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Warped Tour 2018

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• 1.1 Journeys Left Foot Stage
• 1.2 Journeys Right Foot Stage
• 1.3 Mutant Red Dawn Stage
• 1.4 Mutant White Lightning Stage
• 1.5 Owly.fm Stage
• 1.6 Full Sail Stage
• 1.7 #Transform Stage
• 1.8 KROQ Stage
• 1.9 Shiragirl Stage
• 1.10 No Cover Stage
• 1.11.1 Texas
• 1.11.2 New York
• 1.11.3 Florida
• 1.12 Lemmon Stage
• 1.13 Crimson Management Stage

Journeys Left Foot Stage [ ]

Journeys right foot stage [ ], mutant red dawn stage [ ].

• The Amity Affliction
• Chelsea Grin
• Deez Nuts (Played 6/21-7/31 and 8/3-8/5)
• Hatebreed (Played 7/13-7/14)
• Ice Nine Kills
• Kublai Khan
• Mychildren Mybride
• RILEY (Played 7/28)
• Silverstein (Played 7/17-7/20)
• Turnstile (Played 7/29)
• Wage War (Played 6/21-7/31 and 8/3-8/5)
• The Word Alive (Played 6/28)

Mutant White Lightning Stage [ ]

• August Burns Red (Played 7/29-7/31 and 8/3-8/5)
• Crown the Empire
• Every Time I Die
• Hail the Sun (Played 6/21-7/1 and 7/5-7/8)
• Harm's Way (Played 6/21-7/23)
• In Hearts Wake (Played 6/21-6/29 and 7/1-8/5)
• Knocked Loose (Played 7/10, 7/18-7/19, 7/21, and 7/24)
• Motionless in White
• Nekrogoblikon (Played 6/21-7/3 and 7/6-8/5)
• RILEY (Played 7/31)
• Senses Fail (Played 6/21-7/17, 7/20-7/31 and 8/3-8/5)
• Silverstein (Played 7/25-7/28)
• Unearth (Played 6/21-7/31 and 8/3-8/5)

Owly.fm Stage [ ]

Full sail stage [ ], #transform stage [ ], kroq stage [ ].

The following artists performed on June 21

• New Language
• The New Pacific
• Potty Mouth
• State to State
• Your Favorite Color

Shiragirl Stage [ ]

The following artists performed June 21 - June 22 , June 24 and July 14

• Babe Patrol (Played 7/14)
• Babs (Played 6/24)
• Best Ex (Played 7/14)
• The Bridge City Sinners (Played 6/24)
• The Dollyrots (Played 6/21-6/24)
• Elana J (Played 6/21-6/24)
• Lex Rex and the Dragons (Played 7/14)
• MOA (Played 6/22)
• No Small Children (Played 6/24)
• Reign of Z (Played 7/14)
• RIVALS (Played 6/21-6/22)
• Stop the Presses (Played 7/14)
• Turbulent Hearts (Played 6/21)
• Vanessa Silberman (Played 6/22)
• WASI (Played 6/21)
• Whitney Peyton (Played 6/21-6/24)

No Cover Stage [ ]

The following artists performed on June 24

• Animal Waves
• Disrupted Euphoria
• Fake Figures
• Peter DiStefano
• Plan Your Escape
• Six Pack of Doom
• Split Second
• Throw Logic
• Tony Lovato
• Two Brothers
• The Velveteen Band

Korner Stage [ ]

• The Butts (Played 7/6-7/8)
• Dead Horse Creek (Played 7/6-7/8)
• Dead to the World (Played 7/8)
• Dead Weight (Played 7/6-7/8)
• Despero (Played 7/7)
• Fat By the Gallon (Played 7/6)
• From Parts Unknown (Played 7/6)
• Kaiser Solzie (acoustic) (Played 7/8)
• Kosha Dillz (Played 7/6-7/8)
• Losing Streak (Played 7/8)
• Madaline (Played 7/6-7/8)
• Revels (Played 7/8)
• Sketchy Trench (Played 7/7)

New York [ ]

The following artists performed on July 25

• Cardboard Homestead
• County Kings
• Of Night And Light
• On the Cinder
• Soapbox Set
• Stolen Bikes
• The Toy Box Brigade

Florida [ ]

