Music - The Stepkids Are Alright - It’s a full-on downpour outside of Mercury Lounge on a recent Thursday night, but inside it’s a psychedelic disco inferno. Radiating throughout the venue is a neo-soul wall of sound punctuated with unexpected pops and flashes of fat rhythms and vocal harmonies. Magenta and yellow scissor cutter lights engulf the figures in white on stage. The room is filled with wide-eyed cool kids.