Get your fest on for a good cause this weekend as Rock to the Future hosts its Rally for Rock! Festival inside Liberty Lands Park, which will feature plenty of ways to benefit the non-profit that provides free music education to underprivileged youth of Philly. There will be a craft fair on hand with Yards Brewing Company serving up frosty brews, Dapper Dog and Vittles Philly providing delectable bites and a raffle for a chance to win a Jimmy Rollins signed baseball, Little Baby’s Ice Cream gift cards, the chance to bowl with headliners The Dead Milkmen, and more. But the main event for this fest is by far the music. Along with a rare free park set from The Dead Milkmen, West Philadelphia Orchestra will be filling the park with their jazz and folked-out Balkan dance grooves. Teachers and students alike will both be featured during the fest as Conversations with Enemies provide a howling good time with their eclectic, story-filled, indie-pop tunes and The Rock to the Future Student House Band performance. The afternoon also features music from Break It Up, You Do You, and Andrew Lipke, as well as an afterparty at North Bowl. Liberty Lands Park, 913 N. 3rd St., 12pm, Free ($60 for V.I.P. Tent), All Ages – Bill McThrill
Weekend Warrior, August 23 – 25
More things to keep you entertained this weekend…
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Busses, The Interest Group
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Restoration Fest Philly w/Nobody Yet, The Hellstroms, Honah Lee, The Jantones
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia) FRI Kite Party, Dogs of Acid, Celebrations
Union Transfer (1026 Spring Garden St.) FRI Chris Vance, Mars Parker
TLA (334 South St.) SAT Young Savage, Peedi Crakk
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Lightning Arms, Love a Lunatic, SAT Erica Gibson, The Stone Hawks, South City Rejects
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI On the Beat Music Series w/Rok Bottom, Moor Mother Goddess, Cult Fortified, Taragirl, SAT (All Ages) Besting Tensions, Boss Logic, Ben Webster & The Beard, (Late) Omar, Three Man Cannon, Timbers, SUN (All Ages) Drugstore, Disco Machine Gun, Egocentric Plastic Men, (Late) G. Calvin Weston + Tim Motzer + Elliot Garland, Chalk and The Beige Americans
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Paper Submarines, SAT Panic Years, Metropolis America
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Cassavetes, Foul Weathered Friend, SAT The Fantastic Imagination
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) SAT Medea
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Sam Tsui Feat. Kurt Hugo Schneider, Matt Cermanski, SUN The World At Large
The Blockley (3801 Chestnut St.) FRI Gina Sicilia
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) SUN Rusty Cadillac, John Byrne
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI beta hi-fi Emerging Music Festival 2013 w/Underwater Country Club, Big Tusk, Commonwealth Choir, Weekender, Maiden Creek Lodge, SAT beta hi-fi Emerging Music Festival 2013 w/Pattern Crash, Sidewalk Atlas, Arizone Lights, Strawman, SUN beta hi-fi Emerging Music Festival 2013 Finals
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) SUN Supreem And The New Experience, Supreen Da Rezarekta
The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) SAT The Great Endangered, Matt Gauss Band, Coco Butter Band
4QHQ (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SUN Haldol, Cape of Bats, Bad Energy, Cauldron
The Red House (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Pocket, Hangman, Scuzbot