THU 6/4
JAZZ
GABRIEL SCHILLINGER-HYMAN TRIO
Pianist Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman has played Carnegie Hall twice with a combination of original tunes and interpretations of pieces by Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk, Keith Jarrett and Duke Ellington. On this night at The Sound Room, he and his trio will be joined by jazz vocalist Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim, winner of the 2021 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. This promises to be an evening for true jazz fans, ranging over the masters, expanding into the future and maybe adding a little storytelling into the mix, from NYC-based artists with Bay Area roots. – JANIS HASHE
INFO: Thu, 7:30pm, Sound Room, 3022 Broadway, Oakland. $32. 510.708.9691.
FRI 6/5
CELTIC
NATALIE & BRITTANY HAAS
Growing up in Menlo Park, sisters Natalie and Brittany Haas found their way to the network of fiddle camps that dot the rural landscape and quickly discovered their love of bluegrass and Celtic music. Over the past two decades they’ve changed the acoustic music landscape. Natalie turned the cello into a serious vehicle for traditional Celtic styles from Scotland, Ireland, Spain and beyond. On fiddle, Brittany has carved out a similarly impressive career, including serving in the house band for Chris Thile’s Live From Here—formerly known as A Prairie Home Companion—which led to her joining Thile’s Punch Brothers. The sisters released the gorgeous duo album HAAS in 2023, focusing on Natalie’s originals. – ANDREW GILBERT
INFO: Fri, 7pm, The Freight, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley. $39-$44. 510.644.2020.
FRI 6/5
JAZZ
YOAV KONIG QUARTET
Bassist/composer Yoav Konig leads a tough young quartet featuring a stellar young, but older, band. Saxophonist Nico Colucci is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory’s roots, jazz and American music program. SFCM grad Michael Potter is a protégé of the great pianist Edward Simon, and drummer Miles Turk has picked up the mantle of his illustrious musical family. Konig has already stepped into a leadership role on the Bay Area scene, leading student jam sessions and gigging with veteran players in the Billy Higgins Legacy Band. A member of the SF Jazz High School All-Stars and the San Francisco Youth Symphony Orchestra, he’s heading off to study music at Columbia University in the fall. – AG
INFO: Fri, 7:30pm, Back Room, 1984 Bonita Ave., Berkeley. $15-$25. 510.654.3808.
FRIDAY 6/5
HIP-HOP
JUVENILE
Juvenile, a foundational architect of Southern hip-hop, emerged from New Orleans’ Magnolia Projects and rose alongside Cash Money Records. He helped drag Louisiana bounce from regional phenomenon into mainstream rap consciousness. His drawled delivery and Mannie Fresh’s rubbery, speaker-rattling production rewrote late-’90s hip-hop. 400 Degreez remains one of rap’s defining albums: swaggering, funny, hyper-local, spawning generational anthems like “Back That Azz Up” and “Ha.” Count on Juvenile and the 400 Degreez Band to deliver a full-body party and enough bass to rearrange your pulse. – SONYA BENNETT-BRANDT
INFO: Fri, 8pm, Fox Theater, 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. $66-$240. 510.302.2250.
FRI 6/5
PUNK
CALIFORNIA KICKS PRESHOW
It must be summertime because the California Kicks fest is back again with Part Three: The Return. Tickets for the two-day hardcore and screamo fest are only $40 per day or $65 for the weekend, staying true to the festival’s DIY ethos. But the night before the fest is even better with Fight Fair, Duck Duck Goose, aplacewe’vealwaysbeen, my precious solitude and Wounded Deer, kicking it off at Gilman for only $20 at the door. So theoretically that’s three days of bands for only $85, way better than some of those other, overly priced festivals stuck in the desert with some of the worst people on the internet. – MAT WEIR
INFO: Fri, 7pm, 924 Gilman St., Berkeley. $18/adv, $20/door. 510.524.8180.
SAT 6/6
INDIE
THE FIN
Led by Yuto Uchino and Kaoru Nakazawa, the Fin makes music suspended between time zones and dream states. The Japanese duo folds together silky indie-pop, soft-focus psychedelia, city-pop shimmer and understated funk. Their arrangements are meticulous but never cold: featherlight, hazy, airy. Their latest album, Somewhere Between, leans further into that liminal quality with piano and strings backing up swoopy synth, smoothing genre edges into something weightless. – SBB
INFO: Sat, 8pm, Eli’s Mile High Club, 3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland. $18-$20. 510.808.7565.
SAT 6/6
PUNK
HUNX AND HIS PUNX
The spookiest street-punk family reunion ever brings the West Coast band back after a hiatus. Seth Bogart, a.k.a. Hunx; Shannon Shaw, of Shannon & the Clams; and Erin Emslie create the kind of show that sticks in the craw, ruffles the skin, plays tricks with one’s eyes and ears, and makes tough love easy to love. Never too rough, sometimes soft, often riding the ridges of desire and daring, this is a cushion worth sinking into. Also appearing is Slippers. Bouncy pop is mainlined, but solid drumming makes it go down easy. Tickets only available at the door. – LOU FANCHER
INFO: Sat, 8pm, Thee Stork Club, 2330 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. $28-30. 510.859.8709.
SUN 6/7
ALT-COUNTRY
THE MONTVALES
Two indie acts combine for a dual album-release party at the Ivy Room. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson (the Montvales) will show off Path of Totality, whose 12 tracks take listeners on a global journey with a woman trying to save her community from a gas pipeline (“Plains of Ohio”) to a grandmother searching Yugoslavia for the Virgin Mary (“Our Lady”). They’re joined on the bill by trans folksinger Creekbed Carter Hogan, whose new Peasants Revolt continues their exploration into “self-taught folk picking and queer mayhem” as the singer/songwriter plays the part of court jester in the halls of a dying empire, “crooning, hollering and grinning in the face of despair … before everything falls apart.” – JH
INFO: Sun, 7pm, Ivy Room, 860 San Pablo Ave., Albany. $18-$20. 510.566.5888.
TUE 6/9
ROCK
CHROCKTIKAL
There’s no denying it, there is some pretty amazing music coming from Korea these days. Along with the ubiquitous K-pop that’s swept the country for the last decade, Korean rock bands are also taking the U.S. by storm. Case in point, ChRocktikal. They’re formed by lead singer Lee Siyeon, who sings for another Korean rock band, Dreamcatcher. ChRocktikal’s name comes from a play on three words: “chrome,” “rock” and kal—which is Korean for a knife or sword. Their debut album, We Break, You Awake, only dropped this past January and they’re already touring the states, which is a testament to the powerful trajectory this band is on. – MW
INFO: Tue, 6pm, Crybaby, 1928 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. $59.
WED 6/10
REGGAE
MIHALI
Listening to a tune pumped out by Vermont-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Mihali is like having a good infection. Soft-pedaled reggae, singable lyrics, putting out new music regularly and often on the road; fans’ thirst is slaked and no one is left high and dry for long. Now touring with a new album, Yestermorrow, Mihali lights up Cornerstone with an East Coast vibe soaked in sunshine, cooled by a mountain breeze and primed to be slathered on like a salve for the soul. – LF
INFO: Wed, 8pm, Cornerstone, 2367 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. $33. 510.214.8600.
