
Can you believe Noise Pop has been going on for 20 years? Neither can anybody in San Francisco. According to the festival's program, the whole thing started out as a “random one-off show put together for an open night in the slow touring month of January 1993.” Years later, the festival has evolved into a citywide event that's now a Bay Area tradition. It nurtures the area's creative spirit, and what better locale than San Francisco, a city that has always encouraged people to do their own thing and be themselves. Noise Pop champions those ideals and keeps it interesting. [...]