Update Oct. 8: Due to a health issue, this show has been canceled.
With his trademark bowl cut, puffy jackets, JNCOs and gas-station shades, 26-year-old Oliver Tree is best recognized for his expert-level meme-ing (better seen than explained, as memes are). But the Santa Cruz, Calif., native also makes music that toes the line between emo, hip-hop and pop — funny, serious and baffling. As with Tree’s fellow viral sensation Hobo Johnson — the two artists have toured together — I personally keep waffling between thinking it’s great and thinking it’s garbage, but streaming numbers for “Do You Feel Me?” (his second EP since inking a deal with Atlantic Records, with a full-length on the way) are in the eight figures, and he’s packing venues (Nashville has been sold-out for months). So maybe it stands to reason that Tree, a graduate of noted talent incubator California Institute of the Arts, is more than just a meme in human form. Also playing: Tommy Cash and NVDES. 8 p.m. at the Cannery Ballroom, 1 Cannery Row. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN
