ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A rock band that had two multi-platinum hits in the mid-2000s and headlined Bethlehem's massive Musikfest festival is coming to a much smaller Lehigh Valley venue.
Buckcherry, known best for its 2006 quadruple-platinum hit "Crazy Bitch" and 2007's double-platinum "Sorry," says on its websitethat it will perform at Allentown's Archer Music Hall on May 19.
The Archer has not announced the show and does not list it on its website, so ticket prices and sale times were not immediately available.Archer Music Hall website
The Archer has not announced the show and does not list it on its website, so ticket prices and sale times were not immediately available.
Buckcherry would be perhaps the biggest act announced so far at Archer Music Hall, which opened in March.
Buckcherry drew 3,578 people to Musikfest’s Steel Stage in 2011.
The Los Angeles band was nominated for a Grammy Award and has sold 3 million copies of its 11 albums.
The band’s newest album, “Roar Like Thunder," was released in June.
Its last charting album was "Warpaint" in 2019, which peaked at No. 55 on Billboard's overall Albums chart.
Two decades of hits, and area shows
Buckcherry first hit it big with its 1999 self-titled debut and the hits “Lit Up” — which went gold and topped the Mainstream Rock chart — and Top 30 songs “Check Your Head” and “For The Movies.”
The band broke up 2000-05, but reformed with three new members to release 2005’s “15,” which gave Buckcherry its biggest success, going double-platinum and peaking at No. 8 on the Rock chart.
That disc included "Crazy Bitch," which peaked at No. 3 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and "Sorry," which peaked at No. 2 on the Adult Airplay chart.
“Black Butterfly,” the band’s 2008 follow-up, gave it its first Top 10 album, as it peaked at No. 8 on the overall Albums chart and at No. 3 on the Rock chart.
The 2010 album “All Night Long,” also peaked at No. 3 on the Rock chart with the Top 10 title hit and follow-up Top 30 singles “Dead” and “It’s a Party.”
"Confessions" in 2013 was its last Top 20 album, though the band continued to have hits on rock charts through 2019's "Bent."
Buckcherry last played the Lehigh Valley in 2018 at the former OneCenterSquare in Easton. It played Sands Bethlehem Event Center, now Wind Creek Even Center, in 2013.
It also played Allentown’s Crocodile Rock Café in 2009 and 2001, and opened for Hinder and Papa Roach at Allentown Fair in 2007.
