"Los Angeles Is Burning" is a single by the punk rock band Bad Religion from their 2004 album, The Empire Strikes First.
[2] According to bassist Jay Bentley[citation needed], the lyrics argue that the media is sensationalistic.
The music video features men with television cameras replacing their heads firing flames into the animated landscape of Los Angeles.
The music video is shot in cut-out animation and depicts a man in shorts and a track singlet with a Crossbuster (Bad Religion's logo, which features a black cross with a red prohibition sign over it) on it running through a burning, apocalyptic Los Angeles.
Frontman Greg Graffin plays a psychotic newsreporter who reads messages like "Panic & Fear Widespread; Retail Up 25%", "Four Horsemen Back In Saddle" and "You are not being brainwashed".