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 […]
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 […]
AOL, which bought Winamp from its developers Nullsoft…is ending support for the Winamp media player on December 20th. While Winamp is the media player of choice for some of our desktop and laptop Blasters, there are still plenty of other options: iTunes, VLC Player, and the flash and flash/HTML5 players on our site. We'll also […]
This has been a long time coming. We've been bursting at the seams with seldom played, old Blast music and pre-Blast-aged music we used to Blast out regularly. The older these songs get, the less they play: from Skillet, Project 86, and Pillar songs from earlier in this century… back to the previous century… to even […]
The Wedding's video for "In The End" is a lot of fun and full of high energy. Headbanging, stage-diving, cymbals on fire, and the guys taking a motorcycle ride in the desert. Here is the link: http://www.vevo.com/watch/the-wedding/in-the-end/USUV71301347?source=instantsearch The song has been through some heavy-duty Blasting. It is in heavy rotation on The Blast.
Look at all those Blast stream choices! The Blast's iPhone app has finally been updated, joining The Blast's Android app in having 8 live streams and the post-rapture backup stream (too many streams to fit on the screen). There were all sorts of delays: the hacking of Apple's developer website; The Blast being approved as a […]
Stryper has a big lead in a poll over on Noisecreep.com about the most anticipated album of November 2013. Nothin' to see here, kids: they just happen to be way out in front of releases from Scott Stapp, Dream Theater, David Lee Roth, Black Sabbath, Rush, Deicide, Daughtry, and Five Finger Death Punch in the […]
Tuesday night at the Dove Awards, Skillet and Red were winners in the categories Blasters care most about: Rock song of the year and Rock album of the year, respectively. Red's album “Release The Panic” won the Dove Award for best Rock album last night, beating out Thousand Foot Krutch's "The End Is Where We Begin", […]
Nine Lashes is the band in the new Christian movie called "Grace Unplugged", which is about an 18 year old Christian girl who gets the musical break of a lifetime and has her faith tested in the "real world." The movie is playing in theaters all over the USA now. The Blast did a world […]
Update: The Blast is interviewing Righteous Vendetta lead singer Ryan Hayes, just after 3 pm Eastern/Noon Pacific, Tuesday, release day of this new album "The Fire Inside." Album reivew written by Colin Cruz, The Blast Program Director: From the first moments of the opening track “Defiance”, I sensed I was about to hear a really […]
