The Noise Pop Festival is San Francisco’s favorite indie music, arts and film festival. Now in its 20th year, Noise Pop has brought early exposure to many emerging artists in the Bay Area and beyond, many of whom have gone on to widespread acclaim. Some notable acts who have played Noise Pop include the White Stripes, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Bright Eyes, Best Coast, Jeff Tweedy, The Dodos, Girls and Antony and The Johnsons. The festival has also featured musical legends such as Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band, Bob Mould, Yo La Tengo, X, Frank Black (of the Pixies), Sleater-Kinney and Television. In addition, the festival boasts a film series that explores the intersection of music and art; Pop-n-Shop, a local designer fair; Culture Club, an interactive workshop exploring DIY culture; Art Gallery Shows; Happy Hours and much more.
1993
5 bands / 1 venue / 1 Day / Website
Poster by Kevin Arnold
Bitchcraft
Carlos!
Corduroy
The Fastbacks
Overwhelming Colorfast
1994
13 bands / 1 venue / 3 Days / Website
Poster by Mike Davis
Bitchcraft
Bracket
Cara de Nada
Carlos!
Corduroy
The Fastbacks
Four Point Star
Hazel
The Meices
Overwhelming Colorfast
The Red Aunts
The Supersuckers
Tina Age 13
1995
21 bands / 3 venues / 4 Days / Website
Poster by Frank Kozik
Alcohol Funnycar
Baby Carrot
Bracket
Carlos!
Corduroy
Creeper Lagoon
Engine
Fastbacks
Flake
Flop
Fluf
Inch
Jawbreaker
Knapsack
Meices
Overwhelming Colorfast
Package
P.E.E.
Slider
Snowmen
Uncle Joe's Big Ole Driver
1996
26 bands / 4 venues / 4 Days / Website
Poster by Frank Kozik
Actionslacks
American Sensei
Bracket
Carlos!
Chixdiggit
Clarke Nova
Colorfast
Creeper Lagoon
Farflung
Fastbacks
Groovie Ghoulies
Hugh
Magic Paper
Maxiwagon
Mieces
No Knife
Peppercorn
Red 5
Skiploader
Skyscraper
Spackle
Supersuckers
Tenderloin
30.06
Tilt
Trackstar
1997
35 bands / venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Alan Forbes
Actionslacks
Archers of Loaf
Bracket
Carlos!
Chixdiggit
Crash & Brittany
Creeper Lagoon
Death Star
Decal
Engine 88
Jeremy Enigk
Fastbacks
The Foster Brooks
Fluf
Frogpond
Go Pound Salt
Hazel
Henry's Dress
Knapsack
Limp
Me First
Meices
Model Rockets
The Moons
Overwhelming Colorfast
Papas Fritas
P.E.E.
Peechees
Peppercorn
Red Red Meat
Retriever
Rock Band #47
Snowmen
Spoon
Trackstar
1998
37 bands / 4 venues / 5 Days / Website
Poster by Ward Sutton
Actionslacks
The Androgynauts
The Apples in Stereo
Baby Carrot
Beulah
Carlos!
Chixdiggit
Creeper Lagoon
crumb
The Fastbacks
The Flaming Lips
Boombox Experiment #4
Flavius
The Foster Brooks
Fuck
Frank Black and The Catholics
Galaga
Imperial Teen
Harvey Danger
John Doe Thing
The Keeners
Kingdom First
Knapsack
Lunchbox
MK Ultra
Modest Mouse
Oranger
P.E.E.
Peppercorn
Pure Joy
7th Betty
16 Deluxe
Red Planet
Scenic Vermont
Slower Than
Trackstar
Verbow
Warm Wires
1999
35 bands / 4 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Chris Martin
Aisler's Set
Alien Crime Syndicate
Beulah
Bitesize
Bracket
Carlos!
