Touring Los Angeles post-punk / darkwave bands Cold Showers and Second Still are joined by energetic Oakland post-punk outfit Wax Idols. KALX DJ Fernando spinning vinyl between sets. $8 Advance | $10 Doors.
April's free First Friday showcase features Oakland doo-wop jangly garage pop trio Night School, Oakland ethereal post-punk band Silence In The Snow, San Francisco dark indiepop duo New Spell, and Oakland experimental dream-noise outfit The Acharis! + DJ Matokie (KALX) between sets. First Fridays are FREE!
On the first Friday of every month, The Uptown presents a FREE live music showcase that celebrates bands we believe deserve your attention. This month's free First Friday show features Oakland art punks Night Shapes, Los Angeles dreamy indiepop band The Pantones, Oakland shoegaze / post-punk outfit Topographies, and melodic San Francisco dream pop / garage rock band Moon Daze!
Petaluma indie / post-punk band Akes, San Francisco dreampop duo Love Jerks, and woozy Americana-psych outfit Fleeting Trance.
Near Dark Fest, Night 2. UK anarcho punk / goth outfit Rubella Ballet, Barcelona hardcore punk band Lux, Barcelona synth-punk new wave duo Fatamorgana, and more. Click photo for ticket information.
Oakland's jangly doo-wop-inspired garage pop outfit Night School, dream-punk solo project of San Jose's Bean Tupou (Sourpatch) Try the Pie, and Oakland creamsicle indiepop duo Horrible/Adorable. Fernando from KALX will be spinning records between sets. $8 Advance, $10 At the Door.
Touring New York DJ Jonathan Toubin's New York Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off party! Spinning raw, wild, and uncommon original 7-inch vinyl by unsung artists of the '50s and '60s on the beat of today's dance floor. With Oakland post-punk / no-wave trio BAUS, Sacramento garage punk ruffians TH' LOSIN STREAKS, soul-slingers DJ Martha Queen and Abrilita (B-Side Brujas), and guest selector RUSSELL QUAN (The Mummies). Plus a panel of judges that includes SONNY SMITH (Sonny & The Sunsets), TIGER LILY (KALX / JetLag RnR), and more! Come wiggle your hips and take home that $100 dance contest winner's prize!
Near Dark Presents French post-punk band Trisomie 21, Bay Area post-punk / shoegaze outfit Houses of Heaven, and Los Angeles synth pop duo Riki. Click photo icon for ticket link and more info.
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.
Bay Area post-punk / shoegaze band Topographies, Portland goth outfit Vacant Stares, and Bakersfield dreampop duo Fawns of Love.
Surplus 1980 is a Bay Area post-punk band founded in 2009 by former Sleepytime Gorilla Museum multi-instrumentalist Moe Staiano, who will be conducting everyone including Dutch vocalist G.W. Sok of The Ex. Oakland post-punk / dark wave bands Esses and Hazel Atlas are also on the bill.
Only Theatre Of Pain is a goth band featuring legendary Christian Death vocalists Rikk Agnew and Gitane Demone. The band performs the first Christian Death album in its entirety (plus early singles & covers). Mystic Priestess is an anarcho darkwave band from Oakland.
Near Dark Fest Presents: Pink Turns Blue. The legendary post-punk / new wave outfit from Germany are an influential band that formed in 1985. Joining them, Los Angeles dreampop band Second Still, Berlin goth trio Totenwald, Philadelphia's The Ire, and darkwave solo artist Yama Uba (Akiko of Otzi). Click event photo icon for ticket info.
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).
