Gen-X Summer tour bringing Buckcherry, P.O.D., Lit, Alien Ant Farm to Naperville
A tour meant to "remind us that rock never died" is set to stop in Naperville as part of the Jaycees' annual Last Fling festival.
The Loudwire Gen-X Summer Tour features Buckcherry, P.O.D., Lit and Alien Ant Farm, who will take the stage at Rotary Hill along the Naperville Riverwalk beginning at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1.
The bands are the first announced for the four-day Last Fling, which begins Friday, Aug. 31, and concludes Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 3.
Tickets to the Gen-X Summer Tour go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at lastfling.org/MainStage.
General admission is $20, passes to a pit area close to the stage are $50 and VIP "Carillon Experience" tickets are $150, including a possible meet-and-greet with the bands, access to the pit area near the stage during performances, free drinks and snacks and a catered multicourse meal.
Designed for Generation X, which the tour's website also defines as the "MTV generation," the show includes bands popular for their rock hits in the 1990s and 2000s.
Buckcherry launched with a 1999 self-titled album featuring the hit "Lit Up. The band's platinum album, "15," came out in 2006 with the single "Sorry." The quintet has performed with AC/DC and Mötley Crüe as well as Slipknot and Rob Zombie during a musical career of nearly two decades.
P.O.D. has released eight studio albums since forming in 1992 in San Diego, including "Satellite" in 2001. Known for songs including "Youth of the Nation," Southtown," "Alive," "Boom," and "Lost In Forever," the band has received three Grammy Award nominations and recorded four No. 1 music videos.
Formed in California in 1990, the pop-punk group Lit released an EP and a full-length album before making its presence known on the national scene with the 1999 release, "A Place in the Sun." That album spawned three charting hits - "Miserable," "Zip-Lock" and the best-known "My Own Worst Enemy," the song that most likely locked them in Gen X nostalgia.
Alien Ant Farm formed in 1995 and gained fame in 2001 and 2002 through performances on the Warped Tour and an MTV fall tour and shows with Linkin Park and Papa Roach. The quartet's four studio albums have produced four top-10 singles and a Grammy nomination, along with their hit cover of the Michael Jackson song "Smooth Criminal."
• Daily Herald staff writer Brian Shamie contributed to this report.