Creeper Lagoon
Crumb
Dealership
Death Cab for Cutie
Elevator Drops
Fastbacks
Fiver
Gardener
Glasstown
Grandaddy
Guided by Voices
I am Spoonbender
Imperial Teen
Jimmy Eat World
Kingdom First
Lunchbox
Magnolia Thunderfinger
Me First
Murder City Devils
Oranger
Push Kings
Red Stars Theory
Rocket from the Crypt
Rodriguez
Sensefield
764-HERO
Sixteen Deluxe
Snowmen
Trackstar
2000
Posters by Shepard Fairey
San Francisco
41 bands / 5 venues / 6 Days / Website
The Aislers Set
Alien Crime Syndicate
Beulah
Franklin Bruno
Carlos!
Chixdiggit
Crooked Fingers
Dealership
Death Cab For Cutie
Earlimart
Electro Group
Fastbacks
Fiver
Fluke Starbucker
For Stars
The Get-Go
Groovie Ghoulies
I Am Spoonbender
Jim Yoshii Pile Up
Jonah's Onelinedrawing
Limp
Loud Family
The Magnetic Fields
Man Or Astro-man?
Mates of State
Me First
Bob Mould
Mountain Goats
Nar
Oranger
Peter Parker
Rumah Sakit
Secadora
Shimmer Kids
Kyle Statham (of Fuck)
Sunless Day
Sunset Valley
Thingy
Track Star
John Vanderslice
X
CHICAGO
51 bands / 6 venues / 6 Days / Website
The Aluminum Group
Anderson/Kowald/Drake
The Apples in Stereo
The Bangs
Blonde Redhead
Brokeback
John Butcher
Califone
Terry Callier
Chicago Underground Quartet
Devil in a Woodpile
John Doe
Floridis/Vandermark/Jaume
Fred Lonberg-Holm
nods at Fred Katz
Cor Fuhler & Chicago Friends
Rebecca Gates
The Gossips
Grandaddy
Robbie Hardkiss
Boris Sinclair Hauf
Andre Jaume
Ken Vandermark's
Sound in Action Trio
Kowald/Sommer/Floridis
Lady D
For Soul Only
Jon Langford
Ernst Long
LOOS
Mike Ireland and Holler
Chris Mills
Modest Mouse
Pete Nathan
Colin Newman
OK Go
Oranger
Jim O'Rourke
The Original Harmony Creek Dippers
Carlos Ortega
Pan•American
Paul Wertico Trio
Sam Prekop
Seam
Silo
Sleater-Kinney
Gunter "Baby" Sommer
Tobias
Jeff Tweedy
Unwound
Verbow
Versus
Wire
2001
Posters by Evan Hecox
SAN FRANCISCO
67 bands / 6 venues / 6 Days / Website
Actionslacks
The Aislers Set
Alien Crime Syndicate
Azure Ray
BellRays
Beulah
Blonde Redhead
Bright Eyes
Call and Response
Carlos!
The Church Steps
The Court and Spark
Creeper Lagoon
Crooked Fingers
DJ Me DJ You
Droo Church
Mark Eitzel
Fastbacks
Fiver
From Bubblegum To Sky
Girls Against Boys
Holly Golightly
The Good Life
Henry Miller Sextet
The Icarus Line
Jet Black Crayon
Jim Yoshii Pileup
Jimmy Eat World
Jolly
Damien Jurardo
Kingsbury Manx
Lost Kids
Cole Marquis
Mates of State
Me First
Minus 5
Money Mark
No Forcefield
Aaron Nudelman
Onelinedrawing
The Orange Peels
Oranger
The Papercuts
The Pattern
Pedro the Lion
Persephone's Bees
Pinq
Pleasure Forever
Pocket For Corduroy
Preston School of Industry
Saint Andre
764-HERO
7th Standard
The Shins
Skiptrace
Spoon
Starflyer 59
The Stratford 4
Matt Suggs
Sunday's Best
Superchunk
Tarentel
Trackstar
John Vanderslice
Vue
White Stripes
Young Fresh Fellows
Zen Guerrilla
CHICAGO
50 bands / 8 venues / 5 Days / Website
Fred Anderson
Anti-Pop Consortium
Atombombpocketknife
Autechre
Robert Barry
