Four Year Strong bring 'Rise or Die Trying' at 20 to FIVE in April

The Massachusetts pop-punk lifers mark 25 years as a band on a spring anniversary tour, and Jacksonville gets the full package — Drug Church and Heart Attack Man included — in a restored 1927 theater in Five Points.

Somewhere in Jacksonville there is a hoodie with a Four Year Strong logo on it that has survived three moves and at least one breakup. On Sunday, April 18, 2027, its owner has a reason to dig it out: Four Year Strong play FIVE, with Drug Church and Heart Attack Man opening.

Doors are set around a 7 p.m. start, and tickets are through AXS. The date was announced Oct. 20, and general on-sale for the tour opened Oct. 23 at 10 a.m., according to Ticket News — so if you were waiting on a presale code, that window has already passed. FIVE holds 600, which is small for a band with this much history.

The occasion is a double anniversary. The spring run marks 25 years of Four Year Strong as a band and 20 years of *Rise or Die Trying*, the band's second album, released in 2007. Coverage of the announcement describes the tour as a celebration of that record, with the band playing *Rise or Die Trying* in full. For a certain generation of pop-punk and easycore fans, that's the one — the gang vocals, the breakdowns, the songs you shouted in a car before you could legally buy a drink at the shows where you heard them.

25 years as a band, 20 years of Rise or Die Trying, 600 people in a 1927 theater.

The support bill is worth showing up early for. Drug Church and Heart Attack Man are both on the Jacksonville date — which matters, because not every stop on this tour gets both. The band's own date list notes some shows are marked "No Drug Church" or "No Heart Attack Man." Jacksonville drew the full lineup.

Then there's the room. FIVE is a renovated 1927 theater in the Five Points neighborhood that opened as a live music venue in May 2025, per Visit Jacksonville. It's still new enough that a lot of the city's punk crowd hasn't been inside yet, and a sold-out anniversary set is about as good an introduction as a venue gets. At 600 capacity, nobody is very far from the stage, and with this bill, nobody is going to stay still.

A Sunday show in April is a good sign for Jacksonville too. This one stops here, on a night when you can still make it to work on Monday — mostly.

When to buy: now. Anniversary tours by bands with long memories and loyal fans tend to sell through in rooms this size, and there won't be a second night.

Bring the hoodie. Someone else will be wearing the same one.

Four Year Strong with Drug Church and Heart Attack Man — FIVE, Jacksonville. Sun., April 18, 2027, 7 p.m. Tickets via AXS.

Sources: Blabbermouth — Four Year Strong announces 25th-anniversary tour, celebrates 20 years of 'Rise or Die Trying' (blabbermouth.net); Ticket News — Four Year Strong sets 2027 anniversary tour (ticketnews.com); Melodic Magazine — Four Year Strong announce 25th anniversary tour with Drug Church, Heart Attack Man and Sunbloc (melodicmag.com); Visit Jacksonville — FIVE (visitjacksonville.com); Four Year Strong at FIVE — AXS (axs.com); Four Year Strong at FIVE (JamBase show page) (jambase.com)