This week’s Selector Series is going down on THURSDAY June 12 and features records curated by Egypt-born, American-raised trombonist and vinyl dj and DJ Alex Wasily.

Currently, Alex tours globally with the New Orleans funk band Dumpstaphunk while djing clubs, listening rooms, and art spaces along the way. He is most well known for creating and hosting the popular funk-centric improvisational series, Very Good™ Mondays, in Los Angeles & New Orleans.

Throughout his career, Alex has collaborated with an array of artists from The Isley Brothers, Tower of Power, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Matthews Band and The Marley Brothers, to Ricky Martin, Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, Jerry Harrison, Haim, and many many others.

8p Thursday.

No Room For Squares is a weekly showcase of classic jazz albums from the decade between 1955 - 1965, one of the most exciting eras in recorded music. No Room For Squares will feature iconic artists like Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk on iconic labels like Blue Note, Impulse! and Prestige. Plus, we’ll have whisky specials each week, so you can sip on a delicious dram while taking in some of our favorite bebop, hard-bop and post-bop albums from the collection.

For this week’s Monday night High Fidelity Listening Session we run it back to 2010 for a quartet of early critically-acclaimed albums by some of the biggest names to emerge from the late-aughts indie scene.

We’ll be spinning Tame Impala’s debut Innerspeaker, Caribou’s Swim, LCD Soundsystem’s This is Happening and Flying Lotus’ sophomore LP Cosmogramma.

8p Monday June 9. Early arrival always recommend, low speaking voices always required.

Silent Sunday returns on June 8. Our monthly deep listening session is back and we have a great one in store. We’ll be featuring Madlib’s Blue Note Records invasion Shades of Blue alongside the debut album III by modern jazz heavyweights BADBADNOTGOOD.

Once the needle drops the talking stops. Tap here to book your seat.

On Thursday, June 5, JS3 is back at the controls for our third annual celebration of the life and music of the one and only Prince Rogers Nelson. Deep Purple is a night of rarities, deep cuts, b-sides and live tracks all from the extensive vinyl crates of JS3.

The Purple starts flowing at 8p. Early arrival strongly recommended for this one.

We kick off the final month of Selector Series Season 10 with Oakland-based DJ 5000 Watts at the controls.

5000 Watts is a DC native centered on sounds of the African diaspora. From hip-hop and r&b to jazz, afrobeats, and house her sets are a musical global voyage to move the spirit.

No Room For Squares is a weekly showcase of classic jazz albums from the decade between 1955 - 1965, one of the most exciting eras in recorded music. No Room For Squares will feature iconic artists like Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk on iconic labels like Blue Note, Impulse! and Prestige. Plus, we’ll have whisky specials each week, so you can sip on a delicious dram while taking in some of our favorite bebop, hard-bop and post-bop albums from the collection.

For this week’s Monday night High Fidelity Listening Session, we’re excited to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Jamie xx’s seminal full-length solo debut In Colour.

9p Monday June 2 (note the later than usual start time!). Early arrival always recommend, low speaking voices always required.

It’s the last Wednesday of the month so it’s time for another Selector Series SMARTBOMB collab night. Very excited to welcome Lonely Girl to the hi-fi for this one.

Amelia Berumen also known as DJ Lonely Girl (@lonely_girl_in_a_cold_world) goes by many titles: creator, photographer, mother, vinyl record crew member, Bay Area local, community builder. While each holds their own space within Berumen’s life, they all work together to play an integral role in her creative output. 

No Room For Squares is a weekly showcase of classic jazz albums from the decade between 1955 - 1965, one of the most exciting eras in recorded music. No Room For Squares will feature iconic artists like Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk on iconic labels like Blue Note, Impulse! and Prestige. Plus, we’ll have whisky specials each week, so you can sip on a delicious dram while taking in some of our favorite bebop, hard-bop and post-bop albums from the collection.

Atmospheres is our weekly excursion into the outer reaches of sound with resident selectors GAHR and LUCAS curating a mix of electronic, ambient and experimental records. Every Thursday at 9p.

Excited to welcome Mizu back to the hi-fi for this week’s Selector Series!

