Third Eye Blind with Boys Like Girls at Musikfest
Schedule
Fri, 08 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Musikfest | Bethlehem, PA
Third Eye Blindwith special guest Boys Like Girls
Price: $30-$99 | Steel Terrace: $224
Venue: Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza
Buy Tickets: https://www.musikfest.org/event/17039/third-eye-blind/
Tickets on sale: Friday, 3/7, 10 a.m.
Yuengling Flight Deck Oasis Pass
*The Yuengling Flight Deck Oasis Pass is an add-on upgrade and does NOT grant access to the Wind Creek Steel Stage ticketed concert.
A Yuengling Flight Deck Oasis Pass is admission to the Yuengling Flight Deck Oasis area of the Wind Creek Steel Stage which includes a cash bar and air conditioned restrooms. Purchasing TWO Yuengling Flight Deck Oasis Passes will also receive ONE parking pass for the lot located across from the venue. NO refunds.
Gates: 6 p.m. | Show: 7 p.m.
*Gate and show times are subject to change.
ABOUT THIRD EYE BLIND
Since 1997, San Francisco's Third Eye Blind has recorded five best-selling albums and assembled one career retrospective. Led by Stephan Jenkins, 3EB has earned worldwide success during a tumultuous group of years when the major-label recording industry was finally losing its grip on an enterprise that for decades it had dominated with steely efficiency. Nothing could have made 3EB happier!
Third Eye Blind’s 2021 album Our Bande Apart was recorded when lockdown ended, with Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast and Ryan Olson of Poliça. The band has continued to have gained artistic clarification—and, surprisingly, a fanbase that is larger, younger and more dedicated than ever.
Third Eye Blind is supporting SeaTrees on its 2022 tour, an organization that helps restore a portion of the Palos Verdes Kelp Forest. The ocean has the power to restore climate change. The latest science shows that globally, kelp forests can sequester more carbon than mangrove forests - restoring these sequoias of the sea is critical to solving climate change as 93% of all carbon in the carbon cycle is stored in our oceans (meaning just 7% is stored across our atmosphere and land biosphere.
ABOUT BOYS LIKE GIRLS
If it's true what they say—that there's something in the dirty water of Boston's Charles River—then Boys Like Girls drank up. Little else could explain the band’s meteoric rise after forming as teenagers in 2004. In the modern age a story like theirs is designed in boardrooms over speakerphone. The story of Boys Like Girls, however, was forged from the very beginning in the damp basements, garages, and VFW halls of the Massachusetts coastline over tattered lyric books, guitars, drums, and a collective dream. A half billion Spotify streams later it‘s clear this was a fairy tale in its first act, and the world was about to find out.
What followed was the self-titled debut album Boys Like Girls [2006]—nearing Multi-Platinum RIAA certification—and its chart-topping successor Love Drunk [2009]—which bowed at #1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart and Top 10 on the Billboard 200. There was a slew of successful singles including Platinum-certified hits “The Great Escape” and “Love Drunk”, as well as Gold-certified hits “Hero/Heroine” and “Thunder”. There was the Platinum-certified, BMI award-winning Hot 100 duet with Taylor Swift, “Two Is Better Than One”. There were sold-out shows, international tours, and unforgettable moments from Madison Square Garden to Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. But by 2012 lead singer and song-writer Martin Johnson was beginning to feel the universe pulling him into a new arena.
Collaboration was nothing new to Johnson, but for the first time he began writing and producing music not intended for his own band. What followed was another string of wild successes with hits from Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Blink-182, Avril Lavigne, Jason Derulo, Daughtry, Christina Perri, Gavin Degraw, Pentatonix, and more. This—along with Johnson’s bandmates’ own successful musical endeavors—lead to a years-long hiatus for Boys Like Girls.
In 2016 the band would return to the road for the 10th Anniversary tour of their debut record. While fans across America were ecstatic for the reunion they’d been waiting for, internally it felt more like a farewell. “It was important to us to leave it all out there for the fans,” Johnson says. “To really give them the ‘thank you’ they deserved.”
“At a certain moment, your songs are no longer yours,” Martin observes. “I don’t even remember writing our first couple of records, but I do remember going around the globe and singing them. If I look into the audience, I know it’s not really about me; it’s about them. Over the years, I’ve realized the importance of being a vehicle for their soundtrack. At the end of the day, music needs to bring joy and escape. That’s something we can do to be of service, make people happy, and make ourselves happy.”
In 2019 Boys Like Girls plotted another return to the road—this time to Australia and Asia. However, their plans would be delayed due to the global events of 2020. After making good on their promise to return in 2022 + 2024 and punctuating the tour by playing at the lauded Las Vegas When We Were Young Festival, Boys Like Girls meant more than ever not only to the band’s members, but to the fans as well.
“We got out there, and it was euphoric for all of us,” smiles Martin. “Getting rowdy with the guys again, it felt like everything I was chasing with a solo project or by making music for other people had been fulfilled by Boys Like Girls. I realized how fun, youthful, and beautiful it was to be on stage with my best friends. Seeing the state of the audience, it was deeply nostalgic, but there were also all of these kids who had never seen us. I looked at the boys and said, ‘We need to make a record. I’m going to put everything on hold until we go and say what we need to say’.”
The band now works out of Johnson’s Nashville recording studio and has embraced a newfound sense of creative freedom rooted in the same energy that sparked their seminal output. “It’s been so fun since that clarity and freedom came back into play,” he goes on. “It was like, ‘Let’s play whatever the fuck we want’. That’s what we did with the first record and why it was fun. We weren’t thinking about what genre we were playing. We were just rocking. As a kid I thought I was right about everything. Now, I’ve had enough failures that I know how to doubt myself. So it’s like, ‘Fuck it. If it sounds good, let’s go for it’. This approach has made us feel like the band we were and are.” As 2025 unfolds, the band is more inspired than ever, ready to deliver new music, tour extensively across the US and Internationally, and create unforgettable moments with fans around the world. Whether you’re a lifelong supporter or discovering their sound for the first time, this year promises to deepen the connection that has defined their legacy. With every show, every song, and every story shared, the band remains committed to the spirit of connection and creativity that has brought them here—and to welcoming a new generation of listeners into the journey.