• 5 Cent Psychiatrist (Played 8/2)
• Bloodbather (Played 8/5)
• Cloud9 Vibes (Played 8/2-8/5)
• Concrete Criminals (Played 8/2)
• Flag on Fire (Played 8/3-8/5)
• Friendly Fire (Played 8/2)
• Grounds (Played 8/5)
• Kid You Not (Played 8/2)
• Kosha Dillz (Played 8/3-8/5)
• McFeely's (Played 8/4)
• Never Ender (Played 8/3-8/4)
• One Hit Left (Played 8/5)
• Saving Apollo (Played 8/3-8/5)
• Skatter Brainz (Played 8/3 and 8/5)
• Southern Fried Genocide (Played 8/3)
• Steal the Day (Played 8/2-8/5)
• White Lighter Club (Played 8/2 and 8/4)

Lemmon Stage [ ]

The following artists performed on July 17

• A is for Arrows
• The Advancing Low-Lives
• Arbors Lane
• Breaching Vista
• Carried Away
• Courage My Love
• Daemon Grey
• Ever Elsewhere
• Key To The North
• Selfish Things
• We Outspoken

Crimson Management Stage [ ]

The following artists performed on July 27

• Another One Down
• Best Not Broken
• Circuit Of Suns
• Great American Ghost
• Half Hearted
• Keep Flying
• Man The Builder
• Morning In May
• States & Capitals
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Punk's not dead? How Vans Warped tour jumped the shark

The festival defined noughties pop-punk and united America’s outcasts – but as it shuts for ever, we ask: did it fail to champion diversity?

T he sun is blazing mercilessly in Columbia, Maryland, on a Sunday in July. It is not yet noon, and the nasal singer of a jet-black metalcore band is crying out: “Will you miss me when I’m gooone?” Already this weekend, I have seen hair-dye jobs in impossibly electric hues of bubblegum pink and highlighter-pen lime. I have seen ripped fishnets and Tim Burton mini-backpacks and earlobes stretched as big as the rims of drinking glasses. I have perused the wares of outfitters called Mall Goth Trash and Sad Boys Club. I can confirm that the campaigns to “Stay Positive and Hail Satan” and ensure that “Ska’s Not Dead!” have endured in some corners of America.

I am on my third consecutive day inside the misfit carnival that is Vans Warped tour, which, after 24 years, finished its final run as a national touring festival last week. While American festivals such as Lollapalooza have long retired their caravans and turned into annual fixed-site weekenders, Warped persevered as a roving punk-themed circus. The brand will probably continue with abbreviated tours, says Kevin Lyman, its founder. An exhibition about Warped’s history will open next year at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. But it is the end of an era for the generation who invented “mall punk”.

Now 58, Lyman says he felt like an outcast as early as junior high. He was partial to British street punk, reggae and the Clash’s Sandinista! album. Socialising with the band geeks and theatre kids – “You got food thrown at you in school,” he says. “I was always the guy who said, ‘Let’s unite and throw food back.’” After several years working behind the scenes at Lollapalooza, Lyman founded Warped in 1995.

Warped made its name packaging the more brashly commercial strains of pop-punk, emo, hardcore and ska that peaked in the early- to mid-2000s, though the tour has also featured household names including Limp Bizkit and Eminem (and, early on, Katy Perry). It had no identified headliners: the schedule changed daily and was not announced until gates opened. To ensure you would see your favourite band, you simply had to arrive by 11. “No one did things the way I did, and no one has since,” says Lyman. “This was the last festival for the people.”

Lyman sought to “put punk rock in the sunshine”, to escape the violence of clubs, which he thought distracted from the genre’s radical message. But Warped ultimately became a shorthand for an easily digested candy-coated version of rebellion. The spirit of commodified dissent was exemplified by its name – sponsored by Vans shoe company, in a checkerboarded break from punk’s historically anti-capitalist ethic. Warped’s scale meant it dealt bands like gateway drugs, which plenty of young people need. My three days following the tour evoked a complete scene of maladjusted suburban youth: the car park, the mall, the skate park, the mosh pit.

In contrast to its diverse audiences, Warped’s lineups were shockingly male and white and, at times, the tour presented worrying streaks of conservatism – in Maryland, I saw a recruiting tent for the US Marines. Warped came under fire in 2015 for allowing a performance by Front Porch Step after he had been accused of sexual misconduct and preying on young fans. This prompted Paramore’s Hayley Williams, one of Warped tour’s most renowned alumni, to tweet: “What happened to our scene?”

