Author Fiona Duerr

Four years ago, I was still in high school, and tickets to FYF FEST were only 100 bucks. FYF was the first music festival I ever attended and I went with a group of friends and my brother, Joe. On the second da...

Save the Waves is a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect coastal ecosystems around the world. For a couple years now, they have been putting on a small music festival involving good tunes, DIY campi...

Who better to close out Noise Pop’s 25th year than Ty Segall? The former staple of the Bay Area music community delivered an explosive and dynamic end to the ten day festival that makes a point to highlight l...

Photos won't do Treasure Island Music Festival 2016 justice, because you can never experience torrential downpour and hazardous winds through a photograph. You cannot feel the ankle deep mud through these imag...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festival is a beautiful gift to San Francisco. The free, three-day music festival draws a diverse group to Golden Gate Park with the purpose of dancing, singing, and watching liv...

One summer day in Mosswood Park started with a visit from an astronaut on the drums on the Dirty Mouth stage at Burger Boogaloo. The Young Fresh Fellows were neither young nor fresh, but they delivered an ent...

After first stumbling upon BRONCHO a few months ago I was excited to see they would be on tour in my hometown. The Teragram Ballroom, located on the edge of downtown Los Angeles can be described as a more intim...

A series of California-based bands shared the stage on February 26 at Brick & Mortar as part of Noise Pop's 2016 Festival, which took place at various venues throughout the city of San Francisco. First o...