San Francisco has a wealth of music festivals but none quite like Noise Pop Festival. As opposed to a weekender at a park, the city-sprawling festival happens over the course of two weeks, taking over ...

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 ...

PONS is a noise rock, post-punk esoteric group that released its latest album The Liquid Self” in October. The group includes drummer Jack Parker, percussionist Sebastien Carnot, and Sam Cameron on ...

The categorization of noise rock as a genre contradicts its most basic essence: to spill out of the bounds of musical theory and uproot everything it stands for. If tempo, tonality and scale comprise ...

When I was a kid, I thought all bar bands were like the Jeff Healey Band in Road House. The vision of beleaguered musicians just trying to get through a 12-bar blues song while inebriated rednecks ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Bay Area noise-punk trio Porch brings its heavy sounds to local stages for two shows this week in Pacifica and Oakland. Porch leader and guitarist Todd Huth first rose to ...

When you hear the description “one-man band,” you may conjure up images of an artist on the street corner dressed in an obnoxious suit and top hat. He’s got a guitar in one hand, a giant bass drum ...