The BellRays
The Bevis Frond
Bobby Stratosphere
and the Bloodclub
Busy Signals
Casolando
The Chamber Strings
Cibo Matto
Couch
Creeper Lagoon
Cursive
Damon & Naomi
with Kurihara of Ghost
The Dismemberment Plan
Kevin Drumm
8 Bold Souls
Eleventh Dream Day
Enon
Evil Beaver
Fruitbats
Goldfrapp
Guided By Voices
Jah Wobble & Deep Space
The Jimmy Smith Group
K-Rad
L'altra
Mike Ladd
Mat Maneri
Mac McCaughan
Neko Case & Joey Burns
90 Day Men
Pinebender
Pinetop Seven
Preston School of Industry
Pulseprogramming
Rob Hall & Russell Haswell
Songs: Ohia
Stars
Suicide
Sur La Mer
Television
Tenki
Ken Vandermark
DJ Warp
Wagon Christ
We Ragazzi
Yo La Tengo
2002
88 bands / 7 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Bill Swanson
Actionslacks
Adult
The Aislers Set
Alaska
Aveo
Azure Ray
Baby Carrot
Beachwood Sparks
Big Star
Buellton
Built Like Alaska
Call And Response
Chantigs
Court and Spark
Daniel Johnston
David Dondero
Dealership
Death Cab for Cutie
The Dirtbombs
The Dismemberment Plan
The Donnas
Ee
Electro Group
Elephone
The Evening
The Extra Glenns
The Faint
The Fastbacks
Fields of Gaffney
Film School
Fiver
Fluf
Folk Implosion
For Stars
Gadget
Ghost Orchids
The Go
The Good Life
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Guided By Voices
Hot Wire Titans
I Am Spoonbender
Imperial Teen
Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy)
John Doe & Neko Case
KaitO
The Lilys
Lois Maffeo & Greg Moore
The Long Winters
Lunchbox
M. Ward
The Makers
Matt Pond PA
Mellow Drunk
Migala
Modest Mouse
Moldy Peaches
The Moore Bros
The New Pornographers
Oranger
Overwhelming Colorfast
The Pattern
Paula Frazer
Pedro The Lion
Persephone's Bees
Pinq
Pleasure Forever
+/-
The Posies
Preston School of Industry
Richmond Sluts
Rilo Kiley
Sara Shannon
Seldom
The Sermon
Stratford 4
The Substitutes
Trackstar
20 Minute Loop
The Velvet Teen
Versus
Vervein
Virgil Shaw
Visqueen
Vue
Whysall Lane
Xiu Xiu
Zmrzlina
2003
102 bands / 9 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Elephonics
DJ Aaron Axelsen
Alaska
DJ Alicia (Aisler Set)
Ball Point Birds
Hudson Bell
The Blood Brothers
DJ Roddy Bottum
Built Like Alaska
The Burly Earls
Calexico
Camper Van Beethoven
Carlos Foster (For Stars)
& The Meeting Places
Cat Power
Ceramic Isles
Citizens Here and Abroad
Communique
Court and Spark
The Coyotes
Creeper Lagoon
Crime in Choir
Crooked Fingers
The Cuts
Dead Moon
Dealership
The Dirtbombs
Mia Doi Todd
The Donnas
Downway
Nicolai Dunger
The Dying Californian
Eleventeen
Erase Errata
Fast Forward
Fields of Gaffney
Film School
Firecracker
Fiver
Fojimoto
Folk Implosion
Nik Freitas
The Go
Har Mar Superstar
Hockey Night
Peggy Honeywell
Hot Rod Circuit
Ill Lit
Imperial Teen
Jackpipe Social Club
Jealous Sound
DJ Jonny Deeper
Junior Panthers
DJ Kid Frostbite
Kirby Grips
DJ Sharky Laguana
The Librarians
The Locust
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Milemarker
Minus The Bear
Moore Bros.
