San Francisco’s very own Noise Pop and the newly-formed nonprofit, Civic Joy Fund, are teaming up to bring the City and its many diverse neighborhoods to life with the Summer of Music. This just-announced live music series will take place every Saturday afternoon beginning 6/17 across 9 SF neighborhoods and shopping corridors offering hundreds of free performances from local musicians that will drive patrons to spend at locally-owned establishments.  Summer of Music is a great way to boost economic activity within neighborhoods while providing paid pe ..read more

Noise Pop Festival, San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music and arts festival, is proud to reveal an expanded phase 2 music lineup for its 30th anniversary as the multi-venue festival returns February 20-26, 2023. Tickets to each of these newly announced concerts are on sale now via www.noisepopfest.com in addition to full festival badges.  Serving as a cultural arbiter and community advocate within the local arts scene for three decades while promoting thousands of concerts and creating unique festival properties across Northern California, Noise Pop looks forward to celebrat ..read more

Noise Pop Festival has just unveiled an expanded lineup with 40+ new acts confirmed to perform at the multi-venue, multi-genre music festival that takes over the SF Bay Area beginning February 21 through 27. Tickets to these new concerts go on sale this Friday at 10am with fest badges available now via noisepopfest.com. New performers include headlining festival sets from Azealia Banks and Jeff Tweedy, in addition to the North American festival stage debut for HE.SHE.THEY and a 4-part concert series in partnership with SFJAZZ. With previously announced performers like Alex ..read more

Noise Pop Festival has just announced the 2020 lineup for its 28th annual festival returns to the Bay Feb. 24 – Mar. 1. The new wave of performing artists includes LA rock duo Best Coast; Arizona hip-hop trio Injury Reserve; Australian electronic duo Bag Raiders; Stockholm-based DJ/producer Kornél Kovács; singer-songwriter Josh Rouse and many more. These new additions to the festival lineup join the first wave of artists previously announced to perform at Noise Pop 2020, including Grammy Award winner Raphael Saadiq, DJ and producer Maya Jane Coles, Latinx avant-pop artist Helado Negro, the el ..read more

Clarence Bucaro was recently named one of 10 new artists to watch by Rolling Stone magazine. It’s a label that seems a tad misleading since the singer has released a dozen albums over the last 15 years, nevertheless, this humble artist welcomes the honor. “It’s very humbling,” said Bukaro. “Rolling Stone is the musician’s magazine. As a kid, I was obsessed with music. I remember seeing the magazine at the local shop and dreaming about being on the cover someday.” One to not rest on his laurels, the talented singer/songwriter has embarked on a tour that will bring him to the Swedish American M ..read more

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 6, 2018) – The 26th annual Noise Pop Music & Arts Festival is excited to release the details for this year’s Opening Night Fueled by Lagunitas at Swedish American Hall on Monday, February 19, along with details for Deep Eddy Noise Pop After Hours, the annual late-night, after-hours festivities presented by Deep Eddy Vodka, taking place on Friday and Saturday, February 23 and 24, at a brand new location—Light Rail Studios. The Noise Pop Festival Opening Night, fueled by Lagunitas, will feature a very rare performance by beloved San Francisco rock duo The Dodos p ..read more

San Francisco’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has weathered an extraordinary 17 years in the music business – rising in the age of the last rock monsters, and thriving through the ages of Napster, iTunes and Spotify with eight albums of tunes that have left their contemporaries in the dust (think, if you can, of the last time you listened to The Strokes), BRMC now definitely qualify as ‘stalwarts’. Luckily they also still qualify as ‘awesome’. With their most recent release, this month’s Wrong Creatures, the group, which includes Peter Hayes (vocal, guitar, harmonica), Robert Levon Been (vocal ..read more

Noise Pop just released their full lineup. In total, over 100 performers will be taking stages at more than 25 venues throughout the week of February 19–25, turning San Francisco and the Bay Area into Noise Pop’s festival grounds. Tickets to individual shows for the new artists added today are on sale now, along with festival badges and tickets to previously announced performances at noisepopfest.com. The full list of music acts currently confirmed to perform can be found below. Stay tuned as additional Bay Area artists, as well as the film, art and event lineups will be announced in the week ..read more

Noise Pop is excited to announce the music lineup for the fifth annual 20th Street Block Party taking place Saturday, August 19 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The free neighborhood celebration will bring an eclectic mix of music and entertainment, food and drink, and art to multiple stages just outside the doors of Noise Pop HQ along 19th and 20th Streets, between Harrison and Bryant Streets in the Mission district. The Block Party will benefit 19th Street neighbors Mission Language and Vocational School (MLVS). Each year, the street party brings a great mix of nationally recognized and local t ..read more

Noise Pop is excited to announce the return of the fifth annual 20th Street Block Party taking place Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in San Francisco’s Mission District. Similar to last year, the event will once again benefit 19th Street neighbors Mission Language and Vocational School (MLVS). The free neighborhood celebration will bring an eclectic mix of music and entertainment, food and drink, and art to multiple stages along 19th and 20th Streets. In 20th Street Block Party tradition, the music will include some of the best in the Bay Area and beyond. Past performanc ..read more