Okay, I just found out about this, otherwise I would've posted it earlier this week, but the Old 97's will be appearing on Laura Cantrell's Radio Thrift Shop, WFMU, 91.1 FM out of NJ or 90.1 FM out of NY state between 2 and 3 this afternoon. I believe that WFMU also broadcasts in RealAudio at www.wfmu.org Even if you can't tune in today, the Thrift Shop is worth catching every Saturday from noon to 3 pm (and you might as well hang around for Trash, Twang And Thunder between 3 and 5 pm as long as you're there.) After witnessing last night's sold-old sweaty Old 97's show at Maxwell's where every audience member seemed to know the words to every Old 97's show (even the new ones), I'm ready to sucker punch the rest of the NY contingent for those extra tickets to tonight's sold-out Old 97's/Hang Dogs show at the Mercury Lounge. Wooboy, quite a set, an hour of old and new stuff (followed by another fifteen minutes of encores) which sounded quite good, one new song in particular (Home Again?) almost sounding like the perfect Everly Brothers/Redd Kross (when they were good) hybrid. Heck, I didn't even get a chance to make it to the back bar for a beer. Yup, sometimes music is better than beer. Jeff Jakowlew
