ALLENTOWN, Pa. — An alternative rock band who in the past decade has put two albums atop the independent chart will perform at Allentown’s new Archer Music Hall, it has been announced.
Opening the show will be a band that in the 2010s had six albums that hit the Top 20 on the Indie chart.
Boston band Guster, who has had nearly a dozen songs hit the Top 40 in the Adult Alternative chart, will perform at 6 p.m. July 29.
Opening the show will be The Mountain Goats, which from 2015-19 had three Top 10 albums on Indie chart.
Tickets, at $66.50 for general admission standing floor and $116.80 for seated balcony, are on sale at The Archer website or at the box office at 939 Hamilton St., Allentown.Archer Music Hall
Tickets, at $66.50 for general admission standing floor and $116.80 for seated balcony, are on sale at The Archer website or at the box office at 939 Hamilton St., Allentown.
The shows are the latest announced for The Archer, which opened March 8 and now has 36 shows scheduled through Oct. 11.
Guster released its debut album, “Parachute,” in 1995, but had breakthrough success with 2003’s “Keep It Together” and the No. 1 Adult Alternative hit “Amsterdam.”
Its 2006 album “Ganging Up On the Sun” had two more Adult Alternative hits: “One Man Wrecking Machine” and “Satellite.” Its 2010 song “Do You Love Me” was its last Top 10 hit before it again hit high on the charts with 2019’s “Overexcited.”
Its most recent albums – 2015’s “Evermotion” and “Look Alive,” released in January, both hit No. 1 on the Indie chart.
Guster played a free show at Bethlehem’s Musikfest festival in 2019, and a paid-ticket show in Musikfest Café at SteelStacks in 2015.
Its most recent single is this year’s “When We Were Stars” which peaked at No. 38 on the Adult Alternative chart.
Its most recent album, “Ooh La La,” released last May, didn’t chart.
The Mountain Goats, led by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, released its debut album, “Zopilote Machine,” in 1994, but didn’t hit the charts until 2002’s “All Hail West Texas,” and not again until 2006’s “Get Lonely,” which hit No. 19 on the Indie chart.
The band had its greatest success with the run of 2015’s “Beat the Champ,” which peaked at No.5; 2017’s “Goths,” which peaked at No. 4; and 2019’s “In League with Dragons,” which peaked at No. 6.
The band’s latest disc, “Jenny from Thebes,” was released in 2023.
