It’s that time of the year again for Bay Area indie music and arts festival Noise Pop to make its way to San Francisco. Today, it announced additions to their music lineup for the festival taking place Feb. 19–28 at multiple venues around the city.
The festival will welcome the music of DIIV for two performances over the 10-day festival, including a special closing night performance at The Independent. The Brooklyn-based indie rock outfit is gearing up to release their second studio album, “Is the Is Are,” in early February prior to the festival. Sango, a rapidly rising producer based in Grand Rapids, Mich., has also just been added to the lineup, along with Bay area hip-hop artist Antwon, Belgian DJ and producer The Magician, and others. These new acts join Metric, American Football, Drive Like Jehu, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Mountain Goats, Neon Indian, Vince Staples, Kamasi Washington, Parquet Courts, Gardens & Villa, The Cave Singers, and more.
Noise Pop will also be presenting the first round of indie films in collaboration with SF IndieFest to bring a lineup of movies spotlighting music in film. The following screenings will take place at the Roxie Theater with many of the filmmakers in attendance throughout the series for Q&As following their films.
“Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It” is a remake of Purple Rain set in the Saharan Desert, which also happens to be the first feature film in the Tamashek language (which has no word for the color purple). “Dead Hands Dig Deep” features the ruminations of Kettle Cadaver frontman Edwin Borsheim on a life of violence, mayhem, and personal destruction. “Hustlers Convention” is a hip-hop history lesson with interviews with George Clinton, Fab 5 Freddy, Ice-T, Chuck D in search of the artist behind 1973’s Hustler’s Convention, Lightnin’ Rod.
“The Journey Within” follows musicians in post-9/11 Pakistan as they search for self-identity and start a music show to try to help reclaim the rich and vast musical heritage of the region. “Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows” centers on the velvet-voiced soul singer as he struggles through the music business and leaves to open a fried-fish chain, only to emerge years later with new opportunities brought on by the dawn of hip-hop. Steven “Billy Bones” Fortuna, lead singer of L.A. punk rock band The Skulls, is the subject raucous documentary Who is Billy Bones. For more information on the films, check out the program at http://film.noisepop.com/.
Noise Pop Festival 2016 Film Screening Lineup
“Hustlers Convention”
Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. PST at Roxie Theater
Director: Mike Todd. USA/UK, 2015. 92 min.
*West Coast premiere; Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker
“Rain The Color of Blue with a Little Red in It”
Feb. 19 at 9:15 p.m. PST at Roxie Theater
Director: Christopher Kirkley. Niger, 2015. 75 min.
*California premiere; Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker
“The Journey Within”
Feb. 20 at 4:30 p.m. PST at Roxie Theater
Director: Mian Adnan Ahmad. Pakistan 2015. 78 min.
*California premiere
“Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows”
Feb. 20 at 7:00 p.m. PST at Roxie Theater
Director: Rob Hatch-Miller. USA 2015. 85 min.
*West Coast premiere; Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker
“Dead Hands Dig Deep”
Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. PST at Roxie Theater
Director: Jai Love. Australia/USA, 2016. 74 min.
*West Coast premiere
“Who Is Billy Bones?”
Feb. 21 at 9:15 p.m. PST at Roxie Theater
Director Kathy Kolla. USA 2015. 77 min.
*Bay Area premiere; Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker and Billy Bones
