Mission Mission

I meant to take more photos I guess but I had a lot of whiskey and forgot.

It’s that magical time of year where it’s your duty to drink…for charity! Negroni Week launched in 2013 as a celebration of one of the world’s great cocktails and an effort to raise money for charities around the world. All week long from June 5th – June 11th, order a Negroni at Pops and a donation will be made to support BFF.fm! BFF.fm – Best Frequencies Forever is a nonprofit San Francisco-based community radio station. Their mission is to support emerging and underground artists and bring the Bay Area music scene to the world through the magic of Internet radio. BFF.fm features nearly 100 DJs hosting 75 unique shows, adding up to more than 135 hours of original programming each week, streaming their studios in the Mission District.

THE BFF NEGRONI $10

Beefeater Gin, Campari, Cinzano served on the rocks with an orange twist

Benefiting BFF FM Radio

Check out this week’s full entertainment line up at Pops Bar:

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[via Emily]

LOUD & Local is a weekly show on BFF.fm that highlights the best bands from the Bay Area…and now it’s also a rad monthly event! On the first Thursday of the month LOUD & Local presents a bar night to benefit BFF.fm, featuring awesome live bands and guest DJs at Pops Bar. This Thursday Loud and Local features Peggy Bunker and the Bunkmates- playing hip swinging surf rock as well as Oakland based vinyl DJs The B-Side Brujas spinning Souldies, Salsa, Funk, & Freestyle y mas!

Check out this week’s full entertainment line up at Pops Bar:

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[via linney]

Let’s party like it’s 2008! (Which is when the Debaser party first started, I think.) Here’s the invite for this Saturday’s party, at the Knockout of course:

DJs Jamie Jams and Emdee return with more songs from a time when “alternative” meant “not mainstream.”

It’s like the best episode of 120 minutes or a good night on college radio circa 1993.

$10 / $5 adv. http://ticketf.ly/2q7VUv1

FREE with FLANNEL before 10pm.
FREE with BABY DOLL DRESS ALL NIGHT!
6pm-2am, 21+

***** JUST ADDED ****

Emo Happy Hour
w/ special guests Goonie Walsh and Douglock Slayton
(Make Me a Mixtape, Sadderday)
6pm-10pm

So dress up and get there early!

RSVP and invite your friends!

[via Mo]

Word on the street anyway: “About 10 more days” til they close up shop at their current location and move up the street to new digs. Enjoy it while you can!

[Photo by Dashquatch]

This Wednesday it’s the kinda quiet, kinda downbeat duo Girlpool. Watch a video and read this blurb:

Life has been a whirl for Girlpool since the release of their acclaimed 2015 debut Before the World Was Big. Shortly before the record came out, Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker relocated from their hometown of Los Angeles all the way across the country to Philadelphia, where they quickly became embedded in the local D.I.Y. scene. “Before BTWWB, I was just out of high school, living in my old neighborhood,” recalls Cleo Tucker. “Then we started touring in a way we’d never done before. I really started to experience the duality that was beginning to exist in my life: tour/not on tour.”After a chaotic and informative year spent floating around the East Coast, both bandmates moved home to California at the start of 2017.

Tickets and info here.

Next Wednesday it’s the loud loud loud, always upbeat ’80s superstar Buster Poindexter. Video and blurb:

Today, the words “blues” and “shouting” are, alas, inextricably linked, but what about the tradition of mellow blues crooners that extended through Charles Brown, Nat King Cole and, in their more romantic moments, Joe Williams and Ray Charles? “Buster Poindexter” (nee David Johansen) first attracted attention as a glam rock pioneer (in the New York Dolls, with whom he still tours) and then as an early MTV idol (with “Hot Hot Hot”). Yet with his big, deep, resonant voice, Buster Poindexter is most impressive as a crooner and occasional belter of ballads in the classic R&B tradition. His ongoing run affirms the point that however you know him, the artist known as Buster Poindexter, complete with his one-liners and longer comic monologues (not to mention his signature pompadour), is one of the most endearing and enduring entertainers currently trodding the boards in New York.

Tickets and info here.

Nice work, the Chapel! Their full calendar here.

[via Ninna]