Sizzle Cass McCombs smirked and threw sidelong glances at his three-piece band all night as a means of communication, but the audience was too…
What happened to the Noise Pop festival in 2013? This is the question of the season among music nerds and fans. Last year, for…
Photos by Amanda Lopez. Noise Pop has prevailed. This year, as the San Francisco festival's 20th annual week of indie music concerts gets under…
Jordan Kurland partnered with Noise Pop founder Kevin Arnold in the festival's sixth year. Here, he looks back on some of his favorite Noise…
Now it's a festival name, an almost-genre, and, for some, even a mantra — but back in 1993, “noise pop” was just a term…
How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.
Sitting shoulder to shoulder with her 28-piece Magik*Magik Orchestra last month, composer, vocalist, and musician Minna Choi performed a set of 10 grandiose songs…
