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We actually have one good local commercial radio station, KPIG, which plays blues, alt country, hard-edged folk/singer-songwriter music (Warren Zevon and Tom Waits are favorites), a whole lot of the bands that are big in the Austin scene, and anything they feel like. Every Christmas Day they air a complete, commercial-free day of twisted or mutant Christmas music. They're on the Internet; you can pay Real Audio to listen, or you can find them free through Shoutcast. Recommended.
We've got a couple of NPR stations that play good stuff, but unless you've got the program guide you never know what format you're getting.
Almost everything else around here is Clear Channel-owned, or something like it. Most of them are robots, or primarily robots except for certain times of the day.
Besides KPIG, I would highly recommend radioparadise.com, an all-internet radio station playing extremely well-selected, eclectic music (I wouldn't call it "alternative" -- it's simply everything that the owner/program director considers good. And he's very, very knowledgeable.
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