If your holiday plans include shaking off tinsel, rage-singing choruses, and standing too close to a guitar cabinet with your pathetic post-Christmas paunch, Harper & Penny’s at Main and Wood streets has you covered for the last loud exhale of 2025.
Two back-to-back all-ages, $10-at-the-door shows on Friday and Saturday, are turning the Lansdale barroom into a short-run rock club — equal parts basement show energy and borough main-street chaos.
Friday, Dec. 26 | Originals, riffs, and raw edges
Friday night belongs to bands that still believe rock music should feel a little dangerous.
The Quakertown outfit Big Handsome brings straight-ahead rock with muscle and swagger.
Lady White Rat, a crushing Lehigh Valley power trio, leans heavy and unpolished — the kind of hard rock that does not apologize and does not blink.
And The Grimjacks arrive carrying ambition, volume, and a multigenerational love of guitar-driven noise.
Formed by Ethan Simons alongside Tristan Simons and Jordan Rowley, The Grimjacks wear their influences proudly — Metallica riffs, Zeppelin swing, Sabbath weight — but pull from everywhere, even death metal. The trio has a DIY spirit that feels born for rooms like this. Think young band, old soul, and zero interest in staying quiet.
Saturday, Dec. 27 | Punk meets grunge, tribute style
Saturday flips the switch from originals to full-blown homage.
Vigilante Sidekicks tear into Rancid, their name lifted straight from Let's Go–era punk poetry, while Sadgasm resurrects Nirvana, nodding to the fictional grunge band from "The Simpsons" but playing it dead serious. Expect shouted choruses, distorted catharsis, and that familiar feeling of knowing every word without thinking about it.
It is punk and grunge the way it is supposed to be — loud, communal, and slightly reckless.
And if this weekend lights a fuse, mark Jan. 23 on your calendar: Sunburster, FLPSDE, and Crossed Keys are already queued up to keep the amps hot.
Two nights. No presales. No excuses. Lansdale gets loud before the year goes out.
