Tag Archives: Noise Pop 2018
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WHAT A WEEK: RIFF’s Noise Pop in review
Daughters perform at Noise Pop at The Independent in San Francisco on March 3, 2019. Photo: Shawn Robbins. The Bay Area always gets a taste of festival season early with Noise Pop. Last week more than 100 performers of genres ranging from indie rock, metal and hip-hop overtook more…
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WHAT A WEEK: RIFF’s Noise Pop in review
Chasms perform at Starline Social Club in Oakland during Noise Pop on Feb. 23, 2018. Photo: Alessio Neri The Bay Area always gets a taste of festival season early with Noise Pop. Last week more than 100 performers of indie rock, pop and hip-hop overtook more than a dozen…
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Noise Pop PHOTOS: Ty Dolla $ign dumps Trump at the UC Theatre
Photos: Alessio Neri BERKELEY — Ty Dolla $ign brought his “Don’t Judge Me” tour at The UC Theatre on the penultimate night of the 2018 Noise Pop Music and Arts Festival. The Angeleno rapper (real name Tyrone William Griffin Jr.) kicked off his sold-out show with “Wavvy,” “Saved” and “Blasé.” He also performed his…
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Noise Pop REVIEW: Real Estate delivers hypnotizing instrumentals at the Fox
Photos: Chloe Catajan OAKLAND — Under a stark white spotlight, Real Estate keyboardist Matt Kalman kicked off the band’s Oakland Noise Pop show Saturday with the first few notes of the appropriately titled “Saturday,” from 2017 album, In Mind. The Fox Theater was flooded with yellow light as lead…
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Noise Pop REVIEW: Cuco melts hearts at Gray Area
Cuco performs at Gray Area in San Francisco during Noise Pop on Feb. 24, 2018. Nick Gumas/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Cuco delivered a genuine, albeit short performance to a sold-out Noise Pop crowd at the Gray Area in San Francisco Saturday. “I guess I was too blind to see you…
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Noise Pop REVIEW: Tune-Yards shows us that the future is now
Photos: Tune-Yards and Thao and the Get Down Stay Down: Jon Bauer. Sudan Archives: Steve Carlson OAKLAND — We live in the future. Sure, people focus on the fact that we don’t have flying cars, and that our hoverboards neither hover nor are boards, but if someone from the…
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Noise Pop: Bully’s raw emotion strikes fans in the gut at GAMH
Bully performs at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco during Noise Pop on Feb. 23, 2018. Gary Chancer/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Playing even faster than on Bully‘s new album, Losing, singer Alicia Bognanno flew through the opener, “Feel The Same.” With frenetic energy, Bognanno bounced on the stage. The…
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Noise Pop REVIEW: Rostam embraces the darkness on ‘Half-Light’ tour at Slim’s
Photos: Karen Goldman SAN FRANCISCO — Throughout Rostam‘s Noise Pop set at Slim’s Friday, the former Vampire Weekend songwriter made references to to the absence or coming of light. Whether lyrically, such as on the title track of his 2017 solo album, Half-Light—”Baby, all the lights came up”—or on…
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Noise Pop REVIEW: Japanese Breakfast and Jay Som a great match onstage
Photos: Paige K. Parsons SAN FRANCISCO — With some artists, what you hear on the album is what you hear in concert. It’s either because their songs are written to be played live or because it just works for both; there’s little difference between the two. Others, however, rearrange…
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Noise Pop REVIEW: Caleborate turns Cornerstone show into family affair
Photos: Alessio Neri BERKELEY – After an hour-long wait, Caleborate took the Cornerstone stage to an audience of fans, friends and family on Thursday. The Sacramento native kicked off his Noise Pop set with “Caught Up,” the opening track of his 2017 album, Real Person. As an artist who wears…