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Classic Alternative On The Internet

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Jay F

I found a great internet radio classic alternative station... All Flashbacks Alternative on 1.fm. I was a big alternative fan in the 80s yet they play lot's of songs I never heard of before. I like this because of the lack of burn. For example they played a song I loved X Ray Spex-Oh Bondage Up Yours. I saw it's from 1977 yet somehow I went my whole life without hearing it before. They also played Thomas Dolby-One Of Our Submarines...I haven't heard it once since it was new.

Does anyone know of any other good classic alt stations on the internet? I hate to say this but I'm finding so much good music on internet radio (every genre of music) I am listening less to OTA radio then I ever have in my life. I worked in radio for 30 years and used to care what song was on every radio station in every market..now I am being totally seduced by the endless universe of internet radio.
 
I feel ya on that, I find myself being swept into genres that are so awesome, international acid jazz, African music, chill/lounge, there is such a wide universe of music out there and radio plays .00000000000000000000000000000001% of it. Radio is a 20th century technology, welcome to the other side.

The only difference is "old" radio used to be live, local and relevant with live DJs and cool sweepers/imaging ; while most of internet radio features minimal imaging/sweepers and minimal if any DJs live or otherwise.
 
There's quite a few out there...

RadioIo, GotRadio and SomaFM all have classic alternative stations. All available on the TuneIn phone app and website.

CBS has classic alternative stations run by KROQ and Live 105. Both are very good and both are available on their radio.com phone app. That is, if you can get it to work.

Clear Channel has a CBGB channel on their IHeartRadio app.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions. I am enjoying exploring them all.

@saladressing I love chill/lounge..I didn't even know that genre of music existed until around two years ago.
 
At the risk of being accused of crass self-promotion, let me point out my own little slice of spectrum and bandwidth, Altrok 90.5 HD2, at http://wbjb.org/altrok (where WBJB-HD2's online stream resides.)

The point of it is to continue the experience one would have had if the Jersey Shore's legacy alternative rocker FM106.3, circa 1988, had today's releases (and in fact everything released before and since then) to play with. Those who've tuned in seem to think we're pretty close to nailing it (except for the hum during the commercials, since there are none.)

In short, um...tune in.
 
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