New directory lets you browse 300 community radio stations around the world
Launched by DJ Opium Hum and digital creator Robbie Makes Radio, Community Radio Index is billed as an “interactive online tool”
A new directory, Community Radio Index, has been launched allowing users to browse almost 300 community radio stations all over the world.
Described as an "interactive online tool" that maps stations across a virtual globe, Community Radio Index is said to be the product of "months of work and preparation".
The directory is launched by DJ and CTM co-curator Opium Hum and radio specialist Robbie Makes Radio, alongside Bristol audiovisual artist Nov3c and DJ-turned-visual artist Lukasopp.
"To our knowledge, it’s the first centralised effort to document a majority of the world's operating online community radio stations in a single resource," they announced yesterday (July 13).
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"Community radio sits at the intersection of culture work and grassroots activism, and in a time when more and more of our cultural life is threatened by algorithmic monoculture, this work feels increasingly urgent."
As well as pinpointing some of the world’s largest community stations such as Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide, Brussels’ Kiosk Radio and New York’s The Lot Radio, the index also charts small, independent stations all the way from the Azores to Indonesia.
While the index is in the process of being updated, it currently features 297 stations on an interactive globe that you can rotate and "zoom in to focus regions and click a country or city to open stations you can listen to instantly".
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The directory allows you to click on a country to browse its stations, where you can listen to each station live, favourite them, read a description, and discover their social media channels.
"These stations and projects maintain spaces of artistic possibility and cultural resistance, so this is as much of a story about what independent music infrastructure looks like in 2026, as about what gets lost if these spaces aren't actively maintained," the team behind the project explain.
Community Radio Index said it will continue to "expand the index into a full directory of the people making it happen, the hosts, the curators, and the volunteers keeping these stations alive", encouraging users to submit stations that may have been "overlooked".
Check out Community Radio Index and donate to help fund the project here.
Gemma Ross is Mixmag's Associate Digital Editor