Studio Brussel

Studio Brussel doesn't chase the mainstream. It drags it, kicking, into the studio. The Flemish public broadcaster's alternative station has spent decades as the place where Belgian rock gets its first airing, from dEUS and Balthazar to Whispering Sons and Equal Idiots. Weekday evenings lean hard into guitar music: post-punk, noisy indie, the kind of thing that sits next to Fontaines D.C. and IDLES without apology. Daytime slides toward pop and electro, sometimes smoother than the purists would like. That's fine. It works. It's a public station with an actual audience to serve, not a niche str…