Event: The Front Bottoms at FIVE (Dec 16, 2025)

December 16, 2025 Tuesday
The Front Bottoms
with NOBRO
at FIVE
fivejax.com

Acclaimed New Jersey band The Front Bottoms will be headlining FIVE, in Jacksonville, on December 16, 2025.

We saw The Front Bottoms in Nov 2015 and wrote, “Maybe it’s the energy. Each time I have seen these guys, I have been blown away by the amount of energy they have and the energy the crowd gives off. It definitely helps that their music is upbeat and you can’t help but to jump and bounce to it. I swear it must have been close to 100 degrees in the Varsity Theater last night just due to the sold out crowd being unable to stand still. Maybe it’s the fact that Brian Sella and the rest of the guys are so down to earth. Last time I saw these guys, I was able to buy my merchandise directly from them and chat with them for a bit. They were all super nice and down to earth. I didn’t feel like I was talking to touring musicians, I felt like I was catching up with some high school friends that I hadn’t seen in a while. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to talk to them last night. They are quite a bit more popular than they were, their songs are now on the radio and they are selling out venues so they don’t just hang around the merch booth anymore. I still felt some connection to the guys as they played their hearts to the sold out crowd. Even though they seemed larger than life on stage last night, they were still those random guys I was talking up at the Say Anything show in my heart.”

Montreal’s JUNO-award winning punk outlet NOBRO (led by Kathryn McCaughey and Karolane Carbonneau) to open. Their latest “Doomtown” is the first follow-up to their 2023 album Set Your P*ssy Free (Dine Alone Records). The 2023 album ended up being shortlisted for POLARIS Music Prize in 2024, but did win Rock Album of the Year for the JUNO Awards in 2025.

Tour Dates (all dates with NOBRO)