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.

Industry Grooves is back on Wednesday July 29 featuring Daniel Aderaw Yeshiwas from Brundo Spice Company and Café Colucci curating records for the evening.

Through Brundo, he works directly with smallholder farmers across Ethiopia to source spices while helping preserve and celebrate Ethiopian culinary traditions. At Café Colucci, he’s focused on creating a vibrant gathering place that showcases Ethiopian food, coffee, cocktails, and culture.

8pm onwards for a night of music and community.

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.

Silent Sunday 060 we honor the late, great Amy Winehouse’s second (and final) album Back To Black which turns 20 later this year. Sunday July 26. 4 - 5:30p.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

For Silent Sunday 059 we’ll be spinning the brand new album Distracted by contemporary musical polymath Thundercat. Sunday July 19. 4 - 5:30p.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Silent Sunday 058 features Mulatu Of Ethiopia, the landmark 1972 album by Ethio jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke. Sunday July 12. 4 - 5:30p.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Last summer we invited some of our friends from the hospitality industry to come hang out, play some records and maybe make a special cocktail for the evening. And it was a hoot so we’re running it back!

This July we are really excited to have our homies from Flour + Water, Soba Ichi, Popoca and Cafe Collucci in the mix.

So join us every Wednesday night in July (starting on July 8!) from 8pm - 11pm for some of The Bay Area’s best and baddest food and bev folks as they pull up to the Shiru hi-fi for the ultimate Industry Night.

Silent Sunday 057 features the debut album by Solange Knowles, A Seat At The Table, which is somehow turning 10 years old this year. Sunday June 28. 4 - 5:30p.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Silent Sunday 056 features Filles de Kilimanjaro, the 1968 album by Miles Davis, the final LP by his Second Great Quintet. Sunday June 14.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Silent Sunday 055 features Nicolas Jaar’s 2011 experimental electronic debut LP Space Is Only Noise. Sunday June 14.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Silent Sunday 053 we are pleased to present the Bar Shiru debut of Inferno the hotly anticipated new album by Warp Records icons Boards of Canada, their first album since 2013’s mesmerizing Tomorrow’s Harvest.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Silent Sunday 052 features the 2021 LP Source by UK tenor maestro Nubya Garcia.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Silent Sunday 051 features Oliver Nelson’s post-bop classic The Blues and the Abstract Truth.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Silent Sunday 050 features Dots and Loops the seminal 1997 album by French art pop futurists Stereolab.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Wednesday May 6 we welcome Dion Decibels to the hi-fi for this week’s Selector Series.

Dion Reiner-Guzman, better known as Dion Decibels, is a San Francisco native who was born into music. With his father, a professional drummer, and his mother, a dance instructor, Dion was steeped in sounds from his earliest days. He discovered turntables in 2001 and fell in love with the ability they gave him to shape, transform, and extend his favorite songs. He has since become a major force in the Bay Area music scene as a DJ, sound engineer, and producer.

Silent Sunday 049 brings us another listening session celebrating the Coltrane 100, this time with his scintillating and often overlooked Crescent.

Silent Sunday 048 has been postponed because Bar Shiru will now be closed on Sunday 4/26.

Silent Sunday 047 on April 19, we mark ten years since the Earthly passing of the GOAT, Prince Rogers Nelson. We’ll be spinning his magnum opus, Sign O’ The Times.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

Wednesday April 15 we welcome Rene Paterson aka DJ Pap to the Bar Shiru hi-fi for another night of music and community.

Latin-American DJ and event curator that has delivered his sound on dancefloors throughout North and South America. His bicoastal roots shaped his love for sharing House, New York disco, and groovy dance music. He is part of a collaborative project called Local 500 SF, together they are an underground electronic dance music group that strive to purvey lesser known dance music to party goers in the Bay Area. His personal project Planet Submerge is where he allows himself full creative freedom regarding art, events, and music. Pap enjoys listening to Dub Reggae, Japanese Jazz, and Salsa on Hi-Fi sound systems because of the many elements you can hear layered throughout each track. Expect classic albums that are worthy of being on your listening radar. 

