Experimental electronic music label Data Garden will be celebrating its one-year anniversary by closing out this year’s DesignPhiladelphia Festival and returning to West Philly’s Bartram’s Garden today for its The Switched-On Garden 002. The event will bring together nature, electronic music and technology in the beautiful setting of North America’s oldest surviving botanic garden with live music, performances and sculptures. You’ll be treated to sets by King Britt and Spaceship Aloha, a.k.a. Christopher Sean Powell (Man Man, Adventuredrum, Need New Body), who both have new albums, The Bee and The Stamen & Universe Mahalo: Volume #1, being released via Data Garden. Dino Lionetti (Cheap Dinosaurs), Gretchen Lohse, Laura Baird and Allen Crawford will be collaborating to provide the backdrop for an essay inspired by Bartram’s Garden. As you might have experienced at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, musical compositions will be generated by the electronic impulses produced by tropical plants in regards to human interaction with the Data Garden: Duet. Klip Collective will be sharing a soundtrack and images projected “onto an “undulating mist of smoke.” Basically, there will be plenty of more artists and installations throughout the garden blurring the lines between the biological and digital worlds. It’s going to be beautiful outside so grab a blanket and go out to The Switched-On Garden 002 for one unique experience. Bartram’s Garden, 54th St. & Lindbergh Blvd., 2pm – 8:30pm, Free, All Ages – H.M. Kauffman

 

Tonight 8static will be hosting their 4th anniversary show at PhilaMOCA with a lineup of 8-bit/electronic artists from Philly, NYC, Connecticut and Detroit. Representing the City of Brotherly Love will be An0va, a.k.a. Daniel Davis, who creates driving beats with Nintendo Gameboys and math-y guitar licks. Davis is immersed in the local chiptune scene performing with music brethren Cheap Dinosaurs and Autoscroll. In addition to the video game grooves, visuals for the evening will be provided by NYC’s No Carrier and Philly’s Chromacle and Animal Style. Get there early because the night will kicking off with an 8static alumni collaboration featuring a long list of past performers doing one song. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12 St., 7pm, $7-$10 donation, All Ages – Dan Brightcliffe

 

Tonight’s show at Johnny Brenda’s is a triptych of scuzzy psych-punk, presented by three local luminaries in the field. Heavy Medical‘s high-strung, buzzing guitar attacks come at you through a wall of agitated, hammering drums, corralling their aggression into short, brutal songs. Bleeding Rainbow are easier on the sensibilities with their luscious harmonies, yet they bring the noise with their biting guitars. Far-Out Fangtooth round out the night, blending dour vocals with tribal drum crashes for an almost monastic sound, if only monks had access to effects pedals. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+ (Photo by Connie Ward) – Alyssa Greenberg

 

More fall entertainment this weekend…

 

Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) SAT Prowler EP Release Show w/Sunny Ali & The Kid, Busses

 

Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI (Downstairs) The Bailey Hounds, (Upstairs) Bandname, Univox, SAT (Early) Frank Cervantes, Yakibato Get Down Party, The Donuts (Late) Mohican, Window Liquor, Moral Crayfish

 

North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Mean Streets, SAT Cousin Brian, SUN Ex Friends

 

The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Mat Burke, Behind The Grandstand, When Ships Collide, SAT Gatherings, SUN One Win Choice, The Greek Favourites, Good Graces

 

PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia) FRI Cheap Dinosaurs, Tom Guycot, Joint Chief of Math, SAT 8static 4-Year Anniversary w/An0va

 

MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Mohican, SAT Adrien Reju, Zach Djanikian

 

The Blockley (3801 Chestnut St.) SAT American Babies, SUN Rone, Voss

 

Ortlieb’s (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Blayer Pointdujour & the Rockers Galore, Shawn Kilroy, SUN Julie Charnet & Her Quartet

 

M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Wizard Eye, Dark Waters End, Prosper or Perish, SUN Jess Kelly

 

Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) SAT Starchild and the Dust

 

The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Loose Lipz, SAT Pulling Punches

 

Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI (Early) John Train, (Late) Dave Steel Blues Band, SUN Rusty Cadillac

 

World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) SAT The Plants

 

The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Blackroot, Lost In Company, SAT Sierra Hurtt, SAT Alustrium, The Great Party, The Mighty O.V., Man Like Machine, Once They Were, Transitshop, Prosper or Perish, SUN Anessa Larae,

 

Milkboy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Bedroom Problems, Catnaps, SAT Modern Colour, The Jackson Rider, SUN The Grand Nationals

 

Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) FRI Jackie Paper

 

Starlight Ballroom (460 N. 9th St.) FRI MyParasites

 

The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI Old Soul, Joe Duffy’s Underwater Window Garden, Railroad Fever, Griz, Soldier On, SAT Montoj, Chronicles of Sound, The Real Feel

 

Bloktoberfest (South St. between 18th & Broad Sts.) SAT Grandchildren, West Philadelphia Orchestra, Toy Soldiers, Modern Inventors, Ali Wadsworth, and More

 

Bartram’s Garden (54th St. & Lindbergh Ave.) Data Garden’s The Switched-On Garden 002 w/King Britt, Spaceship Aloha, Laura Baird, Allen Crawford, Dino Lionetti, Gretchen Lohse

 

Bailey House (4929 Walton Ave.) FRI Dong Johnson, Spent Flesh, The Charley Few

 

Double Deuce (Please contact one of the acts or the venue.) FRI Lana Avacada

 

Golden Tea House (Please contact one of the acts or the venue.) SAT Nona, Crybaby

 

If you are already longing for those summer days to return, then check out Bandname’s new music video for their single “King of Surfers.” The oddballs (or should we say “eyeballs”) just seem like they were having so much fun while making this one. You can join them for more good times upstairs at Kung Fu Necktie tonight when they rock out with Univox.

With Halloween around the corner, it’s not surprising that artists are already getting into the spirit of things. Well, tonight for one night only at PhilaMOCA, Cheap Dinosaurs, led by Dino Lionetti with his all-star cast of local chiptune enthusiasts, will be taking on the songs of Goblin. No, not the album by Odd Future’s Tyler, The Creator – I’m talking about Italian prog-rockers Goblin. Get ready for expansive jams of their songs in ways that you may have never thought about before. They’ll also be joined on the bill by the intergalactic ambient sounds of Tom Guycot and experimental rockers The Joint Chiefs of Math. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 8pm, $7 – $10 donation, All Ages – H.M. Kauffman

 

Now that fall appears to have taken the reins, and an ever-present chill fills the air. The Bailey Hounds, playing Kung Fu Necktie tonight, fit naturally with the bonfire and bourbon scheme. Employing a casually haunting Americana sound that dabbles in rustic blues and folk accented by warming harmonica and guitar that’s rings in a penetrating echo rustling the spirits inviting them to join in, the group leads you deep into the thick of it. The music is the fire that we’ll all gather around. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 Front St., 8pm, $8, 21+ (Photo by Jim Vasquez) – Michael Colavita

It’s been a good day for Arc in Round. First, their Daytrotter Session popped up earlier, and now the blippy, spaced-out remix by King Britt of their track “Spirit” just premiered via Dummy. You can take a listen to and download it below. And the guys and gal are currently on tour with Frightened Rabbits. Yes, a good day indeed.