Entries by colincruz

Another Way To Listen To The Blast On Mobile HTML5

On any device that supports HTML5 in its browser (best choice: usually Firefox), here is an alternate way to get Blasted.  Since our app is not supported yet on Android tablets, an alternative is needed.  Since the Android operating system is so fractured, some apps work well on some devices and not as well on […]

Facedown Records Signs Mouth Of The South

Facedown Records has signed Mouth Of The South,  a band we've been playing for over a year on the Blastmetal show.  Their first Facedown single "Idle Hands" debuts tonight on the Blastmetal show, which airs Saturday nights for 3 hours from 9 to Midnight Central and Sunday through Friday from 11 pm to 12 Midnight […]

Updated: Full Interview With “Final: The Rapture” Movie Star Mary Grace

Final: The Rapture is a critically acclaimed Christian movie about the disappearance of Christians worldwide as Christ comes back for His followers.  It received rave reviews in the test market Houston in late 2013, and it is now showing in Orlando, before fanning out across the USA.  The Blast's Colin Cruz interviewed Final: The Rapture movie star […]

Celebrating 7 years of Blastification!

The Blast is celebrating 7 years of Blasting the world.  We Blasted off at Midnight Central Time on January 1, 2007 and have been Blasting ever since. We love hearing testimonies about how The Blast has impacted your life over the last 7 years.  You can share those at:  http://www.theblast.fm/wp/blastbacks/ Or you can call it […]

http://Blender.TheBlast.FM Launches At 12 Midnight Central Time!!!

The Blast Ministries is launching a very aggressive Hot CHR/Top 40 station, mixing pure pop, screamless rock, rap/hip hop/R & B, and EDM/Electronic Dance Music.  And it Blasts off at Midnight Central Time!  Just go to http://blender.theblast.fm. Do NOT put any www's in the address.  Use the above, or simply blender.theblast.fm. Pre-launch audio is streaming […]

Saturday Specialty Show Lineup Revised

On Saturday evenings (in the Western Hemisphere), we Blast a 6 hour block of specialty programming. 6 PM-9 PM The Blastozoic Era (classic Christian rock, modern rock, alternative and metal) 9 PM-12 Midnight Blastmetal (new era metal, screamo and hardcore plus The Ghosts of Metal Blast segments) All times:  USA/Canadian Central Time Zone    

Multi-Stream Flash Player Is Now Packed With Streams Again

The multi-stream flash player is now packed with streams at various bit rates again: 64, 56, 48, 32, 24, 20kbps streams and the post-rapture backup stream are all in there. So you can find just about all of our streams in some fashion on the home page of TheBlast.FM.  This weekend, our main web dev […]