Tagged Noise Pop 2015

The B-Side attended about a fifth of Noise Pop 2015, and to close out the nearly two-week-long, Bay-spanning festival, we made it over to NPHQ — located at the newly renovated Swedish American Hall -- to...

Saturday evening at the newly reopened Swedish American Hall began as an excruciatingly slow, sit-down affair. The picturesque venue, Noise Pop headquarters for this year’s festival, was exactly as descri...

Last Friday at the Fox Theater in Oakland, Geographer played a charming set alongside openers Empire and K.Flay. Formed in 2007 by Michael Deni and based in San Francisco, the headliners were extremely wel...

In one of numerous Noise Pop 2015 offerings this past Tuesday, Thao Nguyen played an intimate acoustic session at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. The night was host to a mixture of local and n...

As one of the early headlining acts for this year's Noise Pop Festival, Flight Facilities transported the crowd to elevated heights last Tuesday at The Regency Ballroom, the second US stop on their Down ...

Though he may not be doing stage dives at Kingface shows anymore, director Scott Crawford is still a devout punk pundit. His recent feature Salad Days: The Birth of Punk Rock in the Nation’s Capital docu...

Now in its 23rd year, San Francisco’s celebrated annual Noise Pop festival returns next week with over a hundred artists at about 50 shows in 18 venues in San Francisco and the East Bay. In addition to live m...