Noise Pop, Music and Arts Festival is turning 30 this year, to celebrate it they brought over 160 shows to San Francisco and the East Bay. Here’s a few of our favorite gigs happening from today until the end of the Festival on Sunday, February 26. Thursday Feb 23: Bob

I got here last night and walked around. SF is a remarkably evocative and unchanging city. I’m sure if you live here it has changed a lot, but from my cursory grasp it feels just like when I lived here.

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Link Link Circus, a new “theatricalized lecture” by the legendary Isabella Rossellini, is a comedic and scientifically informed look at the links between humans and animals, via Darwin’s theory of evolution. The show is illustrated with Rossellini’s short comic films, home movies, and animation. Rossellini transforms herself into Aristotle, Descartes,

The Edwardian Ball is an elegant, whirlwind, turn-of-the-century festival of music, theatre, dance, fashion, circus, art, gaming, ballroom dance, vending, and the art and stories of Edward Gorey. A Gorey Halloween – The Edwardian Ball 20th Anniversary Begins, on October 23rd at The Chapel, San Francisco. Featuring, from the Edwardian stage, your founding hosts Rosin Coven with Tumbledown House and Earles of Newtown, together

Tuesday night rock shows can be exhausting to attend, even if it’s one of your favorite bands. Vundabar, an indie rock band who drove from their Boston home, through all the snow and blizzards the country has thrown at them over the last few weeks, have actually played in SF

San Francisco solemnly swears to celebrate David Bowie’s birthday/deathday until ashes turn to ashes. All the young dudes, China girls, and young Americans don their David Bowie cosplay and show their modern love at the David Bowie Birthday Bash, this year at The Chapel for its eighth annual performance. We

Celebrating the 45th anniversary of Grammy winning dub & reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry’s landmark 1973 album “Blackboard Jungle Dub”, the world’s first dub album, Scratch, now 82 years young, will embark on a tour across North America performing his studio masterpiece live in its entirety for the first time,

The Voidz are an American rock band formed by Julian Casablancas of The Strokes. The band consists of Casablancas as well as Jeramy “Beardo” Gritter, Amir Yaghmai, Jacob “Jake” Bercovici, Alex Carapetis, Jeff Kite.