Feed your head this Saturday night at Johnny Brenda’s “FOR PIZZA’S SAKE!: Help Pizza Brain Buy An Oven!” Headlining the benefit will be Neutral Milk Motel, a Neutral Milk Hotel cover band with Aaron Weiss and Greg Jehanian from mewithoutYou, Brian “Brain” Dwyer (ex-Papertrigger), and some of their other musically-inclined pals. They’ll be performing the classic In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in its entirety as well as a few forgotten gems from the band’s catalogue. As The Roots 4th of July festivities are quickly approaching, you can get your fine self ready with Pattern Is Smoothment which will be Pattern Is Movement and friends throwin’ down some of your favorite R&B hits. You’ll also be treated to the new experimental pop project Auctioneer from talented multi-instrumentalist Craig Hendrix (ex-Aderbat, Mammal of Paradise, Birdie Busch) as well as Pizza Face (“an alternate reality where Splinter taught the Turtles to thrash instead of fight”) and The Flying Lasagna Brothers (“two show-off chefs juggle their way through another grueling day in a hot, greasy lasagna kitchen”). Is anyone getting hungry? Well, come to the benefit so Pizza Brain can buy an oven to make you some slices! Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+
Other things to keep you entertained after the heat breaks this weekend…
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) SUN Univox
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) SUN The Gerunds and The Silence Kit
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) SUN Side Show Prophets
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI (All Ages) Ecomog and Attack Slug
(Late) The Fallen Troubadours, House Bat, Music Box Dynamo, SAT Andrew Jude, Former Belle, SUN El Fuego
(Late) The Fallen Troubadours, House Bat, Music Box Dynamo, SAT Andrew Jude, Former Belle, SUN El Fuego
M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Streaks of Light, SAT Ports of Call
Tritone (1508 South St.) FRI The Friggs and Explosive Heads, SAT Film Star, Gold Crowns, Girls Dressed As Girls, SUN Mi Hed Ur Hed
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI The Slotcars, SAT June Divided and Alright Junior, SUN Parachuting Apostles
Danger Danger Gallery (5013 Baltimore Ave.) FRI Son Step, SAT Future is Feminine, Holy Ghost, Sir Bacchus, SUN Bookslave, Snowing, Slingshot Dakota
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Surgeon, SAT Killshot, SUN All Crazy and Finding Fiction
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) FRI Sunny Ali & the Kid and Sherman
The Station (1550 McKean St.) FRI Thee Nosbleeds and Samsara
Triumph Brewery (117 Chestnut St.) FRI Dirk Quinn Band, SAT The Cold Roses
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia) FRI Spacin’, Motorcycle Maus, Stacian, Swimmer’s Ear, SUN SGNLS and Population
Bookspace (1113 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Amy Bird Going away Party w/Hezekiah Jones, The Spinning Leaves, Wes Mattheu, Reverend TJ McGlinchey, Ryan Williams and More
Pterodactyl (3237 Amber St., 5th FL) SAT Your Children is Beautiful, Manor Lady, The New Heaven and New Earth
High Wire Gallery (2040 N. Frankford Ave.) SAT Newton
40th Street Summer Series (40th & Walnut St.) SAT Sun Ra Arkestra
The Olive Garden (Please contact one of the acts for details.) SAT Dirt Farmer and Point Breeze
House Party (Please contact one of the acts for details.) SAT The Deuce-Tre Collective, A.F.G., Theodore Grams, Emmet Drueding, Community Service
Clark Park (43rd & Chester Ave.) SAT Clark Park Summer Solstice Festival w/ Lion Versus, Arrah & The Ferns, Mountjoy, Early Ape, Bedroom Problems, and More