BORN IN A GARAGE in Hamilton, New Zealand, in 2015. And, honestly, it never left.

Radio X exists because today's rock radio usually makes you choose: crusty old classics on endless repeat, or shiny new stuff that whines more than it riffs. Nothing wrong with the classics. Just not 24/7. Radio X lives in the middle ground. Familiar, loud, and still breathing.

Our musical DNA is built around the usual suspects, and proudly so:

Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Faith No More and Green Day.

If you grew up listening to The Rock 93FM sometime between the early '90s and 2010, Radio X should feel uncomfortably familiar. Like reliving your best years, minus Gov's $1 drink nights and the wet T-shirt competitions that absolutely wouldn't survive today.

Radio X is an expensive hobby. No ads. No announcers. No corporate overlords breathing down the playlist. Just great rock, stubborn independence and an unreasonable amount of enthusiasm. Listeners can throw a few bucks into our Buy Me a Coffee fund to help keep the lights on and the stream alive.

There is technically a breakfast show, but it only plays the worst bits from Nick Trott's deeply average radio career. Think of it as community service with guitars. Basically, it's like hitting play on a rock playlist on Spotify, without the algorithm having a panic attack and slipping in something that kills the mood.

LISTENING ON ANDROID?

The easiest way is through the Non Stop Radio app. Fire it up, find Radio X, and you're away.

RADIO X.

Built in a garage.
Still sounds like it.

Turn it up or turn it off.