This is a list of well-known bands originally hailing from San Francisco (we're talking nationally known, not your dad's band from '73):
- The Aislers Set
- Beulah
- Big Brother And the Holding Company
- Boz Scaggs
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Dead Kennedys
- The Dodos
- Faith No More
- The Grateful Dead
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Imperial Teen
- Janis Joplin
- Jefferson Airplane
- John Vanderslice
- Metallica
- Or, The Whale
- Return to Mono
- Santana
- Scissors For Lefty
- Steve Miller Band
- Third Eye Blind
- Tussle