99 Rock

American rock radio has a type, and 99 Rock leans into it without apology. The playlist runs from the obvious (Foo Fighters, Van Halen, AC/DC) to the newer stuff keeping the format alive: Turnstile, Rival Sons, maybe a little Queens of the Stone Age when the mood turns strange. Nothing here is trying to surprise you. That's the appeal. What makes it work is the pacing. Blocks get built around riffs instead of singles, so a deep cut from a 1978 record sits next to something released last year and nobody blinks. The stream runs at 80kbps, which won't win audiophile awards, but loud guitars survi…