Everclear frontman Alex Alexakis will celebrate three decades of his alternative-rock band with a July 14 concert at Penn’s Peak, just outside Jim Thorpe on Maury Road.

The show will include music spanning Everclear’s catalog, which includes hits such as “Santa Monica,” “I Will Buy You a New Life,” “Wonderful” and “AM Radio.”

In addition, the concert will feature performances from Fastball (“The Way,” “Out of My Head“) and The Nixons (“Sister,” “Baton Rouge”).

Born in Los Angeles, Alexakis - the youngest of five children - vividly remembers his first music memory: at about age 3, seeing The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1965.

“I lost my mind,” he said. “I ran to the TV and started jumping up and down in my underwear.”

An earlier musical moment came circa 1964. Per Alexakis’ mother and siblings, he started freaking out in the car when The Surfaris’ “Wipe Out” came on the radio.

“Dad turned it off, as I was jostling. I started crying, screaming, making a fuss. He pulled over on the highway until the music was over.”

With rock the genre that’s “always pushed a button in me,” Alexakis started playing guitar at 14, playing with bands at 16 and writing songs at 20. Rather than sing, “I wanted to be the punk-rock version of Jimmy Page,” he said.

Though he wanted to play “hard, intense, fast rock and roll,” Alexakis sought lyrical inspiration from acts blending songwriting with rock and roll. Such acts include James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

“I wanted to do that; more punk, but still melodic, which became in vogue in the ’90s. Nirvana kinda opened the door for us.”

After getting off dope in 1984, Alexakis started the punk band Shakin’ Brave.

“Once I started writing and became clean, I became driven,” he said. “I was dealing with anxiety/panic attacks after getting clean. My body couldn’t deal with not being on drugs. I had been using since 8 or 9.”

At that point, Alexakis “turned into a blackout drunk the next four to five years until getting sober.” He marked 33 years sober on June 14.

After stints in two late-80s San Francisco bands - the Easy Hoes and Colorfinger - Alexakis moved to Portland, Oregon, where Everclear formed. In 1993, an independent label released the group’s EP “Nervous & Weird” and debut album “World of Noise,” the latter recently reissued in a 30th anniversary deluxe edition.

Major-label hit albums, including “Sparkle and Fade” and “So Much for the Afterglow,” followed from 1995 to 2003. Everclear then released a handful of albums on various independent labels.

Following the act’s most recent studio set, 2015’s “Black is the New Black,” Alexakis took a simpler approach to his next project.

“I always thought it would be cool to do a record with me playing everything,” he said. “It was me and one guy, the engineer/co-producer, in the studio.”

Alexakis’ solo debut, “Sun Songs,” included “The Hot Water Test,” which he wrote about his struggles with multiple sclerosis. Though diagnosed with MS in 2015, he first discussed it publicly in 2019.

As with his MS diagnosis, Alexakis only writes about certain subjects when he’s ready. One such subject inspired “You,” a cut on Everclear’s last record.

“It’s the 8-year-old in me that was raped by teenage boys, beaten really bad,” Alexakis said. While the rocker describes “You” as a passionate song with a light at the end of the tunnel, “I don’t need to play that song ever.”

Other challenges and struggles have tested the artist’s perseverance. When Alexakis was 5, his father left the family, later inspiring the “Father of Mine” singer - a husband and father of two - to lobby for a “deadbeat dad” bill.

Among other difficulties, Alexakis lost brother George to a heroin overdose and a girlfriend to suicide. Alexakis, who survived a suicide attempt and a drug overdose in his early 20s, categorizes only about a third of his songs, though, as autobiographical.

Another third, “I take things from my life, add fictitious characters, something I thought, experienced, heard of,” he said. “The remaining third “pretty much is me writing fiction. If you can do all three and you can’t tell the difference, I’m doing my job as a writer.”

Though he has no interest in making a new album, Alexakis still writes songs. “I like the idea of doing two songs a year, every six months, putting out cheap videos. At this point in my life and my age, if it ain’t fun, I don’t want to do it.”

Later this year, Everclear - whose lineup also includes Dave French, Freddy Herrera and Brian Nolan - will release “Year of the Tiger.” Alexakis, whose Summerland package tour of ’90s alternative bands may return next year, described the new track as power pop/punk-pop.