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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Guy / Johanna Samuels | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Fiona Moonchild | 8:00pm | Upstairs at Abyssinia | 21+ |
| SHBTVG / Red King / Germ USA / Giant | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Honeythunder (Record Release) / Caring Less / Kulfi Girls | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bad Crime (from Milwaukee) \ Civil Rats \ Blank Chrome | 6:30pm | Creep Records | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Hook & the Light | 7:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanator / Bacchae | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
| Amen Dunes / Mabe Fratti | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built to Spill | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| Joanna & Tony Trov (album release show) | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waxahatchee / Tim Heidecker / Gladie (NIght #1) | 7:00pm | The Fillmore Philadelphia | All Ages |
| DIY Playoffs: Fair Game / Skeever / Arm Bite / Beside Me / Bristoltooth | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| NMLSTYL / Zaku | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| BLK ODYSSY | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Susan Alcorn & Simone Baron duo / Senso di Voce | 8:00pm | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement (ELCA) | All Ages |
| King Buzzo & Trevor Dunn w/ JD Pinkus | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waxahatchee / Snail Mail / Greg Mendez (Night #2) | 7:00pm | The Fillmore Philadelphia | All Ages |
| The Kilograms / The Upfux / The West Kensingtons | 7:00pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| 7even7ins / Johnny Dynamite & The Bloodsuckers | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Buzzcocks / Love Crimes | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Khat | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schirenc Plays Pungent Stench / Organ Dealer / Compulsed | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Paul Weller | 8:00pm | Keswick Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cel Ray / The Shield / Nylon / Z-Pak | 7:30pm | Haus of Yarga | All Ages |
| Jazz Jam w/ Orrin Evans - Featured Artist: Ember | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Marika Hackman / Art School Girlfriend | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Secret Chiefs 3: UR (Trey Spruance – guitar, Matt Hollenberg – guitar, Adam Minkoff – guitar, Ches Smith – drums, Shahzad Ismaily – bass, synthesizer) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echo Kid and The Oh-Boys | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
| Daniel Villarreal | 8:30pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pan Arcadia / See Plus / The Customers / Sleep House | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| The Rosies / Babe Haven | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Cashier / Bedridden / Spellbinder / Echotracer | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| PJ Harvey | 8:00pm | The Met Philly | All Ages |
| The Suicide Machines / Big D and the Kid’s Table / The Planet Smashers | 8:00pm | Theatre of the Living Arts | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warpark / Wallace Tonight / Bristoltooth / Honeythunder | 7:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Sabella / Freeze MF | 7:30pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| The dB’s / The Mayflies USA | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| The Lemonheads: It’s a Shame About C’mon Feel Tour (Night 1) | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Tashi Wada | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Glitterspitter / Little Star Run / Soft No / Hover | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dion Lunadon / The Out-Sect / Drew and the Blue | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Sweet Spine / T!LT | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| The Lemonheads: It’s a Shame About C’mon Feel Tour (Night 2) | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sad Park / Yungatita / Fox Teeth | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigarettes for Breakfast / Joyful Forfeit / Glimmer / Slo TV | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Webb Chapel (record release) / A Country Western | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Supports: Denzel Curry | 6:30pm | Wells Fargo Center | All Ages |
| Tatsuya Nakatani / Totally Automatic | 8:00pm | 2223.fish | All Ages |
| Holland Andrews (Night #1) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luna Li | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri duo / Jair-Rohm Parker Wells | 8:00pm | The Perch | All Ages |
| Holland Andrews (Night #2) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Log Fume / Rest Etiquette / Death By Indie / Scoopski | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAGABOW / A Country Western / Stab / Branching Out | 7:00pm | Hidden Fortress | All Ages |
| Shimmer Wince (Anna Webber - tenor sax, flute, bass flute, Adam O’Farrill - trumpet, Mariel Roberts - cello, Elias Stemeseder - synthesizer, Lesley Mok - drums) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Davachi | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| David Nance & Mowed Sound / Writhing Squares | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed / Big Boy / sudden demise | 6:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skye Consort & Emma Björling / Shaina Kapeluck | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rancho Aparte | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Another Michael / Dogs on Shady Lane | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
| Mexican Slum Rats / Winona Forever / The Angies / Israel's Arcade | 7:30pm | Foto Club | 21+ |
| Cass McCombs / Advance Basr | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY Super Bowl Day 1: Elephant Gym / Mei Semones / more TBA | 6:00pm - 11:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Ween - Chocolate & Cheese 30th Anniversary Show | 8:00pm | TD Pavilion at the Mann | All Ages |
| Marbled Eye | 8:00pm | Cousin Danny's | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY Super Bowl Day 2: You Blew It! / Carly Cosgrove / more TBA | 6:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Hotline TNT / Disq | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Mike Nigro / Opheliaxz / Apologist / Mike Quigley | 8:00pm | Launderette Records | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slapshot / Ignite / Death By Stereo | 6:00pm - 11:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| DIY Super Bowl Day 3: Prawn / Slingshot Dakota / Trash Rabbit / Cheep Up! | 6:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical Fuck Storm / Michael Beach | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| X (the band) | 8:00pm | Keswick Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weird of Mouth (Ches Smith - drums, percussion, “Chu Berry 28” - saxophone, Craig Taborn — piano, electronics) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Deerhoof | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UnityTX / Silly Goose / Mugshot | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| The Softies / Lightheaded / 22º Halo | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Soul Coughing | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganavya | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Gethard / Eddie Pepitone / Keegan Tindall | 6:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRLwood | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Truth Club / Joyer / Bunny Tonight | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Amaro Freitas | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bears In Trees / Mothé / Thank You, I'm Sorry | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Jazz Jam w/ Orrin Evans - Featured Artist: Thomas Marriott | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Steve Wynn | 8:00pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
| Tim Berne's Snakeoil (Night #1) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terror / Cro-Mags / Haywire / Hold My Own / False Salvation | 6:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Yard Act / Omni | 7:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Woods / John Andrews /The Yawns | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Delicate Steve (Night #1) | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Tim Berne's Snakeoil (Night #2) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Presents: The 2024 Electronic Music Marathon | 12:00pm - 12:00am | WKDU Studio | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| iLe | 7:00pm | Concourse | 21+ |
| Fake Fruit / Spllit / more TBA | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Delicate Steve (Night #2) | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| The Bevis Frond | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Miles Okazaki: The Complete Monk Songbook | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stinking Lizaveta / Red Devil / Northern Liberties | 7:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Millions of Dead Cops / Soji / Urban Waste | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Satan's Satyrs | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Social Cinema / Attack Dog / Disaster Artist / Pink Blush | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Jake Xerxes Fussell | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiefer Trio | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiu Xiu / J Lesser | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poison Ruin / Bogside Sniper Squadron / Serpent | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Stop.Drop.Rewind / Moments Of | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Universal Light (Mike Gangloff, Jesse Sheppard, Kaily Schenker) / Elizabeth LaPrelle | 8:00pm | Pageant : Soloveev | All Ages |
| Nels Cline (Night #1) w/ Susan Alcorn / Booker Stardrum | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nels Cline (Night #2) with Gregg Belisle-Chi, Jorge Roeder, Chad Taylor | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kate Bollinger / more TBA | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Billy Bragg | 8:00pm | Lansdowne Theater | All Ages |
| Nels Cline (Night #3) with Yuka C Honda | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEL / MSPAINT / Destiny Bond / The Mall | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kississippi / Talker / Twin Princess / Sunday Evening Drive | 7:30pm | Ukie Club Philly | All Ages |
| Boris / Strawcrawler | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Swami John Reis & The Bed of Nails / Lippy | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Richard Thompson | 8:00pm | Lansdowne Theater | All Ages |
| Nels Cline (Night #4) with Glenn Kotche | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalesce / Cave In / Rid Of Me (Matinee Show) | 4:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| LSDXOXO | 7:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Acid Mothers Temple | 8:00pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
| Photay | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rival Schools / Webbed Wing / Hollow Suns / Twowayradio | 7:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheer Mag / The Out-Sect / Happy Body | 7:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Naima Bock | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Chapel | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fog Lake / Foxes in Action | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Robyn Hitchcock | 7:30pm | City Winery Philadelphia | 21+ |
| Sunset Rubdown | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hello Mary / Bleary Eyed / more TBA | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Die Antwoord | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osees / Godcaster | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Band (Steve Gunn - guitar, John Truscinski - drums, electronics, Bill Nace - guitars) / Angelo Outlaw | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pain of Truth / Dying Wish / balmora / discontent | 6:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Nothings / Equipment / Farmer's Wife | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturdays At Your Place / Carpool / Harrison Gordon / TRSH | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mummies / Brower | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Wicca Phase Springs Eternal / OLTH / Pictureplan / Sun Organ | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEVER 333 / Zulu / Move | 7:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marty O'Reilly (Solo) | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Thee Sacred Souls | 8:00pm | The Fillmore Philadelphia | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abdullah Ibrahim Trio | 7:00pm | Zellerbach Theatre | All Ages |
| Tycho | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jazz Jam w/ Orrin Evans - Featured Artist: Imani Records Artists | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat Pile / Mamaleek / Traindodge | 7:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Six Organs of Admittance / Tashi Dorji | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dezron Douglas Quartet | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Odie Leigh | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cortex with guitarists Hedvig Mollestad and Nels Cline (Night #1 Seated Show) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cortex with guitarists Hedvig Mollestad and Nels Cline (Night #2 Standing) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Pink / John Francis Flynn / more TBA | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| J Mascis | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body Meat / Anysia Kym / DORIS | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horse Jumper of Love / Spencer Radcliffe and Everything / Primal Rat Screw | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniform / Pharmakon / True Body | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| They Might Be Giants (Night #1) | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| They Might Be Giants (Night #2) | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blood Brothers (Night #1) | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jazz Jam w/ Orrin Evans - Featured Artist: Imani Records Holiday Jam | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| The Blood Brothers (Night #2) | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Jesus Lizard | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Air Repertory Trio (performing the music of Henry Threadgill) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Harper Quintet plays Black Saint | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Harper Quintet plays The Believer | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendoza Hoff Revels (Ava Mendoza - guitar, Devra Hoff - bass) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali Obomsawin Quartet | 8:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kronos Quartet performs the music of Terry Riley | 7:00pm | Zellerbach Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ty Segall / more TBA | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |