Tour: The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still
Venue: Roadrunner
Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Set list: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/hot-mulligan/2025/roadrunner-boston-ma-b45b19a.html
Opener: Anxious, Arm’s Length, Drug Church
Review: For some reason, I didn’t get into Hot Mulligan until this last year. I had seen the name a bunch, but never got around to listening to them. Man, have I been missing out. This band is fun, funny, and insanely talented. They make some great Midwest emo music.
As soon as I saw them announce their US tour, I bought a ticket. I actually almost went to Mexico City back at the start of the year just to see them!
I love so much about this band. The name of their songs is hilarious. Some titles include, “Featuring Mark Hoppus,” “Shhh! Golf is On,” and “I Fell in Love With Princess Peach.” And their latest album, “The Sound a Body Makes While Still,” has a track called “Monica Lewinskibidi.” Which happens to be one of my favorites off of the album. The ending chorus is beautiful,
“It’s 5 AM in Tokyo, and half a world away.
I’m sitting in a parking lot, you’re laying in your grave.
And now I am afraid of you, to know that it’s all done.
I didn’t try hard enough to be a proper son.
Please wake up. Please wake up.”
I almost feel like they should name their songs more seriously because they are so talented, but it clearly shows who they are. Talented musicians with heavy lyrics who know how to still have a good time.
The show was nostalgic from when you first walk in. I haven’t been listening to them since I was younger, b the genre – I sure have been. I made my way to merch first and saw and purchased a tech deck that Hot Mulligan had for sale. They also have a shirt that is a play off of AOL messenger. And Arm’s Length, another band that played that night, had a Tomogotchi.
The visuals behind Hot Mulligan were super cool. They remind me very much of the animations from back in the days of AOL. Which I’m sure is exactly what they were going for. The visuals lined up to each song. One had an armadillo, another had a golf ball, another had to do with travel.
The singer is very fun and funny. Occasionally, making observations about the crowd, the visuals behind him, people crowd, surfing, even after a song has ended.
I have zero complaints about the night, except for one major complaint: They didn’t play “End Eric Sparrow and the Life of Him.”
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Upcoming Tour Dates: https://hotmulligan.band/pages/tour
Tue Nov 5 — Boston, MA — Roadrunner
Thu Nov 7 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount
Fri Nov 8 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore Philadelphia
Sat Nov 9 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz
Mon Nov 11 — Atlanta, GA — The Tabernacle
Wed Nov 13 — Oklahoma City, OK — The Criterion
Fri Nov 14 — Dallas, TX — The Bomb Factory
Sat Nov 15 — Austin, TX — Stubb’s Waller Creek
Sun Nov 16 — Houston, TX — House of Blues Houston
Tue Nov 18 — Phoenix, AZ — The Van Buren
Wed Nov 19 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Palladium
Thu Nov 20 — Oakland, CA — Fox Theater (Oakland)
Sat Nov 22 — Portland, OR — McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
Sun Nov 23 — Seattle, WA — Showbox SoDo
Mon Nov 24 — Spokane, WA — Knitting Factory Spokane
Wed Nov 26 — Salt Lake City, UT — Rockwell at The Complex
Fri Nov 28 — Denver, CO — Mission Ballroom
Sun Nov 30 — St. Louis, MO — The Pageant
Mon Dec 1 — West Des Moines, IA — Val Air Ballroom
Tue Dec 2 — St. Paul, MN — Palace Theatre
Thu Dec 4 — Chicago, IL — The Salt Shed (Indoors)
Fri Dec 5 — Chicago, IL — The Salt Shed (Indoors)
Sat Dec 6 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore Detroit
Sun Dec 7 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore Detroit