Social Distortion Make National Television Debut With their new album “Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes” due out early next year, OC royalty Social Distortion made their national Television debut last night performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live.  The band used the Bud Light concert stage to perform the lead single from “Machine Gun Blues” - the lead single from Hard Times as well as a modern day classic.  Both clips are posted below. Social Distortion will perform as part of the 2010 KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas this Saturday night ... Read More

21st Annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Lineup Announced The once groundbreaking Los Angeles radio powerhouse has unveiled the details for the 21st annual Almost Acoustic Christmas.  For most music fans snobs, the lineup is very average to say the least.  Thankfully, most fans of KROQ are not fans of music, so chances are the show will sell out faster than you can scream PAYOLA. Pre-sales are later this week, but that does not matter as Gibson Amphitheatre will be filled with close and personal ... Read More

  I am not going to come out here and act as if I am a giant fan of the Vandals.  I don’t even own a record of the band.  I have however in my 16+ years of concert going had the pleasure to see the band live twice and allow me to say they sure as hell deliver upon the stage.  That is enough for me to hopefully help them out in a nasty war that has consumed their lives over the ... Read More

As we have reported here - the lineup for the 2010 Epicenter Festival will include Blink-182, Eminem, Kiss, Rise Against,  a reunited Bush (who also debuted a new song today, which you listen to at this location) and as we broke to the masses Suicidal Tendencies  .   The full line up as of 06/21/10: Saturday 9/25 KISS Eminem Bush Papa Roach B.O.B. Travis Barker The Knux New Politics Big Boi House of Pain (First Show In A Decade) Crash Kings more to be announced Sunday 9/26 Blink 182 Rise Against Thirty Seconds To Mars Bad Religion A Day to Remember Suicidal Tendencies Black Pacific – featuring Jim Lindbergh from ... Read More

2010 KROQ Weenie Roast 06/05/10 - Verizon Wireless Amp: Irvine, CA Words/Photos/Videos by Reverend Justito/concertconfessions.com     No longer a Fiesta, the annual KROQ Weenie Roast returned to Irvine, California on the first Saturday in June 2010.  The long lasting corporate rock radio festival is not only a celebration of Summer's arrival, but a chance for the stations simple-minded fan base to act like complete and total douche-bags.  Despite this fan-base of brainless burnouts, KROQ always puts together a top-notch line up of artists young and old.  ... Read More

  This weekend I am heading out to the 2010 KROQ Weenie Roast.  In honor of seeing wonderful artists including Against Me!, Stone Temple Pilots, Deftones and that cute ginger kid who just flashed her boobies on Twitter, I figured I would share some photos from my first trip to the KROQ Weenie Roast back in 2007 (long before I was regularly writing concert reviews).  I hope you enjoy - and of course you can expect full coverage of the 2010 event here ... Read More

USELESS KEYS 01/08/10 The Viper Room - West Hollywood, CA Words/Photos/Video by Reverend Justito Often times in Los Angeles, music fans blow off opening acts and only show up for the main event. On the second Friday of 2010, I did the exact opposite. Last summer when I walked in on USELESS KEYS’ set closer at The Roxy, I was so impressed I promised myself I would seek them out again. Not one to break a promise, the Los Angeles-based band’s set at the Viper ... Read More

Epicenter Festival 09 Fairplex: Pomona, CA Words/Photos/Videos by Reverend Justito/concertconfessions.com Why waste time with a long introduction about the Fairplex at Pomona (you know, where they race ponies) lets just get to the f’n music! Street Sweeper Social Club: Chances are I would not have shown up to this festival till much later in the day if it was not for SSSC opening up the cavernous main stage.  As someone who spent their formative years (musically speaking) in the 1990’s I was not about to miss a ... Read More