I am supposed to be preparing for my burning man trip but… LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! Never a bad night with live music, so for $25 on Wednesday I got 3 for 1 on stellar surf rock.
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POPOFF! CONCERT REVIEW: a-ha & the Oxbow River Stage Napa July, 29th: Only Highs No Lows
POPOFF! CONCERT REVIEW: a-ha & the Oxbow River Stage Napa July, 29th: Only Highs No Lows
For those of you who hate blogs with preamble about grandmothers or the history of hush puppies and wish the author would just get … Read the rest
PopOff! Bonus Beats: Fired Up Females, Alternative Edition
Hello Poppies and Bear Cubs! Please enjoy the fired-up set of females from the alternative and punk scenes in honor of current affairs. Whenever the world gets frustrating or really angering I always turn to music. And I hope this … Read the rest
PopOff! #94: Top 25 Countdown: Never Underestimate The Power Of A Woman
Hello poppies! On this episode I countdown the top 25 most iconic songs with some variation of “woman” in the title. You can make a small wager with your friends to try and guess what will be my number one.… Read the rest
PopOff! #93: Annual Pride Disco Ball 2022
PopOff! Bonus Beats: Fired Up Females, Country Edition
Hello Poppies and Bear Cubs please enjoy the fired-up set of country females in honor of current affairs. Whenever the world gets frustrating or really angering I always turn to music. And I hope this set is part of the … Read the rest
The Tipping Point
This is going to be a long trip, I have stuff to say so… buckle your seat belt.
A well meaning employee of the Concord Pavilion told me, “You can’t dance here.” Those who know me, know them’s fighting words. … Read the rest
PopOff! #92: Heed The “Call”
On this episode of PopOff! I heed the “call” of the music and countdown the top 25 most iconic songs that mention calling it’s all it’s various iterations in the song title. Place your best with friends on what the … Read the rest
PopOff! #91: New Wave City, Italo-Disco and Underground Pop from The Cat Club
For those who missed it and those who want to relive it, here is set from the New Wave City, Italo-Disco night at the Cat Club in SF.
PopOff! is an “anything goes” musical show hosted by me DJ Bear. … Read the rest
PopOff Retro Review: Tori Amos’ “Little Earthquakes” Turns 30
Every finger in the room is pointing at me
I wanna spit in their faces, then I get afraid of what that could bring
Those two lines from the song, “Crucify” open the album Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos, which … Read the rest
CONCERT EXPERIENCE REVIEW: BJÖRK – CHASE CENTER FEBRUARY 8TH, 2022
This is not just a review of Björk’s Cornucopia but my overall concert experience at the Chase center.
“Performance artist”, is such an odd term because are not all musicians who get up on stage on some level performance artists … Read the rest
PopOff! Retro Review: Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
20 years on, I am reviewing an album that in 1992 sounded 20 years on. So yeah, the 1992 album The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion sounded VERY 1972 (i.e. Grand Funk Railroad, Steppenwolf, Kansas, Lynard Skynard…) At the time … Read the rest
PopOff! #90: Country BBQ: 2021 Recap
Hello Poppies and Bear Cubs! Please enjoy this recap of some of the best and some of my favorite artists/songs that country music had on offer for 2021. Song Bar.
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PopOff! #89: PopOff! Song Bar Collab: Thank You For The Music
Hello Poppies and Song Bar patrons! Please enjoy this set of songs about gratitude, tunes about thanks, and aires of appreciation to lead off your 2022. You can read the full write up and participate in future themes at Song … Read the rest
Bear’s Haiku Movie Review/Commentary: West Side Story
Musical tries to not be
Serious subjects, light songs
Needs to pick a lane
That’s how I usually write my movie reviews, in haiku form. I write and talk so much elsewhere about music that I really feel it best … Read the rest
PopOff! #88: Annual Winter Disco Ball 2021
Hello Poppies (and Bear Cubs)! Here is your annual PopOff! Winter Disco Ball celebrating one great year in club hits, plus at the end of the disco ball I do a countdown of the top 10 club hits of that … Read the rest
PopOff! #87: Country BBQ 2nd Annual Drinking-Song-A-Thon
Hello Bear Cubs and Poppies! It is time for your annual Country BBQ Drink-A-Song celebrating the holidays with the long standing thematic tradition of country booze ballads, whiskey waltzes, tequila two-steps, cocktail cha-cha-chas and more. Enjoy! You can catch the … Read the rest
POPOFF! COMMENTARY: A TRIBUTE TO THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT
I just saw Dune in a movie theater, I also saw The Harder They Fall recently in a theater too. I like the later more than the former. But the former had more of an impact on my overall nostalgia/emotions. … Read the rest
POPOFF! REVIEW: ABBA DELIVERS THE MOST ABBA ALBUM SINCE EVERY OTHER ABBA ALBUM
Here we are in an age when artists that railed against the system are now selling their catalogs to that very system. Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and others have all sold their music rights off for millions. It … Read the rest
PopOff! #86: 2021 Annual Howloween Spooktackular
Hello poppies! It is time for the annual Howloween Spooktackular! This we start with an hour devoted to darkness followed by, people and places, and in the final hour I place some favorites and requests from the live stream. Enjoy! … Read the rest