Mountain Goats
Joanna Newsom
No Knife
OK Go
On The Speakers
Onelinedrawing
Panty Lions
Patrick Park
The Pattern
Plain High Drifters
The Pleased
Preston School of Industry
The Rattlesnakes
Record Player Tommy Guerrero
Replicator
Rooney
Roots of Orchis
Rum Diary
The Sermon
The Small Hours
(smog)
Starflyer 59
Kelley Stoltz
Stratford 4
The Suicide Girls
Swords Project
DJ Tangbeer
Time Spent Driving
Tom Hayman
Tortoise
Trackstar
Trans Am
Truxton
Tsunami Bomb
Tussle
Under a Dying Sun
DJ John Vanderslice
The Velvet Teen
Von Bondies
M. Ward
Western
Whysall Lane
2004
139 bands / 12 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by The Small Stakes
Actionslacks
The Advantage
The Aluminum Group
Alias
All Bets Off
All Night Radio
Aluminum Group
American Music Club
Audio Learning Center
Devendra Banhart
Hudson Bell
The Bellyachers
Black Cat Music
Bonfire Madigan
The Bother
British Sea Power
Built Like Alaska
Call & Response
Canoe
Cex
Citizens Here & Abroad
The Clarke Nova
Coachwhips
Cocorosie
Comets On Fire
Communique
The Court & Spark
The Cuts
Dead Meadow
Dead Science
The Decemberists
The Decoration
The Demons
Denali
The Detroit Cobras
Dillinger Escape Plan
Dios
David Dondero
Dying Californian
Earlimart
The Elected
Elephone
Ester Drang
The Evening
The Everyothers
Fayvor Love
50 Foot Wave
Film School
Fivehead
400 Blows
Sage Francis
Gary Young's Hospital
Grand Buffet
Heavenly States
Henry Miller Sextet
The Herms
Jolie Holland
Holy Kiss
Hospital
I Am Spoonbender
Irving
Jesse Sykes
& the Sweet Hereafter
Frank Jordan
KaitO
Knife & Fork
Kung Fu USA
Laguardia
The Locust
Loose In The Wild
Loquat
Low
Low Flying Owls
MacLethal
Midnight Movies
The Minders
The Monolith
Nedelle & Tom
Neko Case & Friends
Joanna Newsom
On The Speakers
Oranger
The Panty spanons
Papa M
Paradise Island
Pedro The Lion
The Peels
Persephone's Bees
Pidgeon
Plan B
+/-
Polar Eyes
Preston School Of Industry
The Proles
Pure Joy
Quails
The Red Thread
Restiform Bodies
Rilo Kiley
Rock & Roll Adventure Kids
DJ Ursula Rodriguez
Rogue Wave
Rum Diary
Salem Lights
Sanford Arms
The Scramblers
Seksu Roba
Sgt. Major
Shoehouse
Six Organs Of Admittance
The Sleaves
The Starlight Desperation
DJ Ben Steidel
The Stills
Kelley Stoltz
Stratford 4
Super Furry Animals
The Swords Project
Timonium
Tippy Canoe
Trachtenburg Family
Slideshow Players
Truxton
Tussle
28th Day
Two Gallants
The Tyde
The Unicorns
United State Of Electronica
John Vanderslice
The Velvet Teen
Vetiver
Visqueen
Vue
The Washdown
Why?
