Next Tuesday (2/25) marks the start of San Francisco’s long-running Noise Pop Festival, a weeklong smorgasbord of fantastic indie bands, arts, films, talks, panel discussions, and parties at venues all around the city. Personally, I’m jazzed to see Bob Mould celebrating 25 years of Workbook (!), Mark Kozelek, Throwing Muses, Com Truise… the list goes on and on. (Above, Bob Mould’s video for “See A Little Light.”) And I can’t wait to finally watch Mistaken For Strangers, the documentary about The National’s 2010 tour and the relationship between The National’s singer Matt Berninger and his brother Tom who made the film.
Our friends at Noise Pop have kindly given Boing Boing a pair of Noise Pop 2014 Badges that will get you into all general admission (non-seated) concerts, films, happy hours, the Noise Pop HQ, and other events during the festival. The badges are $150 each but you can win a pair of them right here. As is our Noise Pop tradition, all you have to do is pretend that NOISE POP is an acronym and tell us what it’s an acronym for. Post your entry in the BBS comment thread before noon PST tomorrow, Thursday February 20. We’ll pick our favorite and announce the winner on Friday! (Please only enter if you really would attend.) Good luck and hope to see you at Noise Pop 2013!