That certainly appears to be the case at present. “And you put the lid on and walk away, and then all of a sudden, it’s rattling and boiling over” “I feel like the Bay Area music scene is a pot of boiling water that you’re watching, and it’s not boiling fast enough,” says Hannah D’Amato of East Bay post-punk group Fake Fruit, a veteran of DIY scenes in Los Angeles, New York, and Vancouver who moved to the area to be closer to her family. But while San Francisco and the wider Bay Area were left to curdle into a gentrified hellscape, the group of musical misfits who remained behind began quietly building a truly independent music scene centered around old school underground values of authenticity, sincerity, and mutual support-and now it’s flourishing. Even before the pandemic, the city was suffering an exodus of musicians and the shuttering of venues due to both the brutally high cost of living and the proliferation of inartistic technocrats-not to mention a music scene that had been publicly pronounced dead at least three times since the mid-2010s. After the last 15 years or so, you’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing cool would ever happen in San Francisco again, least of all musically.
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