Clubfriends Conversations with King Britt | Blacktronika Opening Convo
Blacktronika, in Conversation at Clubfriends
Clubfriends Radio & Records hosts Blacktronika: Philadelphia Here and Now for a series of conversations highlighting the artists, scenes, and decades of Philadelphia music history behind each night's performance. Held free, daily at noon during Art Philly 2026, King Britt — producer, DJ, and UC San Diego professor — joins his collaborators from the previous night's show for an intimate dialogue on what that history means for the city today. Presented in community partnership with the Philadelphia Music Alliance.
The series extends Blacktronika: Philadelphia Here and Now, a weeklong run of free performances commissioned by Art Philly for the What Now: 2026 Festival, with lead support from the William Penn Foundation. The performance series itself grew out of King Britt's course Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music and has since toured to LA, Brooklyn, Knoxville, Paris, and beyond.
Free and open to the public.
“It's like a family reunion, you know. And it's the last week of the festival, so let's go out with a bang. The dance floor is a place of resistance. It is a place of protest: All like-minded people together under one banner of love and bringing unity together in our bodies.” -King Britt
Clubfriends is Alexa Colas's living room turned record store, curated by lived experience. It's based at Meantime on Market, on the 900 block of Market Street — a storefront activated by Meantime, the nonprofit that puts vacant Philadelphia storefronts back into community use. There, Clubfriends expands into a public listening room, continuing to explore the moments that move us — on and off the dance floor, beyond nightlife, in conversation, and within a substance-free environment.
Clubfriends made its public debut at the 2025 DesignPhiladelphia Festival before coming to Meantime, where it now operates as a listening room, archive, and gathering place. It's built on the belief that music is infrastructure — the way we navigate the world through lived experiences that move us. On Market Street, Clubfriends is not only a record of Alexa's personal story, but a collective one, shaped by the people who move through it.