Lyman says: “If I look back at Front Porch Step, probably I made a mistake. With hindsight, I probably wouldn’t have let it happen.” Lyman says he’s open to criticism, though he seems allergic to the way it plays out online. “Maybe that’s why I’m ending it,” he says. “We all used to be a community that figured things out. Now people prejudge so quickly on the internet.”

Only 7% of bands on this year’s touring lineup included women, such as Australia’s Tonight Alive and ska revivalists the Interrupters. The feminist rock band Potty Mouth (incidentally once managed by Warped veterans Good Charlotte) ended up on one Californian date after tweeting about gender disparity on the tour: “We wanted access to that fan base of young girls,” says bassist Ally Einbinder. “For us, it would be breaking into a whole new audience who might not hear of us otherwise.” Lyman mentions that the production crew of Warped tour has been heavily dominated by women, and reasoned that this year’s gender disparity was due in part to the fact that he curated the festival (he still chooses the bands) as “a nostalgia tour”.

Over the years, Warped formed alliances with bands such as Less Than Jake, a Floridian ska-punk troupe who first played the tour in 1996 and have remained fixtures since. The drummer, Vinnie Fiorello, reminisces about performing, in the scrappy early days, on a stage made of plywood and cinder blocks. “Warped was supposed to be a punk rock summer camp,” he says. Less Than Jake embodied that, instigating “maximum fun” and an air of weirdness: regular mayhem at a Less Than Jake Warped set might, for instance, find “a metalhead shooting a toilet-paper gun”.

“We were never, at any point, even remotely in the cool kids’ club of punk rock,” says Fiorello. “But Warped was a common denominator among punk bands, hardcore bands, screamo and metal, ska punk. You had to play Warped tour.” Fiorello, who also co-founded the influential pop-punk and emo label Fueled by Ramen , noted that Warped was a crucial marketing tool: “Warped tour would be a huge chunk of the launch for a record or label or band. It was in the Less Than Jake marketing plan in the 90s, for sure. The end of that truly means the shrinking of some ways to market what’s out there.”

Fellow ska-punk elders Reel Big Fish have also been enmeshed in Warped since 1997. Year after year, they built their audience on the tour, though trumpeter John Christianson was not shy about the price. “There’s a lot of anxiety,” he says. “There’s five bands playing at one time. Five bands playing at one time is cacophony, and that is not any fun for me.”

Chuck Comeau is the drummer of Montreal pop-punks Simple Plan: 11 Warpeds in total. “You had this cultural movement that was happening,” he says of the scene’s 2003 peak. “And Warped had the cultural currency. If you wanted to be part of this scene, if you wanted to be respected, if you wanted to reach the audience, it was a must.”

The music of Warped has not all aged well. In Maryland, surprise guests Good Charlotte led a workmanlike singalong to Girls and Boys, their arguably sexist 2002 single about teenage materialism. Speaking backstage, Buddy Nielsen of the New Jersey post-hardcore band Senses Fail (eight-time Warped veterans, who this year performed a medley of nu-metal covers) cited childhood trauma and a bad relationship with his mother as sources of the toxic masculinity in some of his earliest material. “I don’t necessarily celebrate those songs,” Nielsen says. “I wouldn’t encourage my daughter to listen to music like that.” His self-awareness reflects a broader cultural milieu that has recently been forced to reckon with its ingrained misogyny.

I was watching a formulaic pop-punk band in matching Hawaiian shirts play a side stage when I heard a woman’s demonic roar in the distance and ran towards it. “Where my fucking ladies at?” seethed Lauren Kashan, singer of Baltimore metalcore band Sharptooth. They played Clever Girl, the title track from their 2017 debut, which culminated with a mosh-summoning breakdown and an incendiary refrain: “Dead men tell no tales,” the crowd chanted. “Dead men talk no shit.” This jolt of radical feminism felt shocking in the context of Warped tour. “The world we live in is not a safe place for too many of us,” Kashan shouted from the stage. “So this needs to be.”

Sharptooth’s sets were thrillingly righteous. Kashan issued a call to arms or systemic indictment between every song, attacking street harassment, police brutality and US border policy. She drew attention to the fact that she would be the only woman performing on that stage all day and, before a song called Left for Dead, spoke bluntly about her experiences of sexual violence. “I’ve been raped multiple times,” Kashan told the crowd. “I don’t like talking about it, but if I’m the person with the mic and I can’t talk about my trauma, how is any other survivor supposed to ask for help?”