Willpower
Willy Mason
Wrangler Brutes
The Wrens
Your Enemies Friends
2005
105 bands / 10 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Lil Tuffy
Keren Ann
Aqueduct
Hudson Bell
Big D & The Kid's Table
Built Like Alaska
Chow Nasty
The Comas
Comets on Fire
Communiqué
Conspiracy Of Beards
Amy Cooper
Damon + Naomi
Devil Makes Three
Devotchka
Ditty Bops
David Dondero
Nicolai Dunger
Earlimart
The Ebb and Flow
Enorchestra
Erase Errata
Every Move A Picture
Fayvor Love
Film School
The Flying Luttenbachers
Nik Freitas
From Bubblegum to Sky
The Fucking Champs
Inara George
Giant Drag
A Girl Called Eddy
Golden Republic
Heavenly States
Helio Sequence
Henry Miller Sextet
The Herms
High On Fire
Micah P. Hinson
Toshio Hirano
The Hold Steady
Hospitals
Hot Hot Heat
Impossible Shapes
Irving
The Joggers
Frank Jordan
Knife and Fork
Kylesa
Jens Lekman
Les Georges Lenigrad
Louis XIV
The Lovemakers
The Mall
Mates Of State
Minipop
Mission Of Burma
Bob Mould
Alexi Murdoch
Nada Surf
Nedelle
Joanna Newsom
No Doctors
Drew O'Doherty
Okay
Our Lady of the Highway
Papercuts
Parchman Farm
The Peels
The Phenomenauts
Pidgeon
The Polyphonic Spree
Portastatic
Postcoitus
Residual Echoes
Ringside
River City Rebels
Robbers on High Street
Rogue Wave
Roots of Orchis
The Ruby Doe
Say Bok Gwai
Bettie Serveert
Smoosh
Howie Statland of NYCSmoke
Still Flyin'
Kelley Stoltz
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Teenage Harlets
Telephonejimjesus
The Thermals
Amon Tobin
Trainwreck Riders
Tussle
20 Minute Loop
Two Gallants
United State of Electronica
The Velvet Teen
Vetiver
Vietnam
Von Iva
The Walkmen
Whysall Lane
Winechuggers
Yellow Press
The Zincs
2006
144 bands / 12 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Thomas Campbell
A-Fir Ju Well
Aqueduct
Asobi Seksu
Audrye Sessions
DJ Aaron Axelson
David Bazan
Billy Nayer Show
Bing Ji Ling
Birdmonster
Black Fiction
Black Lips
The Blood Arm
Books on Tape
The Botticellis
Brightblack Morning Light
Chris Brokaw
The Brokedown
Brothers Past
Chow Nasty
Citizens Here & Abroad
Cloud Room
Col. Knowledge
& The Lickity Splits
Cold War Kids
Jason Collet
(Broken Social Scene)
Communiqué
Company Car
Curumin
The Cuts
The Czars
Danava
Britt Daniel
Etienne De Rocher
Dead Science
Deadboy & The Elephantman
Dear Kerosene
The Dirtbombs
Dirty Projectors
DJ Disco Shawn
Division Day
David Dondero
Mark Eitzel
El Olio Wolof
Every Move A Picture
Ex-Boyfriends
Teri Falini
Geoff Farina
Feist
Film School
The Flaming Lips
Foreign Born
Stephen Fretwell
Gavin Newsome (Full Moon Partisians)
Ghost Family
The Grates
Tommy Guerrero
Neil Halstead (Mojave 3)
Ryan Harper
Sean Hayes
Heavenly States
Henry Miller Sextet
Her Space Holiday
Hijack The Disco
The Herms
Hey Willpower
The Holy See
Honeycut
Peggy Honeywell
Hopewell
Huts
I Am The Avalanche
ISIS
DJ J Boogie
Just 3 Guys
Kennedy
Kid Koala
Kid606 & Friends
Kieran Hebden (Four Tet)
and Steve Reid
The Lamps
Martyn Leaper
Locke 'n' Load
Meric Long
Loquat
Lou Lou & The Guitarfish
Mandrake
Mattson 2
Midlake
Minipop
Minus The Bear
Motion Potion
The National
The New Amsterdams
The New Trust
Nothing Cool
Nous Non Plus
The #12 Looks Like You
Octopus Project
Overview
Pants Pants Pants
Parchman Farm
Parker Street Cinema
Parks and Recreation
Elvis Perkins
Pine Box Boys
+/-
Polar Bears
Post Coitus
Push to Talk
DJ Relm
Rogue Wave
Rum Diary
Sam Prekop & Archer Prewitt
(The Sea and Cake)
Scissors For Lefty
Scrabbel
Send For Help
Sensations
The Silencers
Silversun Pickups
Aliana Simone
Slow Runner
Smoosh
Space Mtn
stardeath & white dwarfs
Street to Nowhere
The Submarines
Summer Obsession
Talkdemonic
These Arms are Snakes
Thursday
Trains Across The Sea
Trainwreck Riders
Two Gallants
Two Seconds
John Vanderslice
The Velvet Teen
Vetiver
Laura Veirs
We Are Scientists
We're All Broken
Craig Wedren
Why?
