Jeremy Popoff

Terminally Ill Are Terminal Jokesters

Terminally Ill doesn't give a fuck who they piss off. What else would you expect from OC punkers barely old enough to drink legally? The Anaheim punk-rap outfit booked a show scheduled for May 26 at Slidebar and promoted it with a flier that read, "Please, no date rapes, no homeless," printed along ... More >>

OC Music Awards - City National Grove of Anaheim - March 9, 2013

Last Saturday night, a well-dressed army of local music fans, press and artists packed into the City National Grove of Anaheim for the 12 annual OC Music Awards. Like most awards shows, the night's festivities went  bit longer than necessary with a few fumbles here and there and a mixture of in ... More >>

Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen Is Innocent

Bombshell evidence destroys a lawsuit claiming the Fullerton restaurant's owner tricked cops into attacking Kelly Thomas

Lawsuit: Fullerton Bar Manager Enticed Police with a Lie Before Officers Beat Kelly Thomas to Death

A fired security guard at the Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen in Fullerton has filed a lawsuit accusing Lit guitarist Jeremy Popoff, an owner of the establishment, with enticing police to harass Kelly Thomas on the day officers savagely beat the homeless, schizophrenic man to death in July 2011, and th ... More >>

Concerts Sprawling With Sound

[Summer Guide 2012] The perfect aural schedule for your OC summer

Lit to Release New Album ... And Tour With Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms and Marcy Playground

​You knew this wasn't going to slip by our radar undetected.  You also read the headline correctly--'90s alt-band Lit will be releasing a new album--the first since their self-titled 2004 LP.  According to a press release, their latest effort, The View from the Bottom, will be out J ... More >>

What We Learned, Jan. 6-Jan. 13

​Jan. 6: We obtain a screenshot of Jeremy Popoff's Facebook page, on which he claims he hasn't avoided calls from the Weekly, that we committed journalistic malpractice by "twisting [his] words" and that our man Brandon Ferguson should masturbate rather than try to ask him questions. Can't argue w ... More >>

Dillinger Escape Plan Playing Free Concert at Slidebar; Watch it Without Compromising Your Integrity

​So mathcore/hardcore band Dillinger Escape Plan is playing a free show at Slidebar on Thursday, Jan. 19. It's being called the band's "last U.S. [show] for a while" And if you're still boycotting Slidebar because of the Kelly Thomas hooha, know that you could maintain your integrity by watching ... More >>

Jeremy Popoff Flip Flops On Prior Kelly Thomas Killing Statements

​We were heartened on Dec. 29 that after four months of ignoring our interview requests Lit guitarist Jeremy Popoff called the Weekly to comment on his Slidebar's possible inadvertent role in the Kelly Thomas killing.  Besides reversing his previous, retaliatory order banning me from the down ... More >>

Kelly Thomas Killing Prelude Didn't Involve Slidebar, Bar Owner Claims

Popoff​The claim that a Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen employee may have inadvertently helped ignite the brutal, July 5 killing of a homeless man by Fullerton cops is not true, according to Slidebar co-owner Jeremy Popoff.In a Dec. 29 phone message to the Weekly in response to months of seeking an i ... More >>

Slidebar Cafe Helps Homeless After Owner Previously Slammed Kelly Thomas

​The Slidebar Rock N Roll Cafe is in the middle of a month-long food collection initiative aimed at aiding the Fullerton Interfaith Emergency Services. Founded in 1975, FIES is a charitable collective providing emergency food and transitional housing to homeless in the Fullerton area. Slideba ... More >>

Lit at the House of Blues in Anaheim Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Lit Jan. 29, 2011House of Blues, AnaheimIt was fitting that Lit helped to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the House of Blues in Anaheim, as they opened the venue a decade ago. A sold-out HOB was a solid testament to Lit's continued ability to fill venues. Big thi ... More >>

Lit Drummer Allen Shellenberger Dead at 39

​Early this morning, news broke that Allen Shellenberger, drummer and founding member of Orange County band Lit, died yesterday at the age of 39. Shellenberger was diagnosed with brain cancer in May of last year. A tribute video to Shellenberger was produced and played before Lit's show at the Hou ... More >>

On the Line: Walter Rowin of The Slidebar

​For the rock groupie The Slidebar is Jeremy Popoff's restaurant/club/local worship temple for Fullerton's home-grown rock group, Lit.  For the foodie, the place is all about Walter Rowin and his cooking.  He's the man behind the bar's uncommonly good food; mac and cheese better than mom's, stea ... More >>

Tongue Music

The Slidebar Cafe is the Fender Strat of Fullerton restaurants

Jeremy Popoff

The Lit guitarist shares some of his favorite things

Lit Up

Theyve faced the decline of hair metal, the rise of rap, the transformation of the record industry, even death. Meet this summers real superheroes, Fullertons own Lit!

LOWBALLASSCHATTER!

To Major-Label Hell and Back

Handsome Devil are much happier now

Letters

How to Build a Band

As told to Alison M. Rosen

How to Build a Band

Where Famous People Eat!

Shoe-Nomenal!

God Bless George Esquivel's foot fetish

Mergers and Acquisitions Girl

In which the Girl attempts yet another unfriendly takeover!

Guilty Pleasures

101-200

Such Nice Boys!

Suddenly famous, the guys in Lit figure out how to mix high-octane success with being as nice as they ever were