I watched a pink-haired girl in the eye of the pit scream along with Kashan: “I can’t be silent anymore!” “Sharptooth and [2017 Warped band] War on Woman make me feel so relieved about being into music in this scene,” says Niquey, 20. “Stuff like that needs to be talked about at places like Warped tour because it’s so hypermasculine.” Niquey has come to Warped every year since she was 12 – she had only seen Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers in concert before that – and said she looked forward to it more than her birthday.

Some have welcomed the demise of Warped and the aggressively male-dominated culture it came to represent. But after witnessing Sharptooth’s set, it occurred to me that it would be a tragedy for Warped tour to simply end, not evolve, at a moment where powerful, wide-reaching platforms are increasingly rare in rock music of any kind. Potty Mouth’s Einbinder agrees: “There is so much potential to make some changes and evolve the whole culture of the festival,” she says. “But so much of that cultural shift would have to come from the top down.”

I felt optimistic watching Doll Skin, a band of women aged 18 to 21 who play pop-punk with riff-heavy nods to classic rock, and strive to be “as raw and feminine and powerful as we can”, according to singer Sydney Dolezal. They played an original song called Punch a Nazi and a cover of Fugazi’s Waiting Room, which stood out as strongly at Warped as the flower crowns in their circle pit.

Multiple times a day, Dolezal says, young girls approach Doll Skin to say they feel inspired by their set, sometimes crying. “If there’s anyone out there who feels like they can’t be in a band – they can,” she says. “It’s attainable. You don’t have to be a super shredder – you can just play guitar. You don’t have to be soloing on drums, you can just play a beat. You don’t have to be doing runs, you can just yell into a microphone.” It’s no stretch to say this was the most punk statement I heard at the 2018 Warped tour.

In Mansfield, Massachusetts, I meet 19-year-old Felice, who wants to see more bands resembling Doll Skin at Warped. “I wish we could see more intersectionality,” she says. “I wish I could hear more queer artists or artists of colour.” Her friend Felisha chimes in: “It’s a prime time to keep going if anything.” But after Doll Skin’s Long Island set, another new fan, Katie, 26, had a firmer suggestion: “Burn it to the ground and start something new.”

A pair of 23-year-old fans on Long Island, Neena and Gabrielle, tells me they had long fantasised about forming bands. Growing up, they were enthralled by fictional all-girl groups such as Josie and the Pussycats. Neena wonders whether she might have taken up drums had she seen more female instrumentalists.

“I’m such an emo kid. You feel like an outcast sometimes,” Gabrielle says. “But when you’re in this setting, you see there are thousands upon thousands of people who are just like you. It’s so comforting.” I mention how the huge number of outsiders does not quite register until you get here, and it makes you realise – Neena finishes my sentence – “how not alone you are”.

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How the Warped Tour helped artists (and fans) find themselves

Musicians and fans alike are mourning the end of the Vans Warped Tour, whose founder announced last month that the traveling music festival would end in 2018 after 23 years.

Since 1995, the “punk rock summer camp” has been a rite of passage for many big-name artists.

Katy Perry has said she “ got her bearings ” on Warped in 2008. Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman tells a story that The Black Eyed Peas met lead singer Fergie at a barbecue during the festival. Eminem, G-Eazy, and Bebe Rexha all got a kick start from the tour, which attracts an average of 600,000 concertgoers each summer.

Announcing the end “felt like my funeral,” Lyman said. For artists and fans, the buildup to the last tour is a reason to reflect on how much it’s meant to them.

Alex Gaskarth of Baltimore-based pop punk band All Time Low, who played Warped Tour four times, tweeted that without Warped Tour, “I probably would not be where I am today.” Kevin McCallister, drummer for pop rockers Set it Off, wrote on Twitter that the tour was something he looked forward to every summer and was instrumental in shaping his love of music.

Neck Deep, a Welsh pop punk band that built up an American audience on Warped Tour, thanked Lyman for giving them the opportunity to play, tweeting that , “The Warped Tour was something we all grew up dreaming about … some of the best days of our lives.”

In the alternative rock scene, playing the Vans Warped Tour could make careers. Before they played sold-out arenas, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Blink 182, No Doubt and Paramore joined Lyman’s lineup to perform for whomever showed up.

“To play the entire Warped Tour on a bus is very prestigious in the punk rock world,” said Shane Henderson, former frontman of pop punk band Valencia .

