About Radio X

Radio X was born in a garage in Hamilton, New Zealand in 2015 and, honestly, it never left. 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 lived on The Rock 93FM somewhere 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 purely an expensive hobby. No ads. No announcers. No corporate overlords breathing down the playlist. It runs on enthusiasm, stubborn independence, and a Buy Me A Coffee page where listeners can chuck in a few bucks to 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 a rock playlist on Spotify, without the algorithm having a panic attack and slipping in something that kills the mood.


The easiest way to listen on Android is through the Non Stop Radio app. Load 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.