Tricks and Treats
It’s Spooky Season! It’s also Mookie Season! Do the Right Thing and support live music. Here are your options over the next couple of weeks: This Wednesday, Richard Lloyd (of Television* fame) plays the Woodward…
Category: 97X
Episode 101.1/102.5/92.9: Randy Malloy of Ohio’s last indie radio station
In 1991, Randy Malloy started as an unpaid college intern at WWCD-FM in Columbus, an independent, alternative rock radio station cut from the same cloth as 97X. He held a variety of positions at the…
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Summer’s slipping away
Wow, can you believe Summer’s nearly gone? It’s almost Earth, Wind & Fire month! Gonna keep this post short and sweet… or at least shorter on the jazz hands and snark. While it’s a labor…
Episode 666: Nixon Now! Nixon Forever!
Wait a minute, something ain’t right with that button… There, fixed it! Friends, we’re gathered together today for a very special episode of “97X Rumblings from the Big Bush” as we pay tribute to the…
Hot fun in the summertime
First, an apology. List member Mighty Joe Sampson pointed out that our previous post’s headline was a bait-and-switch. You can’t call a post “Cruel, Cruel Summer” without paying it off with some Bananarama. So here…
Episode 97.7 – yet another end of an era
Nearly five years ago, Dave and Damian started a podcast about 97X. They had no idea what they were doing. They still don’t know what they’re doing, but they DO know that as they stumbled…
June’s tunes
Wow, is it June already? June: our favorite month AND our favorite Johnny duet partner. I know I’ve been slacking on keeping you abreast of the live local gigs. May was a bit busy. Really!…
Episode 96: Author Robin James at the Mercantile Library
On May 11th, author Robin James discussed her new book The Future of Rock & Roll: 97X and the Fight for True Independence at The Mercantile Library, with your friendly neighborhood podcast hosts Dave and…
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Gigs and Books
I let you down yet again (you should be used to it by now). I’m tardy with my list of gigs so I didn’t get to tell you about the New Pornographers show at Memorial…
Episode 95: woxy.com signoff – the end of the future
After 97X signed off in 2004, “the future of rock and roll” stayed alive as woxy.com – with many fits and starts (and stops) along the way. “Angel investors”… LaLa.com… Future Sounds… Oxford… Longworth Hall…
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