 Beach Slang 2015 North American Tour
* w/ The Hotelier
% w/ Cayetana
# w/ Tommy Stinson
^ w/ The Bouncing Souls
bold = new headlining dates
% w/ Lithuania
@ w/ Worriers
8/23 - The Mr. Roboto Project - Pittsburgh, PA*
8/24 - Now That's Class - Cleveland, OH*
8/25 - Hoosier Dome - Indianapolis, IN*
8/26 - Davey's Uptown - Kansas City, MO*
8/27 - O'Leaver's - Omaha, NE
8/30 - Riot Fest - Denver, CO
8/31 - Barleycorn's - Wichita, KS%
9/9 - Brass Rail - Fort Wayne, IN%
9/10 - Lyric Room - Green Bay, WI#
9/11 - Club Garibaldi - Milwaukee, WI#
9/12 - Turf Club - St. Paul, MN#
9/13 - Riot Fest - Chicago, IL
9/25 - Pygmalion Festival - Urbana, IL
9/26 - MidPoint Music Festival - Cincinnati, OH
10/15 - The Emporium - Patchogue, NY^
10/16 - Upstate Concert Hall - Clifton Park, NY^
10/17 - Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA^
10/24 - The Southern - Charlottesville, VA
10/15 - Neptunes - Raleigh, NC
10/26 - The Milestone Club - Charlotte, NC%
10/27 - The Masquerade - Purgatory - Atlanta, GA%
10/28 - Pre-Fest 2015 - Ybor City, FL
10/31 - The Fest - Gainesville, FL
11/2 - The End - Nashville, FL%@
11/3 - The Firebird - St. Louis, MO%@
11/4 - Jackpot Music Hall - Lawrence, KS%@
11/7 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT%@
11/8 - The Watercooler - Boise, ID%@
11/9 - The Vera Project - Seattle, WA%@
11/10 - The Cobalt - Vancouver, BC%@
11/11 - Analog Cafe - Portland, OR%@
11/12 - The Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA%@
11/14 - Bootleg - Los Angeles, CA%@
11/15 - The Rebel Lounge - Phoenix, AZ%@
11/17 - Mohawk - Austin, TX%@
11/18 - Doublewide - Dallas, TX%@
11/20 - The Outland Ballroom - Springfield, MO%@
11/22 - Mac's Bar - Lansing, MI%@
11/23 - Lee's Palace - The Cave (Upstairs) - Toronto, ON%@
11/24 - Great Scott - Allston, MA%@
2016 UK & European Tour
1/19 - Owl Sanctuary - Norwich, UK
1/20 - The Rainbow - Birmingham, UK
1/21 - Star & Garter - Manchester, UK
1/22 - The Hug & Pint - Glasgow, UK
1/23 - Think Tank - Newcastle, UK
1/24 - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, UK
1/26 - Bodega - Nottingham, UK
1/27 - Barfly - London, UK
1/28 - The Exchange - Bristol, UK
1/29 - Joiners - Southampton, UK
1/30 - Green Door Store - Brighton, UK
2/1 - Blue Shell - Cologne, Germany
2/2 - Sputnik Cafe - Munster, Germany
2/3 - Hafenklang - Hamburg, Germany
2/4 - UnderWerket - Copenhagen, Denmark
2/5 - Cassiopeia - Berlin, Germany
2/6 - Conne Island Cafe - Leipzig, Germany
2/8 - Club Stereo - Nurnberg, Germany
2/9 - B72 - Vienna, Austria
2/10 - Milla - Munich, Germany
2/11 - Freakout Club - Bologna, Italy
2/12 - Surfer Joe Club - Livorno, Italy
2/13 - Treibhaus - Lucerne, Switzerland
2/15 - Garage Club - Saarbrucken, Germany
2/16 - Schlachthof - Wiesbaden, Germany
2/17 - Paradiso (Upstairs) - Amsterdam, Holland
2/18 - Kavka - Antwerp, Belgium
Beach Slang debuted their new album's first single "Bad Art and Weirdo Ideas" last week to rave reviews:
"It packs in
[Beach Slang's] trademark hopeless romanticism and a lust for nostalgia
over emotional vulnerability... the soundtrack for the angry, young, and
wild." - Noisey
"'Bad Art &
Weirdo Ideas' is Beach Slang's most tender expression of elder
statesmanship-if you know deep in your soul that Paul Westerberg is your
spirit guide, Snyder will tell you what it was like for him, what it's
like now, and what it can be like as soon as tonight." - Pitchfork
"James Snyder and co. are actively preaching to their younger listeners, assuring them that yeah, they've been through it and understand the unique pressures that come with growing up and yeah, it will get better... They make music for the people that need it most, and sound great while doing it." - Stereogum "[I]t's
got just about everything you want from Beach Slang: ringing anthemic
guitars and lyrics about how your heart is 'too fucked up to love, too
soft to hate!'" - Brooklyn Vegan
The
feelings of youth and vulnerability lie at the core of Beach Slang's
music, which is part punk, part pop and all catharsis. It references the
ghosts of the Replacements but keeps one foot firmly rooted in the
present. It's fun and it's serious. It's sad but it isn't. It's Beach
Slang. This Philadelphia-based act have built their hype the
old-fashioned way, without any gimmicks or marketing teams, which makes
sense when you consider that frontman and writer James Alex cut his
teeth in the celebrated pop-punk act Weston while drummer JP Flexner,
bassist Ed McNulty and guitarist Ruben Gallego also played in buzzed
about projects such as Ex-Friends, Nona and Glocca Morra respectively.
However there's something indefinable about Beach Slang's music that
evokes the spirit of punk and juxtaposes it into something that's as
brutally honest as it is infectiously catchy.
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