After a wild Memorial Day Weekend featuring Vintage Culture, Chris Lake, Alok & Bhaskar, and a surprise set by 50 Cent, the Surf Lodge is ready to reveal who else is coming through to the Hamptons’ biggest annual lineup of live music.
While the 2023 season included performances by Wyclef Jean and Lauv, the Hamptons (or “out east,” if you went to boarding school) hotspot is back this year with sets by Alesso, Sofi Tukker, and more. Additional musical acts will be announced on a rolling basis.
The venue is no stranger to some of music’s biggest acts coming through to party in Montauk: In recent years, the likes of Halsey, Anderson .Paak, John Legend, and Lauryn Hill have hit the deck for sunset sets. “I have my ear out for new artists too; we have a history of showcasing up-and-comers at The Surf Lodge, many of whom go on to win Grammys,” founder Jayma Cardoso told Rolling Stone in 2022.
Traditionally, the music lineup has featured DJs and electronic music stars on Friday, indie or band acts on Sunday, and a mix on Saturday. This year, those indie and band shows are moving to Monday to stretch out the weekend programming as far as it can go. “I want there to be something for everyone in our lineup over the course of a summer,” Cardoso said.
While the preliminary schedule below is set for this summer, there’s always surprises that pop up (like when Jimmy Buffett hopped on stage during a Wyclef Jean set in 2018). Tickets for each week go on sale here.
The Surf Lodge Summer Lineup
May 31 — Guy Gerber
June 1 — Night Tales
June 2 — Yung Gravy
June 8 — Nic Fanciulli
June 9 — Jessie Murph
June 10 — Beach Fossils (with Gov Ball)
June 14 — Cassian
June 15 — Elderbrook
June 21 — Sofi Tukker
June 23 — Ben Böhmer
June 24 — Xavier Rudd
June 30 — Polo & Pan
July 2 — St. Lucia
July 3 — Alesso
July 4 — Diplo
July 5 — Carlita & Kaz James
July 6 — Desiree & Ahmed Spins
July 7 — Zack Bia (with special guest)
July 12 — Bakermat
July 14 — Markus King (trio)
July 19 — LP Giobbi
July 20 — MK
July 26 — Cloonee
July 27 — SG Lewis
July 28 — Paul Cauthen
Aug. 1 — Cimafunk
Aug. 2 — THEMBA
Aug. 3 — Bob Moses
Aug. 4 — Giolí & Assia
Aug. 5 — G Love
Aug. 9 — Notre Dame
Aug. 10 — Two Another
Aug. 12 — Allah Las
Aug. 18 — Bedouin
Aug. 19 — Ripe
Aug. 23 — Moojo
Aug. 24 — Duke Dumont
Aug. 25 — ARIZONA
Aug. 26 — Donovan
Aug. 29 — Barry Can’t Swim
Sept. 1 — James Hype
Jack White Responds After Uproar Over Taylor Swift Songwriting Comment
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Jack White posted a statement on Instagram Monday evening after numerous publications took his comments in an interview with The Guardian out of context. When discussing poetry and songwriting, White mentioned fellow musician Taylor Swift‘s style of songwriting, and explored his own approach to storytelling when creating music. Unfortunately, online outlets framed his words as a critique of the Tortured Poets star, especially when it came to headlines that quickly circulated on the internet.
“Putting this up for a day and then taking down to just put this to bed,” wrote White in the since-deleted post. “I didn’t say that I think Taylor Swift’s music was ‘boring’ or whatever click bait the net is trying to scrape together. What I was trying to say in an interview I did about poetry and lyric writing, was that I don’t find it interesting at all for ME to write about MYSELF in my own lyric writing and poetry because I think that it could be repetitive for ME to always write about and It could be uninteresting for people who listen to my music to delve into, and that imaginary characters are more attractive to me as a writer.”
White went on to acknowledge the “tremendous success” of Swift and other songwriters who have their own process, while stating that just “because I say I have a way of doing things doesn’t mean that I think that EVERYONE should do it the same way.” He added, “They should do what works for them, And they do, and it is obviously appealing to many people, and I’m glad to hear that.”
When asked by The Guardian in the article published Sunday, if any of any of his songs were entirely autobiographical, White replied, “Not too much. Now it’s become very popular in the Taylor Swift way of pop singers writing about all of their publicly aired break-ups, which I don’t find interesting at all. I think it’s a little bit boring for me to write about myself.”
White further explained, “Even if I’ve had a really interesting day, I feel like I’ve already lived that, I don’t need to go through it every time I sing this song. If it’s something really painful, I’m not going to put this important, painful thing that I went through out there for some idiot on the internet to stomp all over. So I put a percentage of that into what I do and then morph it into somebody else’s character. I can’t really learn about myself until I put it into somebody else’s shoes.”
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In his Monday statement, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee said that at times he has been “made less and less interested in doing interviews” amid the “age of this massive demand for click bait and content.” Any “scrape of anything interesting” can be used as drama and “spit out as bait,” he continued, leading White to “not want to answer questions with any sort of romance or passion or reflection as I’m too busy having to worry about accidentally triggering nonsense like this from so called ‘journalists’ and ‘editors.'”
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He ended his response to the wave of backlash following his interview by saying, “This has always been a problem as it encourages artists to give ‘safe’ answers to any question and stifles artistic vision and imagination and pushes all of us to not share anything interesting, which was one of the points I made about keeping private things private in that same interview. But yeah, content.”
ADVERTISEMENTWhite recently released Jack White: Collected Lyrics & Selected Writing Volume 1, a collection of lyrics from the artist’s solo recordings including No Name, The Raconteurs, and more, plus selected poems and writings by White, and essays by poet Adrian Matejka.