Creepoid austere soundscapes are so pleasing that it’s hard to focus on anything else while taking in their songs. The band is currently working on the follow-up to their impressive first LP Horse Heaven, which gave birth to beauties like opener “Wishing Well,” a slow-building Americana ballad in the vein of Low whose woozy lyrics take on an incantatory quality by the song’s midpoint. They’ll be supporting at Union Transfer tonight Pittsburghers Black Moth Super Rainbow, whose bizarrely entrancing “Windshield Smasher” incorporates a stadium-sized effects palette and breathes new life into what sounds a whole lot like Gary Glitter, and Casket Girls, a similar project from BMSR members. Union Transfer, 1024 Spring Garden St., 8pm, $14 – $15, All Ages – Alyssa Greenberg.
Weekend Warrior, December 7 – 9
Other places to hide out from the rain this weekend…
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Frog Holler, La Overtoner, Manatawny Creek Ramblers Frog Holler, La Overtoner, Manatawny Creek Ramblers, SAT The Barnabys, The Trouble With Sweeney, Artic Splash, Bitter, Bitter Weeks & More
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI (Upstairs) Heavy Medical, Xanax, SAT Workhorse III, Kingsnake, Brain Candle, (Upstairs) Ruby the Hatchet, SUN Y-Not Radio’s Early Xmas Present w/Panic Years
Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) FRI Lushlife
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia) SAT Cheap Dinosaurs, SKGB
First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St.) SAT Far-Out Fangtooth
Voyeur (1221 St. James St.) Making Time w/Nothing
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Hurricane Relief Benefit w/Thee, Idea Men; ILL Doots, Lucy Stone, OhBree, SUN Ronniepalooza w/The Better Half, The Jackson Rider, The Brett Talley Band, Ray Ward
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Clashing Plaid, Mercury Radio Theater, SAT The Shark Skins, Gas Money
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Attic Dancers, Mike Stone & The Movies, SAT Disco Machine Gun, Thee Nosebleeds, +Church+, Drugstore, Human Shield, SUN Midnight Blues
Ortlieb’s (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI G. Calvin Westons, SAT Work Drugs, Shark Tape, Ellis Island, SUN Julie Charnet and Her Quartet, Tony Williams
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) SAT Sonoma Sound, Smash Palace
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Common Enemy, The Noid, Rough Jusitce, SAT United Kingdom, These Polar Opposites, Electric Tribes
TLA (334 South St.) FRI Anthony Green
The Blockley (3801 Chestnut St.) SAT Voss, Mic Stew, Reef The Lost Cauze
Elena’s Soul (4912 Baltimore Ave.) FRI Point Breeze, Window Liquor
The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St.) FRI Chuck van Zyl & Terry Furber
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Hired Guns Blues Band, SAT Dave Steel Blues Band, SUN Rusty Cadillac
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI The York Street Hustle, SAT Transistor Rodeo, Quincy Mumford and The Reason Why
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Penn Glee Club Band, Modern Colour, Frank Cervantes, The Lux, Michael Constantino, DJ Freez, SAT Boogieman DeLa
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) SAT The Naked Sun
Triumph Brewery (117 Chestnut St.) SAT Natural Selection, SUN Edward Watkins Jazz Trio
The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI I Am Lightning, Yeah Son, Give Me Gravity
Maggot House (Please contact one of the acts or the venue for more details.) FRI Alex G., Pill Friends, Kiddo Marink, Traffic Nightmare
The Farm (Please contact one of the acts or the venue for more details.) FRI Gash (Record Release)
Snyder House (Please contact one of the acts or the venue for more details.) SAT Glocca Morra, Joint Chiefs of Math, Amanda X, Facts!
Moonbase Nix (Please contact one of the acts or the venue for more details.) SAT W.C. Lindsay, Modern Baseball, Steady Hands, Marietta