About grunge.fm

grunge.fm is a free radio tuner for internet stations that play grunge, 90s alternative and post-grunge. It looks like a 90s hi-fi tuner and works in any modern browser, with no app and no account.

How to use the tuner

• Press ▶ to play, or pick a station from the preset card. Press ■ to stop.
• ◀◀ and ▶▶, or the TUNE knob, move to the previous or next channel. On a keyboard: the left and right arrows, the number keys 1 to 9, and the space bar to start and stop.
• Turn the VOLUME knob by dragging it or scrolling over it. iPhones and iPads don’t let a web page set the volume, so use the device’s buttons there.
• The tuner remembers the last channel and volume on your device.

What the display shows

The top line shows the channel and station; the bottom line shows the song playing now, where the station provides it. When a station starts a new song before it reaches your speakers, the display shows it as NEXT ▸ with BUFFERING until it arrives. NO SIGNAL means the station didn’t answer within 15 seconds; a link to the station’s own site appears so you can try it there.

Where the music comes from

Every stream plays directly from the station’s own server to your browser. grunge.fm doesn’t host, relay or record any audio. Song titles come from each station’s own data: its now-playing feed where it has one, otherwise the title it sends along with its stream. The station list comes from Radio Browser and is checked every month. See the stations for what each one plays.

Listeners in the United Kingdom get a link to each station’s own site instead of playback in the page.

What is grunge?

Grunge came out of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle above all, in the second half of the 1980s: loud, distorted guitars with punk’s rawness and metal’s weight, and lyrics that leaned toward alienation and unease. It broke into the mainstream in 1991 and 1992. The bands that followed later in the decade, often called post-grunge, carried the sound into the 2000s, and most of the stations here play both, along with the alternative rock around them.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. There’s no account, no subscription and no advertising on grunge.fm. Some stations run their own ads in their streams.

Can I record or download a song?

No. grunge.fm only plays live streams.

Why is there no song title for a station?

Some stations don’t send titles, and some send them only now and then. The title appears as soon as the station provides one.

How do I suggest a station?

Write to [email protected]. It needs to stream over HTTPS and play grunge or 90s alternative most of the time.

I run one of these stations. Can I have it removed?

Yes. Write to [email protected] and it comes off the same day.