Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Announces Another Batch of Performers, Including St. Vincent and Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard The third and final batch of Noise Pop acts was just announced for next month’s festival, and it features St. Vincent and Death Cab for Cutie/Postal Service frontman Benjamin Gibbard, both playing separate nights at the Grace Cathedral.
Arts & Entertainment R&B Star Thundercat Will Headline Just-Announced Free Concert In Golden Gate Park This October The latest in a glut of free San Francisco outdoor concerts will feature R&B bass wizard Thundercat and soul artist Lee Fields in an outdoor concert at Robin Williams Meadow on Sunday, October 20.
SF News Oldest House In San Francisco Sold, Will Become Noise Pop Headquarters The 174-year-old “Abner Phelps House” at Oak and Divisadero streets is considered the oldest house in San Francisco, and it has just changed hands, with plans to make it the headquarters of local music promoter Noise Pop Industries.
Arts & Entertainment Next Batch of SF Live Free Concerts Includes Sudan Archives, Eagles of Death Metal, Talking Heads Alums The free outdoor live concert series SF Live has announced a new batch of bands, with Sudan Archives this Saturday, a semi-Talking Heads reunion in August, and the Eagles of Death Metal in September.
Arts & Entertainment Another Free Outdoor Concert Series Coming to SF This Summer, Shows Put Together By Your Favorite Nightclubs There’s yet another free outdoor concert series called SF Live that hopes to get you out of the house and spending money this summer, and the shows are curated by clubs like Bottom of the Hill, the SF Eagle, and Cafe Du Nord.
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party Returns Saturday, But This Year Rocks A Different Block Block out your calendar Saturday for the return of Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party, but this year’s popping noise will be at a new Valencia Street location.The high-powered San
Arts & Entertainment Dawes Plays A Little Bit Of Everything At Noise Pop Festival Among the best known ballads by Los Angeles-based folk-rock band Dawes, "A Little Bit of Everything" sets the first of its several gloomy scenes on the Golden Gate Bridge. The opening lines of
Arts & Entertainment The Best Shows, Films, And More At The 25th Noise Pop Festival By Adrian Spinelli From February 16th through February 27th, Noise Pop Festival will be celebrating it’s 25th turn through SF and Oakland. While there’s a strong contingent of folks who look
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Arts & Entertainment Looking Back On 10 Years Of The Treasure Island Music Festival (And Forward To This Weekend's Last Hurrah) As the 10th annual Treasure Island Music Festival approaches this weekend, the event's founding fathers from Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop find themselves caught between twin instincts to which longtime festival goers
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Festival Adds Metric, Neon Indian, And More With Tickets On Sale Tomorrow The 24-year-old "indie" music festival from San Francisco's Noise Pop, really a somewhat loose network of shows in a wide variety of genres, has expanded its eclectic offerings for February 19th through the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Caribou at Noise Pop by George McIntire After 12 nights and 165 acts, the 2015 Noise Pop Festival anointed electronic alchemists Caribou and Koreless to conduct its closing ceremonies at The Fillmore Monday night. Though a huge
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Cathedrals At Noise Pop by George McIntire San Francisco electronic-rock outfit Cathedrals have witnessed their buzz skyrocket in the past year. With two EPs and a handful of shows to their name, they managed to fill The
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Review: Best Coast, The She’s, Night School, Phoebe Bridgers by George McIntire Once again fulfilling its role as San Francisco’s premier temple of indie punk rock, Bottom of the Hill played host to a medley of sun-soaked reverberating guitar tunes. Noise
Arts & Entertainment Nine Noise Pop Festival Shows Not To Miss Noise Pop upped the ante for their 23rd annual festival with a new HQ at the Swedish American Hall and a sizable lineup of over 150 acts sprinkled around the Bay. If you
Arts & Entertainment Time Travel In SF With Waterstrider's New Music Video Waterstrider, an Oakland-based five piece outfit, has just released one of the more intriguing music videos to be set in our part of the world. Take a disorienting trip with the band through
Arts & Entertainment Swedish American Hall To Be Noise Pop's New HQ Noise Pop, the group that books shows at venues all over town including Rickshaw Stop, Bottom of the Hill, and The Fillmore, is taking over programming at the historic Swedish American Hall venue
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: 20th Street Block Party This Saturday, August 24th the recently hip corner of the Mission and Potrero Hill will celebrate itself with a block party thrown by neighborhood notables: Noise Pop, the Bon Vivants, and Flour + Water.
Arts & Entertainment Band To Watch: Warm Soda Debuts 'Busy Lizzy' Video Warm Soda, one of our local bands to watch in 2013, has a new album out on local garage rock superstart John Dwyer's own Castle Face Records. Brooklyn Vegan called the debut record
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Noise Pop Presents 'Brian Eno 1971 - 1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth' at the Roxie The prolific Brian Eno (also known as Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno), king of art/glam rock and experimental/ambient music, turns 63 on Sunday. Yep, most
Arts & Entertainment Oops! Missed One! Judgment Day, Street Eaters, Bam!Bam! Play Amoeba/Noise Pop's Pop N Shop Today At 5PM! by Erick Pressman When you have a fest as vast as Noise Pop, inevitably, even those with trained eyes may miss a killer show when getting their preview for a blog together. Lucky
Arts & Entertainment The Official SFist Noise Pop Preview and Day By Day Festival Planner: Do It Right or Be Bummed by Erick Pressman Ah yes, its the end of February. The weather is awful, the Giants are in Arizona, which means its time for the annual Noise Pop Festival! Now in its nineteenth
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Film Festival by Rachel Brodsky Noise Pop week is finally here! Brace yourselves for seven days of indier-than-thou bands, boozy industry mixers and a rockin' film series. And on that note, Noise Pop's film festival
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop 2010 Acts Revealed Artisan musical treats like Magnetic Fields, Mark Kozelek, Rogue Wave, Atlas Sound, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Four Tet, John Vanderslice, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Wallpaper, Zee Avi, The Limousines, and Foreign Born
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Martha Wainwright at Noise Pop by Moses Namkung Dressed in blue skinny jeans and hot red shoes with high heels, playing in front of an adoring audience at Slim's, Martha Wainwright walked around the stage looking for a
