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Ninth annual San Francisco Noise Pop Festival announced
19 January 2001

The ninth annual San Francisco Noise Pop Festival takes place all over SF 27 February through 4 March this year. Confirmed bands include 764-Hero, The Bell Rays, Beulah, Bright Eyes, Creeper Lagoon, Crooked Fingers (featuring Eric Bachman of Archers Of Loaf), Mark Eitzel, The Fastbacks, Girls Against Boys, Grandaddy, Minus 5, Oranger, Pedro the Lion, Spoon, Superchunk, The White Stripes, Young Fresh Fellows, and Zen Guerilla. The festival will announce many, many more bands over the next four weeks.
    Noise Pop SF has grown to the point where for the first time they’ll be scheduling concurrent events. Founder Kevin Arnold said “In the past we’ve been somewhat reluctant to do this... but as the festival has grown in size and styles, it’s made more and more sense. Our goal is to make [the concurrent] shows as different as possible... But I have to admit, I’m going to have a hard time choosing myself!”
    Besides scores of bands, the event will include the second annual Noise Pop Film Festival with music related documentaries, shorts, and features. The Festival’s final day will offer a series of panel discussions. Past panelists have included Stephin Merrit (Magnetic Fields) and Scott Kannberg (Pavement).
    The Noise Pop site has been updated to include RealAudio backstage interviews with last year’s artists including Beulah, I Am Spoonbender, and Oranger. The site also has free, downloadable MP3 audio from more than two dozen bands.
    This year’s festival, acknowledging the desperate situation around the San Francisco Bay Area for musician practice space, has allied itself with the Popular Noise Foundation. The PNF is one of a handful of activist groups seeking to improve the lot of local musicians, including Save Art/The Organized Tenants of Downtown Rehearsal (500 bands that lost their practice space last year) and Save Local Music. Tonight the PNF hosts its second Cover To Cover benefit show, where SF area musicians play each other’s songs. Tonight’s bill at Bottom Of The Hill includes !Tang, Drizzoletto, Kindness, Victor Krummenacher, Paula Murray Trio, The New Dealers, Next Of Kihn, Pansy Division, StuntMonkey, Vegas De Milo, and Noe Venable. | Noise Pop | | Popular Noise Foundation | | Save Art/Organized Tenants of DR | | Save Local Music | | top of page |

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