Join Pep Love of the mighty Hieroglyphics as he celebrates the release of his latest project, Acres of Diamonds.

The evening will feature Pep Love in conversation, offering insight into the album, followed by an immersive front-to-back listening experience on our hi-fi.

Designed for music lovers who value intentional listening, this experience centers the album in its purest form sound, story, and atmosphere.

Doors are at 7pm and the programming will be begin at 7:30pm.

Please note, this is an open, communal style event and reservations do not guarantee a seat.

Powered by Hieroglyphics and The Bakari Company.

Your trusty residents are back for the very first Feels Like Friday of 2026! Pamchop and GAHR are back at the controls for a night a soulful and funky selections starting at 8p.

Wednesday April 8 we welcome ALCHEMIA to the Bar Shiru hi-fi for another night of music and community.

ALCHEMIA is an Iranian DJ and multidisciplinary artist. From a young age she started collecting records through flea markets in Iran and since then has expanded from primarily spinning vinyl to digital mixes that include wider sonic influences from Levantine Synth pop to Acid House, Iranian folk music, Cumbia, Darkwave to field recordings and poetry with an emphasis on highlighting global music from SWANA and beyond. Rooted in a radical imagination, both politically and creatively, the north star of art for liberation is what drives her creative practice, be it in music, multimedia printmaking, audio storytelling or photography. Her monthly show, Taste of Cherry, airs live on Oakland’s Lower Grand Radio every 1st Wednesday of the month 7:30-9pm.

Wednesday April 1 we welcome Liam O’Donoghue to the Bar Shiru hi-fi for another night of music and community.

Liam O’Donoghue has been covering local history and culture for the past decade on his podcast and KPFA radio show East Bay Yesterday and through his writing for outlets like SF Gate. His journalism career started by making zines about the Chicago punk scene back in the 1990s. As Liam continued to cover music for various Midwest publications, he discovered raves and began DJing, as well. After moving to the Bay in 2003, his musical tastes expanded beyond house, and his DJ sets at underground parties often weaved together various genres from rap and R&B to Baltimore, cumbia, and jungle. This blending of eclectic styles has become a hallmark of Liam’s sets, which often stretch up to four hours long. After amassing crates upon crates from nearly three decades of digging, Liam is just as comfortable spinning jazz at a wine bar as he is dropping disco at a sweaty club. To keep up with his events and articles, follow @eastbay_yesterday and check out the East Bay Yesterday Substack.   

Silent Sunday 044 on March 29 features Brazilian legend Gal Costa’s 1973 post-tropicalia gem Índia.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday, Bar Shiru is open until 10p.

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 thrilled to participate in this global listening event for the new Tom Misch album, Full Circle. Bar Shiru is one of only three spots in the US to give listeners a preview of the new record before its release.

This event is free and open to all (21+) on a first-come, first-served basis. RSVP does not guarantee entry (or a seat).

We’ll be spinning the album at 8:30p. We expect to hit capacity quickly, so early arrival highly recommended.

On March 25, we welcome Bay Area artist, DJ and producer ZZ (aka Katie Zheng) to the hi-fi for Selector Series, another great night of music and community.

In her work, ZZ explores sound as an atmospheric condition: favoring space, texture, and subtle transformation over immediacy and spectacle. She is the creator of "notes of moss", a nature-inspired project unfolding through live events, performances, and her monthly residency on SutroFM. zz creates sonic experiences that invite deep listening, altered states of attention, and quiet introspection.

8p - 11p

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.

Silent Sunday 043 on March 22 features the Queen of Soul’s understated 1967 masterpiece I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all (21+ only). Doors are at 4p, the featured album spins at 4:30p and there is zero talking (except for ordering) from 4p - 5:30p. Following Silent Sunday Bar Shiru is open until 10p.