Henderson played Warped Tour five times with Valencia. The band slowly worked its way up from a week of dates in 2005 to eventually joining the tour for all of the 28-plus cities. He remembers walking around the festival playing his music through a set of headphones to drum up support. Later, he sold the band’s record for a dollar to get his music out there.

“Warped Tour makes you take a hard look at yourself and your performance. How can we be more entertaining? How can we make people come back and see us?” Henderson, 32, said. “There’s a lot of competition there.”

Warped Tour has no age limit and its core audience skews young — 15 to 25 years old. Lyman credits that to the kind of bands he booked. Seventy percent of his lineup were the bands popular with teens, like Fall Out Boy, Paramore, the All American Rejects and All Time Low. He remembers standing in the pit, watching bands like My Chemical Romance draw in hundreds of kids who couldn’t even drink yet, and immediately booking the band for another stint on the tour.

“[Warped Tour] had the ability, through access to popular bands and brands, to harness a style and sound kids loved,” said Stephen Thompson, writer for NPR Music. “Because the music tended to have a darker, outcast-y edge to it, Warped Tour could bring together lots of kids who felt alienated and frustrated.”

The tour averages 40 dates a summer, and 20,000-plus young fans attend each stop. To keep everyone safe, Lyman admits chaperones free of charge and sets up air-conditioned tents for them, known as “reverse daycare.”

Set times for specific bands are intentionally kept a secret from not only the fans, but from the musicians as well. Lyman said Warped helps musicians learn to tour, part of which means being ready to go at any time, and making an effort to draw an audience. “There’s no elitism on Warped Tour,” Lyman said. “You just have to be a great live performer.”

Caroline Shaw, 19, brought her 51-year-old father to one of the three Warped Tour shows she’s attended, dragging him into the pit so he could feel the energy that she loves so much. “Warped Tour is loud and chaotic,” Shaw said. “But it’s this tiny piece of chaos that makes sense to me.”

At Warped Tour, Shaw, then an engineering major at Iowa State University and hating it, decided to become a music journalist. Today, she’s the music writer for her college newspaper and uses that platform as a way to chase the feeling she first experienced at Warped Tour.

“I don’t even want to think about what would have happened if I hadn’t gone to Warped,” Shaw said. “Warped Tour is, or was, this place where young people could be themselves and not be hidden.”

Warped Tour set itself apart by traveling to the cities that many arena or club tours often ignore. For 17-year-old Natalie Lindsey, seeing bands like Sleeping with Sirens or Pierce the Veil play her tiny Kansas hometown was a huge deal. She’s attended the tour three times now, and considers the festival “a relief” from the conservatism she’s grown up in.

“The bands on Warped Tour talk about things other bands don’t want to talk about, like addiction and mental health and confidence,” Lindsey said. “Warped Tour allows me to find friends who have gone through the same struggles I have. It’s a sense of family.”

Family values are what Lyman had in mind when he chose a sponsor for the tour in 1996. After declining to have Calvin Klein fund the tour, Lyman was approached by Steve Van Doren, whose family founded the California skate shoe company Vans in 1966.

“Music wasn’t my forte — I was a shoe guy,” Van Doren said. “But we had always seen bands with shoes and we wanted to get into that.”

Vans shoes became a quintessential punk rock staple, and Van Doren says it all started on Warped Tour.

The tour has also brought a philanthropic aim to its merchandising, holding blood drives, collecting canned goods and providing support services for substance abuse and mental health, in addition to working with groups devoted to animal rights advocacy and suicide awareness.

“Warped Tour is the kind of place that can change you as a person,” Lindsey said. “It really showed me that you’re more than just yourself, and inspired me to help other people.”

The final Vans Warped Tour will cross the country June 21 – Aug. 5, 2018. Fans have begged for Warped-Tour greats like Fall Out Boy, All Time Low and My Chemical Romance to play the final round. Henderson has offered to reunite Valencia just to play Warped one last time.

And what does the end of the tour mean for the music? “That’s going to be for the next generation to figure out,” Lyman said. “One of those kids out there has to step up and take the scene forward.”

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2018 Vans Warped Tour®, Presented by Journeys® Lineup Revealed

Friday, July 6, 2018 Starplex Pavilion Part of the Visit Dallas Concert Series

The entire lineup for 2018’s Vans Warped Tour, presented by Journeys, has been revealed today via a special announcement video, which can be viewed now at VansWarpedTour.com.

It was previously shared that this would be the final cross-country run for the tour, now in its 24th year. On the upcoming shows, founder Kevin Lyman has shared: “I truly am happy to get the chance to travel around the country one more time to thank you for your support, and bring you another best day ever.”

