What music are Bay Space venues enjoying? Live performance information exhibits what’s well-liked

What’s enjoying at your favourite Bay Space music venue? Possible, some type of “indie” music.

The Chronicle analyzed greater than 4,500 live shows that occurred within the Bay Space for the reason that begin of 2020 to find out the widespread genres performed at 27 well-liked music venues in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. The 5 most typical genres had been “indie pop,” “indie rock,” “pop,” “trendy rock,” and “indie folks,” in accordance with the music streamer Spotify’s classification system.

Whereas the highest spots went to acquainted genres, issues rapidly obtained extra attention-grabbing. The following 5 genres are far more particular, together with microgenres like “electropop,” “artwork pop” and “stomp and holler.”

You may not know all of those genres. That’s OK, we didn’t know all of them both. However they’re simple to know after you hear a couple of examples.

As an illustration, Charli XCX, who performed two nights at Oakland’s Fox Theater in March 2022, is classed as “electropop” and “artwork pop” (artists might be listed beneath a number of genres). These genres are exemplified by her well-liked songs “Beg For You” and “Hot In It.” “Stomp and holler” might be heard within the music of Wild Rivers, a trio that headlined a present on the Fillmore Auditorium in September, enjoying fan favorites just like the folksy indie rock tune “Thinking ’Bout Love.”

The Chronicle obtained the live performance information for this evaluation by gathering data from live performance discovery web site Songkick. We then gathered Spotify genres for every of the greater than 6,000 artists who performed on the 27 venues we analyzed. Venues had been chosen based mostly on capability (all had been between 250 and 10,000), variety of upcoming exhibits and the supply of information.

How does Spotify kind artists into genres? It’s a bit difficult. Spotify has nearly 6,000 genres and artists can belong to anyplace from 0 to 16 of them. In line with Spotify, genres are created based mostly on each how customers group songs, like in playlists, and a mathematical evaluation of a music’s elements. In different phrases, if lots of people take heed to a set of the identical songs or put them on the identical playlist, that’s a style. And if a pc thinks a set of songs sounds the identical, that’s a style too.

Geography can also join artists to a style. As an illustration, Nonetheless Woozy and Destroy Boys are categorized as “Oakland indie” due to their begin within the East Bay. Different artists had been categorized as “Oakland hip hop,” like rappers Too $hort and Luniz.

What microgenre is your favourite venue identified for? Discover out beneath.

Well-known for its historical past as a rock venue beneath the possession of promoter Bill Graham, the Fillmore is one among San Francisco’s oldest and most notable venues. It’s the place Graham helped launch the careers of rock legends like Janis Joplin and the Grateful Useless. The venue additionally hosted historic rock occasions like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 20-show residency in 1997.

Rock is under no circumstances gone from the Fillmore. Almost 45% of artists determine with some style of rock. However it’s additionally unusually prone to host artists who fall beneath the “nation highway” style like ERNEST and Chris Lane.

Be sure you seize an apple in your means in. It’s a tradition Graham started that lives on to today.

San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium was constructed for the Panama Pacific International Exposition to draw conventions to the town. Usually now simply referred to as “the Invoice Graham,” the venue has served because the non permanent residence for the San Francisco Opera and as an occasional residence enviornment for the Golden State Warriors.

Lately it’s the go-to place for raves. Almost 3 times extra artists whose main style was “EDM” performed on the Invoice Graham than artists who primarily belonged to the following most typical style, “dubstep.” The venue’s fifth-most-common style, “pop dance,” did not present up amongst some other venues’ high 15 genres.

Put in your dancing footwear. You’ll most likely want them.

Ever needed to take heed to music in a former mortuary? The Chapel, positioned within the Mission, shed its funeral providers historical past to change into a venue in 2012. Maybe that explains why it’s the place for neo-psychedelia. The one style extra widespread than “neo-psychedelic” at The Chapel since 2020 was “indie folks.”

It’s additionally a preferred venue for quite a lot of different folks microgenres. Extra “new Americana” and “stomp and holler” artists performed at The Chapel than at some other venue.

The Chapel can be a spot to seek out lesser identified music, no less than in accordance with how a lot an artist’s songs are streamed on Spotify. Of the 27 venues we analyzed, we discovered that the typical reputation of artists enjoying at The Chapel was decrease than venues of comparable dimension  just like the New Parish and the Impartial.

The UC Theatre was a cinema earlier than being converted to a music venue in 2016. Tom Hanks cites the theater as one of many locations that inspired his interest in motion pictures.

Artwork home movies aren’t so widespread for the UC Theatre anymore however for these concerned about “pop-punk,” “emo” or “screamo,” it’s the venue for you. It booked probably the most “screamo” artists out of the venues we analyzed. It’s additionally the place artists who’ve “graduated” from 924 Gilman, the venue the place “punk” band Inexperienced Day obtained its begin, go to play. Inexperienced Day played at the UC in October 2016, a few months after the venue first opened.

The UC Theatre was the one venue to play artists from the microgenres of “trancecore” and “Ukrainian pop.”

Oakland’s New Parish hosts extra R&B and rap music acts than different venues in our information set. It had probably the most “various R&B” exhibits and was the one place that hosted a number of artists who fell beneath the microgenre “aesthetic rap” — like $NOT and Night Lovell.

