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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWAR / Cancer Bats / Squid Pisser | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
| The Ditches / The Falling Out / Highfield / The Koosmans | 8:00pm | The Fire | 21+ |
| Honey Radar / Smug Brothers / Looser | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Valley Lodge / Mikey Erg / The Blackburns | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spiral Q Puppet Theater - The 24th annual PEOPLEHOOD! | 1:00pm | Spiral Q's Studio | All Ages |
| WKDU Supports: Minibeast, Writhing Squares, Rope Trick, Bitter Wish at Silk City | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| Marty O'Reilly (Solo) | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Thee Sacred Souls | 8:00pm | The Fillmore Philadelphia | All Ages |
| Makoto Kawabata + Tim Dahl + Simeon Cain | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Presents: Sunday Brunch @ Johnny Brenda’s | 12:00pm - 4:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Abdullah Ibrahim Trio | 7:00pm | Zellerbach Theatre | All Ages |
| Mean Jeans / Blank Chome | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Tycho | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Truant Minds / Seeing Snakes / Take Your World | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Better Lovers / Full of Hell / SPY / Cloakroom | 7:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaux / Lily Seabird / more TBA | 7:30pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Norma Jean / Teeth / Mouth for War / Left To Vanish | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finom (fka Ohmme) / Meg Elsier | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Jazz Jam w/ Orrin Evans - Featured Artist: Imani Records Artists | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Lieu of Roses / All The Flowers / Denver Pike | 7:00pm | Love City Brewing | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Supports: Dilly Dally Fest 2 | 3:00pm | Underground Arts | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat Pile / Mamaleek / Traindodge | 7:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Julian / Dogwood Tales / Laybrum | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Six Organs of Admittance / Tashi Dorji | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Madska (Album Release Party) / Monstera / The Side Chicks | 8:00pm | Ruba Club | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lavender Flu / Emily Robb | 8:00pm | Jerry's on Front | All Ages |
| Dezron Douglas Quartet | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Octave Cat / Qway | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Odie Leigh | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reggae Record Swap featuring local selectors Soon Come, Brotherly Dubs, Edwah, and Jay Boxcar | 12:00pm - 5:00pm | Launderette Records | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cortex with guitarists Hedvig Mollestad and Nels Cline (Night #1 Seated Show) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Carol Ades / Sabrina Song | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Extra Life / Nick Millevoi & Mental Jewelry | 8:00pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Templar / Black Hibiscus | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Cortex with guitarists Hedvig Mollestad and Nels Cline (Night #2 Standing) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayden Pedigo / Marem Ladson | 7:00pm | Silk City | All Ages |
| Wild Pink / John Francis Flynn / Graduation Speech | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Wishy / Prize Horse | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | 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+ |
| Dominic Angelella / Lindsay Reamer / Lucy Stone | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxwell Stern and the Good Light Band / Pouty / Harmony Woods | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Supports: Blood Incantation and Midwife | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orrin Evans and The Captain Black Big Band (w/ special guest vocalists) | 7:30pm | Perelman Theater (Inside the Kimmel Center) | All Ages |
| High Reeper / Witching / Honey | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Ra Arkestra | 7:30pm | City Winery Philadelphia | 21+ |
| ChaZZ Love / The Broke Brothers / Dirt Birth / Starkey | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| The Bret Tobias Set / Mandy Valentine / All the Living and the Dead | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paerish / Covey / Alex Vile | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Uniform / Pharmakon / True Body | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Native Sun / Nervous Nikki / Shaper | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philly Record Freak Out | 11:00am - 4:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| PUNKMAS: Goalkeeper / Millington / Sunday Morning / My Cousin's Girlfriend's House | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Chelsea Wolfe / Enhancement | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jozef van Wissem performs music accompanying the film THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1928) | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Cliffdiver / Casper Fight Scene / Leisure Hour | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Edwards/Gian Perez/Caroline Morton Trio & Roboquarians | 8:00pm | Pageant : Soloveev | All Ages |
| Chelsea Wolfe / Enhancement (2nd show) | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Footballhead / New Age Thief | 7:00pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| The Blood Brothers (Night #1) | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Abby Sage | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Legacy Trio (performing the music of Henry Threadgill) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| The Jesus Lizard | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Watson & Bill Nace duo / mb + mp / Bloody Stoma | 8:00pm | Pageant : Soloveev | All Ages |
| 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+ |
| Local Honeymoon / Wallace / Tucked In | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali Obomsawin Quartet | 8:00pm | Harold Prince Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Handsome Dick Manitoba | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Templars / Legion 76 / Beton Arme / No Time / The Slads | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hovvdy / Video Age | 8:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kronos Quartet performs the music of Terry Riley | 7:00pm | Zellerbach Theatre | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mogwai | 8:00pm | Theatre of the Living Arts | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amyl and The Sniffers / Sheer Mag | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |