.Around the Bay in Music: New Club Night in Oakland, Foreign Legion Movie Premiere Tonight, KUSF Sister Station KZSU in Jeopardy

What’s happening around the Bay in music? Lots! Let’s recap, shall we?

1. New Club Night in Oakland: When it comes to nightlife, Oakland is definitely on the come-up. But Starr Piwowarski says the city still lacks a “great dance night.” Which is why she helped start a new club night in Oakland called “Club Drama.”

Held at the Uptown on the last Thursday of the month, the event features “familiar indie dance tracks all while offering a large selection of electro and dance remixes to really give you that dance-club feeling that you can’t find unless you make your way across the bridge,” wrote Piwowarski in an e-mail. Sample artists include Marina and the Diamonds, The Gossip, Dragonette, Martin Solveig, Ke$ha, Ladytron, The Presets, Amanda Blank, Crystal Castles, MSTRKRFT, Goldfrapp, Simian Mobile Disco, Peaches, and more.

Club Drama is also “queer positive,” she says. “With a full lineup of gay DJs, we welcome gay, straight, bi, transgendered, queer oriented and people of all ages over 21.” Club Drama had its first event last month. The next one will be held Thursday, April 28. $5. For more info.

Robyn is the featured artist in April at Club Drama.

  • Robyn is the featured artist in April at Club Drama.

2. Tonight, local rap duo Foreign Legion will premiere its new movie Night Moves, in tandem with the release of its new album of the same name (release date April 12). “It’s a sitcom about two struggling rappers who have just inked their first major-label deal, and are trying, against all odds, not to screw it up,” according to Express music editor Rachel Swan. Check it out the screening tonight at 8 p.m. at Disco Volante (347 14th St., Oakland), followed by a live performance by Foreign Legion.

Speaking of hip-hop and movies, check out the trailer for the Beastie Boys’ new album, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (release date May 3), featuring a redonkulous amount of celebrity cameos, including Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Will Arnett, and others.

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