San Francisco Bay Area

For the past fifty years, the San Francisco Bay Area has been cultivating some of the most talented and influential forces in house, garage, hip-hop, art-rock, and more. From the rise of the original San Francisco Sound in the 60's and 70's (Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Grateful Dead) to an underground hip-hop movement in the 90's (Del the Funky Homosapien, Rasco, Keak da Sneak), and continuing on to today's ongoing melange of art-rock, punk, pop, and everything in between (Deerhoof, Vue, The Limousines), the Bay Area transmits a perpetual counterculture response against mainstream music.