Beach Weather | Rare Sidestage Moment | "Sex, Drugs, Etc." | 1.3 Billion Streams | Pineapple Sunrise

Front of house is one experience. Sidestage is another world entirely. This is a rare and genuinely precious sidestage moment with Beach Weather — the American indie rock band led by Nick Santino whose platinum-certified viral hit "Sex, Drugs, Etc." has accumulated over 1.3 billion streams on Spotify and whose extraordinary comeback story — from five-year hiatus to Billboard Alternative Airplay #1 — is one of the most remarkable and most genuinely inspiring music industry narratives of the past decade. This sidestage perspective captures Beach Weather from an angle that most fans will never see — the raw, real, completely authentic experience of one of indie rock's most exciting and most genuinely beloved bands performing live at their best. About Beach Weather: 🎸 An American indie rock band formed in 2015 by lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Nick Santino — former frontman of A Rocket to the Moon — alongside Reeve Powers (bass) and Sean Silverman (lead guitar) 🎸 "Sex, Drugs, Etc." — originally released on the Chit Chat EP in 2016 — went viral on TikTok in June 2022 — six years after its initial release — was serviced to alternative radio on August 1, 2022 — topped the Billboard Alternative Airplay Chart for the week of October 27, 2022 — certified Platinum by the RIAA on May 16, 2023 — and has now accumulated over 1.3 billion streams on Spotify 🎸 Nominated for Best New Artist (Alternative & Rock) at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards alongside BoyWithUke, Giovannie and the Hired Guns, Turnstile, and Wet Leg 🎸 Performed at iHeartRadio ALTer EGO sharing the stage with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, and Fall Out Boy 🎸 Debut full-length album Pineapple Sunrise — released March 3, 2023 via last nite/Arista Records — their first ever full-length after four EPs 🎸 Sophomore album Melt — released October 25, 2024 via Arista Records — featuring singles "High in Low Places" (#15 Billboard Alternative Airplay), "Hottest Summer on Record," "Hardcore Romance," and "Deadbeat Blues" — over 100 million streams in its first year 🎸 Melt'd — the deluxe edition — released May 30, 2025 — six additional tracks including "Fake Nice" and "Nightcrawler" 🎸 Opened for Pierce the Veil and Sleeping With Sirens on the "I Can't Hear You" world tour throughout 2025 — North America, Europe, Oceania, and South America 🎸 Appeared at festivals including BottleRock Napa Valley, Hangout Music Festival, Shaky Knees, Summerfest, Life Is Beautiful, and WonderBus The Comeback Story: 💙 In July 2017 — one day after releasing the Basement Sessions EP — Beach Weather announced an indefinite hiatus 💙 Nick Santino leaned into bad habits, got married, and pursued a career in graphic design 💙 During the COVID-19 pandemic — he started thinking about music again — reached out to Sean Silverman — and they began sending each other notes and ideas 💙 In June 2021 — they quietly reunited — flew to Phoenix — recorded in a space provided by The Maine — and built Pineapple Sunrise from scratch 💙 June 2022 — "Sex, Drugs, Etc." goes viral on TikTok — six years after its original release 💙 October 2022 — #1 on Billboard Alternative Airplay 💙 May 2023 — Platinum certified 💙 1.3 billion streams and counting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎸 HOWARD PERL MANAGEMENT | HOWARD PERL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION | HOWARD PERL PRODUCTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Howard Perl Management | Howard Perl Entertainment Corporation | Howard Perl Productions specializes in comprehensive artist development and management, business affairs, publishing, publicity, promotion, licensing, endorsements, branding, creative strategy, music festivals, television and film placement, and A&R (Artist & Repertoire) for emerging artists, established legends, celebrity talent, and corporate entertainment clients. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 Like, subscribe & drop a comment — what does this sidestage moment with Beach Weather mean to you? Drop a 🎸 below and share your favorite Beach Weather memory! #BeachWeather #SexDrugsEtc #PineappleSunrise #Melt #NickSantino #HowardPerlProductions #SidestageView #IndieRock #BillboardAlt #TheDOGfatherFront of house is one experience. Sidestage is another world entirely.

Added 30 Aug 2026