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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Presents: Show me the body, Jesus Piece, Scowl | 6:30pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Kath Bloom / Shannen Moser / Amelia Cry Til I Die | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (Kahil El’Zabar, Corey Wilkes, Alex Harding) Night 1 | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lilys / Danny Death (Night #1) | 7:30pm | Latvian Society | All Ages |
| Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (Kahil El’Zabar, Corey Wilkes, Alex Harding) Night 2 | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| MJ Lenderman / 2nd Grade | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Second Annual Lee Morgan Tribute Weekend with The Orrin Evans Quintet (2 shows 8:00 & 10:00pm) Night 1 | 8:00pm | Chris' Jazz Café | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subterranean Dissonance Fest '23 (feat. Liturgy / Horrendous / Imperial Triumphant / Thantifaxath / Kaonashi / Pyrrhon / John Frum / Cognitive / The HIRS Collective / Sunrot ) | 2:00pm - 11:30pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| TWO PIECE FEST XVI: 22 duo acts | 2:00pm - 11:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| The Lilys / Danny Death (Night #2) | 7:30pm | Latvian Society | All Ages |
| Second Annual Lee Morgan Tribute Weekend with The Orrin Evans Quintet (2 shows 8:00 & 10:00pm) Night 2 | 8:00pm | Chris' Jazz Café | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viagra Boys | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Lieu of Roses / Get With This / Beauty / Pacemaker | 7:30pm | Bonk's Bar | All Ages |
| Queen Rat / Wax Jaw / The Jumping Juvies / The Membrains | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAKT (Alex Skolnick,Tim Motzer, Percy Jones, Kenny Grohowski) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future Teens / Macseal / Shallow Pools | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Marc Ribot: The Jazz-Bins | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghais Guevara / ABBATIA / The Dregs | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Cupcakke | 8:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gorilla Biscuits / Pagan Babies / Be Well (SOLD OUT!) | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y band | 8:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gorilla Biscuits / Kill Your Idols / Raw Brigade / Combust / Dead Last (MATINEE SHOW) - SOLD OUT! | 2:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| 2319 / Goings / Humilitarian / Bike Routes | 7:30pm | Bonk's Bar | All Ages |
| Wolf Eyes / Marshall Allen | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf Eyes / Difficult Passages | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weyes Blood | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weyes Blood (Night 2) | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Bill Callahan | 8:00pm | The Music Hall at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constant Smiles / Pine Barons / Jeff Zeigler | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Violent Way / Castillo / Repeat Offender / Cutdown /The Slads | 8:00pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Richard Lloyd (Television) | 8:00pm | City Winery Philadelphia | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Os Mutantes | 8:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work Wife / Julian / Cedarwell / RIPLEY | 8:00pm | Lot 49 Books | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crywank / Living Hour / Bloomsday | 7:30pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Berne & Sun of Goldfinger (David Torn – el. guitar, Tim Berne – saxophone, Ches Smith – drums, Aurora Nealand - Clarinet) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Berne & Bat Channel (Tim Berne – saxophone, Gregg Belisle-Chi – guitar, Eivind Opsvik – bass, Jeff Davis – drums) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Runnner / waveform* | 8:00pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Meteors / Mighty Joe Castro and the Gravamen / Rocky Kaminski | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| (FILM) REWIND & PLAY - Thelonious Monk documentary | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Unwound (Night 1) | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unwound (Night 2) | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ikue Mori & Charmaine Lee | 8:00pm | University Lutheran | All Ages |
| Foxtails / Amitié / Mt. Ida / Sonagi | 8:00pm | Space 1026 | All Ages |
| Yo La Tengo | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worst Party Ever / Ogbert the Nerd / Oolong | 6:30pm | Silk City | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smidley / Dominic Angelella | 7:30pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis Trio | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Luby Sparks (Japan) / Bubble Tea and Cigarettes / Doused | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | 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+ |
| 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 |
| Enumclaw w/ 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+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet (Ava Mendoza, Shane Parish, Wendy Eisenberg) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| 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+ |
| Mark Guiliana Quartet (Late Show) | 9:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Godcaster / Empath / Blood | 7:30pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Sunset Rubdown | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| The Residents | 8:00pm | Foundry @ The Fillmore | All Ages |
| Danava / Ecstatic Vision / Century | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xylouris White | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deerhoof / Hello Mary / Scarlet | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| FUJI|||||||||||TA / claire rousay | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Eyes | 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 |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiu Xiu / Jakob Battick | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purling Hiss / Chris Forsyth | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built to Spill | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FACS | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acid Mother's Temple / ST 37 | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julianna Barwick | 8:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| OFF! | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Tigre | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Hooker & Matt Lavelle (duo) | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craig Taborn | 8:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falsa & Kamyar Arsani / Sunken Cages (duo) | 7:30pm | The Rotunda | 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 |