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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 were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they were primarily solo artists.
Pages in category "Musical groups from the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 125 pages are in this category, out of 125 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The earliest documented roots of the Bay Area thrash scene date back to the formation of Exodus in 1979. [4] By the time the group recorded their full-length album four years later, five different guitarists or bassists had already passed through the lineup, with some going on to join or form bands that were equally relevant to the area's burgeoning metal scene. [5]
Chet Helms and then Graham made famous the Fillmore and Winterland Ballroom; these turned out to be a proving grounds for rock bands and acts of the San Francisco Bay area including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, [3] who were first managed, and in some cases developed, by Helms.
Performances of an international super group like the Beatles were hosted in a huge venue like the Cow Palace. At first, the local Bay Area bands played in smaller ones. The early band venues, while the new SF scene was emerging from folk and folk-rock beginnings, were often places like the Matrix nightclub. As audiences grew, and audience ...
San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumni (44 P) Pages in category "Musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 178 pages are in this category, out of 178 total.
The Vans Warped Tour 2025 lineup includes several bands including Simple Plan, ... north Texas group Bowling for Soup and California Bay Area band Dance Hall Crashers, according to the festival's ...
Metallica were part of the Bay Area thrash metal scene and hugely influential on the genre as a whole. [1] Various bands have played thrash metal at some point of their career. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the drum beats of hardcore punk with the guitar style of the new wave of British heavy metal. [2]