SSMF

She rose to fame in the late ’70s, performing on The Sunset Strip as part of the all-girl band The Runaways and now, multi-platinum selling, iconic rock goddess Joan Jett is the Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF) 2013 Honoree! Since co-founding the pioneering all-girl punk quintet The Runaways at age 15, Joan Jett has continued [...]

Linkin Park is headlining this year’s Sunset Strip Music Festival Street Fest on Saturday August 3 and the band took a hands-on approach to inviting fans this week. After taking to Twitter to give a heads up to fans, the band walked up the Sunset Strip and personally handed out flyers reading Hybrid Theory / [...]

I met Ray Manzarek during Motley Crue’s Tribute in 2011, the night he shocked everyone by going to the keyboard and performing a couple of songs instead of to the microphone to say a few words about the honorees. He thought SSMF co-producer Nic Adler was his water boy and asked him to service him [...]

The sixth annual Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF) will be headlined by LINKIN PARK at the Saturday, August 3 street festival on the famed Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Tickets for the street festival are available NOW at sunsetstrip.eventbrite.com. The Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum California rock band and SSMF are partnering to create a unique [...]

Get ready to return to The Sunset Strip for the biggest party of the year when The Sunset Strip Music Festival returns August 1, 2 and 3! The sixth annual event will include a tribute event at the House of Blues celebrating a Sunset Strip music icon, three nights of performances in the Roxy Theatre, [...]

  T. Mills fills out our official SSMF Questionnaire—reminiscing about his first show on The Sunset Strip and dispensing crucial festival survival advice—this before taking the Monster Energy East Stage at this Saturday’s street fest.   What other band on the bill are you most looking forward to seeing? De La Soul! It’s so crazy [...]

Since 1988, larger than life guitar god Zakk Wylde has shredded for the Ozzy Osbourne band while simultaneously building a strong cult following with his own project, Black Label Society. So after 20 years of hard rock headbanging, and having played most every club on The Sunset Strip, performing on an outdoor main stage at [...]

Unwittingly “The Godfather of Goth,” Peter Murphy has enjoyed a massive cult following for more than 30 years. Never failing to reinvent himself and stay relevant, the ghostly baritone voice behind hit songs like “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” and “Cuts You Deep” is currently touring the world on his aptly titled Ninth post Bauhaus record, with [...]

Currently positioned at the pivotal tipping point of stardom, The Sunset Strip’s own Dead Sara is giddy over the recent whirlwind of success brought on by their surprise hit single “Weatherman,” which helped the band’s self-titled debut reach No. 16 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart. Constant radio rotation, combined with a direct support slot on [...]

Born in neighboring Orange County, The Offspring were at the forefront of the so-called “second wave of punk” in the 1990s, taking over modern rock radio and the still video-centric MTV airwaves. At the six-string helm for the entirety of The Offspring’s nearly 30-year career, guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman has turned out dozens of smash [...]