radio predictions: who's on the Leonida airwaves and will rockstar finally give us a streaming app?

Pre-orders are live and I'm already obsessing over what's gonna blast out of my car radio on November 19th. The stations in Vice City were pure magic, Flash FM, V-Rock, Emotion 98.3. I'm praying they don't mess with the formula too much.

I think fixed stations are here to stay, it's part of the DNA. But a parody streaming app on your iFruit phone? That would be a killer bonus. Imagine a "SwipeFM" where you can build playlists from all the in-game tracks. Rockstar could even drip-feed new songs through updates.

For the modern pop station, I need The Weeknd. His whole aesthetic is Miami Vice. Bad Bunny and Rosalía are musts for the Latin flavor cruising through Grassrivers. And please, give me Blondie's "Heart of Glass" on a classic hits station as the sun sets over Ocean Beach. For hosts, I'd lose it if they brought back Toni, or maybe a wild parody of a real Miami shock jock.

What's your dream station lineup for that first drive down the Keys?

I hope the signal dies out past Mount Kalaga when you're heading northwest (like this). In Los Santos you could pick up West Coast Classics from Paleto Bay to LSIA, which killed the vibe. Give me static on the Leonida Keys until you hit a relay tower near Ambrosia.

Give me static on the Leonida Keys until you hit a relay tower near Ambrosia.

Now that's a take I can get behind. Back in 2002, Vice City's stations felt tethered to the asphalt. You drove into Starfish Island and the signal held, but take it too far and you should lose it. Los Santos made everything too clean.

As for SwipeFM, I'm not feeling it. Half the fun of jacking a Sentinel at midnight was catching whatever lunatic DJ was mid-rant. If I want a playlist I'll minimize the game like we all did in 2004.

One proper synthwave station that sounds like 1986 collapsed into itself and I'm set. Maybe some Grassrivers trap for Lucia, but don't drown out the classics.