Wolfmother
Xiu Xiu
Youth Group
Zombi
2007
117 bands / 12 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Jesse LeDoux
15th anniversary poster by The Small Stakes
The Actual
Annuals
Aqueduct
Audrye Sessions
Ryan Auffenberg
Autolux
DJ Aaron Axelson
Bellavista
The Bent Mustache
Black Fiction
Karl Blau
The Botticellis
Boyskout
Brightblack Morning Light
Built for the Sea
Cake
Nicki Chambly
The Changes
Vic Chestnut
Clinic
The Coup
The Dandy Warhols
Simon Dawes
Etienne De Rocher
Dead Meadow
Death of a Party
Alela Diane
Dios Malos
Dodo Bird
David Dondero
The Donnas
The Dwarves
Earlimart
Elephone
Erase Errata
Ester Drang
Extra Action Marching Band
French Kicks
Georgie James
Ghostland Observatory
Laura Gibson
Girl Band
The Gray Kid
Gris Gris
Har Mar Superstar
Hella
Jolie Holland
Honeycut
Howlin Rain
Damien Jurado
Land Shark
Lemon Sun
Loquat
Love Like Fire
Love of Diagrams
Lyrics Born
Macromantics
Magic Bullets
Malajube
Willy Mason
Matt & Kim
Midlake
Midnight Movies
Minipop
Minmae
Money Mark
The Morning Benders
DJ Morse Code
The Mumlers
Alexi Murdoch
The New Amsterdams
The New Trust
Thao Nguyen
No Age
The Old-Fashioned Way
The Oohlas
Oranger
The Otherside
Pants Pants Pants
Peloton
Pilot Speed
Pony Come Lately
The Ponys
Poor Bailey
Pop Levi
Push to Talk
Ray Barbie & The Mattson 2
Josh Ritter
Zach Rogue
Rogue Wave
Roky Erickson and The Explosives
Rum Diary
Scissors For Lefty
Scrabbel
Sea Wolf
Sebadoh
Send For Help
Snowden
So Many Dynamos
Mariee Sioux
Langhorne Slim
Spindrift
Spinto Band
St. Vincent
Starlight Desperation
State Radio
Street to Nowhere
The Submarines
Tapes 'n Tapes
Tartufi
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Trainwreck Riders
John Vanderslice
The Watson Twins
The White Barons
Women and Children
Wooden Shjips
2008
122 bands / 13 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Little Friends of Printmaking
Aim Low Kid
Airborne Toxic Event
DJ Amplive
Apache
ASG
Audio Out Send
Birdmonster
The Blacks
The Blakes
Blitzen Trapper
Bodies of Water
British Sea Power
The Broken West
Buddy
The Builders and The Butchers
Built for The Sea
Capgun Coup
Caves
Colour Music
Conspiracy of Venus
Cursive
D.W. Holiday
Darker My Love
David Dondero
Delta Spirit
The Dodos
The Don'ts
Distraction Fit
The Entrance Band
Excuses for Skipping
Film School
Fleet Foxes
Foxtail Somersault
Fu Manchu
Golden Animals
Grand Archives
Great Northern
Gutter Twins
Helio Sequence
Here, Here
The High Violets
Holy Fuck
honey.moon.tree
The Hundred Days
Immigrant
Interstellar Radio Company
Jeffrey Lewis and The Jitters
Jel
Jub
Judgement Day
LA Riots
Nyles Lannon
Lazaro Casanova
Little Ones
Little Teeth
Magic Bullets
The Magnetic Fields
Man/Miracle
The Mayfire
Mika Miko
Minipop
The Minor Canon
A Modern Machine
Sean Moeller
Monotonix
The Morning Benders
