Concert Review: The Menzingers, Hot Water Music, And Weakened Friends At Mercury Ballroom, 11/08/26

On the surface, it’s easy to label Sunday night’s show at the Mercury Ballroom as a punk show. When I hear the word punk being thrown around about bands, I immediately assume loud, raw, somewhat sloppy playing by scruffy, street-hardened crusters with mohawks wearing Doc Martens and studded leather or denim jackets covered in band patches. This was not the case Sunday night. All three bands look like regular, everyday people you’d run into at work, in your neighborhood, or, God forbid, at Wal-Mart. And the crowd of what I’d estimate to have been around 400 former and aging punks, mostly between the ages of 35-55, reflected that as well.

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