If you are looking for something interesting off the beaten path of Philly music venues, then I suggest that you swing by the Philadelphia Museum of Art tonight for their Art After 5 event. This evening will feature Adventuredrum, a 15-piece drum ensemble creating music that is a cross between Afrobeat and disco. The project was brought together by Christopher Powell a.k.a. Pow Pow (Man Man, Icy Demons, etc.), and will consist of rad drummers from our local music community like Chris Ward (Pattern Is Movement), Jason Kourkounis (Bardo Pond), Chris Wilson (Ted Leo & the Pharmacists), and many others. They’ll also be joined by West Philadelphia Orchestra and Man Man’s Jamey Robinson and Matt Gibson. The performance will be Adventuredrum’s public debut. This is a rare event not to be missed! Philadelphia Art Museum – Great Stair Hall, 26th St. & Ben Franklin Parkway, 5pm – 8:45pm, Free (w/museum admission), All Ages – Q.D. Tran
Plenty of more things to do this weekend…
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Agent Moosehead, Gemini Wolf, Ronald Regan The Actor?, SAT Mat Burke, The Lawsuits, Coporate Hearts, The Looks of It, SUN Toy Soldiers
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Purples and Psalmships, SAT Wigwams, SUN American Speedway and Halo of Snakes
The Level Room (2101 Market St.) FRI Joe Lentini, SUN Technician
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Ghosts in the Valley, Carved Up, Wrath of Typhon, SAT Early Ape, Sinister Hemisphere, Ross Bellenoit, Queen Electric
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Levee Drivers, Raise Up the Roofbeams, Thinkers, SAT (All Ages) Wildebeast and Young Statues, SUN Rivers Monroe, Robots & Racecars, First Things First
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) FRI American Schoolyard and The Defog
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Alright Junior, I Am Lightening, City Line,
SAT Aspiga
SAT Aspiga
The Blockley (3801 Chestnut St.) SAT Splintered Sunlight and Salsa Shark
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI (Downstairs) Cheers Elephant Album Release w/The Extraordinaires, Dangerous Ponies, Dragon King, (Upstairs) Dukes of Destiny,
SAT American Babies
SAT American Babies
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Man Like Machine, The Violet Tone, Murph, SAT Shortbread, Twin Ghost, The Honey Badgers
Triumph Brewery (117 Chestnut St.) FRI The Half of It, SAT Flux Capcitor and Mantis
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia) FRI Cape Wrath and Chauchat
JR’s Bar (2327 S. Croskey St.) FRI Natur, Windhand, Pilgrim and Pagan Wolf Ritual
The Station (1550 McKean St.) FRI Br’er, Exploding World, You You Dark Forest, Charmaine’s Names
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Arrah & the Ferns, Resistor, The Miners, SAT Adam Web, Viv Peyrat, Peter Joseph & The Roaring Twenties
Millcreek Tavern (4200 Chester St.) FRI Variable Elements
The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St.) FRI Dorothy Cardella and Eve Edwards, SAT Alia, Mia Johnson, Rosa Diaz
Goldilocks Gallery (1423 Langley Ave.) FRI The Bad Doctors LP Release Party w/Psychic Teens