The San Francisco/Oakland live-music scene, by the registry
Ground Frequency tracks 233 live-music rooms in San Francisco/Oakland, 124 of which announced a dated event in the last 28 days — 435 events in that window and 2,839 across the trailing year. That is what our registry sees announced in this city as of 2026-10-22, not a census of everything that happened in it.
233
rooms tracked
124
active in 28 days
435
events, 28 days
2,839
events, 12 months
53% of the rooms we hold in this city announced something dated in the last four weeks. Counts are of announced, dated events at tracked venues — a coverage-weighted signal. How we count
What kind of scene is San Francisco/Oakland?
rooms by the genre on their registry recordWorld Music 99DJ / Electronic 79Rock / Band 22Pop / Hiphop 12Jazz 11Vocal 10
Which rooms in San Francisco/Oakland are actually running?
ranked by dated events our registry holds for the trailing year — announcements, not attendance| ROOM | GENRE ON FILE | EVENTS 12M | 28D |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mystic Theater | Rock / Band | 53 | 8 |
| Rickshaw Stop | DJ / Electronic | 48 | 13 |
| Make-Out Room | DJ / Electronic | 48 | 8 |
| Qbarsf | DJ / Electronic | 47 | 4 |
| The Knockout | Rock / Band | 46 | 5 |
| Dance Fridays | World Music | 45 | 7 |
| F8 1192 Folsom | DJ / Electronic | 44 | 8 |
| Kilowatt Bar | Rock / Band | 43 | 4 |
| Public Works | DJ / Electronic | 43 | 3 |
| Bottom of the Hill | Rock / Band | 42 | 15 |
| The Mountain Winery | Vocal | 41 | 5 |
| Thee Stork Club | Rock / Band | 40 | 6 |
Which San Francisco/Oakland rooms are on the chart this week?
the venue chart ranks rooms on audience momentum, not on who played thereWho has played San Francisco/Oakland this year?
artists our appearance ledger places in a room in this city — matched, not complete| ARTIST | LAST DATE | DATES |
|---|---|---|
| BURNER.BBY | 2026-09-19 | 3 |
| Matt Jereza | 2026-09-18 | 3 |
| Richard Cortez | 2026-09-13 | 3 |
| Mathis Hunter | 2026-09-06 | 3 |
| Built To Spill | 2026-08-25 | 3 |
| Rewards__program | 2026-09-28 | 3 |
| 𝟒𝐃𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐀 ✩♬ ₊˚.🎧⋆ | 2026-10-11 | 3 |
| Andrés Cepeda | 2026-05-27 | 2 |
| Jacob Guillermo Peña | 2026-09-11 | 2 |
| DJ ILLBORN | 2026-08-14 | 2 |
| Emily Day | 2026-09-08 | 2 |
| Karl Evangelista | 2026-09-10 | 2 |
CITE THIS PAGE
Ground Frequency. “The San Francisco/Oakland live-music scene, by the registry”. 2026-W43. https://www.groundfreq.com/scenes/united-states/san-francisco-oakland/
Figures are as of 2026-10-22 and move weekly. Data is published under CC BY 4.0 — reuse it with attribution and a link. How the numbers work
Every tracked room in San Francisco/Oakland · The United States rising charts · The global room index · What these figures mean