Come celebrate Motel Hell’s 5th Anniversary tonight and kick your Memorial Day Weekend into gear! APE! launches into gritty, blistering rock, loaded with searing guitar licks and trouble brooding backend that blasts through all adversaries. The Cloth conjures a gloomy, blood-dripping, sludgy, adrenaline-laced vibe, unforgivingly plowing forward demolishing any roadblocks with musical sledgehammers and never blinking with every swing. With their new LP You’ll Be Dirt scheduled for release on June 3, genre-exploring art-punk quartet Combine opens the festivities, shifting you into its unique, noisy domain. Texas/Conneticut-based Javier & Los Dish Dogs orchestrate bass-pumping rock that speeds along in a flash, while also capable of cruising in a loose funky manner. DIY is certainly alive and well in Philly! Motel Hell (Please contact one of the acts or Venue for more info.), 8pm, $5, All Ages – Michael Colavita
Other places to escape the chill this weekend…
Motel Hell (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SUN The Charley Few, Pushin’ it 2 the Limit, Lip Service
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI +HIRS+, SAT Philly Loves The Soulquarians: DJ Mike Nyce, MON The Buddy System
The Boot & Saddle (1131 S. Broad St.) FRI Johnny Showcase & The Mystic Ticket, Muscle Tough, SAT Cheap Dinosaurs, Chipocrite
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Curly Castro, Carl Kavorkian/Assemble, The Fourth Line, Founders, SAT Dysphoria, SUN Mohican, Allora Mis/Shy Boyz, Wildflower, Audio Kings of the Third World
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St.)FRI Philadelphia May Mayhem: Camp 4 Dreanged Kids, Corndog, Unit Theory, SAT On The Water(Album Release), Impressionist, Liz & The Lost Boys, SUN Phameless Records Fest: Corporate Hearts, Science Club, The Jantones
Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) FRI Splintered Sunlight, SAT Stones Night : Brown Sugar, Dead Flowers
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI (Upstairs) Jason Reed, (Downstairs) Cliff Hillis, SAT (Upstairs) Denison Witmer/(Downstairs) The Rent-A-Cops,, SUN (Upstairs) The Dukes of Destiny/(Downstairs) the HYPE!’s Show Me Your Soul Festival: Boy Wonder, Brothers & Sisters, Ben Tinsley, The Members Club, Chartel, E-Hos, Suzanne Sheer, Christopher Davis- Shannon, Santalina
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Sundrop Music Fest: Atley Moon & The Say Something Sound Machine, Christopher Davis-Shannon, Mr. Unloved, SAT Sundrop Music Fest: (2pm) I Yahn I Arkestra, The Binary Sea, Jacqueline Constance, Little Strike, Hunter’s Cannon, Sweet Briar Rose, Dirty Soap Blues Band, Slowey & Boats, Annachristie/Phameless Records Fest (5pm) Goddamnit, No Summer, Seeing Snakes, The Headies, The Mad Splatter, Mid Rats, Twin 55, Victory Boy, SUN Sundrop Music Fest (2pm) QQQ, Mumblr, Ganou, Bryant Vazquez & the Songs, Elegant Animals, PHLGood, The Bull Bey, Fisthown Beats, A Day Without Love, Cicada Jade/( 7pm) Andrea Valle/(11pm) Fishtown Beats
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.)FRI Moonstriker, Something Like a Monument, The Stonewall Vessels, Howlish, SAT City Rain, QQQ
Bourbon and Branch (705 N. 2nd St.) FRI Alec Stewart, Man Illuminated, SAT Ron Gallo & Friends, SUN Sabriya, Jahwula, MON A Locomotive, Davey and the Chains
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI The Sixties, Piranha, Collect Yourself, SAT YDI, GASH
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) SAT The Iron Tree
Silk City (435 Spring Garden St.) SAT DJ Deejay, SUN (4pm) Brian Barker/(9pm) DJ Junior, DJ Lil’ Dave, Blaak The 9th Man, Fatnice
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St) FRI Matt Santry
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Sparklepony, SUN Rusty Cadillac
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Rivers, Mark Baker and The Barbreakers, Sara Spicer, Jim Mitchell & The Repeat Offenders, SAT The Stone Eye, Unit Theory, The Rowdies, Suburban Murder, The Way, Plague At A Funeral/Nadjah Nicole, Shari DuBois, T Kane, PHLGood, MON Edge of Divinity
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St) FRI Cold Roses, Blakeslee, The Mellowells, SAT Bunny Savage & The Handymen, MON Moonlight Jazz with The Mystic Ticket
Morgan’s Pier (221 N. Columbus Boulevard) FRI DJ Beatstreet, SAT Mr. Sonny James, SUN (2pm) percussionist Josh Robinson /(9:30pm) DJ Royale
Frankie Bradley’s (1320 Chancellor St.) FRI Franky’s Foxes
The Pharmacy (1300/02 S. 18th St.) MON Banned Books, Heavy Medical
Half Moon Lounge (4228 Lancaster Ave.) SAT Haldol, Latex, Teenage Chainsaw
Bamboo Bar (927 N. Delaware Ave.) Making Time RAD-B-Q
The Grape Room (105 Grape St) FRI The Funky T, Time Relapse, SAT Teresa Gero, JAHWULA
Ardmore Music Hall FRI The 9‘s, SAT Splintered Sunlight
LAVA Space (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT No Other, Girl Dog, Crime Hands, Westboro Baptist Choir
Skate Jawn Warehouse (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Friendship, Abi Reimold, Roof Doctor
A House Named Virtue (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SUN Bad Canoes, The Whips
The Petting Zoo (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Dreambook, Jackie Paper