For its final run, the tour is thrilled to welcome back countless bands who have rocked Vans Warped Tour over the last 24 years including Reel Big Fish, Simple Plan, All Time Low, Four Year Strong, 3OH!3, Less Than Jake, Underoath, We The Kings, The Used, Tonight Alive and more. Adding to this year’s lineup are up-and-coming acts such as State Champs, Trash Boat, Don Broco, Grayscale, Waterparks, Real Friends, and Movements.

The Vans Warped Tour is the largest traveling music festival in the United States, and the longest-running touring music festival in North America. Originally conceived by founder Kevin Lyman in 1995 as an eclectic alternative rock festival, with a focus on punk rock, over the years the tour has grown to include a multitude of genres, including metal, hip hop, reggae, pop and more. It remains one of the best tours to attend to discover emerging acts, to learn more about wonderful non-profits and companies who are working to make a positive impact on the world that surround them, and to meet like-minded friends.

Over the past two decades, Vans Warped Tour has built a legacy as the must attend summer festival for rock and music lovers alike. Since its start in 1995 it has provided a platform for established as well as up-and-coming artists, with past performers including blink182, No Doubt, Sublime, Beck, Katy Perry, NOFX, Limp Bizkit, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Eminem, Yellowcard, Bad Religion, and countless others.

In addition, the tour continues to host a wide array of amazing non-profits and educational workshops for attendees and 2018 will be launching the FEND Movement (Full Energy, No Drugs) in partnership with the Preventum Initiative. The FEND Movement empowers youth to make a stand against opioids. The FEND Movement aims to engage 50,000 young people between March and August 2018, giving them the chance to earn rewards and prizes as they increase their knowledge and change their attitudes and behaviors in relation to opioids. Youth can participate by downloading the Preventum app and on-boarding to the FEND campaign.

A Voice For The Innocent, American Red Cross, Hope For The Day, Feed Our Children Now!, Living The Dream Foundation, To Write Love on Her Arms, and truth will all be involved this summer, just to name a few. Fans can see their favorite bands as well as become educated on these causes and how they can help.

“I am very excited about the upcoming year. With it being the last tour, the non-profit presence will be as big as ever. Groups who have been out in the past will be coming out in more markets, and hopefully we will attract new non-profits,” comments Sierra Lyman. “With more non-profits coming out there will be more options for our audience to hopefully get involved before, during, and after the tour. I am hoping that this last year encourages non-profits to partner with bands and for bands to partner with non-profits on their own events and tours once this summer is over.”

The 38-date tour will commence June 21st in Pomona, CA and end on August 5th in West Palm, FL.

VANS WARPED TOUR DATES:

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6.21 POMONA, CA 6.22 SAN DIEGO, CA 6.23 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 6.24 VENTURA, CA 6.28 PHOENIX, AZ 6.29 LAS VEGAS, NV 6.30 SALT LAKE CITY, UT 7.01 DENVER, CO 7.03 ST. LOUIS, MO 7.05 BONNER SPRINGS, KS 7.06 DALLAS, TX 7.07 SAN ANTONIO, TX 7.08 HOUSTON, TX 7.10 NASHVILLE, TN 7.12 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 7.13 CAMDEN, NJ 7.14 HOLMDEL, NJ 7.15 HARTFORD, CT 7.16 PITTSBURGH, PA 7.17 TORONTO, ON 7.18 CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH 7.19 CINCINNATI, OH 7.20 DETROIT, MI 7.21 CHICAGO, IL 7.22 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 7.23 MILWAUKEE, WI 7.24 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 7.25 DARIEN CENTER, NY 7.26 SCRANTON, PA 7.27 MANSFIELD, MA 7.28 WANTAGH, NY 7.29 COLUMBIA, MD 7.30 CHARLOTTE, NC 7.31 ATLANTA, GA 8.02 JACKSONVILLE, FL 8.03 ORLANDO, FL 8.04 TAMPA, FL 8.05 WEST PALM BEACH, FL

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SPILL NEWS: VANS WARPED TOUR REVEALS 2018 LINEUP

VANS WARPED TOUR REVEALS 2018 LINEUP

Final full cross-country tour.

The entire lineup for 2018’s Vans Warped Tour, presented by Journeys, has been revealed today via a special announcement video, which can be viewed now at VansWarpedTour.com .

