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Black Sheep, performing at The Khyber on Saturday

FRIDAY

The Elevator Parade, Native Black,Dark Horse, and the Carousels
The M Room, Frankford and W Gerard
Philly indie heroes Elevator Parade with younger teams Native Black and Dark Horse and the Carousels. Myspaces above. 9pm, $8.

Crosscultural Connections: Ancients and Moderns
First Unitarian Church, 22nd and Chestnut
Non-R5 church thing of interest: the Dolce Suono Trio (Mimi Stillman, flute; Yumi Kendall, cello; Charles Abramovic, piano) with mezzo- soprano Donna Morein playing Haydn, Ravel, and the world premiere of Jeremy Gill’s “Ode: A Dramatic Cantata,” a work based on ancient written music. 7:30pm, free.

Last Friday Recital Series: Liebesfreud celebrate Mendelssohn
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th
PAA’s last Friday series host the string ensemble Liebesfreud, who’re playing a program celebrating the 200th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn. 5:30pm, free.

SATURDAY

Live Forever
The Barbary, Frankford and Delaware
Jhn Rdn, Designer Drugs and Club Lyfestile’s monthly glitter-mess, makeup-runner dance party, this time out featuring guest disc jockeys Dirty Dave (LA) and Danny Leminh (NY). 10pm, $5.

More after the jump!

Bleached Black
Medusa Lounge, 21st and Chestnut
Kyle M, Diamond Girl, Andrew Gaspar and Kenny Raw roll out the italo, the electro, and the boogie. 10pm, free.

Black Sheep, Zilla Rocca
The Khyber
The bottom rung of the 1990s Native Tongues rap phenom family, Black Sheep, down at the Khyber – but now apparently Black Sheep is just Dres, and no longer includes Mr Lawnge. Youtube them for memories, or check the myspace to see the current thing. Free upstairs is Moshpit Rainbow with DJ R’N'G. 9pm, $15

Phoebe Hoban or Gwen Ifill
Central Library, 1901 Vine
Vogue/Vanity Fair/New York Mag’s Phoebe Hoban on her biography of Basquiat and the ’80s art scene in New York. At the same time, NewsHour/Washington Week’s Gwen Ifill is down the hall talking about her new book, The Breakthrough, which looks at Obama’s presidential victory in light of the civil rights movement. 2pm, free for Hoban, $15 for Ifill.

Emilyn Brodsky, Spoonboy, Ukebox
First Unitarian Church Chapel, 22nd and Chestnut
Come for best Philly dude Justin Bender aka UKEBOX’s signature ukelele punk, and stay for New York’s own #1 uke hustler, Emilyn Brodsky. At 22, she’s already managed to muscle her way into collabs with The Dresden Dolls, The Gossip, The Magnetic Fields, The Decemberists, The Hold Steady and Pete Seeger, among many others. See her stand on her own two and see who wins. $8, 7:30pm.

Sixers vs. Magic
Wachovia Spectrum
Tickets at the link above. 7pm.

SUNDAY

Bowerbird Presents: Tatsuya Nakatani, Kudler + Kamerman, Morally Gray
Vox Populi, 319 N 11th
Nakatani plays drums and gongs, best dude Jesse Kudler and New Yorker Richard Kamerman play a pile of electronics, microphones and junk, and ultimate Philly noise buddies duo Morally Gray play cassette tapes. Brought to you by Bowerbird, who remind you that if you wear a collared shirt instead of a pile of trash, and attend an event in an art gallery instead of a warehouse, that you are participating in avant-garde 21st century music, and not going to the noise show. Welcome back brothers. 8pm, $5.

Blitzen Trapper, Alela Diane
First Unitarian Church, 22nd and Chestnut
Subpop babies Blitzen Trapper lay down neo-classic rock after Rough Trade’s Alela Diane celebrates the universe. Sounds at R5. 8pm, $12.

ONGOING

Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Festival
CC Sheraton, 17th and Race
The annual ink convention runs Friday through Sunday, featuring tattoo competitions, sideshow acts, and hundreds of artists from all over the place. There’s a trailer from last year’s on youtube and full info at the link above. $20 for one day, $40 for the weekend.