KROQ 80's mix

Back in the early days of "when I discovered alternative music", you know, when it actually WAS an alternative, I heard about this station named KROQ out in california, playing alternative music all day every day.

Mind you, at the time, the only exposure to alternative music I could get on the radio was either every sunday night on 88.7 (not 89x at the time - they were adult contemporary the rest of the time they were on the air except for a few hours a week) OR by hooking a receiver up to the CABLE company's cable in order to get 88.3 WXUT (which wasn't open-air broadcasting yet). I drooled over the idea of being able to hear bands like The Cure and Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet at any time of the day...

Well, thanks to Wil Wheaton's awesome blog "in exile", I have discovered a perfect streaming station. So far I've heard the songs "Nightmares" by the Violent Femmes, a Bowie song, some Depeche Mode, and (!!!!) Nitzer Ebb.

Click. Stream. ROCK.