NovemberNov 4 Wednesday 09
Uptones music now available directly
Fun Fun Fun Recordings has launched a new online store widget, so you can now buy Uptones music directly from our site. If you love our music and want to support what we do, please click below and buy Skankin’ Foolz Unite! or Uptones Live!! as high quality, DRM-free …
OctoberOct 13 Tuesday 09
October shows w/ English Beat!
Last minute, we’re on these shows with the Beat! Here’s the 411 :~
The ENGLISH BEAT
The UPTONES
Damon and the Heathens
Thursday Oct. 15, 8:00 PM
@ the Uptown Nightclub
1928 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, California
$20.00 cover, 21+, 8:00 PM
click for: Tickets, …
SeptemberSep 28 Monday 09
Mashitupable!
We’d like to thank Barb at mashable’s Music Monday for featuring “Ridiculous” in her weekly blog. If you’re not familiar with Barb, you can wake up on Monday morning and find ten of the best music downloads that week on the Internets. Check it out, maybe even …
SeptemberSep 11 Friday 09
The UPTONES Postage Stamps
For Immediate Release:
Berkeley, CA, Sept. 12, 2009
The Uptones announce that renowned stamp designer and artist, Paul Jackson, has designed two Uptones U.S. Postage Stamps. Yes these stamps will not only get your mail to its destination, but help spread the word about …
AugustAug 25 Tuesday 09
Uptones Horns in Chinatown
Scott, Adam, and Jeanne waiting to go
on stage at the Chinatown Street Fest.
Gr8 fun was had by all!
for more pics check out:
http://meepum.deviantart.com/gallery/#The-Uptones
Photos by Alycia Ramirez-Leatherman
AugustAug 24 Monday 09
UPTONES get Amnesia
ATR Presents
Sunday, August 30
The UPTONES
+Coup De Ska
9PM, 21+
@Amnesia
853 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 970-0012
Get Directions
AugustAug 21 Friday 09
Oakland Chinatown Streetfest
Oakland Chinatown Streetfest
presents The UPTONES
Saturday, August 22, 4PM
All Ages, Free to the public!
Directions
JulyJul 27 Monday 09
The Uptones make the Top Ten!
Check out Superfan2009’s Top Ten list.
That’s right “Ridiculous” has been included in this wonderful MP3 blog site. You’ve got to love Superfan2009, this MP3 blogger has found and posted a MP3 a day for free download for every day in 2009 so far. There is a …
JulyJul 11 Saturday 09
Moose Goes Postal 4 Ska!
Musashi “Moose” Lethridge, Uptones guitarist and builder of the world’s first Ska Shrine, recently demonstrated Proper Shrine Use and Etiquette, to help publicize the Ska4U Ska Shrine Postage Stamp.
On hand to witness the first Solo Ska Shrine Skankfest, were …
JuneJun 8 Monday 09
First Ska Stamp goes to the North Pole
I mailed my letter to Santa early this year. I used used the new official Ska Shrine Stamp. I’m going to be the 1st to spread Ska love with Mr. and Mrs. Kris Kringle and his whole crew. Spread the word about Ska to all the people you know: Buy a book of stamps.
JuneJun 1 Monday 09
U.S. Post Office Recognizes The Ska Shrine
The Ska Shrine has commissioned The Uptone’s keyboardist and renowned graphic artist, Paul Jackson, to design the first ever Ska Shrine Postage Stamp.
The Ska Shrine’s purpose - to spread the word about Ska - has been realized with the United States Post Office …
AprilApr 27 Monday 09
Ska Night at the Oakland Metro
May 16, 2009
SKA NIGHT WITH:
THE UPTONES
Whiskey Avengers
Dustonious Maximus
The Real Tom Thunder
$10 - 8:00pm
@ The Oakland Metro
All Ages Show
AprilApr 16 Thursday 09
Uptones Guitarists Soar
Eric and Moose popped by the Gibson San Francisco Showroom last week and tried out the Joan Jett Melody Maker and Les Paul Special DC guitars. Photographer Pat Johnson snapped their pic as they jumped for joy with these amazing axes. Eric loved the Joan Jett model so …
AprilApr 8 Thursday 09
The Uptones skank at the Shrine to Skanking
Jake the Skank was on hand to video this historic event. The Uptones were invited to the secret location of Ska4u’s Shrine to Skanking, and they were allowed to be the first people to skank on the shrine. Check it out.
MarchMar 11 Thursday 09
Uptones & Pepper Pots in Petaluma!
Sat, Mar 28:
AllTheRebels presents..
*SKA~MOD knight part 3*
THE UPTONES
The Pepper Pots
Street Vendors
Rude-O-Matic Sound System
@ Phoenix Theater
201 Washington St.
Petaluma, CA 94952
All Ages! $12 8pm
~Get Advance Tickets~
MarchMar 2 Thursday 09
Get Your Warhol On
Our friends at Amoeba Music and East Bay Express are throwing a party based on Andy Warhol’s original 1960s New York City Factory.
Visitors are encouraged to bring a can of Campbell’s soup for the Alameda County Food Bank. Each can of soup donated will enter donors …
FebruaryFeb 25 Thursday 09
Ska’s Not Dead!
Since we launched the Ska 4U site, we’ve been getting emails from ska bands from every corner of the globe. So far we have over 200 bands on our Ska Bands page, and we know that’s just the tip of the iceberg, so keep ‘em coming! Thanks everyone, for letting us …
FebruaryFeb 11 Thursday 09
Great story, Nate!
Local East Bay Express reporter Nate Seltenrich got it right!
“At the Uptones’ Skanking Fools Dance Contest, Ska Reigns Supreme.
Ska’s the limit.”
Read the rest of his story: click here.
FebruaryFeb 10 Thursday 09
Uptones Skanking Petaluma!
AllTheRebels present..
The UPTONES
MMFM
Hectic (Op Ivy tribute)
The Agent Deadlies
Fri Feb 20 @ the Phoenix Theater
201 Washington Street in Petaluma
All Ages Welcome! $10.00 707-762-3565
~Tickets~
FebruaryFeb 9 Thursday 09
Leslie gets the Biggest Check ever
SONICSWAP’s Kelly Brant presents Leslie Watson with the biggest check ever, and $500.
The UPTONES want to thank all 127 contestants,
and acknowledge 9 more names who all won 2nd prize:
#3 Tiger Leet
#16 Erik Wright
#34 Emily Stein
#1 Brown Pride
#41 Mike The …