Some of the things listeners have come to expect when listening to The Blast and The Blast Blender are: high quality streams, bit rate choices, and accessibility. We thought we had all the bases covered, with bit rates from 128 kbps down to 24 kbps, using the AAC+ codec at 24 kbps, which is […]
Project 86's new album "Knives To The Future" releases today. This work tells a 12-song narrative that picks up where Wait for the Siren left off. While WFTS explores the motivation to fight and give your life for truth, Knives takes a look at the moments after the battle. More specifically, this album looks at one […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We've updated our Mobile Blasting page with a link to our 80k Ogg Vorbis stream which plays in a pop-up HTML5 player in Firefox and some other browsers on supported phones. This is an easy way to get Blasted on phone types without a Blast app, assuming your OS supports HTML5.
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
The 80k Ogg Vorbis stream is back on the home page. This is a favorite of some of our Linux Blasters. It pops up in the built-in HTML5 player in Chrome, Firefox, and some other cutting-edge browsers. Launched from Internet Explorer, it will open in Winamp or VLC Player, with full metadata support in the […]
