iTunes radio station recs?

January 13, 2011 8:26 PM

What are the best iTunes radio stations? Specific genre preferences inside.

I recently rediscovered the iTunes radio library, but the list of stations seems to have grown exponentially since I last checked. Does anyone have recommendations for these genres:

- Foreign language, including French, Arabic, German, and Italian. In French, I'd like a good news channel. For all of them, stations that play recent hits and music from the past 10-20 years would be great.

- Electronic/Dance (don't care if it's American based)

- Remixes of electronic/dance/house music

I checked out some other metafilter conversations on the subject, so I have a good idea of what stations to try for all of the other types of music I listen to. Thanks!

posted by msk1985 to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Look under RnB/Soul for the station "International Rare Groove."
posted by hermitosis at 9:47 PM on January 13, 2011

Classic Rock - 97.1 FM2 – The Drive - Deep Tracks. Way down at the bottom of the list.

Pretty good selection for a while, but they have a playlist of classics that runs out after a while. No commercials or other breaks,
posted by lampshade at 11:37 PM on January 13, 2011

di.fm for electronic music.
posted by empath at 5:24 AM on January 14, 2011

Here are the French news radio stations I'm familiar with:

• France Info, from Radio France
• Radio France Internationale, out of France and targeted to a mostly African audience
• Première Chaîne, from CBC (known as Radio-Canada in French)

I'm not sure if you if you can find these in the iTunes radio library, but you can stream them all from their websites.
posted by neal at 3:03 PM on January 15, 2011

Great, thanks for the suggestions!
posted by msk1985 at 7:50 PM on January 15, 2011