About Radio X

Radio X was born in a garage in Hamilton, New Zealand in 2015 and, honestly, it never left home. It exists because 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.


The core artists are the usual suspects and proudly so: Foo Fighters, Audioslave, Guns N’ Roses, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Faith No More, and Green Day. If you loved The Rock 93FM in the late ’90s through to around 2010, Radio X should feel uncomfortably familiar. Like reliving your best years, minus Gov's $1 drink nights and the wet tee-shirt competitions that absolutely would not fly now.


Radio X is purely an expensive hobby. There are no ads, no announcers, and no corporate overlords. The station runs on enthusiasm, stubborn independence, and a Buy Me A Coffee page where listeners can chuck a fiver in to help cover software licenses and website costs.


There is technically a breakfast show, but it only plays the worst bits from Nick Trott’s deeply mediocre radio career. Think of it as community service with guitars. Basically, it’s like hitting the Rock playlist in Spotify, without the whiny new stuff, the algorithm panic, or the feeling you’re being gently herded.  


The preferred way to listen on Android is the Non Stop Radio App, giving you uninterrupted Radio X wherever you go.


Radio X. Built in a garage. Still sounds like it.