Musicians perform during the Summer of Music series in the Castro in San Francisco on June 24, 2023. Bay Area nonprofit Civic Joy Fund and music promoter Noise Pop have announced that they are expanding their Summer of Music economic recovery initiative to two days a week in its second year. The initiative involves local musicians performing paid gigs at in key San Francisco neighborhoods to help drive foot traffic to local small businesses. The series will take places every Saturday and Sunday beginning on June 15 and applications are open both for musicians and local businesses now. Perfor ..read more

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony perform during halftime of a game between the Denver Broncos and Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2024. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images ..read more

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Jacques Greene performs at Starline Social Club in Oakland during the annual Noise Pop Festival on Feb. 29, 2020 ..read more

Yo La Tengo performs at House of Blues Anaheim on Oct. 18, 2022. The band will perform at Noise Pop Music Festival in February. Chas Alm/STAFF ..read more

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Con Brio performs at BottleRock Napa Valley in Napa on May 28, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. Portland folk-pop band Y La Bamba and San Francisco’s soul and funk band Con Brio will headline Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party, which will take place on Oct. 16 this year after being canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. The lineup also includes Los Angeles garage rock trio L.A. Witch, the Bay Area’s French Cassettes, grunge-pop band Same Girls, as well as King Isis, LOUDA Y Los Bad Hombres and Strange Cities. “After a year off, we’re so stoked to bring back the 20th Street Block Party along wi ..read more

Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party. Photo: Paige K. Parsons Music promoter Noise Pop on Thursday announced that it will bring back its annual San Francisco summer street party, the 20th Street Block Party, in October. It also confirmed that its annual Noise Pop Festival will return in 2022, and released early bird passes for the February festival. A lineup is yet to be announced. While the 20th Street Block Party, which will be held on Oct. 16, will remain free, Noise Pop is selling “headliner lounge passes” to the event at its website. Although Noise Pop left its 20th street office in the ..read more

The Chapel, closed, on the afternoon of March 17, 2020, the first day of a shelter-in-place to combat coronavirus. California health officials announced on Friday that indoor concerts, as well as other events, can resume on April 15. However, many don’t see the economic viability of doing so quite yet. The California Department of Public Health announced new rules that allow concerts, theater and other indoor events at a limited capacity to attendees vaccinated or providing proof of a recent negative test. The allowed capacity depends on the venue’s size and the county’s color tier, ranging ..read more