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
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...
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.
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
Class of '83: Music of 1979-83
We were locked on OG MTV more than our books back then. Here's what we heard...
2020s Alternative
The top since 2020 with AJR, Bastille, Billie Eilish, Blue October, Glass Animals, Imagine Dragon...
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