KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas

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KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas
Location(s) Los Angeles, California
Years active 1990 - present
Founded by KROQ
Date(s) mid-December
Genre(s) Rock, Metal, Punk, Post-Hardcore, Ska
Website KROQ 106.7 - Acoustic X-Mas

Acoustic Christmas (short title: Acoustic X-Mas) is an annual concert run by the Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ.

Since its inception in 1990, the concert has attracted increasingly popular alternative rock bands and singers. It takes place over a weekend in mid-December, and has in recent years been broadcast for free on KROQ's web site.

Every year it has taken place at Gibson Amphitheatre, in Universal City CA, except for 1998 where it was held at Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, CA and in 1999 where it was held at Honda Center, in Anaheim, CA

In 1999, a compilation of live recordings, The Best of KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas, was released.

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Bands listed in alphabetical order (or, if known, in reverse order of night's performance).

Date Lineup
Saturday December 1, 1990 Dramarama, The Havilinas, Chris Isaak, The Posies, Social Distortion, Soho, The Trash Can Sinatras
Saturday December 21, 1991 Ian McCulloch, Alison Moyet, School of Fish, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smithereens, This Picture, The Wonder Stuff
Saturday December 12, 1992 Adam Ant, David Byrne, Cause and Effect, The Cult, dada, Duran Duran, EMF, The Farm, Michael Penn, The Rembrandts, Seal, Soul Asylum, The Soup Dragons, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Suzanne Vega, The Violent Femmes
Saturday December 11, 1993 Bad Religion, Belly, Tony Bennett, Blind Melon, Cowboy Junkies, Cracker, The Cranberries, 4 Non Blondes, General Public, Nick Heyward, Billy Idol, The Lemonheads, Porno for Pyros, Primus, Rage Against the Machine, Henry Rollins, The Smashing Pumpkins, They Might Be Giants, US3, The Violent Femmes, The Wonder Stuff
Saturday December 10, 1994 Bad Religion, The Black Crowes, Candlebox, The Cranberries, Sheryl Crow, Dinosaur Jr., Hole, Luscious Jackson, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Live, Love Spit Love, Mazzy Star, Meat Puppets, Liz Phair, Seal, Stone Temple Pilots, Simple Minds, Sunny Day Real Estate, Veruca Salt, Weezer
Saturday December 16, 1995 Bush, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Goo Goo Dolls, Lenny Kravitz, Alanis Morissette, No Doubt, Oasis, Joan Osborne, Porno for Pyros, Presidents of the United States of America, Radiohead, The Rentals, Silverchair, Sonic Youth, Toadies, Tripping Daisy, Wesley Willis
Friday December 13-Saturday 14, 1996

Night 1: Natalie Merchant, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Sheryl Crow, Garbage, Jewel, The Cardigans, Fiona Apple, Poe, Tracy Bonham

Night 2: Bush, 311, Presidents of the United States of America, Beck, Orbital, Cake, Eels, Republica, The Wallflowers
Saturday December 6, 1997 Fiona Apple, The Aquabats, Beck, Blink-182, David Bowie, Chumbawamba, Everclear, Green Day, Jane's Addiction, Live, Matchbox Twenty, Sarah McLachlan, No Doubt, Portishead, Rancid, Save Ferris, Smash Mouth, Sneaker Pimps, Sugar Ray, Third Eye Blind, 311
Friday December 11-Saturday 12, 1998

Night 1: Korn, The Offspring, Hole, Blink-182, Barenaked Ladies, Reel Big Fish, Sugar Ray, The Cardigans

Night 2: Depeche Mode, Billy Corgan, Garbage, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Goo Goo Dolls, Cake, Everlast, Semisonic, Soul Coughing
Saturday December 11, 1999

One Night: Bush, Blink-182, Rob Zombie, Beck, Tori Amos, Foo Fighters, 311, Oasis, Fiona Apple, Save Ferris, Powerman 5000
Saturday December 16-Sunday17, 2000 Night 1: Papa Roach, No Doubt, Deftones, Weezer, Moby, Incubus (w/ orchestra), Fuel, 3 Doors Down, Coldplay, At the Drive-In

Night 2: Green Day, Papa Roach, No Doubt, Deftones, Weezer, Moby, Incubus (w/ orchestra), Everclear, Disturbed, Linkin Park
Saturday December 8-Sunday9, 2001 Night 1:Linkin Park, Blink-182, Staind, System of a Down, Bad Religion, P.O.D., Sum 41, Puddle of Mudd, Alien Ant Farm

Night 2:Linkin Park, Staind (acoustic), Bush, Foo Fighters, 311, No Doubt, Coldplay, Nickelback, Pete Yorn, Remy Zero, Travis (canceled)
Saturday December 7-Sunday8, 2002 Night 1: P.O.D., Disturbed, Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age, Sum 41, The Used, Zwan, New Found Glory, Trust Company, Taproot

Night 2: Creed, Coldplay, Beck (w/ The Flaming Lips), Jack Johnson, Dashboard Confessional, Good Charlotte, Jimmy Fallon, The Vines, Jurassic 5
Saturday December 13-Sunday14, 2003 Night 1: Linkin Park, The Offspring, P.O.D., AFI, Pennywise, Puddle of Mudd, Chevelle, Thrice, The Distillers

Night 2: Korn, Blink-182, Jane's Addiction, 311, Staind, Rancid, Brand New, Jet, Trapt
Saturday December 11-Sunday12, 2004 Night 1: Jimmy Eat World, Interpol, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Gwen Stefani (special guest), Modest Mouse, Muse, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, Keane, Snow Patrol, The Music

Night 2: Green Day, Velvet Revolver, Incubus, Social Distortion, Papa Roach, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, The Used, Chevelle, My Chemical Romance, Hoobastank (canceled)
Saturday December 10-Sunday11, 2005 Night 1: System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Fall Out Boy, Avenged Sevenfold, Thrice, Rise Against

Night 2: Depeche Mode, Coldplay, The White Stripes, Jack Johnson, The Bravery, Death Cab for Cutie, Hot Hot Heat, Nada Surf
Saturday December 9-Sunday10, 2006 Night 1: Foo Fighters (headliner), AFI, Incubus, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds to Mars, Papa Roach, (+44), Wolfmother, Saosin

Night 2: Foo Fighters (headliner), The Killers, Beck, The Raconteurs, Evanescence, Panic! at the Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Gnarls Barkley, Snow Patrol, She Wants Revenge
Saturday December 8-Sunday9, 2007 Night 1: Linkin Park (headliner), Bad Religion, Avenged Sevenfold, Rise Against, Serj Tankian, Angels & Airwaves, Paramore

Night 2: Muse (headliner), Jimmy Eat World, Modest Mouse, The Killers (special guest), The Shins, Silversun Pickups, Feist, Spoon

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