[POSTPONED TO A NEW DATE TBD] Boyfriend w/ AMK
Due to a health issue, Boyfriend will not be able to make it up to Oakland for the show that was supposed to happen tomorrow December 9 and we are actively trying to reschedule to a new date TBD sometime early next year.We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you guys posted on the new date as soon as we have it confirmed. All tickets purchased for the December 9th show will be valid for the new date and anyone not able to make it can request a refund through ETix.Back shortly with a new date.Starline Social Club PresentsBOYFRIENDAMK (ALIENMACKITTY)Live in the Crystal CavernFriday December 9, 2022$15 adv // $20 dos18+———————- Boyfriend is a songwriter (Big Freedia, Charli XCX, Pussy Riot, Mykki Blanco, Slayyyter, Mala Rodriguez, etc.), producer, and performer. A festival darling (“Bonnaroo’s Best Find” – Bob Lefsetz, “Top 10 Performances of Outside Lands” – Rolling Stone), Boyfriend is perhaps best known for her over-the-top live show.
Cloakroom w/ Wander
Starline Social Club PresentsCLOAKROOMWANDERLive in the Crystal CavernMonday November 14 2022 – Doors @ 6pm$16 adv // $18 dos18+——————— From beyond the Spire and the Ward of Song echoes Cloakroom’s tertiary LP, Dissolution Wave. It’s like this: The concept of Cloakroom’s third album is a space western in which an act of theoretical physics—the dissolution wave—wipes out all of humanity’s existing art and abstract thought. In order to keep the world spinning on its axis, songsmiths must fill the ether with their compositions. Meanwhile, the aforementioned Spire and Ward of Song act as a filter for human imagination: Only the best material can pass through the filter and keep the world turning. This is the philosophical universe that Cloakroom guitarist/vocalist Doyle Martin conceived as a way of processing the last few years. “We lost a couple of close friends over the course of writing this record,” he says. “Dreaming up another world felt easier to digest than the real nitty-gritty we’re immersed in every day.” With lyrics based on an imagined cosmology, Dissolution Wave also marks a grand expansion of Cloakroom’s dreamy space-rock palette. “We often get lumped in with stoner rock bands—and I love that,” bassist Bobby Markos offers, “but at the same time, we can do an acoustic set. If we wanted to make a song completely out of synthesizers, we could. So our approach to Dissolution Wave was to do everything we’ve ever wanted to do.” You’ll hear it in the album’s first single, “A Force At Play.” Written from the perspective of the album’s protagonist—an asteroid miner who writes songs by night—the track has an airy pastoral feel, almost like a modern equivalent of the Byrds’ gorgeous 1968 departure album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo. “The miner is talking about ‘bottling lightning beams,’ which is a new take on the old music industry term ‘lightning in a bottle,’ which can pertain to a fire ass track or a good bottle of homemade booze,” Martin points out. “As you can imagine, bottling lightning is a pretty hard thing to do.” The melancholy title track captures the miner’s regret as they lament that they signed up for such a long stint on the job, while closer “Dissembler” describes their anxiety about the revelator who will judge their work. “If you don’t write a good enough song in this universe, you run the risk of being forgotten and lose the opportunity to return as a meaningful form of life,” Martin explains. Dissolution Wave is Cloakroom’s first album with drummer Tim Remis (also of SweetCobra), who joined in 2019. “Even though we’d already been a band for seven years at that point, adding Tim made it feel all new again,” Markos says. “He brought a whole new songwriting dynamic to the band.” The bulk of the album was recorded in December 2019 at Earth Analog in Tolono, Illinois, the same studio where Cloakroom recorded their 2015 debut, Further Out. Subsequent overdub sessions were done at various Chicago studios. The album was engineered by the band’s longtime soundman (and Markos’ childhood friend), Zac Montez. As fate would have it, Dissolution Wave’s release in early 2022 will align with Cloakroom’s tenth anniversary as a band.
Death Guild x Dazzle
Starline Social Club PresentsDEATH GUILD x DAZZLEA gateway to mischief and terrorIn the Ballroom – DEATH GUILD feat. Joe Radio, Bit & DecayIn the Crystal Cavern – DAZZLE feat. Owen & XanderIn the Social Club – VERTIGO feat Melting Girl & SageFriday October 28 2022 9pm-2am$6.66 adv // $8 dos before 10pm // $10 dos after 10pm18+——————–
Miniature Tigers w/ Katzu Oso
Starline Social Club PresentsMINIATURE TIGERSKATZU OSOLive in the BallroomWednesday November 30 2022 – Doors @ 7:30pm$25 adv // $30 dos18+——————
MIDNIGHT MANTRA feat. Godlee & The Hypnotic
Starline Social Club & Somethin Else PresentsMIDNIGHT MANTRAfeatGODLEE & THE HYPNOTICSounds by DJ Jambalaya Hosted by King LangBangLive in the Crystal CavernFriday October 14, 2022 – Doors @ 8pm$12 adv // $15 dos18+——————-
**CANCELLED** Deaf Club w/ Murder Murder & Hawak
***Due to unforeseen circumstances the Deaf Club show that was supposed to happen today has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience and refunds will be processed shortly.***Starline Social Club PresentsDEAF CLUBMURDER MURDERHAWAKLive in the Crystal CavernSunday October 2, 2022 – Doors @ 7pm$13 adv // $16 dos18+—————–Deaf Club is a savage sound bath dripping with sardonicism: a blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channelingcrust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities. Succinct pauses, surreal frequencies and effects, breakneck pace andsharply hurled vocals characterize the band’s aesthetic, which seems as though it is rooted in a sort ofnasty-sound-meets-highbrow-message ethos. Fueled by the onslaught of society’s insanity and driven mad bytinnitus, Justin Pearson (The Locust, Dead Cross, Planet B), Brian Amalfitano (ACxDC), Scott Osment (WeakFlesh), Jason Klein (Run With The Hunted), and Tommy Meehan (The Manx, Chum Out!) approach music as anopportunity to confront our collective sicknesses. Last October, the band released their debut EP, ContemporarySickness, as well as a Remix cassette EP of bonus remixes featuring GothBoiClique’s YAWNS, BubblegumOctopus, 304angstroms, and DJ Embryonic Petit Sac. More recently, the band released a cover and video of KillingJoke’s “The Wait” as a benefit, a slew of other music videos including a long form performance of their upcomingLP in its entirety, have worked on collaborations with clothing brand Brain Dead to release ultra limited testpressings of their upcoming album, and have played a handful of shows in Southern California, including under a bridge in DTLA lit by the spotlight of a police helicopter hovering overhead.
