Silent Sunday 042 on March 15 features Dorothy Ashby’s mesmerizing 1970s release The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby featuring Ashby playing original compositions on the koto.

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.

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.

Our second SMARTBOMB Oakland collab night during Season 12 of Selector Series features rising Iranian-American DJ and vinyl collector Ari B.

Wednesday March 11, 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 040 on March 8 features Bobby Humphrey’s classic, Mizell-brothers-produced album Blacks and Blues.

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.

We are hyped to be a part of the inaugural Unabridged: Detroit Incoming series put together by our friends at As You Like It, an important mainstay in the Bay Area’s electronic music community for more than a decade.

Join us on Thursday night at Bar Shiru for Love the Groove, a get together to celebrate the legacy of Detroit’s vast musical influences and to kick off a great weekend of Unabridged music programming. Music provided by selectors In Bloom, DJ Kelleyjane and Joe Rice.

Thursday 03.05.26 8p - midnight.

Free entry with RSVP (required). RSVP does not guarantee entry.

BONUS: Show your Love The Groove RSVP at Gold Palm between 5p - 8p on 03.05 and get a 10% discount!

On Wednesday March 04 we welcome Wonway Posibul to the hi-fi for another go-round of Selector Series.

Wonway Posibul is a GRAMMY nominated songwriter and emcee, DJ, radio host, and award winning actor. Behind the turntables, Wonway has established himself as one of the most sought after DJs in the Bay Area. He has played in locations all around the world and held regular residencies in New York and Los Angeles. His mixtapes have been featured on influential sites such as Okayplayer, Remezcla, and URB magazine. 

You can currently catch Wonway every Monday-Friday night 8-10pm for his radio show on 91.7 FM KALW in San Francisco. 

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 040 on March 1, we kick off Women’s History Month in style with the Queen herself, Beyonce’s buoyant house-inflected 2022 album Renaissance.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all. 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 039 on February 22 is a celebration of Ms. Nina Simone’s birthday, featuring one of her most mesmerizing albums all of time, At Town Hall - recorded and released in the fall of 1959.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all. 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.

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.

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 038 on February 15 features Black Messiah the exceptional 2015 album by the incomparable D’Angelo.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all. 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 037 on February 8 is a celebration of the late great producer James Dewitt Yancey, aka Jay Dee aka J Dilla. As we observe Dilla Day, we’ll be spinning his incredible 2006 swan song Donuts.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all. 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.

JS3 has been mining his stacks for tracks, beats, collabs and all other sonic gems produced by the GOAT, the one-and-only J Dilla aka Jay Dee aka Dill Withers aka James Dewitt Yancey. On Thursday night, Feb 5, he’ll be spinning it all on vinyl as part one of our Dilla Day tribute. 8p onward.

We are hyped to kick off Season 12 (!) of Selector Series during our anniversary festivities. On Wednesday Feb 4 join Oakland’s own GRAMMY-nominated creative multi-hyphenate Ms. RyanNicole, as she takes us on a musical journey through some of her favorite albums.

Seven years!!! Crazy. Let’s celebrate.

Music by Shiru Resident Selectors, drinks by the homies at Fords Gin including a Negroni Fountain and good vibes by y’all. Open to close.

Silent Sunday 036 on February 1 continues our celebration of the John Coltrane Centennial as we feature his iconic album Giant Steps for our weekly deep listening session.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all. 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 035 on January 25 features Chicago post-rock pioneers Tortoise’s seminal 1998 LP TNT.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all. 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 034 on January 18 features Yussef Dayes excellent 2023 LP Black Classical Music.

Silent Sunday occurs every week and is free and open to all. 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 026 featuring Alice Coltrane’s 1970 gem Ptah, The El Daoud featuring Joe Henderson and Pharoah Sanders.

Silent Sunday is happening every single Sunday from 4p - 5:30p, free and open to all. Needle drops of the featured record at 4:30p.

On Wednesday October 22 we are psyched to welcome the gents from Lloyd’s Records, one of our favorite (new) Oakland record shops, to the booth for a night of deep cuts and soulful selections. 8p onward.

The second Uptown Stroll is happening on Thursday October 16! It is near and dear to our hearts as we helped organize this community-minded, family-friendly event. So join us outside on the streets and inside Bar Shiru, Gold Palm and all the other amazing small businesses in the neighborhood for drink specials and revelry.

Our second Selector Series session celebrating the artists behind the excellent new album Traveling Shoes features none other than activist, artist and wordsmith Tongo Eisen-Martin.

