Noise Pop Festival 2025. Bay Area concert promoter Noise Pop on Tuesday announced the return of its flagship music festival, which will include performances at various music clubs and galleries from Feb. 20 to March 2. Limited discounted early bird tickets are already on sale at the festival’s website.…

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony perform at Curran Theatre in San Francisco during Noise Pop Festival on March 1, 2024. Mariana García/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — After 30 years, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony still have it. Their show at BroadwaySF’s Curran Theater to close out Noise Pop Festival was a crowd pleaser. The four Bone…

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony perform during halftime of a game between the Denver Broncos and Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2024. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Noise Pop on Tuesday announced the final slate of acts performing at the annual music festival, including headliner…

Noise Pop Festival. The producers of Noise Pop Festival on Wednesday announced the dates for its weeklong, 31st annual event. The independent music, film and art celebration will return on Feb. 22 and run through through March 3, 2024. A limited number of early bird festival badges are now…

Photos: Alessio Neri OAKLAND — Around the time she began writing her own songs for the first time, Melbourne singer-songwriter Carla dal Forno lived in a house that was supposedly haunted. Her music reflects that haunted feeling, and she put that on full display at her Noise Pop show at the…

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…

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…

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…

Photos: Karen Goldman SAN FRANCISCO — No one Enter Shikari song is easy to describe; there are no math rock tunes, dance rock numbers, EDM bangers, punk scorchers or thrash screamers. That’s because the London quartet typically includes three or more genres in each one, with jazz, drum and…

Photos: Alessio Neri SAN FRANCISCO — Add Bruno Major to the long list of English crooners who can sing American soul with the best of them. Making his San Francisco debut at a sold-out Noise Pop show at The Chapel, Major came took the soul sensibilities of Sam Smith,…