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radio2XS began broadcasting worldwide in December 2002, having previously been known as the radio shows '2XS, and 'XS'. You can read a full history here. So what do we do?

We play music which we believe is a greater reflection of the past 60 Years Or Rock & Roll than you will hear anywhere else, and produce several specialist shows covering eras and genres from the '50s to today. We all have backgrounds in music radio and we believe in the music we play - which is extremely rare elsewhere in radio now!

We think of ourselves less as a 'rock' station and more a 'rock & roll' station: although our tastes are pretty catholic, guitar-based music accounts for around 80% of what we play, with the remainder coming from other styles which have absorbed that heritage without debasing it. So, you'll hear some Country-Rock, but not Country & Western; you'll hear real Soul and R&B from the 50s, 60s and 70s, but not the synthetic 'urban' R&B of today; Ska and Reggae but not Dancehall; pioneer rappers and poets like Grandmaster Flash, Linton Kwesi-Johnson and Gil Scot-Heron, but no Gangsta... You get what we mean!

From the day we started, we have been enthusiastic about New Music, expecially music produced by unsigned artists, and we are always keen to hear new material. Details of how to get that to us are below. All the music we play is supplied to us by the artists, their record labels, promotion agents or management companies: we do not search for material, nor do we 'steal' it!

Each month, at March 2011, we get between 1 and 1.5 million web-hits and between 20,000 and 35,000 unique users on this website and our broadcasts are heard by up to 60,000 people.

You can contact us in several ways:

By phone (UK calls are free within "inclusive call" packages):

(UK): 0200 888 0 297
(Int'l): +44 200 888 0 297 

By email:



Please note: if you are emailing us about music, please don't include an audio file because it will not arrive. Just send a short biography, a small image, and a link to a lo-fi MP3 to audition the song, with another link to a wav file to download if we like it. Or just email us (above) for the postal address to send us a CD.