The Menzingers Are Still Writing Songs About the People You Forgot

There is a specific kind of Menzingers song. It is about somebody from your hometown who you only think about when a certain other song from your hometown comes on. The chorus is too big. The verse describes a Friday night you forgot until just now. You sing it loud enough that your throat hurts the next morning.

After the Party codified the formula. Hello Exile sharpened it. Some Of It Was True extended the warranty. They are not the kind of band you outgrow. You just become a different kind of person whom the same songs are still about.

The fall tour opens at Frank Turner’s Lost Evenings Festival in Dallas on Sept 24 and runs until Nov 22 in Brooklyn — nearly two months, including a stretch of theatres that are too small for them and exactly the right size. If you have not seen The Menzingers with a beer in your hand and a stranger’s arm around your shoulder, the entire pitch of the band is missing.

The openers are TBA. They have historically been generous about it. Watch this space.