Staying true to our original mission in 2007, Every First Friday we will bring you Local Indie Bands making a name for themselves! 12mn-Sunrunners
11pm-The Hot Toddies
10pm-Sunset Shipwrecks
9pm-Emily Afton
9pm, $7 door
(Every 3rd Saturday)
Get that booty ready to shake because it’s goin down for real!
Join us, beginning June 28th for a regular night featuring cool cocktails, tantalizing Taropy and the marvelous music of Dear County at The Uptown Nightclub. 7 to 10. No Cover.
Live Music. Free! Staying true to our original mission in 2007, Every First Friday we will bring you Local Indie Bands making a name for themselves! Brass Bed, Zodiac Death Valley, The Love Dimension, and Spiral Electric.
Hella Gay is Eastbay's Largest Dance Night! impossible to limit to one genre- a few words that could describe our musical style include: Hip Hop, Trap, Indie, R&B, EDM, Pop, House, Trip-Hop, Slap, Dance, Bedroom-Pop, Club, Bangers
This Months line up is the amazing FOXTAIL BRIGADE, tantilizing TELE NOVELLA, luxurious LEE GALLAGHER and the Hallelujah, and the dastardly DOWN DIRTY SHAKE
Every First Friday, Free of Charge: The Uptown Nightclub presents local indie bands who are making it happen. Our goal is to expose the richness of artistry that resides in the greater Oakland area. This week's line-up features Mad Noise, Talky Tina, Sinister Twist and Catchlight!
A regular weekly event offering live local music, Taropy with Miss Ginger and delicious cocktails. There is no cover and much magic. This week featuring the cabaret-folk rock melodies of Alzara & Brother Spellbinder. Music from 8 to 10pm.
A night of folk, indie and pop from up-and-coming Bay Area artists Annie Bacon & Her Oshen, Thunderegg, On Dolphin and Maximillian!
Don't miss the best of local indie artists performing on the Uptown stage as part of First Friday in Oakland. No cover! This month featuring: Abbot Kinney, Books on Fate, The Quirk, Life in 24 Frames.
Join us every First Friday for a FREE local band showcase! This week featuring The Y Axes, Your Fearless Leader, Aloha Screwdriver and Oakland Stroke! Music starts at 9pm.
From overgrown houses in north Oakland, Trails and Ways make guitar pop, thick with warm noise, driving beats, four voices, and the open chords of bossa nova. Debut album Pathology landed in 2015, earning the band a spot on Barsuk Records and São Paulo's Balaclava Records, and launching the band to shows across North America and Brazil.
A regular event offering live local music and performance, Taropy with Miss Ginger and delicious cocktails. There is no cover and much magic. This week featuring indie-folk duo Solate!
First Fridays are Free! Showcasing Local Indie bands from the greater Bay Area. Happy Hour from 5-7pm! Music starts at 9pm!
We love our monthly Queer Sessions; a night of singer/songwriters and performers. Much wonder, much pride. Enjoy a cool drink and wild expressions. No Cover. Performances between 8 and 10pm.
Support Oakland artists and musicians and indie music and help celebrate Hilary Reed's bday with this very special live music night with some gut kicking heart punching soul rocking queer as folk tunes!
Van Goat (formerly Bear Lincoln) takes the stage on Jan 20th! Blending an upbeat, don't-take-yourself-too-seriously vibe, with clarinet- and bass- driven music that makes Klezmer music seem tame, this band is a surefire party starter that's on its way to bigger things.
Don't miss this epic pop show in Oakland with American Culture (from Denver), Kids On A Crime Spree (Slumberland Records) and Circuits - plus DJ Kid Frostbrite and DJ MT (from LA). Co-presented by Oakland Popfest and KALX Radio.
Join us for a special edition of Two Piece Tuesdays. Peaches for Freedom will be hosting a coming together of any and all for the discussion of how we can resist this current situation. We also have the extraordinary delight of of featuring music artist Alicia B.T.
Every First Friday the Uptown presents a local showcase of the best new local bands in the Bay - and it's FREE! Don't miss Feb 3rd featuring four female-fronted artists making waves in the scene: Cave Clove, Daikon, Annie Bacon + All My Pretty Ones.