The Mountain Goats
MSTRKRFT
The Mumlers
Music For Animals
Nick Catchdubs
Odd Nosdam
Off Campus
Okay
DJ Omar
Or
Orchid
Panther
peoplepeople
A Place to Bury Strangers
Port O'Brien
Quasi
The Rosebuds
Saviours
Scissors for Lefty
She & Him
Sholi
DJ Mike Simonetti
Sleazemore
So Many Dynamos
Solar Powered People
Spiritual Lee
stellastarr*
Adam Stephens
Kelley Stoltz
Tally Hall
Tempo No Tempo
Throw Me The Statue
Tilly and The Wall
Trackademicks
Trophy Fire
Tulsa
20 Minute Loop
Two Gallants
Two Sheds
The Union Trade
Veil Veil Vanish
Vin Sol
The Virgins
Voxhaul Broadcast
Wale
The Walkmen
Wallpaper
The Weather Underground
West Indian Girl
The Whale
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Whispertown2000
Emily Jane White
White Denim
Willow Willow
Working for a
Nuclear Free City
2009
119 bands / 11 venues / 6 Days
Poster by Fur Turtle
A B & The Sea
Afternoons
Aim Low Kid
The Aimless Never Miss
An Horse
Antony and the Johnsons
Audio Out Send
Ryan Auffenberg
Big Light
AA Bondy
Boy In Static
Broken West
Built for the Sea
City Light
Clues
Colossal Yes
Matt Costa
Crime in Choir
Crown City Rockers
Cryptacize
Cut Off Your Hands
Dame Satan
The Dead Trees
Dear and The Headlights
Deerhunter
Karina Denike
Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele
Devon Williams
Dizzy Balloon
David Dondero
The Don'ts
The Drums
Mark Eitzel
Evacuee
Everest
Ex-Boyfriends
Jason Finazzo
Flosstradamus
Robert Francis
French Kicks
The Fresh and Onlys
From Monument to Masses
Laura Gibson
Girls
Goblin Cock
Harbours
Here Here
Peggy Honeywell
The Hooks
Infinate Body
Japanese Motors
Kinch
Kings & Queens
Kool Keith
Kowloon Walled City
Kutmasta Kurt
Les Savy Fav
Lilofee
Loch Lomond
Love is Chemicals
Lumerians
The Mae Shi
Stephen Malkmus
Man/Miracle
Jake Mann
The Matches
Maus Haus
DJ Morale
The Morning Benders
Bob Mould
The Mountain Goats
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
The Mumlers
Music for Animals
Goh Nakamura
N.A.S.A.
AC Newman
Thao Nguyen
No Age
Odawas
Papercuts
Picture Atlantic
Port O'Brien
Portugal, The Man
Donovan Quinn
Ra Ra Riot
Rademacher
Rafter
Rainbow Arabia
The Red Verse
Mike Relm
Josh Ritter
Scissors for Lefty
Sholi
The Sleepover Disaster
Sleepy Sun
Dave Smallen
Sean Smith
St. Vincent
Kelley Stoltz
The Submarines
Sugar & Gold
Jimmy Tamborello
Telekinesis
Tempo No Temp
That Ghost
Thee Oh Sees
Themselves
Tiny Television
True Widow
Two Sheds
Tyvek
Unnatural Helpers
Veil Veil Vanish
Martha Wainwright
Wallpaper
Warship
White Circle Crime Club
Yoni Wolf
2010
115 bands / 15 venues / 6 Days / Website
Artwork by Clare Rojas
A B & The Sea
Greg Ashley
Atlas Sound
Zee Avi
Battlehooch
Bear Hands
Below
Best Coast
Big Light
Billy & Dolly
Birds & Batteries
Birds Fled From Me
Black Prairie
Brookhaven
Butterfly Bones
Carletta Sue Kay
!!!
