List of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area
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This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area, or who have been closely associated with the region. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they are solo artists from the region. The list is grouped by: San Francisco Peninsula/North Bay, East Bay, and South Bay
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Contents
San Francisco Peninsula/North Bay
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- The Ace of Cups
- The Action Design
- The Aislers Set
- American Music Club
- Andre Nickatina
- Animosity
- Anvil Chorus
- Automatic Pilot
- Avengers
- Babylon A.D. (band)
- Beaten by Them
- The Beau Brummels
- The Beatnigs
- Beefy Red (based in Marin County, 1969-1972)
- Beulah
- Big Brother and the Holding Company[1]
- Blame Sally
- Blaqk Audio
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Blue Cheer
- BOMB
- Bracket
- Brittany Shane
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Butch Engle & the Styx
- The Charlatans
- Chris Isaak
- Chrome
- Chuck Prophet
- Clover
- Con Funk Shun
- Consolidated
- Conspiracy of Beards
- The Contractions
- Cormorant
- Craig Abaya
- Crime
- Crown City Rockers
- The Cubby Creatures
- Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
- Dan the Automator
- Dead Kennedys
- Deafheaven
- Death Angel
- Deerhoof
- Dexter Danger
- Diego's Umbrella
- The Dils (formed in Carlsbad, CA but moved to San Francisco in 1977)
- The Dodos
- Dolores Haze
- The Donnas
- E-40
- The Ebb and Flow
- Eddie and the Tide
- Enemy You
- Every Move A Picture
- Eric McFadden
- Exodus (band)
- Faith No More
- The Family Crest
- Fifty Foot Hose
- Film School
- First Blood
- Flamin' Groovies
- Flipper
- 4 Non Blondes [2]
- The Fucking Buckaroos[3]
- Geographer
- Girls
- The Gone Jackals
- Grateful Dead[4]
- The Great Society
- Her Space Holiday
- The House Jacks
- Hot Tuna
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Imperial Teen
- It's a Beautiful Day
- J Church
- Jefferson Airplane[1]
- Jefferson Starship
- Jim Campilongo[5]
- Journey
- Kaskade
- Kronos Quartet[6]
- Latin Soul Syndicate
- Leila and the Snakes
- Linda Tillery
- Logos
- Loquat
- LoveLikeFire[7]
- The M Machine
- Mac Dre
- Malo
- Michael Franti
- Mink DeVille
- M.I.R.V.
- Moby Grape
- Mojo Men
- Mordred
- Mother Earth
- Mount Rushmore
- Naked Lunch
- Negativland
- Night Ranger[2]
- The Nuns
- The Other Half
- Pablo Cruise
- Papa Roach
- Pearl Harbor and the Explosions
- Primus
- Psychefunkapus[2]
- Quicksilver Messenger Service[4]
- The Residents
- Romeo Void
- Rubicon
- Rupa and the April Fishes
- Santana
- Secret Chiefs 3
- Segue
- Seventeen Evergreen
- Snakefinger
- Snake River Conspiracy
- Sons of Champlin
- Sopwith Camel
- Soundhole
- Steve Miller Band
- Steve Kimock
- The Stone Foxes
- SVT
- Swell
- Thee Oh Sees
- Third Eye Blind[2]
- Toiling Midgets
- Tommy Tutone
- Train
- Translator
- Tsunami Bomb
- The Tubes
- Tupac
- Tuxedomoon
- The Union Trade
- The Units
- Until December
- Two Gallants
- Tycho
- Vejtables
- Vernian Process
- Victim's Family
- Voice Farm
- Waycross
- We Five
- Whipping Boy
- Whirr
- Wooden Shjips
- X-tal
- Young Elders
East Bay
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South Bay
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See also
References
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gilliland 1969, show 42.
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- ↑ url = http://kronosquartet.org/contact
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- ↑ Gilliland 1969, show 54.
- ↑ Best Ska Band - The Uptones East Bay Express, 2008. Retrieved on October 29, 2015.
Further reading
- Selvin, Joel. San Francisco: The Musical History Tour. Chronicle Books: 1996.