In the intricate network of sounds, technologies, people, and materialities that make up music radio we detect and consider macro-social changes, and through detailed analyses we demonstrate the intertwining of practices that have and still do surround and permeate its production. We have taken on the hyper-complexity of the meetings and integrations of a modern mass medium, radio, and an established cultural practice and art form, music, not in order to explain what they are 'really all about' in a research perspective, but in order to contribute to the font of analytical and theoretical knowledge about music radio and to continuing discussions within the research field.