Noise Pop 2016

NOISE POP FESTIVAL 2015 BRINGS 20,000 ATTENDEES TO 70+ MUSIC, FILM AND ART EVENTS FOR

10-DAY CELEBRATION

2016 DATES ANNOUNCED: FEBRUARY 19­ -- 26

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March 6, 2015) - The 23rd annual Noise Pop Festival is excited to announce their 2015 event, which came to a close March 1st, drew packed crowds of thousands of Bay Area music fans to ten days of curated, memorable performances. This year, music and film badges sold out a week prior to the Festival, and over 90% of the shows featured acts playing to sold-out crowds. Over 20,000 people attended the Festival with over 160 music artists and over 70 events, including concerts, film screening events, and art shows. The 2016 Festival is set for February 19--­­26, and will take place at select Bay Area venues.

The Noise Pop 2015 musical highlights included Ben Gibbard joined by Mark Kozelek for an intimate acoustic performance at Noise Pop headquarters at Swedish American Hall, Geographer finishing his set off at the Fox Theater with "Kites" and a stage dive, two nights of Caribou at the Fillmore, a packed house for Best Coast at Bottom of the Hill, Dan Deacon baptizing the crowd in sound at The Chapel, and Flight Facilities at The Regency Ballroom.

Film screening events included Ollies, Dollies & Drones: A Survey of Spike Jonze's Skate Videoswith legendary skaters in attendance, a live scoring of Metropolis by Chrome Canyon, and the west coast premieres of Salad Days: The Birth of Punk in the Nation's Capital and Hardcore Devo Live, which included a Q&A with Devo's Jerry Casale.

Noise Pop HQ at Swedish American Hall welcomed intimate and acoustic performances from Gibbard, Jim Adkins (of Jimmy Eat World), Thao Nguyen (of Thao & The Get Down Stay Down) the Orchid Tapes Showcase with Foxes in Fiction and Owen Pallet, Langhorne Slim, Grouper, and James Vincent McMorrow. The Song Exploder podcast brought two special live recordings to Noise Pop HQ with Toro y Moi and How To Dress Well. And the National Poster Retrospecticus came with over 350 hand-printed posters from 100 different artists across the country.

You can check out images from this year's Festival at http://noisepop.com/2015/gallery/.  And to find more about Noise Pop, visit www.NoisePop.com/2015. Stay tuned for announcements to come for the 2016 Festival.

Festival artwork was created by artist Steven Harrington.