"Bootlegger"? That's such a twentieth century term . . . we like the phrase "Music Awareness Sharer." Join us, will you, for our fourth session of listening to live music: From the Board. In this episode we play all the jams that you heard while standing

The Mothership has landed . . . on The Balcony. Alright, boys and girls of the universe, pull up some shag carpeting and be prepared to get your asses blasted a-w-a-y. In lesson 44 of the 101 Series we sit down with George Clinton, Bootsy (baby), Eddie Ha

To be honest with you . . . being a d.j. is a small way to play god. When you control the airwaves you control . . . information. We, on the other hand, use our power for good: bringing you all music to rock your ass right there in your swivel chair. Ever

The southeastern United States has provided us many things--good literature, bar-b-que, racism--but the one great gift it's given the world is some kick ass rock and roll. Roll on in for Lesson 43 of the 101 Series: Music of the Southeast United States. J

Ty Cobb has the highest batting average in history: .365. That racist bastard failed six hundred thirty five times out of a thousand . . . songwriters hope to hit the same average . . . and usually don't. Even your big stars have songs that don't become h

Hello, Students. Our musical road trip to the first day of Spring continues as we take the classroom to a music hotbed. This week Lesson 42 of The 101 Series listens to the Pacific Northwest. Before Cobain and Hendrix there were The Kingsman and The Sonic

The lights are off, the groupies are all asleep . . . it's time to pull out the pen and the acoustic guitar. All the songs you like don't come out fully formed and finished, first you have to do a little thing call a demo. (How the hell else are you going

Get on the BART, we're going into the city (because why drive some place that has nine parking spaces in fifty square miles) . . . Here we are for Lesson 41 of the 101 Series: our trip to see the beautiful people making noise in the Bay Area. Join us for

If you dig into the crate, you're going to come up with some tunes you've never heard before that can (and will) knock your fucking sox off. So, we your friends at the Balcony got out those extra long tongs and started collecting all these tunes in a big

We love Will Oldham even though he looks like the captain of a clipper ship. (Seriously, someone should check his beard for barnacles.) In Lesson 40 of the 101 Series we focus on the man of many guises: Will Oldham. Join us as we play two hours of jams by