KROQ Weenie Roast is a multi-artist music concert, presented annually in June by the Los Angeles, California, modern rock radio station KROQ-FM. Since its beginning in 1993, the event has been traditionally held on a Saturday in June, except from 2005 to 2009 and 2012 when it occurred in May. Every year it has taken place at Irvine Meadows / Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, in Irvine, CA. The exception was 2000. That year it was held at Angel Stadium, in Anaheim, CA.
From 2006 to 2009, the event was re-branded as Weenie Roast y Fiesta with the distribution of complimentary sombreros for its festival attendees. In 2012 in conjunction with Cinco De Mayo it returned to the Weenie Roast y Fiesta name again. Its East Coast "sister" concert, presented by KROQ-FM's Baltimore/Washington, DC affiliate station WHFS, is the HFStival. Its northern California "sister" concert, presented by KROQ-FM's Bay Area affiliate station KITS, is the BFD festival.
The Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (formerly Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre) is an amphitheater, located in Irvine, California. Built as Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in the 1980s and opened in 1981, the name was changed to Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in 2001. Since 1987, it has been the summer home of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. It is home to the annual KROQ Weenie Roast, except in 2000. The amphitheatre has played host to music festivals, including The Uproar Festival, The Area2 Festival, The Gigantour, Projekt Revolution, Lollapalooza and Lilith Fair. A benefit concert for then-recently deceased Social Distortion guitarist Dennis Danell, dubbed "When the Angels Sing", took place here on May 6, 2000.
2012 Lineup: Coldplay, The Offspring, Incubus, Silversun Pickups, Pennywise, Angels & Airwaves, Garbage, Grouplove, Awolnation, The Dirty Heads, Walk the Moon, Of Monsters and Men
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