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Alex Pawlakos enjoys biking, weightlifting, and tutoring in his spare time. He is a reporter on Express Yourself(tm) Teen Radio. Check out the teen program on TuneIn Radio. Alex is an economics major at UC Berkeley

App: TuneIn Radio by TuneIn

For: All Smartphones

Price: Free

If you like to listen to a wide variety of radio stations with differing formats, such as rock, classical, talk-radio, sports and so on, then TuneIn Radio is definitely for you. This extremely popular app (over 40 million users) lets you listen to streaming audio from approximately 100,000 different live radio stations from all over the world. In addition, you can listen to over 2 million prerecorded podcasts including lectures, concerts and comedies. You can even tune in to college football games in every conference; literally hundreds of games broadcasting live. With TuneIn Radio, it is very simple to browse through a huge list of different music genres from all over the world, including, of course, all your favorite local stations. If you find stations that you particularly like listening to, just add them to your preset list. Another neat feature is that you can search for an artist or a song, and the app will search the 70,000 radio stations to find where that song is playing right now. The album art and song information is displayed while the song is playing. TuneIn Radio is simply an amazing app that is quite fun to use..