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 who have been closely associated with the region. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they are solo artists from the region. The list is grouped by: San Francisco Peninsula/North Bay, East Bay, and South Bay

San Francisco Peninsula/North Bay
• The Ace of Cups

• The Action Design

• The Aislers Set

• American Music Club

• Andre Nickatina

• Animosity

• Anvil Chorus

• Automatic Pilot

• Avengers

• Babylon A.D. (band)

• Beaten by Them

• The Beau Brummels

• The Beatnigs

• Beefy Red  (based in Marin County, 1969-1972)

• Beulah

• Big Brother and the Holding Company

• Blame Sally

• Blaqk Audio

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

• Blue Cheer

• BOMB

• Bracket

• Brittany Shane

• The Brian Jonestown Massacre

• Butch Engle & the Styx

• The Charlatans

• Chris Isaak

• Chrome

• Chuck Prophet

• Clover

• Con Funk Shun

• Consolidated

• Conspiracy of Beards

• The Contractions

• Cormorant

• Craig Abaya

• Crime

• Crown City Rockers

• The Cubby Creatures

• Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks

• Dan the Automator

• Dead Kennedys

• Deafheaven

• Death Angel

• Deerhoof

• Dexter Danger

• Diego's Umbrella

• The Dils (formed in Carlsbad, CA but moved to San Francisco in 1977)

• The Dodos

• Dolores Haze

• The Donnas

• E-40

• The Ebb and Flow

• Eddie and the Tide

• Enemy You

• Every Move A Picture

• Eric McFadden

• Faith No More

• The Family Crest

• Fifty Foot Hose

• Film School

• First Blood

• Flamin' Groovies

• Flipper

• 4 Non Blondes

• The Fucking Buckaroos

• Geographer

• Girls

• The Gone Jackals

• Grateful Dead

• The Great Society

• Her Space Holiday

• Hickey (band)

• Hoodoo Rhythm Devils

• The House Jacks

• Hot Tuna

• Huey Lewis and the News

• Imperial Teen

• It's a Beautiful Day

• Jawbreaker

• J Church

• Jefferson Airplane

• Jefferson Starship

• Jim Campilongo

• Journey

• Kaskade

• Kronos Quartet

• Latin Soul Syndicate

• Leila and the Snakes

• Linda Tillery

• Logos

• Loquat

• LoveLikeFire

• The M Machine

• Mac Dre

• Malo

• Michael Franti

• Mink DeVille

• M.I.R.V.

• Moby Grape

• Mojo Men

• Mordred

• Morning Glory (band) Sixties band

• Mother Earth

• Mount Rushmore

• Naked Lunch

• Negativland

• Night Ranger

• The Nuns

• Oxbow

• The Other Half

• Pablo Cruise

• Pansy Division

• Pearl Harbor and the Explosions

• Psychefunkapus

• Quicksilver Messenger Service

• Red Planet

• The Residents

• Romeo Void

• Rubicon

• Rupa and the April Fishes

• Santana

• Secret Chiefs 3

• Seventeen Evergreen

• Snakefinger

• Snake River Conspiracy

• Sons of Champlin

• Sopwith Camel

• Soundhole

• Steve Miller Band

• Steve Kimock

• The Stone Foxes

• SVT

• Swell

• Thee Oh Sees

• Third Eye Blind

• Those Darn Accordions

• Thunderegg (band)

• Time in Malta

• Toiling Midgets

• Tommy Tutone

• Train

• Translator

• Tsunami Bomb

• The Tubes

• Tupac

• Tuxedomoon

• The Union Trade

• The Units

• Until December

• Two Gallants

• Tycho

• Ty Segall

• Vejtables

• The Velvet Teen

• Vernian Process

• Victim's Family

• Voice Farm

• Waycross

• We Five

• Whipping Boy

• Whirr

• Wire Train

• Wooden Shjips

• X-tal

• Young Elders

East Bay
• Adrian Marcel

• All Shall Perish

• American Steel

• Automatic Man

• Audrye Sessions

• Blackalicious

• Blatz

• Brett Dennen

• Cold Blood

• Communiqué

• Counting Crows

• Country Joe and the Fish

• The Coup

• Creedence Clearwater Revival

• Crimpshrine

• Critical Mass

• Cry Wolf

• Dance Hall Crashers

• Day Wave

• Death Angel

• Defiance

• Deltron 3030

• Desa

• Digital Underground

• Eddie Money

• En Vogue

• Ensemble Mik Nawooj

• Exodus

• Facing New York

• Filth

• Fifteen

• Finish Ticket

• Fleshies

• The Frustrators

• G-Eazy

• Green Day

• The Greg Kihn Band

• Heathen

• Hieroglyphics

• High on Fire

• Honeycut

• Hurricane

• Iamsu!

• Imager

• Is Nothing Sacred

• Kehlani

• Jellyfish

• Joe Satriani

• Joint Venture

• Joy of Cooking

• Judgement Day

• Lääz Rockit

• Lil B

• Link 80

• The Dandelion War

• The Loading Zone

• The Lonely Island

• The Lookouts

• The Lovemakers

• Luniz

• Lyrics Born

• Mac Dre

• Machine Head

• Maldroid

• The Matches

• MC Hammer

• Metal Church

• Metallica (founded in Los Angeles, but moved to El Cerrito before recording their first album)

• Michael Franti

• Monsula

• Montrose

• The Mother Hips

• The Mr. T Experience

• Neurosis

• New Diplomat

• Operation Ivy

• The Pack

• Papa Wheelie

• The Phenomenauts

• Pinhead Gunpowder

• Possessed

• Primus

• Rancid

• Rogue Wave

• Samiam

• The Savage Resurrection

• Screw 32

• Sentinel

• Set Your Goals

• Shannon and the Clams

• Sheila E

• Sly and the Family Stone

• Souls of Mischief

• Stoneground

• The Story So Far

• Sweet Baby

• SWMRS

• Testament

• The Great Work

• The Pointer Sisters

• Tilt

• Tony! Toni! Toné!

• Too Short

• Tower of Power

• Tyrant

• The Uptones

• Vio-lence

• Vitamin Party

• Wallpaper

• Yo

• Y&T

South Bay
• Bassnectar

• The Chocolate Watch Band

• Camper Van Beethoven

• Chris Cain

• Count Five

• Dada (band)

• Dredg

• The Doobie Brothers

• The Kingpins

• Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards

• Los Microwaves

• Manmade God

• Monkeyska

• No Use for a Name

• Lindsey Buckingham

• Los Tigres del Norte

• Pablo Cruise

• Papa Doo Run Run

• Peninsula Banjo Band

• People!

• Sammy Hagar

• Sleep

• Smash Mouth

• Stained Glass

• Stevie Nicks

• Strata

• Syndicate of Sound

• Systematic

• The Call

• Trapt

• Tsunami

• Vienna Teng

• Xiu Xiu