As a vinyl DJ, Mizu's musical sensibilities span across the globe and throughout eras, so expect a wildly eclectic and unique palette of sounds on wax from this upstart artist carving her name out as a multidisciplinary artist and creative community organizer in the bay area. Mizu has amassed a personal collection of vinyl from around the world and this Selector Series night is a perfect opportunity to tell her story through the meaningful records that have inspired her.

No Room For Squares is a weekly showcase of classic jazz albums from the decade between 1955 - 1965, one of the most exciting eras in recorded music. No Room For Squares will feature iconic artists like Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk on iconic labels like Blue Note, Impulse! and Prestige. Plus, we’ll have whisky specials each week, so you can sip on a delicious dram while taking in some of our favorite bebop, hard-bop and post-bop albums from the collection.

For this week’s Monday night High Fidelity Listening Session, we’ll be spinning four of our favorite jazz records from 1975.

This is definitely the “jazz-funk” era, with the most prominent artists at the time moving away from traditional jazz sounds and embracing soul, r&b and funk influences. Blue Note turned to the Mizell Brothers to keep the label relevant and newer labels like KUDU and Flying Dutchman focused on music that had a wider commercial appeal. Lonnie Liston Smith Visions of a New World, Bobbi Humphrey’s Mizell produced Fancy Dancer, Donald Byrd’s Places and Spaces and Grover Washington Jr.’s Mister Magic comprise a worthy survey of the jazz landscape at this moment in time, exactly fifty years ago.

8p Monday May 19. Early arrival always recommend, low speaking voices always required.

Hyped to have Brooklyn-based Quinnette at the controls for this week’s Selector Series

Her journey began growing up in the south where music was cherished by feeling, & was not conformed to any era or time. She is an audio engineer and editor. Shade 45, Sways Universe, featured a mix of hers. Quinnette is a ready proprietor of soulful music. She produces “Soul Purpose”, a series of meaningful events showcasing “Music with a Message and a Purpose”, featuring pioneering acts & many beautifully budding artists.  Quinnette has played BBE in London, Donuts are Forever, Soulitude Festival in Geneva, Switzerland and has gratefully shared sets with some of her most prominent influences while most recently spinning for Saint Heron / Solange Knowles.

No Room For Squares is a weekly showcase of classic jazz albums from the decade between 1955 - 1965, one of the most exciting eras in recorded music. No Room For Squares will feature iconic artists like Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk on iconic labels like Blue Note, Impulse! and Prestige. Plus, we’ll have whisky specials each week, so you can sip on a delicious dram while taking in some of our favorite bebop, hard-bop and post-bop albums from the collection.

For this week’s HFLS we celebrate the absolute LEGEND Stevie Wonder’s 75th Birthday with a night of classic Stevie selections.

This week’s HFLS features one of our all-time favorites, Miss Sharon Jones, the incredible force of nature and modern day soul queen.

Sharon Jones and Dap Kings defined the soulful sounds of Daptone Records starting with their 2001 debut album “Dap Dippin’” followed by a series of increasingly successful studio releases. The warm analog sounds that were capture at The House of Soul, the unassuming Daptone studio and HQ in Brooklyn, built on the legacy of Stax and Fame and Motown, but calling it “retro” feels pejorative and ignores the modern edge that they brought to the proceedings.

From the jump, SJ and the DKs maintained a tireless road schedule, performing thousands of legendary live shows at some of the greatest festivals and venues in the world, even as Sharon, in the later years of her life, was battling cancer. The joy she brought to the stage and the humanity she brought to her music was nothing short of transcendent.

She left us far too soon, finally succumbing to pancreatic cancer after a long, hard-fought battle. But she also left us an unbelievable legacy of music, a model of quality and consistency across a string of objectively excellent LPs and 45s. She remains an inspiration and one of the most-spun artists here at Bar Shiru.

Monday 05.05 at 8p for a night of soul from one of the best to ever do it.

This week’s Selector Series is another collab with SMARTBOMB featuring Bay Area underground staple RITCHRD.

