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Los Angeles, Calif. – ESPN X Games 11, the premier action sports competition, announces its music lineup for this year’s event. All concerts will be held at X Fest - the world's largest interactive action sports themed festival including more than 200,000 square feet of non-stop entertainment. X Fest, located at both The Home Depot Center and STAPLES Center X Games Venues, will include live music every day featuring some of the hottest bands hitting the airwaves and summer tour circuit including special appearances by Pennywise, Death By Stereo, Bif Naked, the Wylde Bunch, DJ Z-Trip and more. X Fest admission is included with all indoor STAPLES Center and Home Depot Center arena tickets purchased, or can be purchased separately for just $5. All ticket information for X Games and X Fest events can be found at www.ticketmaster.com.

STAPLES Center

Saturday, August 6th

Von Iva - 10:30 a.m.
San Francisco’s Von Iva features vocalist Jillian Iva, bassist Elizabeth Davis, organist/keyboardist Becky Kupersmith and drummer Kelly Harris. Prior to forming Von Iva, Davis spent seven years recording and touring with the band 7 Year Bitch. Borrowing their name from singer Iva’s great grandmother, the band formed in 2003 and introduced their soul-influenced disco-rock to San Francisco. Their self titled debut EP was released in spring of 2005 on Cochon Records.

Shepard Fairey - 11 a.m.
From the streets of Los Angeles to the subways of London to the high rises of Tokyo, artist Shepard Fairey has long been haunting consumer culture with an ambitious mocking street campaign featuring an omnipresent Andre the Giant. In addition to creating the Obey Giant phenomenon, going on late night art missions and running his commercial design firm Studio Number One, Fairey also makes special DJ appearances, spinning his favorite punk rock and old school hip hop tunes that helped inspire his revolutionary art movement. He is currently working with Plan B skateboards designing pro models for X Games competitors Paul Rodriguez and Danny Way. He is also currently designing an album cover for DJ Z-Trip.

Dead Kennedys - 12:15 p.m.
Called "one of the most popular and important American hardcore punk bands of the late seventies/early eighties" by the Rough Guide to Rock, Dead Kennedys band members currently include East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride and D.H. Peligro along with Jeff Penalty. The band's latest release is Live From The Deaf Club, which was recorded in 1979. Touring extensively since they reformed in 2001, Dead Kennedys have played Tokyo, Moscow, throughout Europe and all over the United States in the past four years. The band's debut CD, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables will be re-released in late 2005 with a bonus DVD, previously unseen photographs, and new liner notes to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of this high water mark in punk rock.

Sunday, August 7th

Pennywise - 11:20 a.m.
Resting on laurels has never been an option for the men of Southern California’s punk rock powerhouse Pennywise. With The Fuse (Epitaph), an incendiary album from its first snare drum crack to its last molten guitar line, the legendary Hermosa Beach foursome plays with more tenacity and vigor than ever. With the determination to bring their game year after year, the members of Pennywise have made a career out of not merely embracing punk rock but playing it as if their lives depended on it. They have outlasting a myriad of other groups to become one of the biggest sellers and most beloved acts on the Epitaph roster. The Fuse hits stores on August 9th. Pennywise will perform right before the Skateboard Big Air competition, creating a perfect match of music and action for their fans.

Michael Franti and Spearhead with special guests
Bob Burnquist and Danny Way - 1:30 p.m.
Internationally renowned musician, filmmaker and human rights worker, Michael Franti with his band Spearhead bring a unique mix of socially conscious hip hop, rock and reggae. Amongst a rigorous world-wide touring schedule, Franti has recently recorded a follow up to Everyone Deserves Music in Kingston, Jamaica and produced and directed a documentary film, I Know I’m Not Alone. The band is joined on stage by X Games athletes and Spearhead fans Bob Burnquist and Danny Way. Franti and Spearhead’s music was featured in the forthcoming Burnquist documentary The Reality of Bob Burnquist, and Franti has been a long time supporter of action sports.

Home Depot Center

Friday, August 5th

2MEX & friends - 2 p.m.
Indie Rap Heavyweight 2MEX (born Alex Ocana Jr.) hailing from Los Angeles, is bred from the world famous Good-Life Café and is a member of the Visionaries. This lyrical MC for the masses represents a new breed of rap star. Lyricism at the highest level teamed with beats and production that combines punk rock, hip-hop and electronica to form his sound. Part of the new hip hop underground of the mid to later 1990’s and influencing a whole new generation of artists from Definitive Jux to Atmosphere. In 2002, URB Magazine rated 2MEX as one of the top 10 in music. In 2004, he released the critically acclaimed self titled 2MEX album.

