RIAA, the association of the music industry in the U.S., is known. The RIAA demanded U.S. $ 15,000 per month in royalties from Internet radio in June 2002 and obtained its temporary shutdown.

Rusty Hodge, founder of SomaFM, then organized a citizens protest which led to a hearing before the U.S. Congress. In response to this consultation, the "Small Broadcasters Amendment Act " was enacted that allows an Internet stations like SomaFM, for royalty payments of 2.000, - to 5.000, - U.S. dollars per year to operate.

On 27 June 2007, the Internet Radio Day of Silence took place and was also supported by SomaFM. Concern was expressed about this time a significant increase in charges by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board.

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