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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Euphoria Again (record release) / Snoozer / Magic America | 7:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Bobby Zankel 75th Birthday Celebration | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia's War Xmas Cold Weather Clothing Drive w/ Sun Organ / Bad History Month / Night of Arrogance / Sandcastle | 7:30pm | Foto Club | 18+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychic Wars / No Yeah No / God Called In (Out?) Sick | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ciel / Merlohh | 9:00pm | The Dolphin | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photon Band / Brother JT / Lettuce Prey | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lotus / Muscle Tough | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rid of Me / My Wife's An Angel / Sunburster / Born Losers DJs | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Lotus / Cal Blac | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| NYE 2025 feat. DJ's Rob Paine / Francisco Collazo / John Raffaele / Keen / Firestone / Urbankowboi / Joshua Orange / low1ron / phreakwency / Kristian Cho / Shai FM | 9:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | 21+ |
| The Menzingers / Captain We're Sinking / The Wild Ones | 9:30pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Girls / Plastic Bitch / The Angies | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim E. Brown / Matthew Danger Lippman / Manic Envy / Gavin Oswald | 8:00pm | Icebox Project Space | All Ages |
| Stinking Lizaveta / Darsombra / Eye Flys | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PWRUP / Kmoy /Take Today / 13 Cavities | 7:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| The Elovaters / Surfer Girl / Beach Fly | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeta / Lobby Boxer / Skullpresser | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Escaper / Qway / Maantrala (DJ Set) | 8:00pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Uprise (record release show) / The Heels / Rage and Ruin / Impact Driver | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. (of Bad Brains) | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ovlov / Grass is Green | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mat Kerekes / Equipment / Bike Routes | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soccer Mommy / L'rain | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali Obomsawin Quartet | 8:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sasquatch / Sick-A-Billys | 7:00pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| Handsome Dick Manitoba | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Shid / Sloptart / Double Suede / The Polychromatics | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dua Saleh | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sicard Hollow | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Tim Heidecker / DJ Dougpound | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Knoettner's Tribute to Thelonious Monk | 3:00pm - 5:00pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pink Sweat$ / Aqyila | 8:00pm | Miller Theater | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saunders Simmons | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Toro Y Moi / Panda Bear | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lunar Vacation / Tasha | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mdou Moctar (acoustic) | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LØLØ | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Templars / Legion 76 / Beton Arme / No Time / The Slads | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frail / Windsor For The Derby / Pyre | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bevis Frond | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soft No / Swerves / Ninth Cage | 3:00pm - 6:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE / Kassie Krut / Polo Perks | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jontavious Willis | 7:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palace | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Richman | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hovvdy / Video Age | 8:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vijay Iyer / Richard Hill, Jr. | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glixen / Suzy Clue / She’s Green | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horsegirl / Free Range / Empath | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die / Atomic Life / Magazine Beach | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Weatherday | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quest Master / Fief (early show) | 7:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Quest Master / Fief (late show) | 9:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Eyes | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nneena Freelon | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSSV ( Mike Bagetta & Stephen Hodges & MIKE WATT) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nabate Isles | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mogwai | 8:00pm | Theatre of the Living Arts | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Butrey's Tribute to Wes Montgomery | 3:00pm - 5:00pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ty Segall / more TBA | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | 8:00pm | The Met Philadelphia | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Payton | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amyl and The Sniffers / Sheer Mag | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Place To Bury Strangers | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Claffy w/ Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jonathan Blake | 7:30pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Oree's Tribute to Charles Mingus | 3:00pm - 5:00pm | The Philadelphia Clef Club | All Ages |