Pink Pantheress, the Kid Laroi, Courtney Barnett, CMAT, and a Mother’s Day music fest highlight Philly music this week

This week in Philly music features a packed weekend at the Met with Pink Pantheress and the Kid Laroi, Courtney Barnett at the Fillmore, hometown shows with Gladie and Annabelle Dinda, a Mother’s Day Music Festival in Atlantic City, and a chance to get your Dry Cleaning done at Union Transfer.

Another chance to check out the lovingly restored, newly reopened Lansdowne Theater, with this excellent double bill of feminist DIY heroine Ani DiFranco, and banjo player and singer Valerie June. 7:30 p.m., Lansdowne Theater, 31 N. Lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, lansdownetheater.com.

“Why Do Men Sing?” Bill Callahan asks on My Days Of 58, his 20th album. The answer has something to do with Lou Reed meeting him at the gates of heaven in a dream, and the singer who formerly performed as Smog trying to figure out how to be “The Man I’m Supposed To Be.” 8 p.m., Ardmore Music Hall, 23 East Lancaster Ave., Ardmore, ardmoremusichall.com.

This British quartet’s music hearkens back to 1980s bands like Wire and particularly The Fall. Guitarist Tom Dowse, bass player Lewis Maynard, and drummer Nick Buxton make sometimes angular, sometimes dreamy post-punk music that vocalist Florence Shaw uses as a backdrop for understated and often absurdist spoken word storytelling on Secret Love, the band’s brand new and third album. 8 p.m., Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., utphilly.com.

Son Rompe Pera, from the suburbs of Mexico City, mix cumbia with ska and punk and has been called “Mexico’s finest psychobilly marimberos.” Philly’s own Mariposa Galacticas open. 8 p.m., Milkboy Philly, 1100 Chestnut St., milkboyphilly.com

Every spring, the Non-COMMvention, which is hosted by WXPN-FM (88.5) convenes programmers from non-commercial music-centric stations from all over North America, with an array of talent performing for the radio tastemakers.

The event, which kicked off Tuesday, targets music industry insiders, and is sold out. But all performances will be broadcast on ‘XPN and livestreamed. That includes Free at Noons with Bebe Stockwell and Rhiannon Giddens on Wednesday, Monrovia and Medium Build on Thursday, and Gail Ann Dorsey and Hiss Golden Messenger on Friday.

Nighttime performers at World Stage include Death Cab for Cutie, Fantastic Cat, Brother Wallace, Hannah Cohen, the Animeros, Broken Social Scene, and more. Full schedule and streaming link at xpn.org.

Power pop duo and rockers the Lemon Twigs — multi-instrumentalist brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario — has a new album called Look For Your Mind!, that suggests listeners gaze inward in these head-spinning times. 8 p.m., Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., utphilly.com

With lap steel guitarist RJ Santos, the New Orleans folk-punk duo’s vocalist Caspian Hollywell meshes country and blues into unkempt garage rock on the new Blame the Clown. The band will be back to play the Make The World Better Concert Weekend this summer. 8 p.m., PhilaMoca, 531 N. 12th Street, PhilaMoca.org.

The Australian rapper and singer born Charlton Kennth Jeffrey Howard has collaborated with late rapper Juice WRLD, had a worldwide hit with Justin Bieber, written a song about one pop star in “Addison Rae,” and dated another in Tate McRae. 8 p.m., the Met Philly, 858 N. Broad St., themetphilly.com.

I’d say jangly South Jersey indie-rock band Te Vista’s full-length debut album House is one of the stronger releases of 2026. But it actually came out on Dec. 26, 2025, so it doesn’t count. DJ Major Luke opens. 8 p.m., Dawson Street Pub, 100 Dawson St., dawsonstreetpub.com

British soul-rocker Graham Parker’s 1976 debut album is the subject of an engaging new book by Philadelphia author Jay Nachman.

In Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind, Nachman doesn’t hide his fandom — which goes back to his spinning Parker’s LP in his Temple University dorm room. But that doesn’t keep him from doing a bang-up job of putting Parker’s rugged, deeply felt music into the context of the singer’s working-class upbringing and the 1970s punk and New Wave explosion, with in depth interviews with Parker and producer Nick Lowe. The book and Parker’s live album Quality Footwear will be available at Parker’s area gigs, plus Nachman’s pop-up sale at Main Street Music in Manayunk at 3 p.m. Saturday. Graham Parker will perform 8 p.m., Friday, Sellersville Theater, 18 W. Temple Ave, Sellersville, st94.com, and May 14 at Randy Now’s Man Cave, 119 W. Ward St., Hightstown, N.J., mancavenj.com.

Everything at last year’s soggy first day at the Roots Picnic wasn’t a washout. On the contrary, Elmiene, the Germany-born, British Sudanese vocalist was a singular standout who rose above the muddy surroundings. 8 p.m., Theater of Living Arts, 332 South St., tlaphilly.com

No Need To Be Lonely is the third album Augusta Koch has released with Gladie, the band the Philly songwriter formed with guitarist Matt Schimelfenig after the breakup of her 2010s band Cayetana. Produced by Jeff Rosenstock, No Need combines Koch’s contemplative side with a bracing attack. In the running for Philly album of the year so far. 8 p.m., First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., r5productions.com

This triple bill of veteran R&B acts is topped by North Carolina vocal quarter Jodeci, who scored Top 10 hits in the 1990s with songs like “Stay,” “Forever My Lady,” and “Cry For You.” Xscape and Kenny Lattimore are also on the bill. 7 p.m., Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, 2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, boardwalkhall.com.

Fancy That!, the hook-filled second album by the British songwriter and producer Victoria Beverley Walker, employs skittering drum and bass beats, buoyant melodies as light as a feather, and spoken-sung vocals to convey the kick of new romance. There’s no opening act, so arrive on time. 8 p.m., Met Philly, 858 N . Broad St., themetphilly.com.

Big things are happening for Annabelle Dinda, the Wayne, Pa.-raised songwriter who went viral last year with her TikTok hit “The Hand.” Dinda released her fourth album, Some Things Never Leave, in March and this summer, she’s opening for Noah Kahan, including a date at Citizens Bank Park in July. 8 p.m., The Sanctuary at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., r5productions.com

Chicago songwriter Casey Walker fronts Case Oats, the alt-country band that released the winning Last Missouri Exit in 2025. The album was produced by the band’s drummer Spencer Tweedy, who is Walker’s fiancé. 8 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., johnnybrendas.com

The acronym stands for Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, the Dublin songwriter whose indie pop songs are loaded with hooks, and frequently, laughs. She leans into American music on Euro-Country, for songs of dissatisfaction, personal and political. 8 p.m., Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., utphilly.com

Aussie singer guitarist Courtney Barnett is in fine form on Creature of Habit, her first album of new material since 2021, which shows she hasn’t lost her knack for stream of consciousness observation. Back in 2017, she made Lotta Sea Lice with Kurt Vile, and he tends to show up when she’s in town. 8 p.m., Fillmore Philly, 29 E. Allen St., thefillmorephilly.com