PopOff! is an “anything goes” musical show hosted by Bay Area DJ Bear. Sometimes it’s a theme, sometimes it’s a big ol’ birthday shout out tribute show to a specific artist(s). Shows occur on Mondays with the occasional Thursday Bonus … Read the rest
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PopOff! Bonus Beats: Worldwide Pride
For your bonus beats, I celebrate the upcoming pride weekend with an extended set of pride anthems, icons, and trailblazers from across the globe. And I toss in a few English language hits for good measure.
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PopOff #17 – Annual Pride Disco Ball: 1998
It’s Pride month 2018 and a staple of queer culture has always been the dance clubs as place for the GBTQ and their allies to find unity and work it out, girlfriend!!! And this year’s disco ball I am going … Read the rest
PopOff! Bonus Beats: Attack Of The Cover Versions A Cover Bizarre Vol. 2
For your Bonus Beats I bring you Vol. 2 of cover versions of classic Prince cuts in honor of Prince’s birthday in June. And be sure to check out Volume 1!
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PopOff! #16 Ain’t Nothin’ But A Bass Thing, Bay-B
On the final part of my 4 part series exploring the bass in popular music we get beat heavy in the 90s and beyond with hip-hop, apathetic with grunge, maybe a little something for the black eye-liner crowd, and a … Read the rest
PopOff! Bonus Beats: Blitzkrieg Bass
For your Bonus Beats, I take a little deeper dive into what the new wave, goth, and punk scenes had to offer in terms of bass grooves and players because it was not just about weird hair, dark makeup, and … Read the rest
PopOff! #15 Hit Me With Your Best Bass
Part 3 of my 4 part series exploring the bass in popular music finds us in the 1980s where music put the synth bass center stage on some of the decade’s and music’s most iconic hits.
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PopOff! Bonus Beats: Blame It On The Bass
On these bonus beats I dig up more iconic bass lines from disco and funk because not all the great grooves could be contained in the main episode.
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PopOff #14 – We Want The Funk … Gotta Have That Funk!
On part two of my series exploring the electric bass in music we see how the music of the 60 evolved into heavier and funkier sounds with the help of the bass’s partner in crime, the bass amp. Plus a … Read the rest
PopOff! #13 – Bassology and the Electric Bass Experience
This episode of PopOff! is part one in a series exploring iconic bass lines in popular music. And in part one we start with the upright as it transitions to electric with a little help from one Mr. Paul Tutmarc.… Read the rest
PopOff! Bonus Beats: Soundtrack to My Life Vol. 2: Attack of the Favorite Conversions
These bonus beats are all cover versions that I have picked up throughout my life that I ADORE and have become part of the soundtrack to my life.
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PopOff #13 – BritPopOff
On this episode of PopOff or rather BritPopOff! We travel to England to examine the music that dethroned grunge from the British charts and quite possibly had a hand in kicking the chart dominating S/A/W production team to the curb. … Read the rest
PopOff! Bonus Beats – Here Comes That Rainy Day Singing Again
The music forecast shows one more rain storms for April. And this sonic storm covers 5 decades of chart hits about rain that were not soaked up by the main rain episode.
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PopOff #12 – The Sound Of Outlaws And Upstarts
Today I get rough and rowdy as I delve into the outlaw country movement of the 1970s and explore just how outlaw it really was while also celebrating some April birthdays who were major players in the outlaw scene.
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PopOff! Bonus Beats: Three Chords And Some Rain
Winding down my month long tribute to rain in popular music I end with an extended set of country classics all about this most wonderful weather!
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PopOff #11 – New Moon on Monday, Vol. 1
It is a new moon on Monday and since there are SO many moon songs, PopOff! tradition dictates I break out the theme-a-tron and see what genre or era of moon related songs I will mix up for you. Want … Read the rest
PopOff! Bonus Beats: Alt. Rockin’ To The Rhythm Of The Rain
More bonus beats and more rain songs this time of the alternative variety from the 80s, 90s, and beyond.
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PopOff #10 – X Marks The Spot
It is PopOff’s 10th episode and while not a giant milestone for you… it is for me and so I am still celebrating with this super-sized set-o-mystery.
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PopOff! Bonus Beats – The Quiet Rain Storm
Enjoy these bonus beats as I continue the rain dance with some sampling of sexy soul classics. Enjoy!
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PopOff #9 – The Sound Of Rain
On today’s episode of PopOff! I run up the charts to have a listen to songs about rain featuring hits, euro hits, monster worldwide conquering hits, deep cuts, and IMO no horrendous misses, except MAYBE that one song. This is … Read the rest