Ty Dolla $ign, Shabazz Palaces, Toro Y Moi and a handful of others have been announced as the final acts performing at the 26th annual Noise Pop Music Festival, between Feb. 19 and 25. The new additions include Madlib—who, like Toro Y Moi will perform a DJ set—Jay Electronica, Built to Spill’s Doug…

Shamir, Built to Spill, Waxahatchee, Dengue Fever and other acts have been added to the lineup of the 2018 Noise Pop Festival, which will take place between Feb. 19 and 25. Other additions to the 26th annual festival include Inara George of The Bird and the Bee, The Coathangers, Alex Cameron and The Hotelier. They will join previously…

The producers of the annual Noise Pop Music Festival have announced the initial lineup for the 26th incarnation of the event. Tune-Yards, Rostam, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Parquet Courts and a live collaboration between San Fermin and the Bay Area’s Magik*Magik Orchestra will get top billing at concerts held between…

Photos: Gary Chancer SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands packed into the Mission Saturday to see live music, purchase arts and crafts from local vendors and eat at numerous local food vendors during the fifth annual 20th Street Block Party. The event, sponsored by Noise Pop and benefiting the nonprofit Mission Language…

Noise Pop, the promoter of 20th Street Block Party, has announced the return of the annual San Francisco street fair and music festival. The event will return to the Mission on Aug. 19 and proceeds will once again benefit the Mission Language and Vocational School. Performers and vendors have yet…

RIFF writers and photographers crashed 20-plus shows at this year’s Noise Pop Music Festival, spending many late nights writing reviews so you would have them by the following morning. A couple of the shows were duds, but most were terrific (thanks for asking). Now that the 25th incarnation of…

Photos: Alessio Neri SAN FRANCISCO — “Sorry, we’re not exciting. You knew what you were getting.” Ben Cooper, the prominent speaker and member of Radical Face, was comically candid as he settled in on stage at The Fillmore Sunday. Cooper’s self-deprecating humor aside, he and the four supporting bandmates put on…

Photos: Paige K. Parsons SAN FRANCISCO — Two-thirds of the way through Adia Victoria‘s set at Bottom of the Hill Saturday, the South Carolina-raised, Nashville-based singer-songwriter busted out a song sugarcoated in French. Victoria’s genre was already not easy to pinpoint–a cross between garage rock and scuzzy, reverb-drenched soul–but, after she…

Photos: Alessio Neri SAN FRANCISCO — The Radio Dept.‘s set of dream pop tunes at the Independent Saturday felt polished around the edges, but the band quickly fell flat, losing its audience, failing to gain any momentum and in the end, seemingly not even trying to make any concerted effort to improve.…

Photos: Diana Cordero SAN FRANCISCO — The Frights came out swinging from the get-go and refused to slow down for the entirety of the San Diego surf-punk quartet’s Noise Pop set at The Chapel Saturday. The band kicked off its set with “You’re Going to Hate This,” setting the tone for what turned into…