List of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area

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. The list is grouped in three sections: San Francisco Peninsula/North Bay, East Bay, and South Bay.

San Francisco Peninsula/North Bay

The Action Design The Aislers Set American Music Club Andre Nickatina Animosity Anvil Chorus Automatic Pilot Avengers Babylon A.D. Back in the Saddle Beaten by Them The Beau Brummels The Beatnigs Beefy Red (based in Marin County, 1969–1972) Beulah Big Brother and the Holding Company Show 41. Birdmonster Blame Sally Blaqk Audio Blectum from Blechdom Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Blue Cheer Bracket Brittany Shane The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Brothers Comatose Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys Buckethead Butch Engle & the Styx Cacophony (band) Cal Tjader The Cat Heads Ceremony (punk band) The Charlatans Chris Isaak Chrome Chuck Prophet Clover Cold Beat Con Funk Shun Consolidated Conspiracy of Beards Copperhead Cormorant Craig Abaya Crime Crown City Rockers The Crux The Cubby Creatures Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks Dan the Automator Dave Brubeck Quartet David Grisman Dead Kennedys Deafheaven Death Angel Deerhoof Destroy Boys Diego's Umbrella The Dils The Dodos The Donnas E-40 Eddie and the Tide Enemy You Every Move A Picture Eric Lindell Eric McFadden Faith No More The Family Crest Fifty Foot Hose Film School First Blood Flamin' Groovies Flipper 4 Non Blondes<ref name="autogenerated1988"></ref> Frank Loverde Frightwig Geographer Girls The Gone Jackals Graham Central Station Grass Widow Grateful Dead The Great Society H.E.R. Her Space Holiday Hickey (band) Hoodoo Rhythm Devils The House Jacks Hot Flash Heat Wave Hot Tuna Huey Lewis and the News Imperial Teen It's a Beautiful Day J Church Jay Som Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship Jenifer McKitrick | Jim Campilongo John Handy Journey Kak Kaskade Karate High School Kronos Quartet Larry Graham Latin Soul Syndicate Lee Presson and the Nails Leila and the Snakes Leon's Creation Leviathan (musical project) Linda Tillery Logos Loquat LoveLikeFire The M Machine Mac Dre Malo Mal Sharpe Matt Nathanson Matmos Metallica (originally from Los Angeles) Michael Franti Michelle Lambert Mink DeVille M.I.R.V. Moby Grape Mojo Men Mordred Mother Earth Mommyheads Mount Rushmore Mr. Bungle N2Deep Naked Lunch Negativland New Riders of the Purple Sage Night Ranger The Nuns Old & In the Way The Ophelias (California band) Or, The Whale Osees Ovens Oxbow The Other Half Pablo Cruise Pansy Division Papa Roach Paul Parker Patrick Cowley Pearl Harbor and the Explosions Pointer Sisters Psychefunkapus Quicksilver Messenger Service Razor Skyline The Residents Romeo Void Rosin Coven Rubicon Rupa and the April Fishes Sammy Hagar Santana Sean Hayes Seatrain Secret Chiefs 3 Seventeen Evergreen Sly and the Family Stone Snakefinger Snake River Conspiracy Sons of Champlin Sopwith Camel The Sorentinos Spirits Burning Steel Breeze Steve Miller Band Steve Kimock The Stone Foxes Sugar Pie DeSanto Sun Kil Moon SVT Sweet Trip Swell Switchblade Symphony Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

Tell River Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Third Eye Blind Those Darn Accordions Thunderegg Time in Malta Toiling Midgets Tommy Tutone Train Translator Tsunami Bomb The Tubes Tupac Shakur Turk Murphy Tuxedomoon Two Gallants Tycho Ty Segall The Union Trade The Units Until December Vain Vejtables The Velvet Teen Vernian Process Vetiver Victims Family Vince Guaraldi Voice Farm Von We Five Whirr Wire Train Wooden Shjips X-tal Young Elders

East Bay

Casey Davin Adrian Marcel AFI All Shall Perish American Steel Asleep at the Wheel Attitude Attitude Adjustment Automatic Man Audrye Sessions Blackalicious Blatz Brett Dennen Burner Herzog Cold Blood Communiqué Condemned Attitude Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Counting Crows Country Joe and the Fish The Coup The Coverups Creedence Clearwater Revival Crimpshrine Cry Wolf Dance Hall Crashers The Dandelion War Day Wave Death Angel Defiance Deltron 3030 Digital Underground Earth Quake En Vogue Ensemble Mik Nawooj Everyone Is Dirty Exodus Filth Fifteen Finish Ticket Fleshies Forbidden The Frustrators Frumious Bandersnatch Green Day The Greg Kihn Band Guapdad 4000 Hazel English Heathen Hieroglyphics High on Fire Honeycut Hurricane Iamsu! Idiot Flesh Kehlani The Jars Jason Becker Jay Som Jellyfish Joe Satriani Joy of Cooking Judgement Day Kai Lȧȧz Rockit Lil B Link 80 The Loading Zone The Lonely Island The Longshot The Lookouts The Lovemakers Luniz Lyrics Born Mac Dre Machine Head Maldroid The Matches MC Hammer Metal Church Michael Franti Mister Loveless Monsula Montrose The Mother Hips The Mr. T Experience Negative pH The Network Neurosis New Diplomat Operation Ivy The Pack Papa Wheelie Pete Escovedo The Phenomenauts Pinhead Gunpowder The Pointer Sisters Poncho Sanchez Possessed Primus Rancid Rogue Wave The Rubinoos Sadus Samiam Saweetie The Savage Resurrection Screw 32 Sentinel Set Your Goals Shannon and the Clams Sheila E Spitboy Souls of Mischief Stoneground The Story So Far Sweet Baby SWMRS Testament Tilt Timex Social Club Tony! Toni! Toné! Too Short Toro y Moi Tower of Power Tune-Yards The UptonesBest Ska Band - The Uptones East Bay Express, 2008. Retrieved on October 29, 2015. Vio-lence Vitamin Party Y&T

South Bay

Bassnectar The Call Camper Van Beethoven The Chocolate Watchband Chris Cain Count Five Dada DJ Shadow The Doobie Brothers Dredg Drunk Injuns Duster The Faction Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards Los Microwaves Manmade God Monkey No Use for a Name The Limousines Lindsey Buckingham Los Tigres del Norte Pablo Cruise Peninsula Banjo Band People! Skankin' Pickle Skip Spence Sleep Smash Mouth Stained Glass Stevie Nicks Strata Syndicate of Sound Systematic Sunami Trapt Tsunami Vienna Teng Xiu Xiu

List of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area

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