One more "March Through Time" Weekend starts Friday. We're going to fill your ears with the music of the '90s!

1980s Alternative

The birth of modern rock

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1990s Alternative

The best '90s alternative music essentials! Tune in to the greatest alt-rock bands and the top so...

'90s Pop Alternative

Alternative pop songs that became mainstream hits

Alternative Rock Classics

Classic Alternative rock with a '90s-era focus

2000s Alternative

Alternative rock hits in a new century

Classic Alternative: The Grind

Classic alternative rock's edgier side

Indie 101

The hippest Alternative, the friendliest Indie

The '80s @ the Movies

Big hits from the big screen: "Top Gun," "Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink," and "Dirty Dancing"

Emo

Emotionally-driven hardcore, punk rock, and alternative from emo's '90s golden age to today

Rock and Alternative: 2013

With Vampire Weekend, the Neighbourhood, Phoenix, and NIN

New Wave '80s

Pure Post-Punk and New Wave

Japanese Rock

The best of J-rock and visual kei music

School Cliques: Goths

Bauhaus, Type O Negative, Sisters of Mercy and more for the dark & somber crowd

Nu Metal/Post Grunge

Big, loud rock from Shinedown, Godsmack, Disturbed, and Five Finger Death Punch

Pop-punk

Punk rock goes mainstream with Blink-182, Green Day, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, and more

Radio-X

'80s-based alternative and new wave that goes beyond the pop and fluff and gets to the stuff we r...

The Multiverse

From Alternative to Zydeco and ABC to ZZ Top, it's genre-defying, decades-spanning eclecticism.

This Is Music: 1984

Your favorites from the year of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' 'Purple Rain,' 'Like a Virgin,' and 'Footlo...

Rock and Alternative: 2005

Seether, Weezer, Shinedown, and Foo Fighters bring the best, the best, the best of 2005

This Is Music: 1981

Pop, rock, a little new wave, a little '9 to 5,' and all hit music of 1981

New Wave & Modern Rock 1981

"Proto" alternative like Soft Cell, Bauhaus, Elvis Costello, Minor Threat, and early U2 and Duran...

Top 40: April 23, 1985

Radio's top hits when you had your first (and maybe last) sip of "New Coke"

This Is Music: 1980

Top hits by Blondie, Queen, Olivia Newton-John, and "that guy who sings 'Piña Colada'"

Focus '80s Hits

Familiar hits from the '80s to help you focus and be productive

Class of '88: Music of 1984-88

You graduated the year of anthems like "Fast Car," "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," and "Don't Worry, ...

2020s Alternative

The top since 2020 with AJR, Bastille, Billie Eilish, Blue October, Glass Animals, Imagine Dragon...

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