Indie rock to punk — live from Edmonton.
Unity X Radio broadcasts from Edmonton on a 100% listener-requested rotation of Canadian independent indie rock, punk and garage — run by on-air DJ Rocken Buddha, weekday afternoons 12pm–4pm MST. If you’re searching for Edmonton punk radio, YEG indie or a live alternative stream that actually plays Edmonton bands, this is it.
Why Edmonton listeners choose Unity X
A YEG station for the indie & punk side of the city.
Big-chain Edmonton radio skips the local indie and punk the scene keeps producing. Unity X is built to play it — and to give Edmonton bands a live, on-air slot for real.
Live from YEG
Broadcast out of Edmonton by Rocken Buddha — same booth, same ears, every weekday 12pm–4pm MST. Not a playlist dressed up as a station.
YEG-scene weight
The rotation feeds off Edmonton indie, punk and garage — Whyte Ave basement bands, Old Strathcona residencies, the heavier side of ICE District after-parties.
100% listener-requested
The queue is whatever you send in. Skip the algorithm: request a track, hear it land in the on-air rotation if it fits the mandate.
Edmonton homegrown
Edmonton artists we rotate — the YEG back-catalogue.
The rotation leans on the Edmonton indie, punk and garage scene that hasn’t left town. The following names are the kind of local signal the listener queue keeps pulling into the booth — ties to the YEG scene worth bookmarking rather than formal affiliations.
Acts like Wares, Chixdiggit, Precious Earth, Jesse and the Dandelions, the long-running lanes of Witchknife and the pub-rock stubbornness of The Specifically Defiantshow up in listener requests and the back-catalogue rotation on a regular basis. Edmonton punk bands cut teeth on Whyte Ave and Old Strathcona stages long before they hit the national radar, and that’s the spirit the broadcast leans into every weekday.
Mentions are rotation references, not endorsements. Send a request or pitch a band you want to hear — the DJ reads every submission.
What’s playing now
The YEG rotation — one continuous arc.
Monday through Friday, Edmonton time. The themes that show up across the schedule and in the on-air block, repeated and remixed by whatever you send in.
- Indie rock
- Punk
- Post-punk
- Garage
- Alt-country
- Blues
- Heavy
Three ways in
Listen live. Set the queue. Plan the week.
The live stream lives on the home page. The request form is one click away. The weekly rundown tells you what block is on when. Edmonton listeners start here.
On the booth
» Whyte Ave
Old Strathcona strip — the indie/punk ground zero.
» Old Strathcona
Where most Edmonton bands cut their teeth on stage.
» ICE District
Downtown YEG — the cross-town detour the rotation stretches into.
Sub-supporting YEG mention — not booking, not sponsorship, just the neighbourhood talk.
More from the station
Keep digging.
Every Edmonton listener path off this page — the home base, the request form, the weekly schedule, the artist roster, the pitch form.