Genre: Concerts

Queens of the Underground Vol 3 feat. Ally Cocaine & More

Starline Social Club Presents:QUEENS OF THE UNDERGROUND VOL 3starringALLY COCAINEDAYDAY ROCKSTARTHUGVERSOULTELICE (of PXSSYPOWERDANCE CREW)DJ STONEY CREATIONHosted by SNOWY GEEFriday June 3 2022 – Doors @ 8pm$15 advance // $20 day of show18+——– About Queens of the Underground:  Queens of the Underground is a quarterly all women, Hip Hop, concert series. Our mission is to provide equitable spaces for women-identified artists to shine in the male-dominated culture of Hip Hop. We promote the diversity of Women’s experiences, in contrast to the limited hyper-sexualized narrative that permeates the mainstream. About the Event:  We are representing Oakland for this upcoming June Showcase, for our special “Queens of the Underground: The Town Edition”.  We are excited to announce our Oakland native  headliner, Ally Cocaine. Supporting musical acts include DayDay Rockstarthug, Keidra, and Versoul, with turf dance performance by Telice of Pxssy Power Dance crew. The show will be hosted by Snowy Gee  with sounds by  DJ Stoney Creation. There will also be women-owned businesses vending throughout the night and a dance party at the end of the show.  For more information check out our website www.queensoftheunderground.com and follow us on Instagram @QueensOfTheUndergroundShow

The Range w/ DEMOTAPES

POPSCENE PRESENTSTHE RANGEDEMOTAPESFriday June 17 2022 – Doors @ 8pm$16 adv // $19 dosAll Ages——— In April of 2018 James Hinton relocated from Brooklyn to isolate himself in the Green Mountains of Vermont and continue to work on the tracks that would make up his rave and grime-influenced fourth LP as The Range. When naming the new album, he landed on a word that captured both the deep intensity of the songs and their multiplicity of meanings: Mercury. The mirror-like surface of liquid mercury made him think about the way his music reflected specific memories from his life. Mercury poisoning causes mad hatter’s disease, a neurological disorder characterized by behaviors including depression, apathy, and social anxiety, all moods that had taken hold of him during his time alone in Vermont. Hinton, who holds a degree in physics from Brown University, also thought of the planet Mercury and its fraught position as the closest planet to the sun. Eventually, as the sun expands into a red giant star, Mercury will be burnt up and consumed. Hinton had been verging on burnout in his creative process and liked the idea of Mercury continuing to exist despite its cataclysmic trajectory – as he puts it, “scorched but still in orbit.” Hinton escaped the overstimulation of New York City thinking the lack of distraction would help him find the focus to complete the album. But he soon discovered the dark side of rural life and came to see it as “existentially scary.” He knew no one and would sometimes go for a month or more without seeing another person. “I think it’s starting to become a bit of a vogue to leave the city for the country but I might serve as a cautionary tale,” he says. “Yes, there is more and better quality time to work on your art, but it can become a prison of your own making. That level of isolation magnified some creeping depression that sent me into a really bad spiral for two years.” Yet the narrative of Mercury is not one of defeat but of defiance. Hinton builds on the techniques he established on his critically acclaimed 2016 LP Potential, seeking to create human connection in the Internet age through sampling vocalists from the corners of YouTube, Instagram, and Periscope. “I feel like I can find ways to express myself in ways that I’m too shy or unable to do in the real world,” Hinton says of the process. Of early album track “Urethane,” he says, “The lyrics ‘last year man got left in the dark – ‘cause man didn’t really have nothing to say’ hit me hard as I was feeling left out and forgotten. I had a mutually agreed upon separation from the world. Those lyrics were defiant to me and a way of fighting back against that feeling.” Mercury both sprawls and soothes across its eleven tracks, following an arc that begins in a dark place but ends in brightness and hope. “I’ve elected to start the album in a period of questioning and tumult with ‘Bicameral’ – ‘When you – when you lied to me’,” says Hinton, quoting the song’s lyrics, “and finish in a period of optimism with ‘Violet’ – ‘For you – never thought I’d feel this way – for you.’”

Oakadelic Wednesdays: Live Funk Soul & R&B in the Crystal Cavern

Oakadelic Wednesdays Wednesday nights in the Crystal Cavern 10pm // No Cover —– Oakadelic Wednesdays is a weekly live funk, soul, R&B and hip hop jam session at the center of Oakland’s live music scene. As a staple of the east bay, it has brought community together for more than 10 years. With a rotating cast of players each week in the houseband, and with a jam session to follow, it keeps people dancing and communing every time.

Oakadelic Wednesdays: Live Funk Soul & R&B in the Crystal Cavern

Oakadelic Wednesdays Wednesday nights in the Crystal Cavern 10pm // No Cover —– Oakadelic Wednesdays is a weekly live funk, soul, R&B and hip hop jam session at the center of Oakland’s live music scene. As a staple of the east bay, it has brought community together for more than 10 years. With a rotating cast of players each week in the houseband, and with a jam session to follow, it keeps people dancing and communing every time.

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