ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A hardcore punk band that started in the Lehigh Valley and over the past 20 years together has released six full-length albums and three EPs will return home for a show at Allentown's new Archer Music Hall.
Also scheduled at the venue is a late-night DJ dance party that features all favorite emo and pop punk bands.
Pissed Jeans, which started at Nazareth Area High School, will perform at 7 p.m. April 12 in the venue's The Arrow room.
And Emo Night Brooklyn, which started as parties in the 2010s that captured the youthful, Do It Yourself milieu of the genre, will perform at 8 p.m. March 22, also in The Arrow.
Emo Night Brooklyn is for ages 18 and older.
Tickets for Pissed Jeans, at $31, are on sale now at the Archer Music Hall website. Tickets for Emo Night Brooklyn, which start at $25, go on sale at noon Tuesday at the Archer website.
Archer Music Hall website
Tickets for Pissed Jeans, at $31, are on sale now at the Archer Music Hall website.
Tickets for Emo Night Brooklyn, which start at $25, go on sale at noon Tuesday at the Archer website.
Pissed Jeans released its debut album, "Shallow," in 2005.
The New York Times wrote in 2008 that the band was "bring[ing] back '80s memories of hard, slovenly noise, when punk bands realized they could slow down and let their music fall apart a bit."
In 2013, Pissed Jeans was chosen one of Fuse TV's 30 must-see artists at the huge SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas.
The group's most recent disc, "Half Divorced," its first album in seven years, was released March 1.
The group, which plays frequently in Philadelpjhia, last played the Lehigh Valley at National Sokols 93 in Bethlehem 2021, and before that at Merchants Square Mall in Allentown in 2016
The announcements of Pissed Jeans and Emo Night Brooklyn bring to 26 the number of concerts scheduled for the Archer.
The venue is scheduled to open March 8 with a concert by gold-selling Brazilian metal band Cavalera.