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SomaFM takes its name from Soma, the "perfect pleasure drug" from [[Aldous Huxley]]'s 1932 novel ''[[Brave New World]]'', and the [[South of Market]] neighborhood of San Francisco, known colloquially as SoMa.
SomaFM takes its name from Soma, the "perfect pleasure drug" from [[Aldous Huxley]]'s 1932 novel ''[[Brave New World]]'', and the [[South of Market]] neighborhood of San Francisco, known colloquially as SoMa.

== List of channels ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Channel !! Genre/theme !! Year added
|-
| '''Drone Zone''' || [[Drone music|Drone]] || 2000
|-
| '''Groove Salad''' || [[Downtempo]]/[[chillout]] || 2000
|-
| '''Secret Agent''' || [[Lounge music|Lounge]]/[[jazz]] with a 1960s spy theme || 2000
|-
| '''Indie Pop Rocks!''' || [[Indie pop]]/[[indie rock]]. Formerly known as '''Squid Indie: Indie Pop Rocks!''' <ref name=SomaFM20000817>{{cite web| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817072012/http://www.somafm.com/| title=SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio|date=2000-08-17|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> and '''Squid Indie''' <ref name=SomaFM20010917>{{cite web| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010917011102/http://www.somafm.com/| title=SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio|date=2001-09-17|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> and became '''Indie Pop Rocks!''' in early 2002 <ref name=SomaFM20020112>{{cite web| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020124055504/http://www.somafm.com/| title=SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio|date=2002-01-24|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> <ref name=SomaFM20020402>{{cite web| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020402094000/http://www.somafm.com/| title=SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio|date=2002-04-02|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> || 2000 <ref name=SomaFM20000817/>
|-
| '''cliqhop idm''' || [[Intelligent dance music]] || 2002
|-
| '''Beat Blender''' || [[House music|House]]/downtempo/chillout || 2002
|-
| '''Boot Liquor''' || [[Americana (music)|Americana]] || 2003
|-
| '''{{sort|Trip|The Trip}}''' || Classic [[Trance music|trance]]/[[progressive trance]]. Formerly known as '''Tag's Trip'''. || 2004
|-
| '''Xmas in Frisko''' || Eclectic Christmas-themed music || 2005{{efn|name=Seasonal|Only available seasonally.}}
|-
| '''Space Station Soma''' || [[Ambient music|Ambient]] [[space music]] || 2006
|-
| '''Illinois Street Lounge''' || Vintage Lounge <ref name=SomaFMIllStreet>{{cite web| url=https://somafm.com/illstreet| title=SomaFM: Illinois Street Lounge: Classic bachelor pad, playful exotica and vintage music of tomorrow.|date=2019-03-02|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> || 2006
|-
| '''Doomed''' || [[Industrial music|Industrial]]/[[dark ambient]] || 2006{{efn|name=Seasonal}}
|-
| '''Sonic Universe''' || [[Avant-garde jazz]] || 2008
|-
| '''Lush''' || Female-driven vocal [[downtempo]] || 2008
|-
| '''Digitalis''' || Self-produced indie rock and electronic music || 2008
|-
| '''Suburbs of Goa''' || [[Desi]]/[[Arabic music|Arabic]]-influenced [[worldbeat]] || 2008
|-
| '''Underground 80s''' || Early 80s British [[synthpop]] and [[New wave music|new wave]]. Formerly known as '''Nu Musik'''. || 2008
|-
| '''Christmas Lounge''' || Christmas themed lounge music || 2008{{efn|name=Seasonal}}
|-
| '''Mission Control''' || Ambient music mixed with the sounds of [[NASA]]'s mission broadcasts and live shuttle coverage || 2009
|-
| '''PopTron''' || [[Electropop]]/[[dance-rock]] || 2009
|-
| '''Covers''' || [[Cover songs]] || 2009
|-
| '''Black Rock FM''' || The broadcast for 102.3FM in [[Black Rock City]] for the [[Burning Man]] Festival || 2010{{efn|name=Seasonal}}
|-
| '''BAGeL Radio''' || [[Alternative rock]]/[[post-punk]]/[[indie rock]]/[[noise pop]]. Formerly known as '''480 Minutes'''. || 2011
|-
| '''South by Soma''' || Music by artists from the [[SXSW]] Festival || 2012{{efn|name=Seasonal}}
|-
| '''SF 10–33''' || Ambient music mixed with the sounds of [[San Francisco]] public safety radio traffic || 2012
|-
| '''Dub Step Beyond''' || [[Dubstep]], [[Dub music|dub]], and other bass-driven electronic music || 2012
|-
| '''Folk Forward''' || [[Indie folk]], alternate folk, and the occasional [[Folk music|folk]] classics || 2012
|-
| '''Christmas Rocks!''' || [[Christmas]] themed indie/alternative rock || 2012{{efn|name=Seasonal}}
|-
| '''DEF CON Radio''' || Music from [[DEF CON]]'s chill room, provided by SomaFM || 2013
|-
| '''Iceland Airwaves''' || Music by artists from the [[Iceland Airwaves]] festival || 2013{{efn|name=Seasonal}}
|-
| '''Deep Space One''' || Deep ambient electronic, experimental, and space music || 2013
|-
| '''Seven Inch Soul''' || Classic [[soul music]] || 2014
|-
| '''Left Coast 70s''' || Mellow [[album-oriented rock]] from the 1970s || 2015
|-
| '''Fluid''' || [[Instrumental hip hop]]/future soul/[[Trap music (hip hop)|liquid trap]] || 2015
|-
| '''ThistleRadio''' || [[Celtic music]], was previously broadcast as ''[[The Thistle & Shamrock]]'' on [[NPR]] || 2015
|-
| '''Metal Detector''' || [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]] || 2015
|-
| '''Jolly Ol' Soul''' || Christmas-themed [[soul music]] || 2015{{efn|name=Seasonal}}
|-
| '''SomaFM Live''' || Live music {{efn|name=Soma FM Live|Broadcasts live or previously live content from events. Started in 2015, and continues mainly to simulcast and subsequently rebroadcast SomaFM's live content from San Francisco's [[How_Weird_Street_Faire|How Weird Street Faire]].}} <ref name=SomaFMLive>{{cite web| url=https://soma.fm/live| title=SomaFM: SomaFM Live|date=2019-03-02|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> <ref name=SomaFMLive2018>{{cite web| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180606032732/http://somafm.com/live/| title=SomaFM: SomaFM Live|date=2018-06-06|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> || 2015 <ref name=SomaFMLive2015>{{cite web| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912024129/http://somafm.com/live/| title=SomaFM: SomaFM Live|date=2015-09-12|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref>
|-
| '''Groove Salad Classic''' || Early 2000s [[downtempo]]/[[chillout]] || 2019 <ref name=GSClassic>{{cite web| url=https://soma.fm/gsclassic| title=SomaFM: Groove Salad Classic|date=2019-03-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303033409/http://somafm.com/gsclassic/| archivedate=2019-03-03| deadurl=no|accessdate=2019-03-03}}</ref>
|}


