Alt band that had chart hits in 2010s to play Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A rock band that in the mid-2010s had two Top 10 Alternative chart albums will play a paid-ticket show at Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks, it was announced Wednesday.

The Front Bottoms, the New Jersey-based band that had the Top 20 Alternative hit “Peace Sign” in 2018, will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the second paid Levitt Pavilion show announced for this season.

The concert will be a 10th anniversary show for its 2014 REP “Rose,” which hot the Top 30 on the Indie albums chart.

Tickets, at $35 in advance and $42 day of show for general admission lawn standing, go on sale at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, for ArtsQuest members and noon tomorrow for the general public at www.steelstacks.org. There is a limit of six tickets per customer.

Previously announced for a paid-ticket show at the Levitt Pavilion this summer was popular festival jam band moe., which will play at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 10.

Tickets for that show remain available.

The Front Bottoms released its debut album, “I Hate My Friends,” in 2008. But it wasn’t until its fourth album, 2013’s “Talent of the Hawk,” that the group found chart success. That disc hit No. 30 on the U.S. Indie albums chart and broke the Top 200 on the overall Billboard Albums chart.

A 2014 EP, “Rose,” peaked at No. 28 on the Indie chart, and the follow-up full album “Back on Top” in 2015 hit No. 6 on the Alternative Albums chart and No. 48 on the overall albums chart.

In 2017, “Going Grey” reached the same peak and had the single “Peace Sign.”

The band has released two albums and five EPs since, with the latest being “You Are Who You Hang Out With” in August.

The Front Bottoms played a show in the Blast Furnace Room at ArtsQuest Center in 2014.

ArtsQuest offered just two paid-ticket shows at Levitt Pavilion SteeStacks last year: alternative rock band Live and Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, both in June.