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Alt & Modern Rock: 1995

Driving the mid-90s at their best with the year's best tracks.

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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!

This Is Music: 2000

Our collection of hits from the year that launched the 21st Century.

Classic Alternative 1985

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

Rock Alphabet: "O" is Opulence in Stereo

Sounds that make you go "Oh" from The Outsiders, OK Go, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Roy Orbison an...

Music from "Stranger Things"

Jump on your Stingray and get lost in the spooky sonics of Hawkins, Indiana.

This Is Music: 1978

Here's a trip that takes you from Saturday Night Fever and Grease to Seger & The Stones. An adve...

Rock Alphabet: "S" means Stoked with volume!

Get steeped in Saga, Santana, Stray Cats, Springsteen, Spoon, and Stone Temple Pilots.

This Is Music: 1970

These are the songs that launched a new decade from Diana Ross, CCR, The Carpenters, and more!

This Is Music: 1984

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

Country Yearbook 1992

A year of "Achy Breaky Heart," "Boot Scootin' Boogie," the film "Pure Country," and dancing in a ...

Classic Alternative 2001

Weezer, Gorillaz, Coldplay, and Alien Ant Farm -- the top alternative rock of 2001

Classic Alternative 1992

Big releases from R.E.M., Alice in Chains, Beasties, Lemonheads, and the "Singles" soundtrack...

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

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"

Bill Gamble's Five-Star Radio

Our Country music curator's highest-rated songs... no surprise, it's tons of Country!

Shari McKinney's Five-Star Radio

A sweet combination of '70s & '80s Lite Rock, classic '80s Hip Hop, with a blend of southern Gosp...

Barb Prieto's Five-Star Radio

A wide mix of our R&B curator's personal favorites from the '70s to the '90s

Top Smooth Jazz of 2023

The year's finest tracks, from Chelsea Nichole & Jeff Lorber, Castella, Keiko Matsui, Castella an...

Best Indie of 2023

Greatness this year from Boygenius, Caroline Polachek, Mitski, and the National

HitKast: Best of 2023

Rema, Miley Cyrus, Doja Cat, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, and all of 2023's top music makers

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