The Charleston, the Lindy Hop, the Jitterbug, the Hand Jive, the St. Louis Shag, the Fox Trot, the Jump and Jive . . . at the Balcony we know them all. We could totally open an Arthur Murray location right here in the studio if we got the mics out of the

In 1950 two college hipsters named Jac and Paul started folk record label in their dorm room. Why? Because that's what you do when you drink a lot of wine from a jug while smoking reefer and listening to Leadbelly if you were in your early 20s before rock

Hey. You. Get some soul music in your life. Right: now. It's that time again . . . join us for our fourth trip to the land of horns, pianos, bass all falling into the honey deep groove: Soulville. In this episode we go out of our way to play all the deep

The one thing we at the Balcony truly consider blasphemous is when you consider gospel and rock two different things. You ever seen a big choir put on a show? They'll kick your ass more than an Arcade Fire concert, that's for damn (darn, sorry) sure . . .

Every once in a while we here at the Balcony take a little boat ride down to the islands . . . it takes about ten months each time. It's a l-o-n-g ass boat ride. In episode four of Songs From the Yard -- our toast to reggae, ska, dancehall, lover's rock,

Once upon a time, sometime between WWI and WWII, a wisp of wind found its way to a lonely crossroads and met a man named Robert Johnson. And when that meeting was over The Blues was born. There was nothing the wisp could do. And so with Lesson 51 of the 1

The name of the show says it all. Sometimes you've just got to rock. You need to build a playlist of the 37 most rockin' songs you can think of at that moment and listen to it for many days. We do that, too - fairly routinely. And we bring it to you in a

Hello, students. Time to gas up the Woody, break out the Sex Wax and pack up the cooler with beverages. The weather is getting warmer and the waves are getting higher so it's time for some sun and sand in your sandwiches. Lesson 50 of the 101 Series says

There are several things you can find in the Balcony Radio studio. Mics, shitty board, computers, two chairs (one swivel, one wood and needing to be replaced), lots of stolen office supplies, a rug and four thousand vinyl records. Some of these we put to

We at the Balcony don't mind sweating a little . . . or fried food . . . or kick ass music. So, we went to New Orleans. And found all that. Especially the fried food and sweat. (They might have sweaty fried food there, it's that humid.) In Lesson 49 of th