Tongo Eisen-Martin was born and raised in San Francisco. Martin was the city’s eighth Poet Laureate (2021–24). He is the author of three collections of poetry: Blood on the Fog (2021), selected by The New York Times as among the Best Poetry of 2021; Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2017); and Someone’s Dead Already (2015). Eisen-Martin fuses political interventions with an idiosyncratic pattern of logic to elucidate how one can find pockets of freedom even within a wider system of oppression. Describing Eisen-Martin’s poetry, famed writer Claudia Rankine says, “This is resistance as sound.” Yet Eisen-Martin’s poems are as personal as they are political. In Heaven Is All Goodbyes, for example, Eisen-Martin takes aim at incarceration-in-plain-sight with the following lines: “My dear, if it is not a city, it is a prison. If it has a prison, it is a prison. Not a city.” In addition to writing revolutionary poetry, Eisen-Martin is committed to raising political awareness through education. He has taught creative writing in prisons and is the author of We Charge Genocide Again, a series of lesson plans to support students and teachers in grappling with the state-sanctioned killing of Black people. A recipient of several awards including the American Book Award (2018), a California Book Award (2018), and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (2018), Eisen-Martin earned both his BA and MA from Columbia University.

Really excited for this week’s Selector Series, our first of two sessions this month celebrating the beautiful new album Traveling Shoes. This week we welcome Damani Rhodes and VADIA to the hi-fi to select some albums that inspired the new work.

VADIA is a native of Oakland, California, who teaches perseverance through art. She is a singer/songwriter who has shared many stages with local and international artists. Her vocal ability allows her to easily adapt to practically every style of music, be it jazz, show tunes, R & B, or pop music—with an unbridled spiritual power in the delivery of every song that she sings. In her writing, VADIA is very sensitive to the message she believes she was entrusted to spread about believing in your own ability to make an enormous impact on the entire world through various arts. She wrote a song entitled “No Graves” that has inspired a growing movement, which can be followed under the hashtag #NOGRAVES. Listen closely to her lyrics, and you will discover that she not only wants to share the beauty of her mind with others, but she invites you to experience the joy and pleasure she feels as she vocally creates an environment of openness, personal reflection, love, and empowerment of artists everywhere. 

Damani Rhodes is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, and entrepreneur whose music blends jazz, gospel, hip hop, funk, and soul. He produced, arranged, and toured with hip hop/soul band SOL Development and founded the jazz fusion group Mino Yanci. His diverse body of work includes socially conscious releases with SOL Development, the fusion-driven explorations of Mino Yanci, and his debut solo project, R.E.A.C.H., recorded live during a residency at the Kennedy Center and released during the pandemic. Damani was the composer for the Emmy-winning documentary Dear Beloved and the Emmy-nominated When the Waters Get Deep. He is currently spearheading the musical foundation and direction of a new project featuring VADIA and Tongo, continuing his mission to create music that moves both hearts and minds.

Selector Series season 11 spins along with Jordan Kurland aka DJ Very Good Minusk stepping into the vaunted Shiru booth on Wednesday September 24 starting at 8p.

Jordan Kurland is a co-founder and partner at Brilliant Corners Artist Management, which has offices in San Francisco,  Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. The company represents acts including Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Toro Y Moi, Perfume Genius, Dan the Automator, Soccer Mommy, Real Estate, New Pornographers, and Pup. Kurland is also a partner in Noise Pop, which produces events throughout the Bay Area including the iconic small club festival of the same name. He was one of the founders of the groundbreaking boutique outdoor music festival Treasure Island, which ran from 2007-2018. 

Kurland is a staunch advocate for local arts and culture and currently serves on the board of non-commercial radio station KEXP, independent literary publisher McSweeney's, and the Stern Grove Festival. He has been collecting vinyl since age 6 and although his tastes have changed, his obsession has not. 

Thrilled to welcome Miami-based DJ and vinyl collector Lotusoph to the hi-fi for this week’s Selector Series. Lotusoph is a Brazilian/Cuban DJ born and based in Miami, FL. Inspired by Miami's cultural and urban characteristics and Florida's beachy and swampy habitats, Lotusoph spins records that take you on a sonic journey through melodic grooves, deep house, vibrant Salsa and Samba, and just about anything in between. 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.

For the next edition of Silent Sunday, happening on Sunday September 14, we are featuring Kadhja Bonet’s beautiful 2018 album Childqueen. Reserve your spot by tapping here.

We wanted to shine a light on Kadhja’s music because, not only is she one of our favorite creators who deserves a wider audience, but recently she’s been a very outspoken voice against the inequities of streaming. She’s been calling out the +ech giants, railing against their control over the streaming landscape, their exploitation of musicians/creators, their utilization of AI and they way many of them are using their wealth to fund the death and destruction of the environment and human lives.

So, Sunday we feature to a bright light in this dark world. For those who have joined us for a previous Silent Sunday, we’re doing things a little differently. Doors for anyone who reserved a Silent Sunday spot will be at 2:30p. We are only featuring one album, with playback beginning at 3p. At 4p, the doors will open to the public.

A night of strictly 45s spun by the one and only Mr Big Happy alongside classic cocktails featuring Makers Mark 46?! Sign us up.

Thursday 09.11 from 8p - 11p. Come through!