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

On Thursday August 21st, join us for an album listening party celebrating the release of {dakan} the brand new album by Bay Area afro-funk maestros Orchestra Gold.

This vinyl listening party is by reservation only, so tap here to snag your spot.

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.

On Thursday, August 14th, join us for an album listening party for the recently released record “These Things Take Time” by Brooklyn-born, Oakland-based rapper Fresh Daily and French producer Parental.

This vinyl listening party is by reservation only, so tap here to reserve your spot.

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.

Join us next Monday night for a Labels We Love edition of HFLS  as we hear the global rhythms and melodies of Analog Africa (curated by @lucas.on.wax).

Analog Africa was established in 2006 by Tunisian-born Samy Ben Redjeb, who began collecting records from all corners of the African continent while working as a flight attendant in the 1990s. A few years later, he was the resident DJ at a hotel in Senegal when his affection for African records bloomed into a dedicated passion.

We’ve selected four compilations from various stops along the label’s musical journey, showcasing the wide range of artistry that Analog Africa has put on the global stage: “Senegal 70” (Senegal), “Jambú E Os Míticos Sons Da Amazônia” (Northern Brazil), “Dur Dur of Somalia: Volume 1 / Volume 2” (Somalia), and “African Scream Contest 2” (Benin).

8p Monday 08.11, low speaking voices required.

On Sunday August 10th we are pleased to present another Silent Sunday deep listening session featuring two instrumental hip hop classics: DJ Shadow’s seminal 1996 release Endtroducing alongside RJD2’s 2002 Def Jux classic Deadringer.

RSVP required, tap here to reserve your spot today. And remember, once the needle drops, the talking stops.

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

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.

On Monday 08.04 we are proud to present an album listening party for the forthcoming collaborative album by Bay Area legends Headnodic + Jazz Mafia.

This vinyl listening party is by reservation only, so tap here to snag your spot.

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.

Industry Grooves, our Selector Series Summer Takeover, is a way for us to shine a light on some of our beloved friends across the hospitality industry. It’s all about celebrating the beauty of music, the art of a stiff, well-crafted drink and showing love to the incredibly resilient and inspiring Oakland food and beverage community.

On July 30th we welcome GM/beverage director Sequoya Lee to Shiru for a night of soulful selections and tasty, creative drink specials. Sequoya is not only our neighbor, Night Heron is situated smack-dab in between Bar Shiru and Gold Palm, but a Shiru alumni and just overall amazing person/badass.

8p onward to catch a vibe and close out this incredible inaugural run of Industry Grooves!

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.

Winners of our Summer Raffle announced on July 25th! Enter now for a shot at some great prizes!!

Industry Grooves, our Selector Series Summer Takeover, is a way for us to shine a light on some of our beloved friends across the hospitality industry. It’s all about celebrating the beauty of music, the art of a stiff, well-crafted drink and showing love to the incredibly resilient and inspiring Oakland food and beverage community.

On July 23 we feature music and beverages from Blake Cole, the owner of Friends and Family in Oakland, the queer and women-owned and operated restaurant and cocktail bar that serves subtle variations on cocktail classics with an incredible food program from celebrated queer chef Gaby Maeda.

8p onward. Don’t miss it!

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.

This week’s HFLS, curated by Shiru Resident Selector Pam Torrno, is a salute to the late, great vibraphonist and bandleader Cal Tjader, on the centennial of arguably the greatest non-Latin musician in Latin jazz history. 

Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. was the son of vaudeville performers, born July 16, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri, but raised in San Mateo, California. As a student at San Francisco State, Tjader met Dave Brubeck and went on to play drums in Brubeck’s original trio. But it was his stint as a percussionist for George Shearing during the 50s mambo craze in New York that inspired him to lead his own bands, fusing his deep love for Afro-Cuban rhythms with West Coast cool jazz.This week’s HFLS, curated by Shiru Resident Selector @pamchop, is a salute to the late, great vibraphonist and bandleader Cal Tjader, on the centennial of arguably the greatest non-Latin musician in Latin jazz history. 

8p Monday 07.21. Early arrival recommended, low speaking voices required.

Industry Grooves, our Selector Series Summer Takeover, is a way for us to shine a light on some of our beloved friends across the hospitality industry. It’s all about celebrating the beauty of music, the art of a stiff, well-crafted drink and showing love to the incredibly resilient and inspiring Oakland food and beverage community.

On Wednesday July 16, we’ll be featuring some friends and a drink or two from The Cat House, the women-owned neighborhood cocktail joint that’s been holding down on Lakeshore Ave since 2016. Ricky will be spinning records and Hana and crew are going to have a special cocktail or two in the mix as well.

8p onward.

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.

If you thought we were done with 2015… think again friends! It was just a phenomenal year for music. For this week’s Monday night High Fidelity Listening Session we’ll be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Tame Impala’s Currents.

Kevin Parker’s two previous albums Innerspeaker and Lonerism established him (and the band) as the preeminent purveyors of modern psychedelia, but it was Currents that shot Parker and his Tame Impala project into the stratosphere. He added dancier drums and a more polished pop sheen to the angsty psychedelic grooves and unlocked a new sound that would land him on some of the biggest stages in the world. Hell, Rihanna even covered album closer “New Person, Same Old Mistakes”.

We’ll be spinning this sonic gem at 9p on Monday July 14. Early arrival recommended, low speaking voices required.

For Silent Sunday 022 we are taking it back to 1970 to present two iconic jazz masterpieces: Dorothy Ashby’s sublime, soulful Afro-Harping and Ahmad Jamal’s career-defining “deep trio” album The Awakening.

Silent Sunday deep listening sessions are by reservation only. Secure your spot today and enjoy these two gems on our 100% analog hi-fi with zero talking. Once the needle drops, the talking stops.

For this week’s Monday night HFLS we’ll featuring the music of the one-and-only Bill Withers. The iconic singer/songwriter was born on July 4th, but we’ll be starting the celebrations early with an evening full of his most iconic and enduring albums.

Monday June 30, 8p. Early arrival always suggested, low speaking voices always required.

SELECTOR SERIES WITH LYRICS BORN ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 25 HAS BEEN CANCELED

For this week’s Monday night HFLS we once again return to 2015, which was an incredible high water mark for music in the first quarter of this century. We’ll be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Leon Bridges beautiful, soulful debut album Coming Home.

9p. Early arrival always suggested, low speaking voices always required.

We’ll see you on Friday!

Co-owners and permanent resident selectors step into the booth for the penultimate night of Selector Series Season 10!

9p - don’t miss it.

For this week’s Monday night HFLS we’re bringing you another edition of Labels We Love, this time featuring venerable UK label Mr Bongo.

Since 1989, the record store and record label currently based in Brighton has been putting out some of the finest, most sought-after reissues of once-obscure South American and African records on the market today. Founder David Buttle has been traveling the world since the 1980s, digging in warehouses, shops and, often, peoples’ homes, in order to unearth these rare gems and bring them to a wider audience.

We’ll be featuring four of our favorite re-issues from Mr Bongo that we have in the collection: Shina Williams’ African Dances, Ebo Taylor’s My Life and Music, Gal Costa’s classic India and South African tenor saxophonist Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi’s 1968 album Y’akhal’ Inkomo.

8p. Early arrival always suggested, low speaking voices always required.

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.

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.