Purling Hiss is a raging erection of rock ‘n’ roll – of pissed jeans, whiskey teeth and stoner garage that slithers, shakes and convulses in a bright fury of heavy groove. You can say it’s what you’d expect from someone (and by someone, I mean Purling Hiss’ mastermind, Mike Polizze) who spends time in Birds of Maya and chills with Kurt Vile, but, in Purling Hiss, Polizze stands on his own, digging his heels and making his own graphic mark (if anything, their releases – self-titled Purling Hiss (Permanent Records), Hissteria (Richie Records), Public Service Announcement (Woodsist)and last year’s Lounge Lizards (Mexican Summer)EP – are intense, breathless, gritty testaments to that). See so for yourself at West Philly’s Pilam tonight, where he’ll bring the heat with New Jersey’s Liquor Store, Home Blitz and DC’s Foul Swoops. You’ll walk away feeling blown. Pilam, 3914 Spruce St., 8pm, $7 – Annamarya Scaccia
Lots more to do this weekend…
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) SAT It’s The Year 2006 w/Reef The Lost Cauze
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Steve Goldberg & The Arch Enemies, Catnaps, Pete Stewart from Creeping Weeds, SAT Adam & Daves Bloodline and Satellite Hearts
The Level Room (2102 Market St.) FRI Matt Gallagher Showing w/Creepoid and Nothing, SAT Silvox III, SUN Heavy Medical, L.U.N.A.R. Revolt, Bad News Bats
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Tom Christopher and Shadow Merchant, SAT City Rain, Tygerstrype, Bad New Bears
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI 32 Years Apart, Baby Diaz, Zygomatic Flow, SAT Man The Fire and Element 115
M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Wizard Eye, Cavale, SAT Grubstake, Hey Angel, Victor Traps
Tritone (1508 South St.) FRI Vintage Kicks, Aspiga, Explosion House, Best Wishes, Eclosion, SAT The Blessed Muthas, The Improbables, Boogie Witch, SUN I Am Not The Universe
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) FRI Sikaeda
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Levee Drivers, The Lawsuits, Former Belle, Last Good Tooth, SUN (Early) The Last Remark, United We Fall, No Regrets, Wrong Turn Horizon, SUN (Late) Sheer Contempt, Mindless Attack, The Divided, Angels 8 Riot
The Blockley (3801 Chestnut St.) FRI Dangerous Ponies, SAT Sun Ra Arkestra and West Philadelphia Orchestra
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Paul Michaels and The Blues Recruits, SAT Old Man Cactus, SUN Cowmuddy
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) SAT (Downstairs) Philly Gumbo, Saturday (Upstairs) Ross Bellenoit and Johnny Miles, SUN The Legacy
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Man Like Machine, Orion Freeman, The Formulary, SAT The Cold Roses, Music Box Dynamo, Lotus Hill, Zorro Gato, SUN John & Brittany, The Brett Talley Band, Susan Steen
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI North Lawrence Midnight Singers and Andrew Gray, SUN Ports of Call and Soporous
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia) FRI Arthaus, SAT Joe Jack Talcum, 25 Cromwell Street, Gringo Motel, With F Woods
First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St.) SUN Horror Show and Wrong Answer
Union Transfer (1024 Spring Garden St.) FRI Anthony Green, SAT Man Man and NAH
Angler Movement Arts Center (1550 E. Montgomery Ave.) SAT Inzinzac and Mi Head Ur Head
Little Berlin (2430 Coral St.) SAT Plato’s Porno Cave