San Francisco is My Home

29
Jan

Noise Pop 2008

Author: kris, Category: Events, Music, News

Set your watches for the countdown…Noise Pop approaches again.

Noise Pop, as if you didn’t know, is an annual festival of music, but not the kind with folk songs from around the world and hot dogs on a stick. No, this music is cool. It happens in the best local venues, and collects the most exciting indie artists around. Previous years’ performers have included harp-playing songstress Joanna Newsom, local favored Jeff Buckley sound-alike Devendra Banhart and throaty sister act Cocorosie. (They get other, bigger acts — Modest Mouse, The White Stripes — but these are the ones I liked, and who’s writing this post, anyway?)

A few of this year’s big names include The Magnetic Fields and Quasi. You can also catch The Mayfire, whom I got to review in my alternate life as a music critic. For the complete list of bands, click here.

Perhaps most interesting to me is the show of photographs of Elliott Smith, my most favorite of musicians, now tragically deceased. If this is your thing as well, click here for more info.

Noise Pop will occur in your eardrums from February 26 through March 2. Check the website for details on venues, times and tickets.