What’s Going on?

Philadelphia has an amazing amount of fantastic live shows coming our way in the next couple of months. Scroll down to find a comprehensive list of our favorite event calendars for around the area.

We wanted to highlight some notable shows coming up.

Kurt Vile and The Violators Philadelphia’s favorite long haired lo-fi experimentalists are playing Wednesday, February 17 at

TheBarbary with Fucked Up: hardcore punk at it’s best.

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Mission of Burma may be old but they are still ridiculously good and pretty much historical figures when it comes to rock as we know it.  Mission of Burma should be on everyone’s bucket list. They will be at The Church Thursday, February 18 with Sleeper Agent.

St. Vincent will be bringing her painfully pretty songs to a seated sanctuary show at The Church Thursday, February 25 with Wildbirds and Peacedrums who also put on a spectacular show.

We are all about Surfer Blood right now! They will be playing The Barbary Monday, March 1. They bring their warm weather, 1990’s pop sounds to our cold, modern, Philadelphia ears.

Rouge Wave will be putting on a seated Sanctuary show at The Church Thursday, March 4, full of harmony, melodies, and choruses to sing to. It’s goose pimple music.

Our muse, namesake  and favorite showmen ever, Man Man, are doing a long overdue hometown Philadelphia show. Oh how we’ve missed them. No more crossing state lines for our fix! They will be debuting new songs galore at the their Troc show on March 5.

Henry Rollins?! Yep, really Henry Rollins is coming to the Sanctuary Thursday, March 11. Sounds nuts but it’s true. The Church is just one of many stops he is making on his Frequent Flyer Tour.

The Ruby Suns invoke big sunglasses, psychedelic swirls, and songs like “Let the Sunshine In“. Check out their 6-piece band at Kung Fu Necktie with Toro Y Moi and Power Animal, Philly’s own experimental wonders on Thursday, March 25.

The xx is sold out and we don’t have tickets and I am pretty much too mad to even comment on this one. If your going and want to do a review or interview for us, e-mail me at andrea@hipsterseatforfree.com The show is at The Church Monday, March 29. We will probably be there begging for tickets.

Fanfarlo is the kind of indie pop that can take over. It sticks around a while and the pay off is more then instant grat. The show is Wednesday, March 31 at The Church. I am guessing this one will sell out.

The forefathers of indie rock Nada Surf will be playing at The Church Thursday April 1. If you haven’t been paying attention since the 90’s, it’s time to see just how much perfection these guys put out this decade.

The Thermals will be giving us an excuse to jump around like madwomen in what is sure to be a sweaty packed Church on Thursday, April 15.

Check out other event calendars here:

• R5 Productions Event Calendar
• The Electric Factory
• Kung Fu Nectie
• Johnny Brenda’s
• Y-Rock
• Tritone
• The Trocadero
• World Cafe Live
• Phrequency

Events

NOV

11.1 King Kahn BBQ/ Dum Dum Girls/ Teenage Whore Moans KFN Click for Tix

11.1 Gil Mantera’s Party Dreams/ Sweatheart/ Pony Pants JB Click for Tix

11.3 Islands/ Jemina Pearl/ Toro Y Moi FUC Click for Tix

11.3 The Very Best/ Javelin JB Click for Tix

11.3 Fuck Buttons/ Growing KFN Click for Tix

11.4 Girls/ Real Estate KFN Click for Tix

11.5 Pete Yorn with Alberta Cross EF Click for Tix

11.5 The Get Up Kids/ Kevin Devine/ The Life and Times TROC Click for Tix

11.7 Comeback Kid/ Mother of Mercy/ Grave Maker/ Dead Swans FUC Click for Tix

11.8 The Extraordinaires/ Dangerous Ponies/ Kill You In The Face/ Lux Perpetua KFN Click for Tix

11.18 Bishop Allen/ Throw Me The Statue/ Darwin Deez JB Click for Tix

11.18 The Jesus Lizard/ Noveller SB Click for Tix

11.20 Buffalo Stance KFN Click for Tix

11.24 Devandra Banhart with Luke Rathborne EF EF Click for Tix

11.27 The Disco Biscuits with SOJA EF EF Click for Tix

11.28 Jay Reatard/ 2 more TBA JB Click for Tix

DEC

12.4 Land Of Talk KFN Click for Tix

12.4 Ghostland Observatory TROC Click for Tix

12.6 Negative Approach/ Blacklisted FUC Click for Tix

12.10 Fanfarlo/ 1 more TBA JB Click for Tix

Johnny Brenda’s- JB

Kung Fu Necktie- KFN

Trocadero- TROC

Starlight Ballroom- SB

Electric Factory- EF

First Unitarian Church- FUC

See The Saudis In Their PJ’s

FIRST PHILLY POP PUNK PAJAMA PARTY: What Else You Should Be Doing This Week.

It’s a Pajama Party!! Lots of great bands plus one of our very, very, very, favorites Saudi Arabia is playing at the Troc this Saturday night.

Doors open at 10:30. Tickets are only $6! Come dressed in PJ’s.

LIne up:

• TJ Kong and The Atomic Bomb
• Conversations with the Enemies
• Saudi Arabia
• Daniel Pujol and Some Beaus
• Denny and the Jets

See you there!