Fellow Uptones fans, thank you all for your thoughtful name suggestions. I’ve read all the emails, and I loved all the names you came up with. I know I’m a Ska dog. As it turns out, I feel like a Buster. Now that I have a name, I’m going to learn how to skank.
Friday July 11, 7:00pm-Midnight, Free of Charge
To celebrate the winners of the Best of the East Bay, the Express is throwing the biggest performing and visual arts party in the East Bay at the Oakland Museum of California on Friday, July 11.
This event, hosted by MC’s Bukue One and Buttercup (KALX), will feature an Amoeba [...]
BEST SKA BAND - The Uptones
American ska is far less celebrated than its Jamaican and English counterparts. Yet the up-tempo, dance-friendly genre has had considerable impact on pop culture, having influenced everyone from Sublime to No Doubt to Green Day. One of the first (and greatest) American ska outfits, however, was raised right here in [...]
Rude Boy Ska Club 2008
The UPTONES
Ska / Ska / Ska
Monkey
Ska / Reggae / Rockabilly
Coup De Ska
Ska / Reggae / Jazz
Agent Deadlies
Ska / Punk
@ Bottom Of The Hill
1233 17th Street (17th @ Missouri)
San Francisco, CA 94107
Info line: 415-621-4455
Friday July 4 2008
9:30 pm (doors at 8:30)
$10 in advance / $12 at the door
FISHBONE
The UPTONES
Sun House
DJ Kool Kyle
@ The Shattuck Down Low
2284 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA (near Berkeley Bart)
Friday, June 6, 2008!
21+ $17 adv / $20 door
Buy tickets online:
The Skanking_Fool has wangled some promotional CDs from the record label, and he is giving them away free to all advance ticket purchasers at Uptones shows while they last.
THAT’S RIGHT BUY AN ADVANCE TICKET AND GET A FREE CD WHEN YOU ARRIVE.
Buy tickets online!
Here’s MC Michael delivering the big check to first place winner, Kyla! Thanks to all the skankin’ contestants, and to Justi*Fi, Coup De Ska and Ashkenaz for making our second Skanking Fool’s dance contest a rockin’ night of fun.
Tip o’ the hat to alien protocol for simple instructions on how to incite pandemonium! Click [...]
The Uptones need help. Our Doggie needs a name. Got a name? We want your suggestions. If you send us a suggested name, you can get a free CD at our next show at the Ashkenaz. So please help us.
Email skanking_fool at uptones.com with your names.
It’s time for the second Skanking Foolz Dance contest!
Come to Ashkenaz on Friday April 25 and skank your butt off, get your name on this:
Here’s our prize winner from the first contest!
If you want to be a contestant, get your number now, by sending an email to Peps:
pepsonex @ yahoo dot com
See you there, and [...]
The Uptones want to thank Joel Selvin for the mondo cover story he wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook this past Sunday. Plus thanks to Pat Johnson and Katy Raddatz for the marvelous pictures.
Here are some more photos from Katy’s photo session that didn’t make the paper.
Skanking: Noun. A form of dancing practiced in the ska, reggae and punk music scenes. Derived from the verb to Skank.
Fool: Noun. One with a marked propensity or fondness for something.
You are currently browsing the archives for the Skablog category.
