Noise Pop Festival Announces Alternative Programming w/ Film, Art & "Sleep Concert", Plus Local Music Artist Spotlight w/ 70+ Bay Area Acts

NOISE POP FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMMING,

INCLUDING FILM EVENTS, ART OPENINGS, AND ROBERT RICH’S SLEEP CONCERT

Local Talent Spotlight with Bay Area Artists Tune-Yards, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Geographer, Jay Som, Caleborate, and More

Plus, Official Satellite Shows Bring the Music of Noise Pop to San Jose, Santa Cruz, and Sacramento

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 23, 2018) – Noise Pop Festival, the San Francisco Bay Area’s premiere indie music and arts festival, has announced their lineup of alternative programming consisting of film screening events, happy hours, art openings, and Robert Rich’s Sleep Concert in collaboration with Flow Kana, branded distributor of craft sun grown cannabis. In addition to live music performances from over 100 artists at more than 25 venues across the Bay Area, these special events will take place during the festival’s 26th year February 19–25, 2018.

On February 20, Noise Pop will present Orson Welles’ “Too Much Johnson” with live soundtrack by guitarist William Tyler (of Lambchop and Silver Jews) at Alamo Drafthouse. Additionally, five-piece LA-based band NILBOG, which features some of the city’s most dedicated film score lovers, including former/current members of Clipping, Thee Oh Sees, Monsturo, Captain Ahab and Anavan, will recreate some of the most beloved and fetishized horror movie themes of the past few decades at Rickshaw Stop on February 25. Festival attendees can also enjoy a film screening of ODDSAC, a visual album by Animal Collective and Danny Perez, on February 22 at Alamo Drafthouse.

Noise Pop is also excited to bring a special event to the festival for the first time, Robert Rich’s Sleep Concert in collaboration with Flow Kana, on February 23 at Gray Area. Sure to be one of the most unique and rare offerings this year, ambient musician Robert Rich will play music from 11:30 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. as attendees relax in the room and drift off to sleep. And even though Rich is from the Bay Area, this will be the first time in recent years he’s performed a Sleep Concert for local audiences. Individual tickets to this event will go on sale this Friday, January 26 at 10 a.m. PT.

The Benders Happy Hours will return this year and will bring free performances and merriment Wednesday, February 21 through Saturday, February 24, each with a different presenter (Sea Witch Productions, DoTheBay, Text Me Records, and Benders) and featuring artists like Friendless Summer, Bear Call, Moon Daze, COKE, Bruh From Last Night, and more.

This year’s art openings are free to attend and include a showing of the Rock art of Emek at Haight Street Art Center on February 24 from 6 to 9 p.m. and the Noise Pop Photo Retrospective at The Royale February 20 at 6 p.m. For more details on these events and performers, visit noisepopfest.com.

The festival is also proud to highlight this year’s amazing slate of Bay Area talent. In addition to artists from outside the region, such as Built to Spill (performing Keep It Like A Secret), Ty Dolla $ign, Real Estate, Madlib (dj set), Jay Electronica, and Parquet Courts, 2018 performers from the Bay Area include Tune-Yards, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Geographer, Jay Som, Caleborate, and many more. See below for a full list of locally based performers on the lineup. And please note that artists are subject to change.

Noise Pop Festival 2018 Bay Area Artist Spotlight

Tune-Yards
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Toro Y Moi (DJ Set)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Geographer
Jay Som
Caleborate
The Fresh & Onlys
Dick Stusso
Covet
Meg Baird
Mom Jeans.
Field Medic
Still Woozy
Emily Afton
Andrew St. James
The World
Pardoner
Flesh World
Club Night
The Y Axes
SOAR
Lia Ices
Boy Scouts
The Total Bettys
DJ Aaron Axelsen
Rose Droll
Mall Walk
Sweet Chariot
High Sunn
Cocktails
Long Knives
Dagmar
Cash Campain
Josiah Johnson
Sun Valley Gun Club
Ghost & the City
The Band Ice Cream
Tino Drima
Blue Oaks
Indy Nyles
Grace Sings Sludge
Derek Ted
Preening
Remember Karen
The Genie
HUMID
awakebutstillinbed
Banzai Cliff
Blue Oaks
False Priest
Chuck Johnson
Screaming
Lapel
Zelma Stone
Love Jerks
Gray Tolhurst
Magic Magic Roses
Half Stack
Azuah
Well
Outer Embassy
Fake Your Own Death
Mozhgan
BLXCK
Lisa Azzolino
Topographies
Host Bodies
Aish
Touchless
Agouti

In the festival's 26th year, Noise Pop will also bring for the first time Official Satellite Shows to venues in San Jose, Santa Cruz, and Sacramento to coincide with the festival events in the Bay Area. These performances — including Ty Dolla $ign, Shabazz Palaces, Enter Shikari, Japanese Breakfast, Caleborate and more — bring the spirit of the indie music and arts festival to new audiences in these surrounding cities. For more info on satellite shows visit https://satellite.noisepopfest.com/. 

Noise Pop Festival Satellite Shows

2/20: Shabazz Palaces at The Ritz in San Jose, CA

2/20: Enter Shikari, Single Mothers, Milk Teeth at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA

2/21: Japanese Breakfast & Jay Som w/ Hand Habits at The Ritz in San Jose, CA

2/23: Palehound, Weaves at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA

2/24: Jeff Rosenstock, Lemuria, ROAR at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA

2/25: Ty Dolla $ign at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA

2/28: Caleborate at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA

3/1: Caleborate at Holy Diver in Sacramento, CA

Festival badges are now on sale for $205, and along with individual tickets for all announced performances, are on sale now at noisepopfest.com. All badges grant access to all general admission (non-seated) music concerts, badge-only happy hours, NPHQ and some very special events soon to be announced. Badges are non-transferrable with age restrictions for some events, and badge-holders must arrive within 60 minutes after club door times to guarantee entrance. New benefits for badge-holders this year include additional access to all of the film screenings and film-related events throughout the weeklong festival. Also new to Noise Pop Festival, badge-holders will now have the option of a specialized waitlist-service to help them enter shows.

A limited number of Super Fan badges are still available for $399. Super Fan badge-holders receive guaranteed entry to all festival events, a special merch package, complimentary drink tickets to select events, and a personal Noise Pop concierge available for assistance throughout the weeklong festival. For any badge related questions, contact Noise Pop directly at badge@noisepop.com.

This year’s official festival artwork was created by ChiChiLand.

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