It was previously shared that this would be the final cross-country run for the tour, now in its 24th year. On the upcoming shows, founder Kevin Lyman has shared: “ I truly am happy to get the chance to travel around the country one more time to thank you for your support, and bring you another best day ever .”

For its final run, the tour is thrilled to welcome back countless bands who have rocked Vans Warped Tour over the last 24 years including Reel Big Fish, Simple Plan, All Time Low, Four Year Strong, 3OH!3, Less Than Jake, Underoath, We The Kings, The Used, Tonight Alive and more. Adding to this year’s lineup are up-and-coming acts such as State Champs, Trash Boat, Don Broco, Grayscale, Waterparks, Real Friends, and Movements.

Also returning this summer are the newly named Mutant Red Dawn and Mutant White Lightning stages, showcasing the best in heavy and hardcore music: Chelsea Grin, MYCHILDREN MY BRIDE, Every Time I Die, Knocked Loose, The Amity Affliction, Ice Nine Kills, etc.

The Vans Warped Tour is the largest traveling music festival in the United States, and the longest-running touring music festival in North America. Originally conceived by founder Kevin Lyman in 1995 as an eclectic alternative rock festival, with a focus on punk rock, over the years the tour has grown to include a multitude of genres, including metal, hip hop, reggae, pop and more. It remains one of the best tours to attend to discover emerging acts, to learn more about wonderful non-profits and companies who are working to make a positive impact on the world that surround them, and to meet like-minded friends.

Over the past two decades, Vans Warped Tour has built a legacy as the must attend summer festival for rock and music lovers alike. Since its start in 1995 it has provided a platform for established as well as up-and-coming artists, with past performers including blink182, No Doubt, Sublime, Beck, Katy Perry, NOFX, Limp Bizkit, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Eminem, Yellowcard, Bad Religion, and countless others.

In addition, the tour continues to host a wide array of amazing non-profits and educational workshops for attendees and 2018 will be launching the FEND Movement (Full Energy, No Drugs) in partnership with thePreventum Initiative. The FEND Movement empowers youth to make a stand against opioids. The FEND Movement aims to engage 50,000 young people between March and August 2018, giving them the chance to earn rewards and prizes as they increase their knowledge and change their attitudes and behaviors in relation to opioids. Youth can participate by downloading the Preventum app and on-boarding to the FEND campaign.

A Voice For The Innocent, American Red Cross, Hope For The Day, Feed Our Children Now!, Living The Dream Foundation, To Write Love on Her Arms, and truth will all be involved this summer, just to name a few. Fans can see their favorite bands as well as become educated on these causes and how they can help.

“ I am very excited about the upcoming year. With it being the last tour, the non-profit presence will be as big as ever. Groups who have been out in the past will be coming out in more markets, and hopefully we will attract new non-profits ,” comments Sierra Lyman. “ With more non-profits coming out there will be more options for our audience to hopefully get involved before, during, and after the tour. I am hoping that this last year encourages non-profits to partner with bands and for bands to partner with non-profits on their own events and tours once this summer is over .”

The Entertainment Institute will return to the 2018 tour as well, hosting educational workshops and Q+A’s hosted by the industry’s most successful writers, artists, and photographers. More information regarding the artists conducting workshops will be available in April at http://www.thinktei.com

Also joining the tour this year as sponsors are dailyKARMA, Ernie Ball, Equal Vision Records, Full Sail University, Peta2, MusiCares, PRS Guitars, Hopeless Records, Viceland, Violent Gentlemen, Hope For The Day, and more.

“ Kevin and the tour have touched so many lives through their commitment to giving back to the community ,” shares dailyKARMA CEO Patricia Dao. “ They’ve been doing it long before it was the cool thing to do.  Our team is thrilled that dailyKARMA will be powering Warped Tour’s online fundraising efforts this year. ”

Early Bird Tickets, as well as Super Fan Bundles, for this year’s tour on are sale now and can be purchased at www.vanswarpedtour.com . As a bonus for early ticket buyers, the first 500 tickets sold for each show will be at the lowest price available and will include a digital download of the Official Vans Warped Tour 50-song compilation. The cover was revealed earlier today, and features Tonight Alive’s Jenna McDougall.

General admission tickets will be available starting Thursday, March 8th.

The 38-date tour will commence June 21st in Pomona, CA and end on August 5th in West Palm, FL.

