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Watch This Weekend’s KROQ Acoustic Christmas Show Live!

By | Maximum Performance – Fri, Dec 9, 2011 9:26 PM EST

L.A.'s KROQ 106.7 FM is America's biggest alternative rock radio station, and so for the past 22 (TWENTY-TWO!) years, it has pulled in some of the coolest artists for its annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas holiday revue. What started humbly in 1990 as an unplugged Xmas show with Dramarama, Chris Isaak, the Posies, and (2011 returning act) Social Distortion has since expanded in to a two-night, "almost" acoustic, full-on rock extravaganza, and one of the Los Angeles concert events of the year. And this year's lineup may be one of the best yet!

Watch both nights of the 22nd annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas show LIVE, right here, this weekend! Check out the schedule below for showtimes, and come back Saturday and Sunday to watch the big show:

SATURDAY SET TIMES (all times PST)
NEW FOUND GLORY - 5:40PM
YOUNG THE GIANT - 6:10PM
CHEVELLE - 6:40PM
BUSH - 7:15PM
SUBLIME WITH ROME - 8:00PM
SOCIAL DISTORTION - 8:45PM
311 - 9:30PM
BLINK-182 - 10:25PM

SUNDAY SET TIMES
GROUPLOVE - 5:30PM
THE NAKED AND FAMOUS - 5:55PM
FOSTER THE PEOPLE - 6:20PM
CAGE THE ELEPHANT - 6:50PM
NOEL GALLAGHER - 7:20PM
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - 7:50PM
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - 8:30PM
MUMFORD & SONS - 9:10PM
THE BLACK KEYS - 9:55PM
JANE'S ADDICTION - 10:40PM

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