LOS ANGELES -- Rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica will headline the seventh annual KROQ Weenie Roast and Luau on June 19 at Irvine Meadows in Irvine, Calif.

The festival, put on by Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM, also will feature rock acts Blink 182, Eve 6, Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, Lit, Live, the Living End, Orgy, Pennywise, Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray, as well as dance acts Lo Fidelity Allstars and the Freestylers.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' set should be incendiary enough to scorch a few weenies, according to the band's bassist, Flea (born Michael Balzary). "We've got no problem going out and rocking harder than anyone ever considered rocking," Flea said recently, discussing the Chili Peppers' excitement about hitting stages after a nearly three-year layoff from touring.

The Chili Peppers are about to release their seventh studio album, Californication, featuring the title track (RealAudio excerpt) and the single "Scar Tissue" (Real Audio excerpt).

Metallica's most recent album, Garage Inc., was released in November. The 27-song set is a collection of previously released and newly recorded cover songs, ranging from theatrical '70s rockers Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy" to mainstream rocker Bob Seger's "Turn the Page"

(RealAudio excerpt of Metallica's version).

"The addition [of] Metallica to their lineup is a real feather in [KROQ's] cap," said Alan De Zon, vice president of operations at the Southern California division of SFX Music, which operates Irvine Meadows. The Weenie Roast, which will feature two stages, has been held every year at the venue, which accommodates 15,400 people in seats and on the lawn.

Fitting in with KROQ's "modern rock domain," the lineup offers considerable diversity among its acts, from Blink 182's poppy punk, to the Chili Peppers' funk-fused rock, to Metallica's modern metal, to the rap stylings of Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit.

De Zon said this year's bill "really has something for everybody. It's an incredibly diverse lineup, a little harder-edged, but certainly hits all the bases."

In addition to being among the newest acts on the bill, the Lo Fidelity Allstars and the Freestylers are also in the minority among a host of rockers. But sampler and beat-maker Aston Harvey, who leads the Freestylers along with Matt Cantor, said that doesn't matter.

"We'll just go on and rock the crowd wherever we are," he said Thursday (June 3).

The Freestylers, who will play a few dates in England before flying to California for the Weenie Roast, released their debut album, We Rock Hard, last month in the U.S. It features the hip-hop driven single "Here We Go" (RealAudio excerpt).

"The ethics are pretty old-school hip-hop," Harvey said of the single. He added that when it's performed live, "Here We Go" inspires hip-hop's trademark call-and-response crowd interaction. "I think people in America are picking up on [the track] because it's not unfamiliar but has a new edge to it."

Live, the Freestylers feature nine members, including three vocalists, a full band, a DJ and two breakdancers. Harvey said the Freestylers' live experience is about "a mad party onstage and crowd participation and jumping up and going mad."

He said he hopes the band will have a reception like the one it had last week at Baltimore's HFStival, held by Maryland radio station WHFS-FM.

Another L.A. radio festival is set for just a week before the Weenie Roast. KIIS-FM will hold its annual Wango Tango festival at Dodger Stadium on June 12. Performers there will be Latin-pop singers Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias, teen-pop singer Britney Spears, rockers Blondie, rapper Will Smith, R&B singers 98 Degrees and Dru Hill, reggae acts UB40 and Shaggy, and '60s pop singer Nancy Sinatra.