SomaFM in the News
Magazines and Newspapers
Not The Same Old Songs, Get stuck into a web of musical connections
Theunis Bates, February 22, 2005
“This San Francisco DJ collective specializes in underground and alternative sounds. SomaFM streams seven radio channels from its website, including the dance-oriented Cliqhop and Secret Agent, a seductive blend of ‘60s and ‘70s movie soundtracks (expect plenty of scores from Dirty Harry composer Lalo Schifrin) and contemporary lounge classics.”
Internet Radio 101
Heather Green, March 7, 2005
“Free, independent stations such as SomaFM and WOXY broadcast over the Internet and are supported by contributions or ads. Simply visit their Web sites to listen to their shows.”
And Now For Some *Real* Radio. Last week: The death of corporate rock radio.
This week: Readers extol glorious alternatives. Listen up!
Mark Morford, March 9, 2005
“SomaFM.com – again a generous and mandatory plug, because they're just that good and they were one of the first high-quality Net streaming stations and Groove Salad is still just body-oilingly skin-strokingly sex-havingly delicious. Mostly DJ free, but you know it's programmed by true music lovers”
Websites
Edited by Liz Bailey, October 2001
“Forget the radio. This is the new FM. Groove Salad proffers the crispest ambient beats around.”
Radio Free Service
June 6, 2002
“...this one-time pirate operation has become one of the Web's
must-surf spots for ambient, atmospheric lullabies.” (Read more)
Mourning the end of small Net radio sites
Jefferson Graham, July 21, 2002
“For three years, Rusty Hodge ran his SomaFM Internet radio station. He watched it grow from 10 listeners an hour to 2,000 and become one of the more popular Net stops thanks to its eclectic mix of electronica and independent pop, the sort of stuff that's tough to find on commercial radio.”
Move over, pirate radio — from a Bernal Heights garage, Internet station SomaFM plays tunes for the whole wide world, and it's all perfectly legal
Chris Coomey, June 30, 2004
“SomaFM, created in 1999 by software developer Rusty Hodge, is
the radio outlet for thousands of listeners who connect from Japan,
Europe and throughout the United States. Its success suggests you don't
need anything much larger than a mouse these days to be heard.”
((Read more)
Running Around at the Top of our Lungs
The Fez Guys, June 2001
“Disgusted with what passes for music programming on terrestrial corporate broadcasting, <www.somafm.com> is charting the inspired course hashed out by FM rock radio in the late sixties and early seventies (when DJs loved music).”
The Daily Times, Pakistan
Internet Radio Finds its Groove
March 15, 2004
“One address — http://www.shoutcast.com — points to thousands of different stations. There's western swing at http://www.steelradio.com/, ambient techno and lounge music at http://www.somafm.com/ and favorite porno film soundtracks at http://fluffertrax.com/.”
Television
CNN's Next@CNN
Sunday April 7, 2002, 1:45pm Pacific time
Books
Streaming Audio, The FezGuys' Guide
By John Luini and Allen Whitman
“We cover MP3, QuickTime, RealMedia, and Windows Media formats, advanced authoring techniques, legal issues, and much more. It also features exclusive case studies of SomaFM.com, Satriani.com and KPIG.com.”
Web
Web Radio Picks to Click
by Joseph McCombs, May 25th, 2005
"San Francisco's Soma-FM, literally a basement-broadcaster who made good, is nationally known now thanks to Rusty Hodge's willingness to navigate the waters of webcasting law back in 2002 when no one else would."
NYC Guide: Web Radio
"This San Francisco station is as underground as it gets—they broadcast out of a basement."
Web radio's last stand
By Katharine Mieszkowski, March 26, 2002
“SomaFM is the kind of Internet-only radio station that offers a true alternative to the mainstream fare on the offline dial.”
Conferences
Radio and Internet Newsletter's 2nd Annual Las Vegas Summit on Internet Radio
April 19, 2005
Rusty Hodge is a speaker at this event, where “scheduled speakers include the heads of interactive efforts for most of America's top broadcasters, plus top executives from most of the country's leading Internet-only webcasters”
University of California Radio Network conference “Viability of Internet Radio” session
April 2003
The Viability of Internet Radio session that was part of a University of California Radio Network conference organized by KALX. Rusty Hodge was one of four guest panelists.
