Everything on the internet always works perfectly right? Ha ha ha ha ha.
Like right now. Our 128 kbps and 64 kbps streams, hosted in San Diego are down.
A tech support request is awaiting help.
BUT…our 48 kbps stream is UP, as it is hosted in New York.
So Blast away on the 48k to your heart’s content!
The Letter Black makes a rare concert appearance, as a headliner at Kingdom Come Festival!
TheBlast.FM is an official (mouthpiece) sponsor of Kingdom Come Festival 2026.
25+ Blast bands will be there, plus bands that The Implosion plays (including Brotality); bands that the The Blastozoic Era plays (including the 80’s Christian Rock band called Daniel Band); and bands that The Blast Blender plays (including Honor & Glory).
Here is where the festival is at:
Howard County Vietnam Veterans Organization
8313 East 400 South
Greentown, IN 46936
Here is how to get there:
https://www.kingdomcomefestival.com/directions/
Here is the full list of bands (also viewable at: https://www.kingdomcomefestival.com/lineup/
Seventh Day Slumber, Magdalene Rose and Sean Rodriguez are in concert in Rapid City, South Dakota, Saturday November 22, and TheBlast.FM will be there. It is at 7:00 pm at Rock Point Church, 1213 Harmony Heights Lane in Rapid City.
We’ll be handing out our glossy Blast Cards and we’ll have other Blast swag available.
Here is the concert promo:
More details here:
https://www.rockpointrc.com/event/qxh2rqg/seventh-day-slumber-in-concert
TheBlast.FM stations are migrating to new streaming addresses. The new addresses are on our websites, in the HTML5 players, and in the apps. They were added just ahead of Midnight USA/Canada Central Time last night.
As of this writing, about 40% of our current-listening audience is on the old stream addresses. You may need to force stop on TheBlast.FM app and re-open it. You may also need to clear the cache in your webpage. If the 32k stream is gone, you should be on the latest incarnation of the app/webpage.
The 32k stream is gone, at least for now.
This streaming address change is due to the Sound Exchange royalty reports generation issue. We are trying a somewhat DIY approach, still streaming with our long term legacy streaming provider that required certain add-on software, and required different streaming addresses.
TheBlast.FM Fire TV app has been launched! The Fire TV app for TheBlast.FM joins our Android, iOS, Windows 10/11, XBox, Roku, Apple TV, and Alexa Skills* as our 8th app! TheBlast.FM app is coming soon to a 9th platform!
Go to the Fire TV App Store and download it!
All four stations: The Blast, The Blast Blender, The Implosion, and The Blastozoic Era are in 8 of these apps; each station has its own individual Alexa Skill now.
(The current {Amazon} Fire TV app download page shows a 2018 creation date…but that was the date of our {Amazon} Alexa Skillls originally launching). We have asked our developer to fix that to eliminate confusion.
TheBlast.FM’s Colin Cruz talked with Kevin Young of Disciple about a bunch of things, including the Friday release of Skeleton Psalms Deluxe Edition. The interview will air on The Blast in the 11 am hour (USA/Canadian Central Time) this Saturday April 26th.
In case you missed the interview or want to hear it again, here it is:
We have had Alexa Skills for years…
We used to have 1 set of Alexa Skills forour 4 radio stations, bundled into one.
And that worked just fine until Alexa changed the parameters that were required and that messed up our Skills.
So, we have had our main app developer re-develop our Alexa Skills, and each of our stations now has its own Skill.
They are as follows:
The Blast
“Alexa, play blast f. m.”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRVFKB65/
The Blast Blender
“Alexa, play blast blender”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRYG1HM3/
The Implosion
“Alexa, play blast implosion”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS26JS61/
The Blastozoic Era
“Alexa, play blast classic”
https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0DRYGY47Y/
We told We Blast Everywhere! Here is a 30,000 foot view of our listenership distribution across planet Earth over the last 30 days.
Some kind of an explosion happened at or near the data center where our live streams were hosted tonight. That wreaked havoc on our streams over the last 75 minutes. Police and firemen are on the scene. But we are back up, and this motivates us to set up an ancillary stream for each station at a different geographic site. Stay tuned for details on that.
