Philly Haps
Philly Happenings is WKDU's listing of upcoming Philadelphia area events.
All events for the next two weeks are read on the radio everyday at Noon, 5pm, and 8pm.
Do you have an event you would like to add to Philly Happenings? Email phillyhaps@wkdu.org.
When you send us information don't forget to mention what artists are performing, the location, date, time and any important details (e.g. all ages, 21+, etc...)
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Philadelphia Orchestra's Balkan and Klezmer Dance Party | 8:00pm | Commonwealth Plaza (Inside the Kimmel Center) | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunami / Spy / Missing Link / Fools Game / Scarab | 7:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Sunken Cages x dragonchild (Danny Mekonnen – saxophone, Ravish Momin – drums, electronics) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Emperor X | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcore Pride Weekend (FRIDAY): Gridiron / Magnitude / Simulakra / Chemical Fix / Moment Of Truth / Never Again / Statement Of Pride | 6:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Dogbeach / Blanket Approval / Mars Counsel / Locations / Cuddle Puddle | 7:00pm | The Fire | 21+ |
| Enumclaw / Nitefire | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Titan to Tachyons (Sally Gates – guitar, Matt Hollenberg – bass VI, Trevor Dunn – bass, Kenny Grohowski – drums) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Layzi / Glitterspitter / Pale Shade / Fullscreen | 8:00pm | Space 1026 | All Ages |
| The Chairman Dances (Album Release) / Spelling Reform | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Kali Malone / Stephen O’Malley | 8:00pm | First Presbyterian Church | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcore Pride Weekend (SATURDAY): MIndforce / Seed Of Pain / Point Of Contact / Be All End All / LIve It Down / Adrienne / Carbonite / Almighty Watching / Burning Strong / Wreckage / Pain Clinic | 4:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Mikey Erg / Vixen 77 / Stud Count / Froggy / School Drugs / the Revelatours | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Strange Ranger / Rentboy / Lisa | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Bill Nace / Basic / Florry | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Kali Malone / Stephen O’Malley | 8:00pm | First Presbyterian Church | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet (Ava Mendoza, Shane Parish, Wendy Eisenberg) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Cheekface / Sad Park | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mehrnam Rastegari & Martin Shamoonpour | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Guiliana Quartet (Early Show) | 7:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Etran De L’Aïr / Emily Robb | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Mark Guiliana Quartet (Late Show) | 9:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avey Tare (of Animal Collective) | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Godcaster / Empath / Blood | 7:30pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| The Residents | 8:00pm | Foundry @ The Fillmore | All Ages |
| Sunset Rubdown | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Danava / Ecstatic Vision / Century | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. James & the Apostles / Creem Circus / Kiss Boom Bah | 8:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | 21+ |
| Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| CH3 / Battalion Zoska / OC Rippers / Degenerate Scum | 8:00pm | The Fire | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caracara / No Stranger / Twentythreenineteen | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xylouris White | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Kath Bloom | 8:00pm | Brickbat Books | All Ages |
| Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders / The Electric Nature / ABACABA | 8:00pm | Century | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUJI|||||||||||TA / claire rousay | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Deerhoof / Hello Mary / Scarlet | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Algiers / Party Dozen / Shop Talk | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Presents: Molchat Doma | 7:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Immanuel Wilkins | 7:30pm | Perelman Theater (Inside the Kimmel Center) | All Ages |
| WKDU Takeover of Johnny Brenda’s | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Titus Andronicus / Country Westerns | 8:30pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bikini Kill / Brontez Purnell | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Tamarisk (Christina Carter/David Menestres/Andrew Weathers) | 8:00pm | 2223.fish | All Ages |
| Wiki / AKAI Solo / Papo2oo4 | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Unwritten Law / Authority Zero / Mercy Music / Eternal Boy | 8:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Throw / Can't Swim / Heart To Gold / Early Humans | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Zorn / Phantom / Mannequin Pussy | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Eyes / Pissed Jeans / Blacks' Myths | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleaford Mods | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morbid Angel / Revocation / Vitriol / Crypta | 8:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra | 7:30pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| MIKE / Slauson Malone 1 | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Poison Ruïn (Record Release) / Puffer / Invertebrates / Blank Spell | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Art Heist | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Codeine / Barbara Manning | 8:30pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connie Han | 7:30pm | Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts | All Ages |
