Category: Weenie Roast

The Airborne Toxic Event, Lykke Li, the Strokes, Linkin Park tapped for KROQ Weenie Roast 2011

WEENIE_ROAST

Linkin Park
, the Strokes, Rise Against, Lykke Li, the Airborne Toxic Event and Neon Trees are all slated to headline KROQ's summer rock showcase, the KROQ Weenie Roast

The full lineup for the concert, set for June 4 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, was announced by the radio station Monday.

Other featured artists playing the concert, which was launched in 1993, include Bad Religion, Cage the Elephant, Foster the People, A Day to Remember, Face to Face and Young the Giant.

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Concert review: KROQ's 2010 Weenie Roast featuring Hole, Paramore, Stone Temple Pilots and more

Alt-rock nostalgia hung heavy in the pot-scented air Saturday night at Irvine’s Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, where recently resuscitated versions of Sublime, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole and Devo played KROQ-FM’s annual Weenie Roast concert.

“You guys remember this little ditty,” Courtney Love assured the sold-out crowd before revving up the serrated grunge pop of Hole’s 1998 hit “Celebrity Skin.” And sure enough, the audience roared in recognition, seemingly grateful for something familiar after a handful of tunes from “Nobody’s Daughter,” the unremarkable Hole album Love and a cast of new bandmates released earlier this year.

Other acts echoed Love’s acknowledgment of a creeping sense of cultural obsolescence.

“Here’s one you might remember,” said Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, introducing that group’s early-MTV staple “Whip It.”

Later, Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland pulled a telling fake-out, baiting fans with the prospect of “another new one” from the group’s just-released self-titled effort, then launching into “Plush,” its 1992 smash. The feeling of relief inside Verizon was palpable.

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