Secret Cinema resurrects "Soundies: Rock Videos of the 1940s," which includes clips from jazz, swing, dance bands and forgotten novelty acts (Fats Waller, Gene Krupa, Count Basie and more).
What they lacked in technology, they made up for in technique and style (8 tonight, Moore College of Art & Design, 20th and Race streets, 215-568-4515, ext. 4099, $6, www.voicenet.com/~jschwart).
The Tangerine Dream-influenced Ministry of Inside Things (featuring electronic musician Chuck van Zyl and guitarist Art Cohen) play Gate to Moonbase Alpha with Calabi Yau (improvised ambient and noise with the Reflectors' Leno Forbes and Nick Tenaglia), and double bass/laptop trio Sharks With Wings (8 to midnight tonight, the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, free, all ages, www.foundationarts.org).