| James "Blood" Ulmer (solo) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Willie Lane & Wednesday Knudsen | 8:00pm | Brickbat Books | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| James "Blood" Ulmer (Black Rock Trío) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Live Skull / Martin Bisi Band / Bitter Wish | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Mouth Records Presents: Masayo Koketsu - Bill Nace duo / Kensington Stranglers / Apologist | 8:00pm | Pageant : Soloveev | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rid of Me / Djunah / Tulip Head | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Xiu Xiu / Jakob Battick | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Sun Ra Arkestra | 8:00pm | The Music Hall at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purling Hiss / Chris Forsyth | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Plunky & Oneness of Juju | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against All Authority / Catbite / Plan A Project | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| The Wailers / Reggae Thunder | 8:00pm | Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shana Cleveland (of La Luz) | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailter Space | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| 100 Gecs / Machine Girl | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomberlin / Trace Mountains | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Screaming Females / Iron Chic / Eye Flys | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Fucked Up | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built to Spill | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Hodera / Kicker / Swim Camp / Elephant Jake | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Gunn & David Moore | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| T.S.O.L. | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry / Gary Numan / Front Line Assembly | 7:30pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Takeover of Johnny Brenda’s | 8:00pm - 12:00am | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Eerie | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Chapel | All Ages |
| Moor Mother / Ka Baird / Jessica Moss | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No More Dysphoria Fest (Day 1) - Petal / Crooks and Nannies / Hit Like a Girl / Lisa / Spring Silver | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBH / MDC / Niis | 8:00pm | Theatre of the Living Arts | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meg Baird / Damon & Naomi | 8:00pm | Jerry's on Front | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamasi Washington | 6:00pm | City Winery Philadelphia | All Ages |
| Chisel / SAVAK | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Virus / Blanks77 / Cheap Sex / Doc Rotten / Revelatours | 8:00pm | The Fire | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forests (Singapore) / Ben Quad | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Come / Sun Organ | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FACS / P.E. / Heavenly Bodies | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Y La Bamba | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acid Mother's Temple / ST 37 | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| hypersurface & Fred Lonberg-Holm/Toshi Makihara/Victor Vieira-Branco/Todd Margasak/Matt Engle | 8:00pm | 2223.fish | All Ages |
| Brandon Seabrook Epic Proportions | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julianna Barwick | 8:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| Sexmob | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Sung | 7:30pm | Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts | All Ages |
| David Murray Trio (Night 1) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen / Bill Nace | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| David Murray Trio (Night 2) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evan Dando | 7:30pm | City Winery Philadelphia | All Ages |
| OFF! | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Tigre | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Baba Commandant and The Mandingo Band | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Hooker & Matt Lavelle (duo) | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Takeover of Johnny Brenda’s | 8:00pm - 12:00am | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craig Taborn | 8:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sisters of Mercy | 8:00pm | The Fillmore Philadelphia | All Ages |
| Roots Picnic (Day 1) | 8:00pm | Mann Center for the Performing Arts | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roots Picnic (Day 2) | 8:00pm | Mann Center for the Performing Arts | All Ages |
| Dreamer Isioma / Amindi | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| black midi | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falsa & Kamyar Arsani / Sunken Cages (duo) | 7:30pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Bobby Watson | 7:30pm | Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts | All Ages |
| Protomartyr | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protomartyr (Night 2) | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puffer / Sociedad Bastarda / Organ-ism / Nightfall / Spore / The Slads / Innuendo / Woodstock 99 / Phantom | 6:00pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warthog / Vaaska / Electric Chair / Public Acid / Alement | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Destruct / The Mall / Beton Arme / Concealed Blade / No Time / Stigmatism / Invertebrates / Lysol / Mutant Strain / Faze + More | 3:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zorn / Beton Arme / Concealed Blade / No Time / Stigmatism / Invertebrates / Lysol / Mutant Strain / Faze + More | 2:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Swearin' / Sheer Mag / Dark Thoughts / TVO | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparks | 8:00pm | Keswick Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catbite / We Are the Union / Kill Lincoln / Bad Operation | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirk Whalum | 7:30pm | Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horsegirl / Lifeguard | 7:30pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clutch / Dinosaur Jr. / Red Fang | 7:30pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex G / Alvvays | 6:00pm | Dell Music Center | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osees | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent Orange / Spice Pistols | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mudhoney / Hooveriii | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amyl and The Sniffers / Die Spitz | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |