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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| West Philly Orchestra | 8:00pm | Black Squirrel Club | 21+ |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argo and the Violet Queens / Gloss / Wallace Tonight | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darius Jones Trio | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 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 |
| Kiss Boom Bah / Cthulhu Martini / Crucial Device | 8:00pm | Century | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeta / Lobby Boxer / Skullpresser | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Yeison Landero | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (FILM) Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sham-E-Ali Nayeem / Swetha Narasimhan / Julius Masri | 8:00pm | Twelve Gates Arts | All Ages |
| Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dromedaries x Alexoteric | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sasquatch / Sick-A-Billys | 7:00pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| Shid / Sloptart / Double Suede / The Polychromatics | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Handsome Dick Manitoba | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dua Saleh | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (Night #1) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (Night #2) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaleel Shaw & Cameron Campbell Quartet | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two Piece Fest XVIII | 2:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| 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 |
| Lilly Hiatt | 8:00pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weatherday | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Agnostic Front / Murphy’s Law / Violent Way / Rage and Ruin | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Damned / The BellRays | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Napalm Death / The Melvins / Weedeate / Dark Sky Burial | 7:00pm | Union Transfer | 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 |