Wylde Bunch - 2:30 p.m.
The Wylde Bunch has a lot of excitement planned for the balance of 2005. In the wake of the 13-piece band’s success of their 2004 debut LP Wylde Tymes At Washington High, the WB is back with a fun, energetic and highly contagious new EP In The Meantyme…The EP. The Meantyme project features a few characteristics of the Wylde Tymes album, great songs and super-sized hooks. The first single and video “Dumb!” is a catchy rock/hip-hop shot of adrenaline perfect for college and indie radio. The EP releases August 23 along with The Wylde Bunch’s live concert DVD Plugged, tour, and the launch of their online store. The WB will also begin touring in August.

Patados - 3:30 p.m.
Patodos is the Los Angeles-based supergroup of rock en espanol and latin hip-hop, featuring Pato, the former lead singer of Control Machete, as well as members of groups Tijuana No! and Brujeria. Their show ranges between the power of their previous groups as well as the power of Mano Negra and the spirituality of Bob Marley and El Gran Silencio. A self-released EP and West Coast tour will follow this winter.

Saturday, August 6th

DJ Z-Trip - 4:30 p.m.
Considered one of the best live performance DJs ever by both fans and peers Z-Trip was among the first new-school turntablists to incorporate thunderous rock riffs, right alongside meaty funk beats, swinging soul riffs and old hip-hop breaks. He consistently headlines sold-out shows around the world. Z-Trip has famous fans as well, as he was been personally asked by Linkin Park, Cypress Hill, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dave Matthews to join them on the road. He is the progenitor of the modern-day mash-up, not afraid to throw Outkast against Tool, or put a Kansas song to a hip hop beat. After years of forging an emblematic identity as one of hip-hop preeminent DJs and showmen, Z-Trip has created his debut album, Shifting Gears (Hollywood Records). It's a time-traveling, stylistic opus that lives up to his reputation as being one of today's modern day music masters. Z-Trip will be kicking off his seven week U.S. Headline tour on Aug 19 at the House Of Blues Sunset Strip.

Sunday, August 7th

DUMBLUCK - 11 a.m.
DUMBLUCK is a three-piece unit whose universal sound and song writing connects and speaks to the masses. With an energetic fusion of rock and reggae, some have dubbed DUMBLUCK "The Police" for the new millennium. Hailing from Los Angeles and Orange County, the seasoned musicians that make up DUMBLUCK are no strangers to the local music scene. The band features Jim Perkins on guitar and lead vocals, Phil Valdovinos on Drums and Johnny Baldaray on bass and vocals. Despite the band’s serious and gut checking lyrical content, DUMBLUCK delivers a live show that is fun and sometimes light hearted.

Bif Naked - 12:45 p.m.
The love child of two private school teenagers, Bif was born in New Delhi, India in 1971. She was adopted by American missionaries who moved her to Minneapolis, and Lexington, Kentucky, ultimately winding up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Jumping between bands and a short lived marriage, Bif finally emerged as a solo artist in 1994. Bif Naked is known for her passionate punk-pop and ballistic live performances (including a stint on 1999's Lilith Fair, plus tours with the Cult and Kid Rock). Bif Naked is unleashing her latest album Superbeautifulmonster with a massive push in America. The album’s title is perhaps the best descriptive for the 13 tracks as well as the artist herself, “a brash alternative beauty, instantly recognizable and unforgettable”. The release date for the album is September 20th, the first release on the new Bodog Music label distributed by MRI/Sony/Red and follow up to Purge and I Bificus, both critically acclaimed albums.

Death by Stereo - 3 p.m.
Balancing chaos and consciousness is no easy feat, and few bands will ever do it as well as Death By Stereo has on the astonishing new disc Death For Life (Epitaph Records). Brutal and brutally honest, the set’s eleven songs come swinging at you like a bag of bricks as they embrace the extremities of hardcore and the fluid riffs of metal. Crafted with the help of Avenged Sevenfold vets The Factory (the production duo of Fred Archambault and Bruce MacFarlane), Death For Life marks a new sound and dynamic for Death By Stereo. They are currently on the Crimson tour with Alkaline Trio and Rise Against.

More acts to be announced and surprise musical guests will be featured daily. Fans should check EXPN.com for updated information.

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