Pitchfork

Starting this evening and continuing through Sunday, March 2, noise, pop, and pretty much everything betwixt the two shall meet in the City by the Bay, as the 16th annual Noise Pop festival takes over San Francisco. Music, film, art, and something called a "stellastarr*" will line the streets of the fair city, giving the rest of the nation yet another reason to be jealous of San Franciscans.

Since the early run-down we gave back in November with the Mountain Goats, the Magnetic Fields, Cursive, and the Gutter Twins, there has been a ton of new additions to the Noise Pop lineup. Highlights include the Walkmen, A Place to Bury Strangers, She & Him, Holy Fuck, British Sea Power, Helio Sequence, Blitzen Trapper, Quasi, Bodies of Water, the Rosebuds, Tilly and the Wall, the Little Ones, Trackademicks, Fleet Foxes, the Dodos, Throw Me the Statue, Panther, Mika Miko, the Broken West, Kelley Stoltz, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Monotonix, Grand Archives, Film School, MSTRKRFT, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Two Gallants' Adam Stephens, Amplive, those Human Giant characters, and, yes, stellastarr*.

The film portion of the festival includes the Germs biopic What We Do Is Secret, the documentaries Wesley Willis's Joyrides and You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984. There is also an art show featuring Autumn de Wilde's photographs of Elliott Smith, a design/craft fair, and panels and mentoring sessions.

The festivities take place at a plethora of San Francisco locales over the next several days. For a detailed schedule, hit up the Noise Pop website, or just wander around San Francisco aimlessly until you hear the sweet, sweet music.