== Partial list of former channels ==
== Partial list of former channels ==

Revision as of 05:44, 3 March 2019

SomaFM
IndustryInternet radio
FoundedFebruary 2000
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA
Key people
Rusty Hodge, Founder
WebsiteSomaFM.com [a]

SomaFM is an independent Internet-only streaming group of radio channels, supported entirely with donations from listeners. SomaFM originally started broadcasting out of founder Rusty Hodge's basement garage in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, as a micropower radio station broadcast at the Burning Man festival in 1999. The response to the project was sufficiently positive that Rusty Hodge launched it as a full-time internet radio station in February 2000.

SomaFM takes its name from Soma, the "perfect pleasure drug" from Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, and the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, known colloquially as SoMa.

Partial list of former channels

Channel Genre/theme Year added Year removed
Easy Modern Rock Modern Rock 2000 [3] 2000 [4]
Squidradio Downtempo Downtempo 2000 [3] 2002 [5] [6]
Squidradio d'n'b Drum n Bass 2000 [3] 2002 [5] [6]
Soma House Party House/Garage Formerly known as Squidradio House & Garage [3]. [b] 2000 [3] 2002 [5] [6]
Squidradio Techno Techno 2000 [3] 2001 [10] [11]
Suicide Club Alternative Rock 2000 [3] 2000 [7]
Jazz Masterz Jazz 2002 (May) [12] 2002 (June) [13]
We Are Electro Electronic 2002 (May) [12] 2002 (June) [13]
Earwaves Experimental Electronic 2013 [14] 2017 [15]
The Silent Channel Light and dark ambient electronic 2016 [16] 2017 [17]

Conflict with SoundExchange

In May 2002, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel rate ruling came into effect, requiring internet broadcasters to pay a per song per listener royalty to SoundExchange for the performance of the sound recording, retroactively through October 1998. Hodge estimated that the channel could have been forced to pay over $1,000 USD per day to continue operations. The royalty was later reduced by half, but that rate still would require payments by SomaFM that exceeded their revenues.[citation needed]

In June 2002, SomaFM ceased broadcasting. Hodge was one of several webcasters who testified before the U.S. Congress in 2002 in the hopes of reducing the royalty rate.[18] Subsequently, Congress passed the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002 (SWSA) on November 15, 2002,[19] which enabled small webcasters to negotiate a lower rate with SoundExchange.[20] SomaFM resumed broadcasting in late November 2002 under this new royalty structure.

On June 26, 2007, SomaFM participated in the "Internet Radio Day of Silence"[21] [22] in protest of the Copyright Royalty Board's decision at the time to raise royalty fees for internet radio stations.

Notes

  1. ^ Originally was also available at http://soma.fm.[1] Now redirects to http://somafm.com[2]
  2. ^ Taken off-air between August and October 2000. [7]. Then returned as Some House Party at some point between December 2001 and January 2002. [8] [9] Taken off-air when SomaFM returned in November 2002.[6]

References

  1. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". January 25, 2002. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  2. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". March 3, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Cite error: The named reference SomaFM20000817 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". October 20, 2000. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". October 17, 2002. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". November 28, 2002. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  7. ^ a b "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". October 17, 2000. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  8. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". December 1, 2001. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  9. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". January 20, 2002. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  10. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". January 19, 2001. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  11. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". February 1, 2001. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  12. ^ a b "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". May 26, 2002. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  13. ^ a b "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". June 1, 2002. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  14. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". October 13, 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  15. ^ "SomaFM: Earwaves". May 20, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  16. ^ "SomaFM: Streaming MP3 Internet Radio". April 12, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  17. ^ "SomaFM: The Silent Channel". June 26, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  18. ^ "Testimony of Mr. Don Henley". United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. May 15, 2002. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  19. ^ "Senate, House Pass Bill To End Webcasting Crisis". Archived from the original on February 3, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ "Notification of Agreement Under the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002". United States Copyright Office. December 24, 2002. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  21. ^ Jake Ward (June 25, 2007). "The Sounds of Silence Will be Heard By Millions" (PDF). SaveNetRadio. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2008. Retrieved August 8, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  22. ^ "The Sounds of Silence Will Be Heard by Millions". PR Newswire. June 25, 2007. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
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