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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liam Grant | 7:00pm | Brickbat Books | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Supports: Strange Mono on Sonic Rendezvous | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | WKDU Studio | All Ages |
| Quest Master / Fief (early show) | 7:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Real Shocks / Thought Control / Minefield / BIG | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | All Ages |
| Steve Lehman Trio & Mark Turner (performs the music of Anthony Braxton) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Tarta Relena / Tongue Depressor | 8:00pm | The Maas Building | All Ages |
| Quest Master / Fief (late show) | 9:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Bradley Earl / Daniel Higgs (Early Show) | 6:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Chapel | All Ages |
| NYSA (fka SHID) / Plastic B*tch / The Angies / Lahnah | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Jeremy Bradley Earl / Daniel Higgs (Late Show) | 9:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Chapel | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weedeater / Bask | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Cloakroom / 22 Degree Halo / Assisted Living | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Black Eyes | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Neal Francis / Improvement Movement | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Thurston Moore with Tom Surgal and William Winant (Night 1) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Glenn Mercer & Richard Barone | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Holy Mountain / Hafsol / My World Ends With You | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Mic | 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Encanto Kicks & Coffee | All Ages |
| Brainorchestra / Wiseboy Jeremy | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Precious Little Life / Yes Yes A Thousand Times Yes / Manor Gates / Hauntress | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Nneena Freelon | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Thurston Moore with Tom Surgal and William Winant (Night 2) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kronos Quartet performs the music of Terry Riley | 7:00pm | Zellerbach Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly Mestizx | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Famous Mammals / Eraser / The Shield | 8:00pm | Jerry's on Front | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Racoma | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Abby Kenna / Public Works | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Still House Plants | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eiko Ishibashi / Hour | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| No Knock / The Tarrys / Vile Enemy / Lottery | 8:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hostile City Weekender II (Night #2) Feat. Clit45 (Long Beach) / The Goons (DC) / Lost Legion (Chicago) / Mike Blanx & the SDABS (NJ) / Badterms (Boston) / Strongarm & the bullies (CA) / Noogy (Dallas, TX) / Impact Driver (Philly) / Scrapyard (NJ) | 5:00pm | Upper Darby American Legion Post 214 | All Ages |
| Taxidermists / Blix / No Knuckle | 7:00pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Paprika (LA) / Acaustix(NY) / Melonhead(OH) / Demonstrate / Commitment | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Nabate Isles | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Alan Sparhawk (of Low) | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Joe Morris+Dan Blacksberg+Carlos Santiago trio / Inverse & Obverse | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mogwai | 8:00pm | Theatre of the Living Arts | All Ages |
| Admin / Spiral Path / The Spine | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wormrot / No/Más / Bandit | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Marshall Allen and the New Dawn | 8:00pm | The Music Hall at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Steph Richards+Qasim Naqvi duo / Nick Millevoi+Andy Pitcher duo | 8:00pm | The Maas Building | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casino Hearts | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| [Book Release] Ben Ratliff "Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening" | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Slomo Sapiens / Owen Stewart / Heaven Man | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| YHWH Nailgun / BabyBaby_Explores / Morgan Garrett | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Dreamwell / Don't Grow Old / Yellfire / Dystrophy / Gre/ay | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Jason Killinger / The Karen Smith Experience / Marshall James Kavanaugh | 7:00pm - 11:00pm | Upstairs at Abyssinia | 21+ |
| The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis play Sonny Sharrock's "Ask The Ages" | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Andrea Burns (record release) / RP Coast / Yaka / DJ Furniture | 8:00pm | Launderette Records | All Ages |
| Aunt Katrina & Flowers For The Dead / A Night Of Arrogance | 8:00pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cryogeyser and more TBA | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Sabertooth Zombie / Search Warrant / Headless World / Brainwashed | 7:30pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Upside Down Punks: The Strange but True Story of That Fugazi Basketball Hoop Show with Des Demonas / Dot Dash / Applied Knowledge | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Presents: WKDU Brunch Takeover at Johnny Brenda's | 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | All Ages |
| Frank Butrey's Tribute to Wes Montgomery | 3:00pm - 5:00pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Slow Joy / Flycatcher | 7:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | All Ages |
| Dummy Pas / Career Day / Armbite / Birdgun | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Diles Que No Me Maten / Bark Culture | 7:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Bear vs. Shark / Snowing | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R.A.P. Ferriera / BLAX | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Everyone Asked About You / Birthday Girl D.C. | 7:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Ty Segall / more TBA | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| L.S. Dunes / From Indian Lakes / Night Sins | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corridor / Robber Robber | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| MIke / Sideshow / Niontay / semiratruth | 7:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Mercury Rev / Ryley Walker | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Ends more TBA | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dead Milkmen / The Ditches / The Rectors (Night 1) | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Roscoe Mitchell & Tyshawn Sorey (Night 1) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Zelzeleh (Faraway Ghost x Sunken Cages) / Ishtar Sr. | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Static Dress / Soul Blind / Prize Horse / Marion Silver | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| The Number Ones / Fan Club / Dark Thoughts / Mopar Stars | 7:30pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Dead Milkmen / The Ditches / EDO (Night 2) | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Roscoe Mitchell & Tyshawn Sorey (Night 2) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Rent Romus' Actual/Actual / Laurent Estoppey+Daniel Levin duo / PurePly | 8:00pm | The Perch | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circuit des Yeux / Leya / Manna | 7:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoh Amba Sun Ensemble | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Bains / Driftwood Soldier | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| The Ancients (Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, William Parker) Night #1 | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ancients (Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, William Parker) Night #2 | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Cheekface | 8:00pm | Foundry @ The Fillmore | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Germantown Jazz Festival 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Vernon Park | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Liberties / Quiet Man / Rope Trick / Webb Chapel | 8:00pm | The Khyber | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season To Risk / Plaque Marks | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Lowertown and more TBA | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Christian Death | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | 8:00pm | The Met Philadelphia | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whirr / Nothing / Sweredriver / The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Akkarai Sisters (S Subhalakshmi & S Sornalatha) | 7:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Glass | 8:00pm | Vox Populi | All Ages |
| DEVO: 50 Years of De-Evolution... continued! | 8:00pm | The Met | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Vylan / Do Flame | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| NIIS / Pollyanna | 8:00pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Smirk | 8:00pm | Khyber Pass Pub | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambrini Girls / Party Dozen | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| The Damned / The BellRays | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Sasami / Jia Pet | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Remover / Dazegxd / d0llywood1 | 7:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Bob Mould | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Body/Head (Kim Gordon & Bill Nace) Night #1 | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Napalm Death / The Melvins / Weedeate / Dark Sky Burial | 7:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Freak Heat Waves / Jack J | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Body/Head (Kim Gordon & Bill Nace) Night #2 | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUNE-YARDS | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Manor / Farmer's Wife / Spaced / Ellis | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Charlotte Cornfield / Sima Cunningham | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Chapel | All Ages |
| Mamalarky | 8:00pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vs Self / Punxsutawney / Lastima | 7:00pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Nicholas Payton | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Anna B Savage | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Chapel | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Farren / Oceanator / Maura Weaver | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pet Symmetry / PONY / Jimmy Montague | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volcandra / Saidan | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Pan Arcadia / Cab Ellis | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| William Tyler | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese Breakfast / Ginger Root (Night #1) | 8:00pm | The Met Philadelphia | All Ages |
| Hamilton Leithauser / Johanna Samuels | 8:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amyl and The Sniffers / Sheer Mag | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Japanese Breakfast / Ginger Root (Night #2) | 8:00pm | The Met Philadelphia | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoking Popes / Off With Their Heads | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| MJ Lenderman & The Wind | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| MODEL/ACTRIZ | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Blue Lake / Ezra Feinberg / Jeff Zeigler | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Chapel | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kause | 7:30pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corpus Offal / Mephitic Corpse | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rivers of Nihil / Holy Fawn / Inter Arma / Glacial Tomb | 6:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Manchild & The Poor Bastards / Fake Shark | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| A Place To Bury Strangers / The Serfs | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catbite / The OBGMs / SOJI / The Heavy Beats | 7:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Claffy w/ Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jonathan Blake | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Mariposas Galácticas / The West Kensingtons / Sweet Poison Victim / Goofy At Night | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alison’s Halo / Cigarettes For Breakfast | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haunt Me / Stare Away / Twin Princess | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fang / YDI / Complete Fucker | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perfume Genius | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Dutch Interior | 8:00pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bones of J.R. Jones | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Karate | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Civic / Mesh | 8:00pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragged Into Sunlight / Mizmor / Meth. | 8:00pm | Concourse | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Pulse 50th Anniversary Tour Night #1 | 7:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Pulse 50th Anniversary Tour Night #2 | 7:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Blondshell | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| THIS WILL DESTROY YOU | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Oree's Tribute to Charles Mingus | 3:00pm - 5:00pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Femi Kuti & The Positive Force | 8:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheater Slicks / Atlantic Thrills | 8:00pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Ark ~ FÓRN | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mekons / Johnny Dowd | 8:00pm | Philadelphia Ethical Society | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| clipping. | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swans | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| W.I.T.C.H. | 8:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stereolab | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osees | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Saints '73-'78 | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patti Smith performs Horses (50th Anniversary) | 8:00pm | The Met | All Ages |