List of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Peninsula/North Bay

• The Ace of Cups
• American Music Club
• Animal Lore
• Animosity
• At Our Heels
• Automatic Pilot
• Beaten by Them
• The Beau Brummels
• Beulah
• Big Brother and the Holding Company
• Blame Sally
• Blaqk Audio
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• Blue Cheer
• Bracket
• Brittany Shane
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre
• Butch Engle & the Styx
• The Charlatans
• Chris Isaak
• Clover
• Con Funk Shun
• The Cubby Creatures
• Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
• Dank Jenkins
• Dead Kennedys
• Deerhoof
• Devil's Kitchen
• The Dodos
• Dredg
• E-40
• E-Types (band)
• Eddie and the Tide
• Enemy You
• Every Move A Picture
• Eric McFadden
• Eric McFadden Trio
• Exodus
• Faith No More
• Fifty Foot Hose
• Film School
• First Blood
• The Flamin' Groovies
• Flipper
• 4 Non Blondes
• Girls
• The Gone Jackals
• Grateful Dead
• The Great Society
• Her Space Holiday
• Hot Tuna
• Huey Lewis and the News
• Imperial Teen
• It's a Beautiful Day
• J Church
• The Jaded
• Jefferson Airplane
• Jefferson Starship
• Joanna Newsom
• Journey
• Judith and Holofernes
• Knight Riders
• Latin Soul Syndicate
• Loquat
• LoveLikeFire
• Mac Dre
• Malo
• Metallica (founded in Los Angeles, but moved to San Francisco before recording their first album)
• Mink DeVille
• Moby Grape
• Mojo Men
• Morning Glory (band)
• Mother Earth
• Mount Rushmore (band)
• Night Ranger
• The Other Half (band)
• Overbrook Express
• Pablo Cruise
• Petty Theft
• Quicksilver Messenger Service
• RonDre.
• Rubicon
• Rupa and the April Fishes
• Santana
• Shake Well
• Sons of Champlin
• Steve Miller Band
• Third Eye Blind
• Tommy Tutone
• Train (band)
• The Tubes
• The Union Trade
• Vejtables
• Victim's Family
• William Penn and His Pals/William Penn Fyve
• Zodiac Death Valley

East Bay

• AFI
• All Shall Perish
• American Steel
• Automatic Man
• Audrye Sessions
• Blackalicious
• Blatz
• Brett Dennen
• Cold Blood
• Communiqué
• Counting Crows
• Country Joe and the Fish
• The Coup
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Crimpshrine
• Critical Mass
• Desa (band)
• Digital Underground
• En Vogue
• Facing New York
• Filth
• Fifteen
• Felsen
• Fleshies
• The Frustrators
• Green Day
• The Greg Kihn Band
• Hieroglyphics (group)
• High On Fire
• Honeycut
• Hurricane
• Is Nothing Sacred
• Jawbreaker
• Jellyfish
• Joe Satriani
• Joint Venture
• Joy of Cooking
• Judgement Day
• Link 80
• The Loading Zone
• The Lookouts
• The Lovemakers
• Luniz
• Machine Head
• Maldroid
• New Diplomat
• The Matches
• MC Hammer
• Monsula
• The Mother Hips
• The Mr. T Experience
• MY LIFE AS A DOG
• Neurosis
• NOFX
• Operation Ivy
• The Pack (group)
• Pansy Division
• Papa Wheelie
• The Phenomenauts
• Pinhead Gunpowder
• Primus
• Rancid
• Rogue Wave
• The Savage Resurrection
• Screw 32
• Sentinel
• Set Your Goals
• Sly and the Family Stone
• Souls of Mischief
• Stoneground
• Sweet Baby
• Testament (band)
• The Pointer Sisters
• Thirstbusters
• Tilt
• Tony! Toni! Toné!
• Too Short
• Tower of Power
• Vitamin Party
• Y&T

South Bay

• The Chocolate Watch Band
• Chris Cain
• Dredg
• Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
• Manmade God
• No Use for a Name
• Lindsey Buckingham
• Los Tigres del Norte
• Pablo Cruise
• Papa Doo Run Run
• Peninsula Banjo Band
• People!
• Picture Atlantic
• Smash Mouth
• Strata
• Syndicate of Sound
• Systematic
• The Count 5
• The Call
• The Donnas
• The Doobie Brothers
• Trapt
• Vienna Teng
• Whipping Boy
• Xiu Xiu

References

• Selvin, Joel. San Francisco: The Musical History Tour. Chronicle Books: 1996.

See also

• San Francisco Sound