While flipping through the radio stations of your car, you’re faced with some ultimate decisions: Country or Western? Christian or Classical? Top 40s or…more Top 40s? The musical menu here in Rolla isn’t ideal, but there is hope among such a dismal selection. KMNR is the radio station made by S&T students for all students’ listening pleasure.

I had a chance to interview Brady Voepel, the public relations director at KMNR radio, who basically explained that KMNR, much like Drake, can go from 0-100, real quick.

“KMNR has been in existence for 54 years. So we’re one of the oldest-if not the oldest-college radio stations in the US. We’re a free-format college run radio station. We can play absolutely anything we want. I’ve done shows where we just play white noise in the back while screaming into a microphone for an hour and a half,” Voepel said.

The vibe that it gives off is very much, ‘ran by college students in an unconventionally decorated building with Bob Ross playing on a continuous loop’. Primarily because that’s exactly what it is-right down to the Bob Ross. The music itself can vary from country hits of the 1960s to Beyoncé.

“We have a couple of metal DJs, we have a couple of hip-hop DJs, we have some EDM DJs, we have people who do live EDM shows for two hours. A lot of people just play between pop, indie, rock, electronica or whatever. We do talk shows-I had a talk show last year-we do video game review shows, we’ve got about 80 active DJs,” Voepel said.

Fortunately, all this music can be easily accessed at any time of day-literally. And if you can’t bear to leave your car because the tunes are just too groovy, there is a solution: KMNR has a webstream at KMNR.org.

“We’re 24/7. Essentially you’re going to have DJs coming at all hours of the day and doing shows, and between that you’re going to have people doing different artist features; we have a request show on Friday night from 10-12. When we don’t have an actual DJ we have an automation playlist, so basically it’s a robot that will play all of our programming, which is pretty cool. Basically it’s all just free-flowing DJs and automations doing all of our programming and everything,” Voepel said.

Despite more popular means of listening to music such as Pandora, Spotify or Soundcloud, KMNR rise above the rest and remains a unique and refreshing sound.

“There is really no distinct relationship between FM radio and Pandora/Spotify-our volume is really not comparable to the usage of Spotify or Pandora. Also, being free format, we don’t really have much of a relationship to iHeartRadio (formerly Clear Channel, which is pretty much every radio station that isn’t free format or NPR). Online radio is definitely the spot in terms of listener volume obviously, but we don’t really particularly care about our metrics, as long as people keep listening,” Voepel said.