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Playing Favorites: I Wanna Go Out Dancing

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I have an excel spreadsheet with 20+ local venues listed that I use to keep a list of all the coming live shows that I might want to see. It doesn’t even have to be an act I know it just has to sound like a good time to me. […]

The Pop 40 Project: Intro

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Audio version of Intro is here. Note, there are other mixes at the bottom of the page as part of the intro. Part 1: Where do I begin? (AKA My resume) I suppose I begin at the beginning. I was born in 1976. My Italian grandfather played accordion in a […]

PopOff! Commentary/Review: Diary Of A Mad Child

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If you could go back in time to witness any musical moment, what moment would you want witness first hand? For me it’s the afternoon of Tuesday August 5,1969. Picture this: It’s nearing the end of the Summer of Love. Led Zeppelin’s debut blues- riffs had already dropped, Sly and […]

PopOff! Concert Review: Samantha Fish

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You want the straight to the point review well here it is: Bear’s Concert Haiku Review: Samantha Fish Monday crowd moody SRV chops, Benatar pipes Fish torched the place Now for something more substantial. I’ve gotten into the habit looking up the calendars of all the major venues in my […]

Concert Review/Commentary: Rhiannon Giddens Is Real

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Molotov Cocktail: A crude incendiary device typically consisting of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and with a means of ignition. That is what went flinging into the audience halfway through the Rhiannon Gidden’s show Sunday at the Fillmore. The song was “Backbone”. A song that brought show opener Charly […]

POPOFF! RETRO REVIEWS PART 3: THE ECSTASY

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Getting even further left field we arrive in Iceland. Björk was a name I sorta knew being around- oh by the way, it is pronounced yerk like work not york like pork. Anyway, I never took her music in at all. She just escaped my orbit entirely. It was only […]

POPOFF! RETRO REVIEWS PART 2: THE MELANCHOLY

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This is the album that initially started this whole 3 album journey. I had only intended to review this one album but when I ended up doing a TMI interview for Soundwaves Melissa Etheridge came up and so I had to go back to that album and found they were […]

PopOff! Retro Reviews Part 1: The Agony

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I know the hits, you know the hits. But the album didn’t hit me in any special way at first. It wasn’t until Junior year when I was so deep in depression I ended up in the kitchen with a chef’s knife at my chest thinking maybe this was the […]