LIVE, IN PHOTOS: Noise Pop 2018

In its twenty-sixth year, San Francisco’s week-long music and arts festival is louder now than it’s ever been.
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LIVE, IN PHOTOS: Noise Pop 2018

In its twenty-sixth year, San Francisco’s week-long music and arts festival is louder now than it’s ever been.

Words: FLOOD Staff

photos by Adrian Santos

March 01, 2018

Tei Shi

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The Los Angeles Issue

With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more. 

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Since it wrapped up last weekend, we’re already looking back on Noise Pop—the Bay Area’s ultimate build-your-own music festival, spanning seven days and fifteen venues between San Francisco and Oakland—with satisfaction, nostalgia, and, of course, a bit of contemplating an alternative reality in which we totally overhauled our schedules.

For those who missed Tei Shi, Japanese Breakfast, No Age, The Coathangers, and other stellar performers, the best we can offer is the live experience in photos, which you’ll probably want to factor into your scheduling rituals next year.

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