Citay
Conspiracy of Venus
Cornelius
Deerhoof
Despite Great Faults
Disco Shawn
Dizzy Balloon
The Dodos with
Magik*Magik Orchestra
Edward Sharpe
& The Magnetic Zeros
Mark Eitzel
DJ Eucademix
Nathan Fake
Far
Fences
The Ferocious Few
Foreign Born
Four Tet
The Frail
Paula Frazer
Free Energy
The Fresh & Onlys
Geographer
Ghost and The City
The Ghost of a
Saber Toothed Tiger
Laura Gibson
Glaciers
Grass Widow
The Growlers
Har Mar Superstar
Harlem
Honeycomb
Horse Feathers
The Hot Toddies
The Hounds Below
Hunx and His Punx
The Ian Fays
If By Yes
Judgement Day
Mark Kozelek
Laarks
Leslie & The Badgers
Letting Up Despite Great Faults
The Limousines
The Lonely Forest
Loquat
Love Is Chemicals
Magic Wands
Magnetic Fields
Man/Miracle
Maus Haus
Memory Tapes
Mirah
Mist and Mast
The Mumlers
Music for Animals
My First Earthquake
Newvillager
Thao Nguyen
Scout Niblett
Nice Nice
Nico Vega
The Northern Key
Nurses
Odawas
Ovens
P.E.E.
Picture Atlantic
Princeton
Rainbow Arabia
Rogue Wave
The Sandwitches
Scissors for Lefty
DJ Sleazemore
Dave Smallen
Sonny and The Sunsets
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Spencey Dude and and The Doodles
The Splinters
Stomacher
Sugar & Gold
Tape Deck Mountain
Taxes
Tempo No Tempo
That Ghost
Tiny Television
Trainwreck Riders
The Trophy Fire
Two Sheds
Imaad Wasif
True Widow
John Vanderslice
Visqueen
Wallpaper
The Watson Twins
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Weekend
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Young Prisms
2011
103 bands / 18 venues / 6 Days / Website
Poster by Skinny Ships
A B & The Sea
Admiral Radley
Aesop Rock
Altars
Angel Island
Apex Manor
Battlehooch
Max Bemis
Best Coast
Big Light
DJ Big Wiz
Birds & Batteries
The Black Ryder
The Brokenmusicbox
The Burnt Ones
Butterfly Bones
The Concretes
Crazy Band
Dâm-Funk
Bart Davenport
Kimya Dawson
Dan Deacon
Dirty Ghosts
Dominant Legs
The Downer Party
Eastern Conference Champions
Ed Schrader's Music Beat
Exray's
Fake Your Own Death
Rachel Fannan
Felson
The Ferocious Few
Film School
The Frail
The Fresh & Onlys
Funeral Party
Geographer
Ben Gibbard
DJ Britt Govea
Grass Widow
Gregory And The Hawk
The Growlers
Guillermo
Hakobo
Harderships
Hot Fog
J House
How To Dress Well
Hunx And His Punx
Incan Abraham
Jake Mann And The Upper Hand
Jel
Jenny O
Jhameel
K. Flay
Kevin Seconds
Kid Koala
Ted Leo
The Love Language
Magic Bullets
Melted Toys
Alexi Murdoch
Silje Nes
Ted Nesseth
No Age
Nobunny
Oona
Peanut Butter Wolf
The Pleasure Kills
Psychic Friend
Rank/Xerox
Rob Sonic
Robbinschilds With Kinski
Zach Rogue
Royal Baths
Sarah Lee And Johnny
Seventeen Evergreen
Shannon and the Clams
Shlohmo
Sister Crayon
Dave Smallen
Social Studies
The Soft Moon
The Soft White Sixties
The Stone Foxes
DJ Swayzee
Tamaryn
Lily Taylor
Telekinesis
The Trophy Fire
Typhoon
Ume
The Urinals
Versus
Voxhaul Broadcast
Wavves
Wax Idols
Westwood & Willow
Wet Illustrated
Chelsea Wolfe
The Wrong Words
Yo La Tengo
Young Prisms