Published May 15. 2026 03:02AM<\/p>\n
Buckcherry, an American rock band from Los Angeles, Calif., returns to the Lehigh Valley for a May 19 concert at Archer Music Hall in center city Allentown.<\/p>\n
The lineup for Buckcherry includes vocalist Josh Todd, guitarist Stevie D. (Dacanay), guitarist Billy Rowe, bassist Kelly LeMieux and drummer Francis Ruiz.<\/p>\n
Buckcherry, formed in 1995, has released 11 albums, including \u201cBuckcherry\u201d (1999), \u201cTime Bomb\u201d (2001), \u201c15\u201d (2006), \u201cBlack Butterfly\u201d (2008), \u201cAll Night Long\u201d (2010), \u201cConfessions\u201d (2013), \u201cRock \u2018n\u2019 Roll\u201d (2015), \u201cWarpaint\u201d (2019), \u201cHellbound\u201d (2021), \u201cVol. 10\u201d (2023) and \u201cRoar Like Thunder\u201d (2025).<\/p>\n
Buckcherry\u2019s acclaimed platinum album, \u201c15,\u201d contained its biggest rock hit, \u201cCrazy Bitch,\u201d as well as Buckcherry\u2019s Top 10 hit, \u201cSorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c15\u201d went on to spend an impressive 98 weeks on Billboard\u2019s Top 200. The band\u2019s follow-up, \u201cBlack Butterfly,\u201d debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard chart and became a No. 1 rock album.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were originally called Sparrow. But later we changed the name to Buckcherry,\u201d says Josh Todd in an interview from Georgia, where the band was playing a concert.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was this transvestite that would come to the shows named Buck Cherry. Then we kept hearing the name Chuck Berry. And we came up with Buckcherry through a spoonerism. So we seemed to be destined to have that name for our band.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had never planned on doing music for a living. I had planned on being a professional surfer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were many singers on my Dad\u2019s side of the family. My Dad played guitar and sang. He actually went over to Vietnam during wartime to entertain the troops.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was about 15 when I was asked by some friends to sing for their band. I said, \u2018Sure.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cGrowing up, my musical influences were AC\/DC, Aerosmith, Prince, Slipknot and Stevie Wonder.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was around 16 when I first started writing lyrics and music. I have a knack for writing lyrics and have always enjoyed writing poetry.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our group, I write all the lyrics and melodies. Most of the lyrics are based on my own life experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor instance, the song \u2018Sorry\u2019 was written for my wife. It is hard to keep a marriage going when having this kind of lifestyle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like my songs to bring out raw emotions rather than just musical technicality. We then bash it all out together as a band. We like relatable, straight ahead rock \u2018n\u2019 roll\u201d songs.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt our upcoming show, we will be doing all of our hits along with our new songs,\u201d Todd says.<\/p>\n
Buckcherry, 7 p.m. May 19, Archer Music Hall, 939 Hamilton St., Allentown. ArcherInfo@livenation.com ; 610-798-1466 ; https:\/\/www.archermusichall.com\/shows<\/p>\n
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOBuckcherry, May 19, Archer Music Hall, Allentown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 15. 2026 03:02AM Buckcherry, an American rock band from Los Angeles, Calif., returns to the Lehigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-193085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}