Entries by colincruz

Listening In A Fire-walled/Secured Environment? Try This Stream

Our HTML5 players should work for most listeners on most browsers in most environments.  These streams are on ports that are not typically blocked by networks. But if you are having trouble listening, copy and paste this stream address into  your Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari browser (if it doesn’t open there […]

TheBlast.FM Alexa Skills Are Live On Amazon Echo And Alexa Devices

The first one of our apps that includes all four of our radio stations is our latest app, TheBlast.FM Alexa Skills, which includes The Blast (Christian Rock/Alternative/Metal); The Blast Blender (progressive Christian Pop); The Implosion (Christian Metal/Hardcore/Metalcore) and The Blastozoic Era (Classic Christian Rock, Alternative and Metal). TheBlast.FM Alexa Skills are free to enable to […]

Blast Pop, Blast Rock, And Blast Metal: All In One Roku App

You can now Implode inside TheBlast.FM Roku app!   Yep, now, all three of our radio stations can be listened to in the app:  The Blast (Christian Rock); The Blast Blender (Christian Pop); and The Implosion (Christian Metal).    You can get the updated TheBlast.FM app by by visiting the Roku Channel Store or by using this […]

The Implosion Added To TheBlast.FM Android and IOS Apps

Our new brother station, The Implosion, has finally made it into TheBlast.FM app for Android and iOS phones and tablets.  TheBlast.FM is the search term, and the app is free.  TheBlast.FM app includes our Christian rock station (The Blast); our progressive Christian pop station (The Blast Blender) and now our Christian metal station (The Implosion), […]

TheBlast.FM Windows App Now Available On Variety Of Devices

You want to get Blasted, Blend or Implode on Xbox One? Microsoft Surface tablet? Now you can listen to all three of our radio stations in a unified TheBlast.FM Windows App, which is available on these platforms: Windows Phone 8, 8.1, 10 Windows Desktop/RT 10 Xbox One Hololens Surface Hub The Implosion will soon be […]

Rapture Ruckus Enjoys Christmas Concert At Home

There’s no place like home.  Especially at Christmas.  Rapture Ruckus was privileged to do a hometown show in Cambridge, New Zealand and they got to spend the holidays on the north island of their home country.  This is especially sweet for a band that spends much of its time touring the United States, which is […]

Criteria For Adding Music To TheBlast.FM

by Colin Cruz, Program Director of The Blast and The Blast Blender. The criteria used to be a lot easier to be met: Back in the days when most Christian record labels were Christian-owned (late 1990’s, early 2000’s), it was easy. If the band was on a Christian label, the assumption was that this was […]