For a couple of days in August 1969 about three hundred thousand dirty hippies occupied a rural upstate New York farming community . . . people died, people were born, brown acid was eaten and some of the greatest rock and roll ever played before a live a

Something weird happened at the MTV in the early 90s . . . after doing nothing but show Peter Gabriel and Michael Jackson videos for a decade, the channel put a bunch of strangers in a loft and slowly started giving up on music. Yet, around this same time

All singers are trying to have a hit with every song, but you know what . . . that's impossible. Not every song is a hit, even the one's that shoulda been. We at the Balcony consider tunes on side two of your favorite records Found Gems. In episode 9 we s

MJ. The King of Pop. The Gloved One. Owner of Bubbles. Brother of LaToya. Some stars get known by many titles. In Lesson 112 we focus on the pride of Indiana, Mr. Michael Jackson. In this episode we spin jams from a life's work . . . literally a lifetime

It's very easy to believe that every song happened magically - like it fell from Heaven, a perfectly formed gem from the gods. This is what the people of Rock 'n' Roll would like you to believe. And, you know, sometime that does happen. But, most songs st

The world is made of dueling pairs. Good/Evil. No/Yes. In/Out/In/Out. Philosophers call it Duality. For everyone who has a Yin there is someone with a Yang, yearning for freedom. The world of music has its own version of Yin & Yang and for Lesson 111, we

Not everyone gets to be Elvis, Bruce, Mick or Ringo . . . but, you know what, a cult following is nothing to sneeze at. Except in the cases of singer-songwriters like the ones in this show whose cult is so small they could all be sneezed on at once. Here'

Some bands are lucky to be blessed with a true front man: The Stones. The Doors. Van Halen (sometimes). But . . . there is one band that was lead by a banshee-singing pan-sexual alien in furs and feathers . . . that band is Queen and that frontman is Fred

You know the rules . . . diss me and I diss you back. Someone drop a beat for me and give me some room to regulate every fool that steps to m-y mic. Woah . . . woah. We don't know where that came from. Sorry! Listening to 2 hours of Diss Tracks on episode

The Devil has many names - Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Bieber, Minaj, Kardashian . . . . And even though The Devil gave you Jefferson Starship, he also gave you a little band called Black Sabbath. For Lesson 109, we plumb the depths of the seven circles a