Entries by colincruz

Disciple Rocked The Stage Saturday Night At Kingdom Come

Disciple put on another amazing show, as they were the headliner Saturday night at the Kingdom Come Festival near Greentown, Indiana.  There was an equipment malfunction early in the show, within the first 2 or 3 songs.  Undaunted, lead singer Kevin Young did his ministry talk early in the show and encouraged people to stop […]

Spoken Spooked At 10 PM The Night Before The Show: No Drummer

Spoken was the Friday night headliner at this year’s Kingdom Come Festival near Greentown, Indiana last weekend.  But at 10 pm Thursday night, a conundrum presented itself to lead singer/founder Matt Baird:  their hired gun drummer couldn’t make it to the Friday night show! Umm…. So, Baird and guitarist JR Baries got on the horn with […]

Skillet Reimagines “Save Me”

Skillet has “reimagined” their song Save Me.  It’s an EDM remix, right?!  Nope.  It’s pop.  In fact, this could make it on to Christian Adult Contemporary radio, even. Have a listen here:

Random Hero Unboxes The Tension

Random Hero’s song Tension, which enjoyed a long run in current rotation on both The Blast and The Blast Blender, enjoyed an 8-week run at number one on the Christian Music Weekly Christian Rock Radio chart (a USA radio airplay chart).  

Colin Cruz And Brandy Radio Shows Shift Times

Colin Cruz, founder and program director of TheBlast.FM has moved off of his Noon-3 pm time slot to a 9 am to Noon slot, every weekday.  Brandy moves to Thursdays from Noon to 3 pm.  (USA/Canadian Central Time).  So, today, for the first time ever, we have on air personalities on the air for 6 […]

TheBlast.FM New Stream Addresses

TheBlast.FM stations recently changed streaming addresses for better connectivity from our main encoding site in Portland. Streams are now hosted in San Diego and are much smoother, as internet routing changes had made the connection from Portland to the Washington, D.C. metro much less stable. If  you are listening on a third party media player, […]

TheBlast.FM Listener Locations Over The Last 9 Days

Each purple circle represents one listener location over the last 9 days of us testing some new listener geo-mapping software.  Most of the world is completely blanketed, sans Siberia, The Outback, northern Canada, Greenland, central Asia, parts of Africa and Antarctica.  This is composite picture of listening on all 4 of TheBlast.FM stations.     […]