We are very excited to announce monthly Queer Sessions; a night of singer/songwriters and performers. There will be delights of innumerable kinds, much pride and Taropy with Miss Ginger. Free!
This Months line up is the amazing FOXTAIL BRIGADE, tantilizing TELE NOVELLA, luxurious LEE GALLAGHER and the Hallelujah, and the dastardly DOWN DIRTY SHAKE
Active Music Series presents performances of experimental notation, conduction, noise, compositions with improvisation, avant jazz, free improvisation, chamber, electronic & electroacoustic music. This month: DunkelpeK, Rova Saxophone Quartet, William Winant/Marshall Trammell Duo
Join us for a mix-and-mingle party honoring the Winners of Oakland Magazine's Best of Oakland issue. Collect your award and mingle with other influential folks in the community! Indulge in light bites by Blue Heron Catering while you enjoy live music by the Queen of Classic Jazz & Blues: Lavay Smith
Bay Area punk rock n roll has never looked so good! Don't miss this line-up of Dog Party (BURGER RECORDS/ Asian Man Records) teaming up with toyGuitar (Fat Wreck Chords), the badass ladies of Dirty Denim, and SF rockers The Total Bettys!
Benefit for Sean Lyons featuring performances by MOFU! (members of MIRV, Mordred, Fungo Mungo, The Spent Poets and Third Eye Blind), MCM & the Monster, Kehoe International (members of Victims Family & Duo De Twang), CACA plays Zappa (members of Primus and Limbomaniacs), & Maximum Bob of Deli Creeps!
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!
Tammy's Camaro was spawned from the artistically fertile avenues of Oakland. The prolific power octet reproduces solar plexus-punishing, pulsating rock from every era for hours, turning any party or performance into a gyrating frenzy. Dance. Drink. Revive. Repeat. Viva fun.
The Uptown Nightclub presents Bay Area rock bands Zed (San Jose),STIMULI (Oakland), La Fin Absolute du Monde (Oakland) & HalphoriO (Oakland).
A night of Bay Area rock bands you won't want to miss: come celebrate Sister Grizzly's EP release with their pals The Shams and Sweetwater Black!
Along with the Queen of Halloween herself, Shotzi Blackheart, The World's 2nd Greatest Rock n Roll Band, THE MEMPHIS MURDER MEN, will be doing their special ALL MISFITS set! Cramp-ons will bring The Cramps from the dead! Burlesque! Costume contest and more!
Dressy Bessy is back on tour with their latest album KINGSIZED, the Denver band's first release in 7 years! Featuring Bearcats, Horrible/Adorable and The Total Bettys with DJ Pointdexter (KALX) & Zola Goodrich, plus release party for Yr First Crush zine.
Two Piece Tuesdays is a weekly event offering live local performance and cocktails. There is no cover and much magic.
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.
Reason to Rebel returns to Oakland, CA for a show at Uptown Nightclub w/Unlikely Heroes & Fellow Wolf. Show starts at 9pm. $6 advance/$8 at the door.
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.
First Fridays are Free! Showcasing Local Indie bands from the greater Bay Area. Happy Hour from 5-7pm! Music starts at 9pm!
Creator and Pioneer of Surf/Rock music, Dick Dale started his Legendary style in 1955. 60+ years later and Dick is still killin' it! Oakland's own Grit & Gold will be opening the show.
The Uptown is thrilled to present Janis Joplin's original band BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY on Jan 13th! Get advance tix now!
Join us for a winter celebration - '80s style!! Live '80s music by Flock of Seagirls and Max Headroom '80s Band, plus costume contest for best '80s outfit, radical prizes, photo booth, and more!
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.
Don't miss the first Annual OAKLAND VOODOO FEST and SAMEDI-CON! 2 stages & 10 bands featuring El Radio Fantastique, Suicide Queen, Screaming Bloody Marys and more! Plus, wear your best Baron Samedi for discounted tickets in costume.
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.
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!
Surrogate Brains, Hewhocannotbenamed, Jonny Manak & the Depressives, and Pleasure Parade. Happy Hour 5-7pm, Music at 9pm
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!
1st Fridays are Free! With The Ferocious Few, Down and Outlaws, Sweetwater Black and The Pits. 8pm!
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
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!
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!
Legendary instrumental guitarist and musical innovator Dick Dale returns to The Uptown! Dick Dale pushed the limits and has influenced countless artists from the '50s until today; including Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, The Beach Boys, The Ventures, Jeff Beck, The Cramps, and La Luz. Also on the bill, Oakland favorites The Hot Toddies! Tickets are limited.
Victoria Wasserman and Jacinto Castaneda perform together in this duet. Playing an eclectic mix of classic and contemporary rock, blues, reggae and soul in both English and in Spanish. No cover.
A night of musical fusion ranging from jazz to rock, Afro-Cuban to avant-garde, blues to grooves. Featuring faculty members from Oakland School for the Arts Instrumental Music Program.
San Francisco hard piano rock duo Sit Kitty Sit, Brooklyn Americana singer-songwriter Ruby Landen, and Oakland punk cabaret outfit Victoria & The Vaudevillains. No cover.