Join Queer As Fuck hosted by Bay Area Queer Anti-Fascist Network for an art & performance party! Featuring a photo/art exhibit, poems, rants, songs, including original pieces, and other creative responses to this moment of the Trumpocalypse. AND DANCING! #ResistTrumpTuesdays
Two Piece Tuesdays presents live performance and expressions of wonder. Every Tuesday. Free. Music from 8 to 10.
Join Bonesyard as we celebrate the release of Where Muscle Cars Roam. Featuring performances from The Pleasure Routine, Uncle, and Bonesyard. Half of all proceeds will be donated to victims of Ghostship fire.
1st Friday party at the Uptown - always FREE! - featuring Everyone Is Dirty, Dooms Virginia, Greater Sirens and Love District.
Join host Kim Lembo with songwriters Maya Dorn and Oceana Lawler-Larson as they share songs in the round as part of this monthly series. No cover!
Indie pop rock bands making a name for themselves in the Bay Area - don't miss True Margrit, Droneyard and The Campbell Apartment. Advance tix $5 on sale now!
The Uptown presents local indie fusion/chamber pop band, Two Aerials. EP release show with Vesper Sails and For Now! Get tickets here -->
Join creator and host Kim Lembo with Essence Goldman and Audrey Howard as they share songs in the round as part of the Grab 'Em by the Songs songwriting series.
A night of dance-able indie bands from the Bay and beyond, with a sweet mix of psych, techno-jazz, and garage pop.
Grab 'Em By The Songs is a monthly evening of Bay Area women songwriters sharing songs in the round. August 1st featuring Emily Zisman, Eki Abrams and special guest Liz Pisco. An evening of beautiful music by deeply soulful women.
Our First Friday is always a free showcase of mostly local indie / punk bands. This month we bring you Spindrift, Spiral Electric, The Odd Numbers, Life In 24 Frames, and Rollin Hand;
+DJ Orb!
KALX Presents Oakland Popfest at The Uptown! Don't miss DRESSY BESSY, Summer Twins, Try The Pie, Dream Bitches, Bearcats, Pennywhistle Park and DJ Omar Perez.
Santa Rosa indie rock band Manzanita Falls joined by indie / alt-punk San Francisco acts Thunderegg, and Northern Waste
FREE FIRST FRIDAYS! Every First Friday, The Uptown presents a FREE show of mostly local punk or indie bands. This month showcases the later, with Built for the Sea, Catchlight, RS2 Solid Sound, and Quiet Domino, + DJ Debauchery. Doors 5pm | Show 9pm | 21+
Free First Friday live music showcase with Dub-inspired San Francisco Psych band Extra Classic, San Francisco Chamber Pop act Foxtails Brigade, Oakland indiepop duo Bam! Bam!, and Oakland riot grrrl meets garage band Mutt. Doors 5PM, Show 9PM.
Petaluma indie / post-punk band Akes, San Francisco dreampop duo Love Jerks, and woozy Americana-psych outfit Fleeting Trance.
Bart & The Bedazzled a band from Los Angeles featuring former Bay Area singer-songwriter Bart Davenport. Anna Hillburg is a San Francisco musician formerly of Bay Area indiepop darlings Dreamdate. She will be playing with her full band. Mark Nelsen is a singer-songwriter who often performs as Quiet Domino. DJ Matokie of KALX will be spinning records between sets.
Camp Cope is a feminist indie-punk trio from Melbourne, Australia. Brooklyn Vegan named their sophomore LP "How To Socialize and Make Friends" Best Album of 2018. They are joined by Australian indiepop duo An Horse and NY post-grunge solo act Oceanator.
Doors 8pm | Show 9pm.
Cindy is a tender indie dreampop band from San Francisco who recently self-released their debut LP. Blades of Joy is also from SF, getting nice comparisons to Felt and Durutti Column. Al Harper is a dreamy indiepop band from Oakland. Come support these cool local independent artists.
Los Angeles synth pop / darkwave artist CARESS (Tara Jane from Blood Candy), Oakland post-punk / dreampop duo THE ACHARIS, Portland gothy post-punk DEATHLIST (Jenny of Summer Cannibals) , and Oakland ethereal dreampop band FAWNING (Cheyenne of Night School).
