The local booking company formed its signature festival back in 1993, with a single $5 show at what's now the Independent on Divisadero. It has since grown into a citywide celebration of up-and-coming ...

"I really can't believe it's been 30 years. It's quite a surreal thing--something that kind of just happened," says Kevin Arnold. Arnold is the founder of San Francisco's Noise Pop Festival, which ...

For the third and final phase of its lineup, Noise Pop announced that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will headline the festival on March 1 at the Curran Theatre. Typically a venue for Broadway plays, it offers ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Marking its 31st year in 2024, the annual Noise Pop Festival on Thursday announced its first round of artists performing during the fest's dauntingly packed schedule of local and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

(Thursday, Feb 28, 2008) – After a few flight delays in getting to San Francisco for the 2008 Noise Pop Festival (though I don’t know if I’d really consider it a “festival”), I ended up making my way ...

The festival's initial lineup includes Tortoise, Beats Antique, and a new chance for more Bay Area artists to take the stage.

This audio is not currently available. When we started the Noise Pop Festival in 1993, we were, to the best of our knowledge, the first to use term "noise pop" to define a certain yin and yang of ...