GTA 6 Music Guide: Radio Stations, Soundtrack and Justice Score

Looking for a good station to put on, or trying to find that song you heard in a preview? Let’s get you to the right place. GTA 6’s radio, soundtrack album and original score are three different things. This guide separates them, points you to the official audio and follows one properly verified connection back to Vice City. Checked on 9 November 2026.

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Choose a radio station by sound

Here are the six stations in Rockstar’s preview. It is a useful starting lineup, not a claim that we have listed every station in the finished game. Host names follow the announcement; we have not guessed at the identities behind aliases. [2]

Is Slayer’s “Raining Blood” returning from Vice City?

Yes: Rockstar’s official The Chamber preview data credits Slayer’s “Raining Blood,” with its segment starting at 1:36 in that preview. The same song appears in the V-Rock track listing published by GameSpot when the Vice City soundtrack launched in 2002. That gives us a specific song-to-song connection, rather than a fan playlist that merely sounds plausible. [1, 5]

That is a lovely bit of continuity if the old Vice City radio is burned into your memory. The song is familiar, but the surrounding station, hosts and selection can give it a different setting. We would compare those choices before calling an entire station a remake.

The Chamber’s preview also credits Black Sabbath’s “I” at 0:22 and Pantera’s “I’m Broken” at 1:02. These timestamps refer to the short official preview, not a guaranteed time in the game’s radio rotation. They give you a quick way to check the evidence yourself. [1]

We are not calling this the first, second or only time Rockstar has reused a song. Establishing that would require a much broader soundtrack audit, and it adds little to the useful answer here: which track is returning, where it appeared before, and where you can hear the new preview.

A listening route that makes the previews easier to compare

Our suggestion is to compare contrasting stations before choosing a favourite. Start with a genre you already enjoy, then sample its biggest contrast: Back Country against The Chamber, for example. That makes differences in presentation easier to hear than playing several stations from an unfamiliar genre back to back.

• For a broad pop starting point, sample Flash FM; then try Cocoteo FM for the Latin selection.
• For dance-oriented exploration, start with AfroBank FM and compare its programming with the pop preview rather than assuming every electronic sound belongs to one station.
• For guitars, compare Back Country Radio and The Chamber 106.6. They give you two very different starting points.
• For regional rap and hip-hop, begin with Dirty South Classics.

When you compare previews, listen for the presenter, transitions and station identity as well as individual songs. A radio station is a programme: a favourite track on its own will not tell you whether you enjoy everything around it. These are editorial listening suggestions, not ratings based on playing the game.

Radio, The Album and the score: which one do you want?

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The useful distinction is the listening experience. Choose a station preview to hear a programme’s personality. Choose an album single when you want a particular recording. Choose the score release when you are interested in the composed musical accompaniment. A song appearing in a trailer or on an album does not, by itself, place it on a particular radio station.

Soundtrack singles: a few places to begin

The Album announcement names Yung Lean’s “That’s It” featuring Future and Metro Boomin, Travis Scott’s “RHYNO”, Morgan Wallen’s “Last Thing You Need”, Rauw Alejandro’s “Macacoa 2000” and Keith Richards’ “Bright Lights, Big City” among its opening releases. These examples are a starting selection, not the full album tracklist. [4]

Rockstar’s current music hub also links individual recordings, so use the track title and credited artist together when following a listening link. That avoids mistaking a fan playlist with a similar title for the official release. [1]

Who composed the score—and what does adaptive mean?

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Justice, the duo of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, composed the original score. Rockstar describes it as responding dynamically to how players engage with Jason and Lucia’s world. The announcement names “Flower in a Hurricane” featuring Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and “Pusher” featuring Gesaffelstein. [3]

Think of the score as music that can respond to what is happening, rather than one fixed playlist. The album gives you the released compositions to listen to, but it cannot tell us exactly when a cue starts or changes during play. We will need clearer mechanic details or testing for that.

Can you listen outside a vehicle?

Yes, according to Rockstar’s radio announcement: Jason and Lucia can listen to radio and on-demand podcasts in vehicles and on foot, using headphones or earbuds connected to their smartphones. [2]

So the listening option is confirmed, but we do not yet have a checked button-by-button walkthrough. Once we can test it, we will add the shortest route to changing stations and choosing a podcast.

How music connects to the wider world

Our character guide follows the announced connections around the cast, including the music-business side of Leonida. It is a useful companion if the soundtrack has made you curious about the people in the story. For the launch trailer, our analysis focuses on the partnership being presented rather than assuming the edit reveals mission order.