Navigating through various music scenes and eras over the years with ever-evolving sounds & production styles, RITCHRD cut their teeth early by playing live beat sets during the first years of SMARTBOMB events. A natural progression and expansion of sensibilities would find RITCHRD embracing the craft of DJing, soon becoming one of the most exciting and sought after DJs in the bay, moving dancefloors and raves with electric & kinetic sets while tastefully traversing a diverse palette of genre & style. Now growing into the role as a label head, organizer/promoter, and community catalyst, RITCHRD is the founder of NO BIAS, an independent record label and nightlife series started in the Bay Area in 2020, and an integral part of the beloved LOWER GRAND RADIO community radio station in Oakland. 

This week’s HFLS finds us back in 2015 once again, clearly an incredible year for music, as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Kamasi Washington’s appropriately titled debut as a bandleader, The Epic.

Every Thursday, Bar Shiru resident selectors GAHR and LUCAS take us on a journey to the outer reaches of sound, curating an eclectic mix of electronic, ambient, experimental and psychedelic records.

We are excited to partner once again with Impulse! Records to bring you a First Listen of the brand new album by venerable tenor saxophonist David Murray Birdly Serenade.

“I don’t necessarily have to play standards anymore,” reflects Murray. “I’m trying to make my own standards. That’s part of the reason I write songs — to create my own world of music. This project helped me to do that, in a big way.”

At 8pm on Thursday April 24th, we’ll be spinning this album before its official release.

We’re taking it back to 2015 for this week’s Monday night HFLS, spinning four albums that ended up on all the critics’ year end lists of best albums.

And for good reason, Multi-Love by Unkown Mortal Orchestra, Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes, I Love You, Honeybear by Father John Misty and Eleania by Floating Points are all bursting with creative ideas and rich with innovative sounds and arrangements.

We love these opportunities to showcase albums we love that don’t necessarily fit in to our regular jazz-and-soul-heavy programming. So join us Monday at 8p to hear these gems on the hi-fi.

No Room For Squares is a weekly showcase of classic jazz albums from the decade between 1955 - 1965, one of the most exciting eras in recorded music. No Room For Squares will feature iconic artists like Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk on iconic labels like Blue Note, Impulse! and Prestige. Plus, we’ll have whisky specials each week, so you can sip on a delicious dram while taking in some of our favorite bebop, hard-bop and post-bop albums from the collection.

Another week, another birthday celebration for an icon. For this week’s HFLS, we honor the one-and-only Herbie Hancock with a night of records that span his eclectic, trailblazing career.

Early arrival always recommended, low speaking voices always required.

Join us on Sunday April 13th for another Silent Sunday deep listening session. This one will feature André 3000s ambient album New Blue Sun in its entirety. One half of Outkast, one of the most influential hip hop duos of all-time, A3K’s “flute record” shocked the internet and the music industry when it dropped in November of 2023, completely devoid of beats and bars. Instead, we get 90 minutes of evolving atmospheric textures and ambient bliss. Since it’s release, it has been one of the most requested albums for Silent Sunday. We are excited to finally give it it’s proper due.

Silent Sunday is by reservation only. Tap here for all the details and to secure your spot.

Join us for Selector Series this week as we welcome Oakland-based artist, singer and multi-instrumentalist Tauwoo.

Through his creative practice he explores the vulnerability and fragility of the human spirit as a way of connecting the deeply personal with the universal, and the grief of the natural world.

8p Wednesday April 9.

For this week’s Monday night High Fidelity Listening Session we celebrate the music (and April 2 birthday) of the late, great Mr. Marvin Gaye.

Early arrival always recommended, low speaking voices always required.

Join us for Selector Series this week as we welcome Oakland-based artist, singer and songwriter Angel Adedokun.

Angel is known for her ethereal vocals and raw, confessional songwriting. Blending Rock, Jazz, Salsa, Cumbia, Pop, Soul, and Funk, and more, her unique and sultry sound along with her unique storytelling captivates audiences. Angel's mission is to tell the truth and bring people together through music. In addition to music, Angel is an accomplished actor, dancer, choreographer, and educator with credits like Nollywood Dreams, Hairspray, and Jesus Christ Superstar for performance and Heathers, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, and Caroline or Change for choreography. She also leads vocal and acting classes for Tomorrow Youth Repertory, co-founded Oakland’s Yeah, Art!, and served as education director for two years. Instagram: @angeladedokun.

For this week’s HFLS, we’ll be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 masterpiece To Pimp A Butterfly.

9p, 3.17.25. Low speaking voices required.