First Fridays are FREE at the Uptown! On Jan 6th, we'll be collecting donations at the door to benefit Oakland's Ghost Ship Fire relief funds. Featuring Curse The Cannons (all current members of Screw 32), Between Your Teeth, Burnt Palms, False Positives.
The Uptown is thrilled to present Janis Joplin's original band BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY on Jan 13th! Get advance tix now!
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!
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.
We love our monthly Queer Sessions; a night of singer/songwriters, wordsmiths and performers. Much wonder, much pride. Enjoy a cool drink and wild expressions. No Cover. Performances between 8 and 10pm.
Berkeley Indoor Garden & Inner Standing Sound with DUB CLUB Oakland presents: International Dub Gathering 2017 - USA Launch Party (internationaldubgathering.com) at The Uptown Nightclub in historic downtown Oakland, California.
First Fridays are Free at the Uptown!! See the best local Bay Area musicians for FREE on the big stage! March 3rd, check out some of Oakland's favorite punk bands: Civil War Rust, Great Apes, Daydream & Reunions.
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
A Hella Inclusive Monthly Dance Party at the Uptown featuring a Diverse, Rotating Squad of DJ's, Musicians, Dancers and Vendors from around the Yay Area coming together each month to Function!!!
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.
It has been an age of absence, but now we turn our gaze outward and emerge blinded and blinking from our damp hollow. Harken, and attend to our sound and spectacle! Advance tix on sale now!
1st Friday party at the Uptown - always FREE! - featuring Everyone Is Dirty, Dooms Virginia, Greater Sirens and Love District.
SKINLAB is back for a 20 year Anniversary Party of "Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded"! With KYNG, White Knuckle Riot & Black Water Birth. Tickets onsale now!
Join us for a night of writing, Crumbs the film and saucy tunes by the one and only Ingrid Keir. Free. Happy Hour til 7pm!
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!
Welcome to The Midnight Menagerie: A funk showcase featuring Night Animals, Brass Animals, and Li'l Elephant! Tickets onsale now.
TURNT UPTOWN Is a Hella Inclusive Monthly Dance Party thrown Every Second Friday at The Uptown Nightclub in Oakland!
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.
Futurelic Records Presents a night of Jazz, Soul & Funk with live performances by Camille Safiya, Xiomara & The Futurelics. Sounds provided x DJ Kream along with a special guest performance x Steven Alex
Two Piece Tuesdays are always free! This week featuring JL Stiles and Ed Ivey. Happy Hour until 7pm!
The 45 Sessions 7" Year Anniversary 'Oakland' Edition featuring DJ SCRATCH! Advance Tix available here:
Join author-activist Anne-christine d'Adesky for the Bay Area Book Launch of her forthcoming memoir, "The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris" - With a reading by author Renate Stendhal from her new memoir, "Kiss Me Again, Paris".
WOW! What an honor it is to celebrate our 8th Anniversary of Hella Gay with you!!! This month we're going to have special dancers, cupcakes, goodies and more!!! Stay tuned for updates! Always FREE till 9:30pm
Rock and roll and trash blues with a side of whiskey from Dead Country Gentlemen, Alvie & The Breakfast Pigs plus Wyves on tour from AZ! Only $7
Put on some shades it's about to get lit...The Uptown Nightclub & Sfumato Ent. are bringing you the best new artists in the Bay Area for the dopest live show of 2017.
Join us for another Two Piece Tuesday night of great live local music with Douglas Allen of Blood & Dust. Free! Music starts at 8pm.
A night of dance-able indie bands from the Bay and beyond, with a sweet mix of psych, techno-jazz, and garage pop.
First Friday shows are always FREE! This month featuring The Lucky Eejits, The Sorority, The Stabs and Enemy of My Enemy.
Join us for a jazzy rock and funky soul Thursday night featuring local music supergroups Puff Puff Beer, Gold Casio, and Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks!
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.
Come and celebrate Thirsty Thursday with some amazing ska acts based out of the greater SF Bay Area! Doors at 8pm so make sure you mark calendar, because you won't want to miss this East Bay Ska Party!!!
Hanging Garden is the East Bay's largest alternative dance night. Every 1st Saturday dance to focused bands who have contributed to the larger gothic movement.
Bollywood-inspired SF Bay Area R&B chanteuse Anjali World + Casey Veggies, a LA hip hop artist and one of the founding members of hip hop collective Odd Future
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.
This Is My Fest returns in its 4th year with2 of 4 nights at The Uptown! 11 bands on 2 stages, including Ghoul, Year of the Fist, Verbal Abuse, Captain 9's, and more!
This Is My Fest returns to the Uptown in its fourth year with two nights of shows, with Nothington, DFMK, Broadway Calls, Four Lights, Heartsounds, and more!
