The end of the year can mean many things: increased traffic, broken dreams, out-of-balance accounting ledgers, going to the gym to make up for the last 51 weeks of NOT going to the gym, and the endless and growing parade of Christmas-themed programming and music. These things go on for weeks!! This year your hosts keep it to a minimum and just sit down and play tunes and talk about what a great year we’ve had. It’s our 2nd Annual Christmas Spectacular and your hosts enjoy the holiday spirit. Let’s close the book on this year. Next year is another story.

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Well, good friends and neighbors, it’s that time of year for jacking up your electric bill with massive lighting, sorting out old gift cards for possible re-re-re-use for new gifts, and then flocking a big tree with snow the texture of mucous. Yes, it’s the 45th Annual (actually, it’s the first annual, but who’s counting?) BalconyRadio Christmas Spectacular. Holiday time has got you by the Xmas balls! We’ve got a sleigh-load of great tunes to help you soundtrack the madness. Songs you won’t hear on repeat at the market or the mall. Watch out where the reindeer fly. They just ate Santa’s cookies!

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Moody teens have always been a thing. Lesson 170 of the 101 Series is Exhibit A. In the late 50’s and early 60’s the teens got dramatic. And nothing is more dramatic than d-e-a-t-h! Get ready for car crashes, drownings, murder, suicide, lightning strikes, hangings and any other tragedy that could befall the modern teen.

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It’s Open Mic Night at Balcony Radio! On EP 19 of Dusty Gems — our testament to the best under the radar singer/songwriters — we pull up a stool at the small venue downtown and snap our fingers at some of the best music you’ve never heard. The crowds are small, but the songs are big. Dig?

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Do not call our hip hop old. It’s classic, boooooyyy. Tune in to Deez Rhymez #19 to join the Balcony B-boys cold lamping on the corner. What’s on the boom box? This show. Pack two dozen C-batteries, we got some of the freshest lyrics and beats of the 80s and 90s coming for your dome.

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Country music is American music. Here in Episode 19 Of Blue Highway, we celebrate the manifest destiny of twang by playing the best country music of the Golden State. Pedal steel goes well with the wine and weed growing in California. Next stop, Bakersfield.Yee-Haw!!

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Musicians have learned that there is strength in numbers. In Lesson 168 of the 101 Series, we find out who plays well with others in our testament to Supergroups. From Cream to the Willburys to the boygenuises, some of the best music has been made with your buddies.

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Unfortunately, it sometimes takes a passing to appreciate a body work. Join Balcony Radio this week in remembering legendary indie Record Engineer/Producer Steve Albini. Steve was the ultimate 9-5 punch the clock two takes is enough let’s go get a burger music guy and we are here to appreciate that. A lot of your favorites of the 90s and 2000s made the trek out to the midwest to work with Steve. Listen to the show and get why.

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Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Dorothy Parker, William Carlos Williams . . . New Jersey has produced a number of good poets. But only the Garden State only gave us one bard: Bruce Springsteen. In Lesson 18 of X-Chromosome, our sptlight on the ladies of music, we prove that it takes a woman to be The Boss as we spin two dozen Bruce songs covered by women. Poetry is poetry, rock is rock and Bruce is for the people.

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