Ten years ago, San Francisco music fanatic Kevin Arnold had a baby. He conceived a fresh-faced, angelic little rock 'n' roll festival and called it Noise Pop. A decade later, as if to commemorate the ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

From Central Richmond to Nob Hill — with a cameo from Berkeley’s own UC Theatre — San Francisco’s annual Noise Pop Festival brought waves of bands that traversed genres and subcultures, allowing for ...

Here are five shows worth catching at the 2026 Noise Pop Festival, which runs Feb. 19-March 1 at a plethora of venues mostly located in San Francisco. The picks are listed in chronologically order, ...