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Article: Who are these guys? A guide to this year's Noise Pop
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- February 20, 2004
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THERE wasn't much "noise" made about the inaugural Noise Pop
festival. The first affair, half-jokingly described by festival-
founder Kevin Arnold as "a one-night ordeal," began as a simple
concert featuring like-minded local bands at San Francisco's old
Kennel Club in 1993.
Selected by Arnold, who had recently graduated from U.C. Berkeley
with a degree in architecture, the seemingly diverse acts all shared
a common love for mixing crunchy, distorted guitars with catchy,
radio-friendly melodies.
It was a new sound, yet one with roots that stretched all the back
to the'60s, and it didn't have a name yet. It would find one with
this festival. Within a few years, Noise Pop would become the ...