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Bands from Los Angeles

The 50 most-read bands based in Los Angeles, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.

93 bands are ranked in Los Angeles. The biggest move was Bad Wolves, up 43 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	KATSEYEdance-pop, pop	716,483	0
02	Metallicathrash metal, heavy metal	154,684	0
03	Guns N’ Roseshard rock, glam metal	151,779	+3
04	Weezeralternative rock, power pop	138,589	+11
05	Eaglesrock, country rock	138,118	-1
06	Red Hot Chili Peppersfunk rock, alternative rock	132,887	-3
07	Mötley Crüeglam metal, hard rock	104,972	-2
08	Rage Against the Machinealternative metal, rap metal	89,866	0
09	Bad Wolvesalternative metal, groove metal	88,725	+43
10	Black Eyed Peaship hop, pop rap	78,653	+1
11	Toolprogressive metal, alternative metal	77,815	-1
12	The Monkeespop, sunshine pop	74,341	+1
13	Megadeththrash metal, heavy metal	67,712	+1
14	Maroon 5pop, pop rock	53,890	+3
15	The Banglespop, jangle pop	52,047	+3
16	Temper Cityalternative rock	51,894	+42
17	Dogstaralternative rock, post-grunge	51,765	+16
18	Audioslavealternative rock, hard rock	51,569	+2
19	Wilson Phillipspop, soft rock	50,851	0
20	The Byrdsfolk rock, country rock	46,583	+4
21	The Righteous Brothersblue-eyed soul, brill building	45,801	+6
22	The Pussycat Dollspop, dance-pop	45,360	-6
23	Thirty Seconds to Marsalternative rock, rock	44,816	-11
24	Three Dog Nightrock, pop rock	41,736	+2
25	Jane’s Addictionalternative rock, alternative metal	41,268	+11
26	The Grass Rootsfolk rock, folk pop	38,536	+5
27	A Perfect Circlealternative rock, progressive rock	38,061	-6
28	HAIMindie rock, pop	37,711	0
29	Buffalo Springfieldfolk rock, rock	37,322	0
30	The Runawayshard rock, glam punk	35,495	+2
31	Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zerosindie folk, neo-psychedelia	34,887	-9
32	Suicidal Tendenciescrossover thrash, thrash metal	34,379	+2
33	Go‐Go’snew wave, pop rock	34,271	+2
34	Holealternative rock, grunge	33,693	+3
35	Tenacious Dcomedy rock, rock	33,215	+4
36	The Wallflowersfolk rock, roots rock	32,982	+17
37	Sparksart pop, glam rock	32,656	+13
38	Static‐Xindustrial metal, nu metal	32,355	+9
39	Fear Factoryindustrial metal, death metal	30,953	+42
40	New Radicalspop rock, rock	30,861	+6
41	Redbonerock, pop	30,344	-16
42	Quiet Riothard rock, glam metal	29,885	-12
43	Lord Huronindie folk, indie rock	29,381	-20
44	Oingo Boingonew wave, alternative rock	29,134	-2
45	Canned Heatblues rock, blues	28,733	0
46	The Linda Lindasriot grrrl, power pop	28,438	+26
47	Little Featsouthern rock, rock	27,959	+4
48	Blind Melonalternative rock, blues rock	26,880	+17
49	Them Crooked Vulturesalternative rock, hard rock	26,837	+15
50	Breadsoft rock, rock	26,291	-6

Rising outside the top 50this month

58	Body Countmetal, crossover thrash	23,643	+27
69	Say Anythingemo, alternative rock	20,637	+22
60	Crazy Townnu metal, rap rock	22,975	+16
80	Sloppy Janeindie rock	16,766	+10
52	Major Lazerdancehall, electronic	25,004	+9

Adjacent scenes

How this is ranked. Artists are matched from the MusicBrainz database by genre and by the area they are based in. An artist appears in a genre when at least 15% of their genre votes are for it. Position is set by readership of their English Wikipedia article in August 2026; movement compares that against July 2026. Readership measures public attention, not streams or sales.