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Fox Theater - Oakland

1807 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612 map
district: Oakland (Downtown)


Tel. +1 800.745.3000
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Sun Sep 12
As a blissful anthem about facing challenges, standing your ground, holding your nerve and somehow winning in the end, their first single 'Fire With Fire' is a celebration of the human spirit but it's just as easily a celebration of the fact that Jak... → View Details
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Thu Sep 23
The xx are a London quartet, featuring the dual lead vocals of Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sim (who also play lead and bass guitar respectively), Baria Quereshi (keyboards and guitar) and Jamie Smith (beats, MPC sampler). Bonding over a shared love... → View Details
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Mon Sep 27
Michael Angelakos hears music in his head and knows exactly how he wants it to sound. The young composer/performer has already created two studio masterpieces -- Manners and Chunk of Change -- and -- with his fellow musicians in Passion Pit -- is tak... → View Details
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Tue Sep 28
They've sold 30-million records and DVDs, filled the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome a record-breaking 18 times, they pioneered "Visual-Kei," the Japanese music movement that helped spark the current Anime craze, and their leader has been referred to as "the ... → View Details
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Wed Sep 29 - Thu Sep 30
In the August heat of 2009, The Black Keys left a Brooklyn studio - where they'd been working with an all-star posse of MCs - for 10 days in creative isolation at the historic Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama to record their latest album, 'Brothers.' ... → View Details
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Fri Oct 01
It is said that the Flaming Lips was a band born shortly after a gatecrashed party. 1983 was the year and Wayne Coyne, a $60 a week fish-frying employee of Long John Silver's, had finally saved up enough money to buy the Les Paul he'd been eyeing in ... → View Details
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Tue Oct 05
Presale begins Thursday, July 29th at 10am! (password = summer) Currently in the midst of an international festival and headline run spanning Japan to the Netherlands, Broken Bells has confirmed the addition of three new dates to its ongoing debut w... → View Details
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Sat Oct 09
The process of creating "This Town" and the other 12 songs on All Sides began in early 2007 when the band gathered to record demos and start the search for a producer. Following a summer tour, they came together again in Los Angeles last October. Pri... → View Details
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Tue Oct 12
On the Grammy Awards in 2009, Maya Arulpragasam, also known as M.I.A., performed her biggest hit, “Paper Planes,” a rap song that infuses rebellious, defiant lyrics with the sounds of her native Sri Lanka, a riff lifted from the Clash, the bang-bang ... → View Details
Thu Oct 14
Gogol Bordello has been breaking down musical barriers since 1999 with a supercharged music based on a brutal gypsy two step rhythm that sounds like an Eastern European cousin of ska, augmented by punk, metal, rap, flamenco, roots reggae, Italian spa... → View Details
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Fri Oct 15 - Sun Oct 17
Presale begins Thursday, July 29th at 10am! (password = summer) Everybody loves surprises, that feeling of not knowing what might be around the next corner -- and that's exactly the vibe that Widespread Panic gives off every time they unleash a new ... → View Details
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Mon Oct 18
New York's Interpol reminds anyone who has ever heard post-punk bands like Joy Division and the Chameleons of those exact bands, plus a few more. The roots of the band -- as far as its members are considered -- can be traced back to a partnership bet... → View Details
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Tue Oct 19
Jonsi's amazing show has drawn plaudits to equal - and possibly even eclipse - Sigur Ros's own fearsome live reputation and has to be seen to be believed. go contains nine songs amassed from the large pool of songs written by jónsi during his many y... → View Details
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Thu Oct 28
Need You Know is the title of Lady Antebellum's second album, lifted from its leadoff track, which explores the desperate longings that make separated lovers yearn to reconnect in the wee small hours of the morning. But that need you now mantra isnt ... → View Details
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Sat Oct 30
Big riffs, massive grooves, and expansive improvisations are the hallmarks of Gov't Mule's legendary live shows. Likewise, their well-crafted songs feature larger-than-life characters bearing life's heaviest burdens, performed by four musicians - gui... → View Details
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Fri Nov 05
Let's talk about magic. Because music, at its best, is a kind of magic that lifts you up and takes you somewhere else. "I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you're being sucked down into the ... → View Details
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Wed Nov 24
Presale begins Thursday, September 9th at 10am! (password = flora) Pretty Lights is the musical vision of the ultra-versatile Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith, accompanied in the live setting by drummer, Adam Deitch. Together these two ac... → View Details

About Fox Theater - Oakland

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After closing its doors in 1966, the Fox Theater re-opened in February of 2009. The $75mm multi-use renovation project features a state-of-the-art theater with flexible capacity from 1,500 to 2,800. The multiple seating configurations include general admission, cabaret style seating, and reserved seating.

The theater itself now serves as the flagship live music venue for Another Planet Entertainment, well known for bringing outstanding live entertainment to the Greek Theatre, The Independent, Paramount Theatre, Oracle Arena and other popular Bay Area venues. Another Planet Entertainment also produces both the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival and Treasure Island Music Festival.

The theater's wrap around building is the permanent home for the Oakland School for the Arts, a tuition-free charter school dedicated to artistic and academic excellence. The Fox Theater is located in the absolute demographic center of the Bay Area (population 7.5 million). The Theater is the centerpiece of the revitalized Uptown District section of Oakland that features fine dining, a thriving nightlife, and 2,000 new residential development units.

The Fox Theater is located within a half block of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and only a 12-minute train ride from San Francisco and a 9-minute train ride from Berkeley. The Fox Theater, The Greek Theatre at U.C. Berkeley, and Oracle Arena in Oakland lie within 6 miles of each other.

Thanks to the City of Oakland, former Mayor Jerry Brown, California Capital Group and the Friends of the Fox for converting a theater in disrepair in 1996 into a world class theater today in 2009. The Fox Theater would not have had a second life without their dreams and expertise.

And most of all a special thanks to Phil Tagami, who best exemplifies the spirit of community, leadership, and excellence without whom this project, The Oakland School of the Arts and the Fox Theater, would never have seen the “the light of day”. “Phil is what is needed in Oakland. A citizen and a developer with a soul. Phil is the type of unsung member that looks out for the greater good in society and has a vision to see it through” according to Gregg Perloff, Another Planet Entertainment CEO.

Brought to you by your friends at Another Planet Entertainment.

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Editorial Review
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Brandon Summers of The Helio Sequence
Music is in their DNA
By Matt Crawford (05/04/2009)

" After a quiet start in 2009, Portland-based duo The Helio Sequence are back on tour supporting Keane and trying to survive on the road amid rumors of a swine flu pandemic. The band stops at Oakland’s Fox Theater on May 8th. Brandon Summers (guitar/vocals) spoke with SF Station during a phone interview from Portland. "

Editorial Review
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Oakland’s Fox Theater
Historic Movie House Re-Emerges as Mid-Size Music Venue
By Matt Crawford (02/03/2009)

" The landscape for Bay Area performance venues changes February 6th, when Oakland’s Fox Theater, after decades of dormancy and deterioration, hosts Social Distortion. "

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