You can say one thing about Beach Slang — they are on-brand. The Philadelphia-based hard rock outfit, featuring Tommy Stinson of The Replacements on bass, aren’t trying to shove too many disparate influences or self-important nuances down the listener’s throat. Instead, the band plays the kind of boisterous, all-purpose old-school rock’n’roll that kids in the ’70s and ’80s cut their teeth on. The cover and title of their upcoming new record say it all — the album’s called The Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City, and features frontman James Alex bent over backwards mid-wail as though kneeling in worship before the altar of Thin Lizzy. The first single from the album, Bam Rang Rang, tackles both ends of that style’...
