Exploding World will be performing tonight at The Level Room one of their few shows scheduled while they are recording a new full-length album. You can also expect a new track coming soon from the local area four-piece that they recorded at Cedar St. Studios with the free studio time that the band received from winning our Featured Artist(s) Poll. They’ll be sharing the bill this evening with Orlando garage-rock duo Hot Hands and Ithaca indie-punk outfit Why the Wire. The Level Room, 2102 Market St., 9pm, $6, 21+ – Alexis V.

Tonight 8static will be hosting their second show at PhilaMOCA, with another impressive bill of 8-bit and electronic artists. For those of you who don’t know, 8static is a chip music event that takes place on the second Saturday of each month and features performances by artists from around the world. This month’s lineup features the bass heavy dance grooves and Nanoloops of Disassembler (Honduras), the metal-influenced chip music of Shawnphase (Baltimore) and the ambient soundscapes of Trash80. Visual artist, Visualicious, will be providing the backdrop for this evening’s soundtrack with her unique take on digital art. In addition to the killer lineup, Dino Lionetti of Philly’s own Cheap Dinosaurs is holding a workshop class before the show teaching concert-goers how to compose their own 8-bit tunes in odd time signatures. You can showoff what you’ve learned throughout the evening at the open mic session immediately following tonight’s show. PhilaMOCA, 531 North 12th St., 7pm, $7-10, All Ages – Dan Brightcliffe

Rock to the Future has an exciting fundraising event lined up today as it hosts its 1st Annual Race and Rock Scavenger Hunt today. The event kicks off at their home base in the afternoon, and gives teams the opportunity to race across Fishtown for the chance to win concert and sports tickets, bike gear, gift cards to several local businesses and other prizes. There will also be a raffle. Murph’s Bar will be donating 10% of the sales that they make after 6pm to the organization, and Cloud Entertainment will be hosting a music-filled after-party at Kung Fu Necktie. Cheers Elephant will be on hand to showcase tunes from their latest LP Like Wind Blows Fire, which features the song "Doin’ It Right" that the band recently cut a new music video for. Conversations with Enemies will be there to showcase ditties from their upcoming pirate and devil concept album that you still have a chance to help name. Vintage Kicks also might just preview some surf-dance-punk-fueled tunes from their new EP that they’ve been recording, and Plumes will offer up a refreshing blast of their spacegaze melodies. And it’s all for a good cause. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 3pm, $10 (Free with Race and Rock Scavenger Hunt Admittance), All Ages – Bill McThrill

Come check out the Data Garden: Quartet installation that will be going on all weekend in the Megawords exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art – tropical plants and you making electronic music (you bring your own drugs ;o)! If you missed our interview with the Data Garden crew yesterday, you can read it HERE. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. Benjamin Franklin Parkway, (FRI – SUN) 10am – 5pm, Free, All Ages – Q.D. Tran

Tonight is the release party of the BITBY Tape Club at Kung Fu Necktie. Their inaugural cassette (with digital download code included) will feature new tracks from Attia Taylor, Psychic Teens, Break It Up, Streetwalkers, Oh! Pears, Faux Slang, Spirit Animal and Heyward Howkins. It will also double as BITBY’s April episode premiere featuring Blayer Pointdujour who will be performing a live set along with Attia Taylor opening. DJ sets by Lady.Bang.Beat. and members of Arc In Round will be going on throughout the evening. A portion of the door will go to HollabackPhilly, an organization that promotes awareness and works to end street harassment and violence against women. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 10:30pm, $5, 21+ – H.M. Kauffman

Creepoid premiered a new song today called “Golden String” via CMJ. The track is off their 7” split with No Idea labelmates Shores for Record Store Day (April 21). You can check it out below. Creepoid will also be performing at Siren Records in Doylestown, PA for Record Store Day. (Photo by David Turcotte)

Toy Soldiers just posted a video with footage from their most recent tour where the band’s van died in New Orleans. The video features their new track “Tell the Teller,” and is a promo for their show on Saturday, June 16th at World Café Live, which will have “a bunch of special guest performers, an exclusive single to be released at the show, and they will be using the show proceeds to kickstart funding into a new touring vehicle and finishing their new full-length record they started working on earlier this year with Philly record-making mastermind, Bill Moriarty.” It was filmed and edited by Seth Klinger.

Electro dance rock duo City Rain just premiered a new music video today via The Key for “Watch Out,” the title track from their forthcoming EP that will be released on April 17. The video was directed by Tom Quigley and filmed on location at Hong Kong Garden. They’ll be performing this evening at North Star Bar for an all ages show. You can view the video below.