Residuels, the Moon Women–Creepoid side project that first brought its ragged garage jams to Philly over the summer, is performing tonight at Johnny Brenda’s. After a mini-tour across the Northeast and a promising couple of tracks, their new EP fully delivers on the rollicking power of their first forays, draped in fuzz and reverb imported from 60s psych. Opening for stoner rock giants …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead who are accompanied by The Coathangers, JB’s will be alive and well tonight. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave., 9pm, $14 – $15, 21+ – Alyssa Greenberg

When suburban pop-punk unites with electronic dance-beats, the marriage that results is W. C. Lindsay. Tonight at North Star Bar, this unique pairing takes the rough-edged irate grit, the aggression, and frustration that fuels punk music while also making it relatable to an audience, and smoothes it out with dance grooves. Let your emotions run rampant, and then use that rush of adrenaline to dance the night away. W.C. Lindsay will be opening for a pair of Ohio outfits, rock-oriented Come Wind and the energetic pop duo Twenty One Pilots. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., $12 – $14, 7pm, All Ages – Michael Colavita 

A mess of strings is set to fill the stage at North Star Bar tonight. Progressive bluegrass group HogMaw’s music is an up-tempo combination of nearly all things string. With the ability/potential to jam out their tunes with a sonic explosion that’s been described as “thundergrass,” HogMaw takes bluegrass and ups the traditional ante, carving a multitude of rootsy hills and valleys that engulf the listener in some rural bliss. The band is opening for local headliner +Church+, who will be preaching their grunge-infused folk sounds. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., $8 – $10, 9pm, 21+ – Michael Colavita 

 

Get bloody and bruised tonight at Kung Fu Necktie with locals Heavy Medical and Nothing supporting Toronto’s Metz (Sub Pop). It’ll be an evening where you’ll travel through the land of noise rock, float in a cloud of shoegaze, and go full throttle into a wall of flesh with some Canuck punk. Yeah, I’m hearting on Metz these days so I’ll see you in the pit. Fuck yeah! Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 8pm, $10, 21+ – Alexis V.

 

More haps going on this weekend…

 

Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI The Head & The Hand Launch Party w/The Great Unknown, Johnny Showcase, DJ Slowpoke (Birdie Busch), SAT The Bailey Hounds, SUN Residuel

 

Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Nothing, Heavy Medical, (Upstairs) Ashencult, Pissgrave, SAT Sunset Recorder, (Upstairs) Strawman, SUN Spacin’, The Residuels

 

Voyeur (1221 St. James St.) FRI Making Time

 

North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI The Byways, SAT +Church+, HogMaw, The Wounded Healers, Victoria Spaeth and The Spaeth Cadets, SUN W.C. Lindsay

 

The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI The Donuts, Morning River Band, The Knife and Fork Band, SAT Hidden Lights, The Stammer, SUN G. Calvin Weston, GhettoSongBird

 

M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Hidden Lights, Katie Becker and The Brick Layers, SAT Ronald Reagan? The Actor?, Agent Moosehead, Impressionist

 

Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) SUN Aiden James

 

The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) SAT (Balcony) Internal Ailment, (Downstairs) Travia, Reckless Behavior, Sick Trust

 

Electric Factory (421 N, 7th St.) FRI The Wonder Years

 

Ortlieb’s (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Turning Violet Violet, SUN Julie Charnet and Her Quartet

 

Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI The Jersey Corn Pickers, SAT Marc Silver and The Stonethrowers, SUN Rusty Cadillac

 

World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) SAT Beru Revue

 

The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St.) FRI Jeff Zeigler & Mary Lattimore, SUN Dan Blacksberg

 

Millcreek Tavern (4200 Chester Ave.) SUN Sadgiqacea, Sunburster

 

The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI John & Brittany, SAT The Wayside Shakeup, Dime Street Joker, The Beta Phase, SUN Franco Olivo Alto Voltaje, El Malito, Franco Olivo, Papo Gely, DJ Rahsaan, Tiva Tiva

 

PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia) SAT BAA RAM EWE, 2nd Opinion

 

JR’s Bar (2327 S. Croskey St.) FRI Hollenlarm, Chimpgrinder

 

The Barbary (951 N. Frankford St.) SAT No Tolerance

 

Milkboy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI The Miners Record Release Show w/Shark Tape, SuperFive, SAT I Am Love, Brethren, Twin Ghost, Boog

 

The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI Hopscotch Jefferson, Matt Gauss Band, Transitshop, Meg Wilkinson, Danielle and Jennifer, SAT King Slugger, 58 Fury, The Tressel, The Gazettes

 

Double Deuce (Please contact one of the acts or the venue for more info.) SAT New Miseries, Cavities, Passage

 

Sprinkle Kingdom (Please contact one of the acts or the venue for more info.) SAT Marietta, Little Pirouettes, Triceratopolis, Pill Friends

 

Dreamcastle (Please contact one of the acts or the venue for more info.) SUN Bad Braids

 

By now, we hope that you’ve had a chance to check out Lushlife’s new music video for the track “Magnolia,” which was brilliantly directed by LAMAR+NIK. Do you think that it is as dope as we do? Well, if you want a chance to win one of those rad handmade cardboard words, then please go HERE for instructions about the contest giveaway from Rap Genius and see how that can be possible, or you can also snatch up a signed Lushlife CD and poster prize package. Good luck!

In 2010, The Extraordinaires recorded an original score for the feature film The Space Jockey Pursuit. Frontman Jay Purdy recently traveled down to Savannah, Georgia for its premiere. You can find out more about the movie from his video below as well as The Extraordinaires’ Kickstarter campaign, which you can contribute to HERE.

South Philly’s The Bikery plays host to four adept noise rockers tonight, leading off with Point Breeze. These newly-minted, South Philly-based gents build traditional-sounding punk songs on a jangly, taut foundation, laden with circular riffs. Last month saw the release of their first cassette tape, bringing three solid jams into the world: "Bed Bug," "Saul" and "Armchair Activist." The muscular sound of this sampling is an encouraging first outing for this young band. The rest of the evening contains the storming anthems of Sore Saints, thoroughly gritty hardcore punks Braille and the always impressive Ladder Devils. The Bikery, 508 S. 5th St., 7pm, $5, All Ages – Alyssa Greenberg

It should be no surprise that I’m looking forward to Purling Hiss headlining Johnny Brenda’s tonight. The ear-bleeding, carefree trash rock of the power trio is certainly something that you want to experience live. And while catching them on bills supporting notable acts like Wilco, Dinosaur Jr. and Mission of Burma might be a tasty appetizer, it’s still no replacement for a full meal of gut-busting, sleazy rock ‘n’ roll that would scare the shit out of those red-state, flag-waving wannabe successors. Yeah, it’s music that will corrupt young minds with combustible guitar solos that will light their joints, and that’s just the way I like it! Look out for a new Hiss album scheduled for release this spring via Drag City. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+ – Alexis V.