Nothing says, "I love you" like a good old-fashioned punk rock show.

Jena Berlin, a punk rock band from Philadelphia that has incited comparisons to the late At The Drive-In and Fugazi, will return to State College at 10 p.m. Saturday. The band made their State College debut last October at the Brewery, 233 E. College Ave.

Meredith Rebar, promoter and creator of Cherry Darling Productions, said that the band "stole the show" at their previous performance at the Brewery.

"They were fantastic," Rebar said. "They had so much energy on stage. Everyone was up front singing along. The lead singer was bouncing off the walls."

The enthusiastic lead singer, Jon Loudon, attributes the energetic live show to the band's desire to put their all into their performance.

"I feel like we have to give everything we have every time we play," Loudon said. "There's a lot of things we want to communicate and bring across ... if we're not playing as hard as we can and interacting with people as much as we can, we're not giving a good show."

According to the band's MySpace, one of the ideas the band tries to communicate with its audience is the idea of "music being openly shared with the masses," instead of "cut-throat competition."

After hearing Loudon speak about the importance of creating music, it becomes clear that the aforementioned ideal isn't just a gimmick.

"The band is our response to try and not get too old," Loudon said. "As you get older you start falling more into your job ... a lot of people that start off so involved with music and art end up as totally far away from it as possible. This is our way of keeping that lifestyle ... to try and keep ourselves reminded of how we started."

The band will have the opportunity to spread their message in Europe during their summer tour. Loudon says he is nervous, but also excited to see the reaction to their somewhat-Communist name and ideals.

"They take [Communism] very seriously," Loudon said. "It'll be interesting to have that dialogue with the kids over [in Europe]."

Before the crowd gets a taste of the Philadelphia band, they will be treated to some Pittsburgh-based punk, courtesy of Incommunicado.

The band got their big break when a friend from A-F Records gave their homemade full-length album Losing Daylight to the members of well-established punk band Anti-Flag. A-F Records is Anti-Flag's label, and the captains of the punk industry were excited about Incommunicado.

"It was literally the night before I was about to send the CD out to the pressing plant," guitar player Ryan Warmbrodt, said. "Pat from Anti-Flag gave me a call and said they wanted to put the album out instead of us doing it ourselves."

It is true that political punk rockers Anti-Flag and Incommunicado share the same record label, but that's where the similarities end. Warmbrodt said that his band used to be political when they formed in the fall of 2004 -- President George Bush's re-election year -- but soon took a different path.

"We realized that we're not really that kind of a band," Warmbrodt said. "We don't tell people who to vote for or not to eat meat. I appreciate the message, I really do ... especially with younger kids who are in high school, who are just starting to get an awareness of the world going on. But we didn't want to be another Bush-bashing band."

The band may touch on political issues here and there, but the songs aren't didactic, Warmbrodt said.

"They're still topical and about current events, but they're not preachy and blatantly telling people what to do," Warmbrodt said.