CANCELED – Alice Boman
Starline Social Club PresentsALICE BOMANLive in the Crystal CavernThursday March 30 2022 – Doors @ 7pm$15 adv // $18 dos18+—————— Alice Boman has been thinking about space a lot lately. The silence between sounds, the unspoken bonds between humans, the enormity of the universe and her place within it. It can all get a little overwhelming at times if she’s honest, but whenever it does there’s always music. “Writing is still a way for me to understand myself,” Boman explains, speaking from her home in Stockholm. “As an overthinker, there’s this constant motion in my head, so it helps to sit down and write about it to actually understand what I feel or think. Or just to find stillness.” You can follow these mini epiphanies on The Space Between, the Swedish singer-songwriter’s stunning new album. Ruminating on intimacy and existential angst, to listen is to hear Boman’s thoughts unfurl in real time, her quiet contemplations cocooned in sympathetic arrangements created in collaboration with producer Patrik Berger.
BAILA PERREO feat. DJ Mind Motion, DJ Eli & DJ Phil (21+)
Starline Social Club PresentsBAILA PERREOfeat.DJ Mind MotionDJ EliDJ PhilLive in the BallroomFriday September 30, 2022 @ 10pm$10 early // $15 advance (before 10pm) // $20 dos (after 10pm)21+—————-
Victor Internet w/ Ariel & The Culture, Estereomance
Starline Social Club PresentsVICTOR INTERNETARIEL & THE CULTUREESTEREOMANCELive in the Crystal CavernSaturday November 19, 2022 – Doors @ 8pm$18 adv // $20 dos18+——————— Victor is a 21 year-old Mexican-American recording artist from Chicago, Illinois making alt-pop and R&B. Victor started producing songs at 16 with an old computer and a borrowed microphone. Releasing his first song in 2017, Victor’s music challenges and discusses the duality of being a first-gen Mexican-American to a Mexican single mom, and discovery of his identity. His sometimes sweet and confessional music spans across genres, from enveloping love songs to hard-edged tracks that address his trying upbringing on the Southside of Chicago.
CANCELED – Queens of the Underground Vol 4 feat. Reverie
Due to some unforeseen circumstances our upcoming @queensoftheundergroundshow featuring our headliner @reverie will be postponed until Spring of 2023 and will be housed at a new venue. All ticket holders will be refunded at this time and the new Date and venue will be announced soon. stay tuned we have some exciting news for our #QueensOfTheUnderground Community! We also will be throwing one final Dance Party at @starline_social_club on December 29th at 9:00pm with @Ray_Rek & @LiLMC.Music! If you’re a DJ or a rapper come through because we’ll also have open decks and a cypher! All #QOTU ticket holders will get in free and all other tickets are $5! Thanks so much to everyone who has supported our movement to create safe and equitable spaces for WOMXN in Hip Hop, we are dedicated to our mission and will never stop grinding until we see the cultural landscape change to allow more WOMXN voices to be heard. Please feel free to reach out via dm or email if you have any questions and we will get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks everyone and we hope to see you all on 12/29!Starline Social Club and Queens of the Underground Present QUEENS OF THE UNDERGROUNDFeat.REVERIEFrisco BabyElle E.D.AJ the OneHosted by Dime Bag DizzyDance Performance by Sova the Owl & The B-Girl MovementLive Beat Set by Lil MCDJ Ray ReckLive in the BallroomSaturday January 28, 2023 – Doors @ 8pmEarly $10 // Advance $15 // Last Chance $2018+————————– Queens of the Underground features an all women Hip Hop lineup across multiple elements of Hip Hop – emcees, DJs, dancers, and live beats. There will also be local women-owned businesses vending at this event. We have put together an amazing lineup for our From the Bay to LA showcase. We have Frisco Baby, Elle E.D., and AJ The One in our opening lineup as well as a dance performance by Sova The Owl & The B-Girl Movement and live beat set by LiL MC all leading up to our headliner Reverie! The night will be hosted by Dime Bag Dizzy and feature Ray Reck as DJ! Queens of the Underground Mission: The mission of Queens of the Underground 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. By providing technical training and resources, we equip women with the skills to create and promote their music and art projects and grow their audience so that they can have successful careers as independent artists.