The weekend’s conclusion can be a bummer. However, Purples’s latest release “It’s a Drag” with a blend of rumbling bass, snappy percussion and spirited vocals helps to break loose from the doldrums. By the time that gnarly guitar inferno of a solo is ablaze, the tides have turned. You can catch the band on a bill with Matthew Friedberger on Thursday, October 8 at Boot & Saddle.

Indie popsters Literature always give us a good feeling inside, and that rings true with their latest music video for "The Girl, The Gold Watch, And Everything." The track can be found on last year’s full-length release Chorus (Slumberland), and the video was directed by Jack Wagner. Look out for a new split 7" coming soon with Baltimore’s Expert Alterations via Square Of Opposition Records.

A gentle gliding movement with a technically precise, powerful, musical engine, Pittsburgh transplants Legs Like Tree Trunks have that at-ease-go-with-the-flow sound. However, that casual disposition is countered by practiced and refined sonic expeditions. The loose strolling folk narratives cruise by escalating into high-end, crisp jams. Tonight at Bourbon & Branch, the band will be joined on the bill by the expansive musical excursions of quintet The Twenty Committee, allowing their sonic scrolls to roll out before your eyes. On the heels of releasing her debut EP Sirens, Australian pop songstress Nonie is currently on tour with the soulfully engaging vocals of Nashville’s Daem. Bourbon & Branch, 705 N. 2nd St., 8pm, $10, 21+ – Michael Colavita

A tasty brew is cooking at Johnny Brenda’s this evening. Gondola’s tri-cogged synthesis of heavy haze will be in good order. The band embraces their stampeding sound, pushing the heart-jolting, foot-stomping, divide-and-conquer vibe. Emerging from a cavernous shade, the hazy possessed vocals gradually seep in. They’re given an additional prowess by the obliterating style that the instruments prescribe to. Backend thump and face-melting guitar ooze that encompassing trance-like state of medieval peril. Tonight, they help bridge the divide to Walter Schreifels’s (Gorilla Biscuits) musical vehicle, Dead Heavens, which also includes former members of White Zombie, Youth of Today, and Cults. The resulting byproduct is familiarly catchy with instrumental ferocity to etch a personal road. Hardcore fixture Don Devore (Collapsing Scenery, Sick Feeling) gets the fire started. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave, 8pm, $12, 21+ – Michael Colavita

Ron Gallo has started a new covers project where he’ll be posting reintepretations of his favorite tunes via Soundcloud. His first is a surprisingly chilled-out version of "False Jesii Part 2" by beloved hardcore noise outfit Pissed Jeans. We’re into it. You can stream and download it for free below.

The STS–RJD2 collaboration has resulted in an album of excellent hip hop. Now, with “Mad Men Jam Boys,” STS has spun the classic RJD2 Mad Men theme song, “Beautiful Mind.” Produced by The Wurxs for their new project, Wurxs of Art, the song builds off that dramatic orchestration, enlisting the help of fellow Philly emcees Black Thought and Truck North. This heavy-hitting relay race of a track has anchors from start to finish.

Eleventh Dream Day have been around for over three decades now, and core members Rick Rizzo, Janet Bean (of Freakwater), Doug McCombs (of Tortoise and Brokeback) have teamed up with Jim Elkington (of Tweedy and Brokeback) for their latest release Works For Tomorrow (Thrill Jockey). Tonight at Johnny Brenda’s, the Chicago alt-rockers will be matched with hometown guitar hero Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band. Combining their love for the expansive jams of The Grateful Dead with the art-punk noise of bands like Television, the band sets its sights on morphing these distinctly polar ends of the music spectrum into a cohesive soundscape, enveloping onlookers into a world where the lines of genres are blurred and minds are scrambled. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band currently have plans to release The Rarity of Experience, a 2XLP due out in 2016 via No Quarter. They’ll also be joined this evening by Philly’s own Rosali. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+ – Q.D. Tran

Cigarette eating, red-painted (blood-smeared) faces, eggs cracked atop of heads, and smashed ukuleles, the new music video for “Salt” by OhBree matches the band’s eccentric yet contagious art-pop aesthetic. The group’s playful, oddball, circus sound delightfully twists and echoes in one’s head. On August 27 at PhilaMOCA, OhBree will celebrate the vinyl release of their 2014 LP Death by Broomstick. The show will also feature Dead Tenors’ APES record release (as they go on an indefinite hiatus), as well as Upholstery and Ganou.

Hop Along‘s Frances Quinlan was featured today over at Noisey. In the video below, you’ll find her talking about her earlier days working as a housepainter, and she also treats us with a stripped-down, acoustic rendition of "Buddy in the Parade," off the band’s latest LP Painted Shut. The performance was recorded in the backroom of mural company Colossal Media in Brooklyn.

A Wednesday dose of music can be an ideal mechanism to breakup the mid-week monotony. That scenario is elevated by the rare opportunity to catch Everyone Everywhere at Everybody Hits. (That’s quite the tongue twister.) The band is known for dishing out crisp, spiraling rock that tugs with an emotional integrity. The balance of loose instrumental precision with open-book lyricism develops outward momentum while staying close to a personal core. The delicate blend of melodic, emotive-churning songs by Three Man Cannon and like-minded four-piece Clique help to establish an atmosphere for head-clearing release. New Jersey’s Prawn round out a bill, which is already sold out. Everybody Hits 529 West Girard Ave., 8:30pm, $8 (Sold Out), All Ages – Michael Colavita