"Whereas most San Francisco music festivals like Outside Lands and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass plant themselves at Golden Gate Park for a weekend, Noise Pop Festival takes a much more sprawling approach, activating over a dozen venues throughout the city with an emphasis on legacy indie acts and trending upstarts. This year's festival is scheduled to run from Feb. 19 to March 1."
"Other hometown favorites include SF jangle poppers Chime School and Christopher Owens, former frontman of Girls, the mid-aughts stars of SF's garage rock scene. More standouts include heart-on-sleeve indie rockers DeVotchKa, veteran guitarist Phil Manzanera (known for his work with Roxy Music and Brian Eno), indie stalwarts The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and "anti-folk" songwriter and comic artist Jeffrey Lewis."
Noise Pop Festival is in its 33rd year and runs from Feb. 19 to March 1, activating more than a dozen venues across San Francisco. The event emphasizes legacy indie acts alongside emerging experimental artists and up-and-coming local talent. The first phase of the lineup features Tortoise, Clipping (fronted by Oakland's Daveed Diggs), Beats Antique, and Shannon Shaw. Additional hometown favorites include Chime School and Christopher Owens, while other standouts listed are DeVotchKa, Phil Manzanera, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Jeffrey Lewis. The festival is partnering with KEXP-FM to offer local bands a chance to record a live studio set.
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