Found Gems Ep 5

If you really sit down to think about it . . . every album/record/cd/whatever contains 11-14 songs. How many do you remember from each? Seriously, think about it. We’ll wait….We’ll wait more…..Balcony Radio is the type of place that mines through all the stuff you forgot about to bring you things that should stick with […]

101 Series Lesson 60: Songs About Coffee

Lesson 60 of the 101 Series is about something near and dear to everyone and that is COFFEE something that we drink way too much of at Balcony Radio and which people all over the world drink way too much of and perhaps talk about it in a verbose and pompous fashion to the point […]

Embryonic Ep 5

Do you think songs just happen, man? Really? Seriously? No. They don’t. People slave over these things. We at the Balcony are very aware of the creative process (and how it’s a pain in the ass). So, we decided to do a show of nothing but demo versions of songs by all your favorite people. […]

101 Series Lesson 59: Songs About The Presidents

Let it be known far and wide that The Balcony loves America. Or as we say it “Murrka.”  So, with Lesson 59 of the 101 Series we pay tribute to Resident #1 and a few of the people who’ve tried to kill him. We don’t do all the presidents and some get more than one […]

Dusty Gems Ep 5

Great songs may come and go, but sometimes the best songs are the ones that have fallen just off the radar. Welcome to episode 5 of Dusty Gems – the show that re-calibrates the radar for a more powerful search. We have a bevy of great bands playing some deep grooves that could be called […]

101 Series Lesson 58: Music’s Eccentrics

Webster’s defines the word ‘Eccentric’ as “Having it’s axis off center”. BalconyRadio assumes this definition as its motto and defines ‘Eccentric’ as music worth exploring. In Lesson 58 of the 101 Series we turn to artists who may never have been played on the radio, may not have had a hit single, or who have […]

Deez Rhymes Ep 5 (The All-Girrrl Show)

Neither the turntables or the mic are strictly a man’s domain. Sometimes the soft, well-manicured hands of a female MC can grip it and rip it. In episode five of our hip hop series Deez Rhymes, we hand it over to the ladies. Join us for a couple of hours worth of girlz wid attitude […]

101 Series Lesson 57: Folk Music Revival

In the new millennium there has been a rise in the number of coffee shops in America – most belonging to one or two companies. We at The Balcony think it’s time to bring back the coffee shop as venue – the way it was in the days of Greenwich Village – with guitars, banjos […]

101 Series Lesson 56: G-L-A-M! Rock

To be perfectly truthful about Lesson 56, it really is more rock than glam. But we still like silver pant suits, bright red rouge and 8-inch platform heels. It all comes together under the heading of Glam Rock. If glamour is a genre then the music can be a gaudy piece of costume jewelry. But […]

Blue Highway Ep 5

When the spurs are janglin’ and the John Deere keys are jinglin’ it’s because dosey-do time at the Balcony has come again. Saddle up for the fifth episode in our toast to Americana: the Blue Highway. In this show we mosey into the studio for two hours of songs about old time religion, America, moms, […]