The New Parish advertises itself as an intimate venue for nationwide excursions and the info exhibits that to be true. Even artists who play at bigger San Francisco venues just like the Regency Ballroom have performed on the New Parish, like Billboard constitution Giveon and Bay Space native Remi Wolf.

What concerning the different 22 venues? The chart beneath exhibits the highest genres for every of the analyzed venues in addition to the artists who performed there.

It’s adopted by our favourite insights from The Chronicle’s style evaluation of every of the remaining venues, so as of venue capability.

The Greek Theatre is the longest-running out of doors amphitheater within the nation. It’s held quite a few historic audio system just like the Dalai Lama and Theodore Roosevelt. With that historical past, it is not stunning the artists who play listed below are primarily “pop” and “indie pop” artists. Actually, the exhibits had been performed, on common, by the most well-liked artists in our information set.

When it isn’t getting used to carry the California Masons’ annual conference, the Masonic is a spot to listen to “pop” music. It’s the solely venue to have “dance pop” as one among its high 5 genres, completely different from the “pop dance” style widespread on the Invoice Graham Civic Auditorium.

Although the Paramount is residence to the East Bay Symphony and Oakland Ballet, the artists it brings are much less classical and extra hip hop. It’s hosted “hip hop” artists like East Bay natives Luniz and Too $hort.

One other cinema turned music venue, the Fox survived an arson fire and a 40-year event drought earlier than turning into the venue it’s as we speak. One of many bigger venues analyzed, the Fox’s most typical genres had been much like the Bay Space normally, although it was the one venue to play “Celtic punk” bands like Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly.

The Warfield, previously a vaudeville theater and movie house, was in-built 1922. It introduced probably the most “rap” artists to the Bay Space out of the venues analyzed.

The Regency Ballroom, which simply final yr was put up for sale, has been part of San Francisco’s music scene solely for the reason that early 2000s. It’s the one venue to have performed a number of artists falling beneath the “PluggnB” style, a sound that mixes the lure microgenre “plugg” with the melodies of R&B.

August Corridor performs your typical indie array of artists. However it’s additionally been the one place to host multiple “Nigerian pop” act within the final three years. 5 “Nigerian pop” artists have performed since 2020.

When not getting used as the background for tourists’ photos, the Palace of High-quality Arts hosts the occasional present. Its mostly performed style was “mellow gold,” a style combining the sounds of folks rock and tender rock.

A fixture of South of Market’s nightlife, the DNA Lounge has hosted extra “dubstep” artists than different venues analyzed. It was additionally the one place within the final three years to host “aggrotech,” “happy hardcore” and “spacewave” artists, amongst different microgenres.

Bimbo’s is one among San Francisco’s oldest nightclubs and the sound it brings in is reflective of that. In the event you really feel like reliving the sounds of the Eighties, Bimbo’s had extra “new wave pop” and “new romantic” artists carry out since 2020 than some other venue.

You by no means know what you’re going to get at Nice American Music Corridor. The venue, which was previously a brothel and a jazz club, hosted artists categorized as a part of 480 distinct genres since 2020, probably the most of any venue in our dataset.

Cornerstone, which opened in 2017, is the one venue analyzed to persistently present reggae acts like “reggae rock” band Pepper.

Positioned in San Francisco’s North of the Panhandle, The Impartial was the one venue to host a number of “British jazz” and “brass band” artists.

The third most typical style at Freight & Salvage, “lilith,” was not within the high 15 genres for some other venue. What’s “lilith?” Consider any iteration of artists you’ll’ve discovered at Lilith Fair.

Housed in an Oakland Victorian, the Starline Social Membership was the one venue to host a number of “doomgaze” and “folktronica” artists.

A former tv studio, the Rickshaw Cease’s high genres are primarily variations of indie. For instance, 17 “chamber psych” artists have performed on the venue, together with Yard Act and Automatic.

This venue is thought for having dwell music each night time, seven nights per week. It’s hosted probably the most artists who determine with Bay Space genres like “Oakland hip hop” or “Bay Space indie.”

Yoshi’s, a jazz membership and Japanese restaurant within the East Bay, was the one venue analyzed that persistently introduced “clean jazz” to the Bay Space. Eleven clean jazz artists performed at Yoshi’s, and never a single artist categorized as a part of this style confirmed up at any of the opposite 26 venues.

Finest identified for being an early home to Green Day, 924 Gilman is the place to see microgenres of punk music from “modern ska punk” to “5th wave emo.”

The Monarch is an effective place to see acts categorized beneath obscure genres. 4 of the highest 5 genres performed on the Monarch weren’t within the high 15 of some other venue analyzed. They included home microgenres like “deep home,” “float home,” “darkish techno” and “deep disco home.”

Café du Nord has a rich history from its time as a speakeasy to its run as a rock membership that hosted Love’s last show with entrance man Arthur Lee. Immediately, a spread of indie and R&B artists are the primary headliners on the venue.

​​Brick & Mortar Music Corridor is without doubt one of the only independent music venues left in San Francisco. It hosted probably the most “underground hip hop” artists of the venues analyzed.