Beach Slang At The Surf Lodge

Photo by Ian Laidlaw

Philadelphia punk rockers Beach Slang are performing on Friday at The Surf Lodge in Montauk. The band is releasing their sophomore album, A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings on September 23. Beach Slang's music evokes the spirit of punk. It's brutally honest and infectiously catchy, as heard on the album's first single "Punks In A Disco Bar." "I don't want to whisper things anymore. I want to yell them," said Beach Slang's frontman James Alex. A Loud Bash is a crash-and-thunder collection of songs about what it takes to keep yourself going, through the rest of your youth and beyond. Alex wrote most of the album on their first album's support tour. "A lot of the songs [on Loud Bash] are the stories of the kids who got turned on to Beach Slang by the first album," said Alex. "They're autobiographical, too, but kind of at a remove -- I'm not that young kid anymore, but I used to be. You know how it is; rock and roll is a new crop of 15-year-olds picking up guitars every year and having at it. There was something really cool about documenting someone else's life, but seeing myself in it. I suppose that's why we connect. We're all kind of one big gang." Visit www.thesurflodge.com for more info.