The Uptown is excited to host the Official After Party of Oakland's very own BEATS ANTIQUE. Our doors will open at 7pm so feel free to join us for a drink before the FOX show, then 11pm for the After-Party. Free with Fox ticket, $5 without!
The Active Music Series is focused on presenting new creative jazz and improvised music across the Bay Area. It is dedicated to highlighting the work of artists that embrace experimentalism, are informed by traditions, and demonstrate the confidence to combine complex concepts into unified works.
Active Music Series presents a monthly showcase of local experimental, avant garde music and composition. January features: I SHOULD HAVE CUT THE EYES DIFFERENT, Scott Amendola Trio, Fibers + Gargantius Effect
Active Music Series presents a special tribute to Pauline Oliveros performed by sfSound and ROVA Saxophone Quartet.
Join us at the uptown for 3 performances in an effort to raise money for the Planned Parenthood East Oakland Coliseum Health Center.
Join us for a night of writing, Shock Corridor the film and saucy tunes by the one and only Ingrid Keir. Free. Happy Hour drinks until 7pm!
The Active Music Series is focused on presenting new creative jazz and improvised music across the Bay Area. It is dedicated to highlighting the work of artists that embrace experimentalism, are informed by traditions, and demonstrate the confidence to combine complex concepts into unified works.
This month Active Music Series Presents: Ives Band, Nakata & FootSos!
Chrome was forged from the chaos and excess of mid-'70s Bay Area culture. Don't miss their record release party in Oakland - tix available now!
The Active Music Series is focused on presenting new creative jazz and improvised experimental music across the Bay Area. $5-$15 Suggested Donation / NOTAFLOF
Experimental Oakland power duo Sharkiface and Fletcher Pratt as Shadow Revolutions, and solo esoteric electronic multi-instrumentalist Black Unicorn. Doors 9, Show 9:30. $5 - $15 suggested donation.
11-person ensemble with heavy percussion DennyDennyBreakfast, symphonic cinematic psychedelic rock outfit The Rabbit Hole Orchestra, and neo-soul jazz singer-songwriter Molly Bolton
first-time meeting of oud, guitar, & drums improv trio from Chicago and Bay Area
Kevin Allen (fka Erk Tha Jerk), the Bay Area's bespectacled rapper/crooner/hood nerd extraordinaire, returns to The Uptown with special guests TBA.
Jordan Glenn's BEAK is a percussion-heavy ensemble, the dissonance and spacial movement of A Field Folded, and flute and computer improvisational duo Usufruct. No cover.
Electro-improv duo Apartment D, experimental soundscape artist Madalyn Merkey, and percussion duo Jon Arkin and Jordan Glenn. Free entry.
Saxophone, Clarinet, and live electronic improvisations of composer Aram Shelton, the intuition improvisation of percussionist Jacob Felix, the ominous nondenominational chamber music of Ashen Cleric, and the memory space activated experimentalism of Waxy Tomb.
Due to circumstances beyond The Uptown's control, this show has unfortunately been cancelled.
Kim Nucci Oakland multi-media artist, composer, improviser, and technologist Kim Nucci, sax-drums-cello trio Key West, and abstract yet accessible free improv of Kasey Knudsen Trio.
Active Music Series Presents: Japanese avant-garde sound artist Tatsuya Nakatani, no wave / post-industrial solo artist Sharon Tate Fetus Explosion, and the jittery polyrhythmic sensory overload of Degradient. $5 - $15 sliding scale at the door.
Electroacoustic composer Gabby Wen, experimental Bay Area collective Dirt and Copper, and Oakland free music trio Dolphin (Sam Lefebvre, Riley W. Macleod, & Max Nordile). Doors 9, Show 9:30. $5 - 15 sliding scale.
Electro-prog act Spyn Reset, dance/noise outfit Klyph, and electro-acoustic genre bending artists Secret Sidewalk.
An evening of improvised music with Phillip Greenlief, Trevor Dunn, and Scott Amendola exploring the genres of rock, metal, funk, jazz, post-classical and film music. Their first set of performances as a trio in nearly 20 years.
Post-genre power trio comprised of guitarist Mike Baggetta, bassist Mike Watt (MINUTEMEN, fIREHOSE, The Stooges) and drummer Stephen Hodges (Mavis Staples, Tom Waits, David Lynch).
