Welcome to AccuRadio's "March of Time" -- We're featuring a different year every day, all month long. TODAY, it's 1997!

1980s Alternative

The birth of modern rock

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'90s Pop Alternative

Alternative pop songs that became mainstream hits

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Classic Alternative rock with a '90s-era focus

2000s Alternative

Alternative rock hits in a new century

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Classic alternative rock's edgier side

Emo

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

New Wave '80s

Pure Post-Punk and New Wave

Japanese Rock

The best of J-rock and visual kei music

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.

The New Wave: 1983

Our prime collection of modern rock from a year of great releases from New Order, Aztec Camera, T...

Folk-Rock, Country-Rock, and Blues: 1983

A tasty mix of music styles!

Classic Alternative 1985

Before grunge, THIS was Alternative Rock: R.E.M., the Smiths, New Order, and Kate Bush

This Is Music: 1984

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

Classic Rock 1984

The Orwellian year that belonged to Van Halen, The Cars, Henley, U2 and The Scorpions.

Rock and Alternative: 2005

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

Classic Alternative 1986

A year for classic albums like XTC's 'Skylarking,' Smiths' 'The Queen Is Dead,' Depeche Mode's 'B...

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"

R&B Throwback: 1980

With Kool & the Gang, Chic, Pointers, Teena Marie, and the Whispers

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

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