2018 Vans Warped Tour Line Up – Confirmed Performance Dates for each band and stage:

Journeys Left Foot Stage

3OH!3 (6/21-8/5) Asking Alexandria (7/22-7/28) Beartooth (7/19-7/21) Bowling For Soup (7/6-7/16, 7/18-7/21) Frank Turner (7/24-7/26) The Interrupters (7/14, 7/15, 7/17-7/19, 7/21-7/25, 7/28-8/5) Knuckle Puck (6/21-8/5) Mayday Parade (6/21-8/5) Reel Big Fish (6/21-8/5) State Champs (6/21-8/5) SUM 41 (7/17) Taking Back Sunday (6/24) This Wild Life (6/21-8/5) Waterparks (6/21-8/5)

Journeys Right Foot Stage

All Time Low(6/22-6/24) Falling In Reverse (6/26-7/16) Four Year Strong (6/21-7/29) ISSUES (6/21-8/5) Less Than Jake (7/18-7/20, 7/22-7/27, 7/29-8/5) Movements (6/21-8/5) Real Friends (6/21-8/5) Simple Plan (6/21-8/5) The Maine (6/21-8/5) The Used (6/21-7/10) Tonight Alive(6/21-8/5) We The Kings (6/21-8/5)

Full Sail Stage 

Farewell Winters (6/21-8/5) Lighterburns(6/21-8/5)

Mutant Red Dawn Stage

Chelsea Grin(6/21-8/5) Deez Nuts (6/21-8/5) Ice Nine Kills(6/21-8/5) Kublai Kahn (6/21-8/5) MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE (6/21-8/5) Sharptooth (6/21-8/5) Silverstein (7/17-7/20, 7/25-7/28) The Amity Affliction (6/21-8/5) Twiztid (6/21-8/5) Wage War (6/21-8/5) Mutant White Lightning Stage August Burns Red (7/29-8/5) Crown The Empire (6/21-8/5) Dayseeker (6/21-8/5) Every Time I Die (6/21-8/5) Hail The Sun(6/21-8/5) Harm’s Way (6/21-7/23) In Hearts Wake (6/21-8/5) Knocked Loose (7/10, 7/18, 7/21, 7/24) Motionless In White(6/21-8/5) Nekrogoblikon (6/21-8/5) Underoath (7/16-7/18) Unearth (6/21-8/5)

Owly.fm Stage

As It Is (6/21-8/5) Assuming We Survive (6/21-8/5) Broadside (7/10-8/5) Capstan (7/10-8/5) Chase Atlantic (6/21-7/31) Dead Girls Academy (6/21-7/8) Doll Skin (6/21-8/5) Don Broco (6/21-8/5) Grayscale (6/21-8/5) Makeout (6/21-8/5) Palaye Royale (6/21-8/5) Phinehas (6/21-7/8) Picturesque (6/21-7/8) Sleep On It (7/10-8/5) Story Untold(6/21-8/5) Trash Boat (6/21-8/5) With Confidence (6/21-8/5)

Vans Warped Tour Dates

Super Fan Bundles on are sale now and can be purchased at vanswarpedtour.com Regular general admission tickets go on sale March 8th

6.21 POMONA, CA 6.22 SAN DIEGO, CA 6.23 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 6.24 VENTURA, CA 6.28 PHOENIX, AZ 6.29 LAS VEGAS, NV 6.30 SALT LAKE CITY, UT 7.01 DENVER, CO 7.03 ST. LOUIS, MO 7.05 BONNER SPRINGS, KS 7.06 DALLAS, TX 7.07 SAN ANTONIO, TX 7.08 HOUSTON, TX 7.10 NASHVILLE, TN 7.12 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 7.13 CAMDEN, NJ7.14 HOLMDEL, NJ 7.15 HARTFORD, CT 7.16 PITTSBURGH, PA 7.17 TORONTO, ON 7.18 CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH 7.19 CINCINNATI, OH 7.20 DETROIT, MI 7.21 CHICAGO, IL 7.22 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 7.23 MILWAUKEE, WI 7.24 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 7.25 DARIEN CENTER, NY 7.26 SCRANTON, PA 7.27 MANSFIELD, MA 7.28 WANTAGH, NY 7.29 COLUMBIA, MD 7.30 CHARLOTTE, NC 7.31 ATLANTA, GA 8.02 JACKSONVILLE, FL 8.03 ORLANDO, FL 8.04 TAMPA, FL 8.05 WEST PALM BEACH, FL

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LIVE: Vans Warped Tour 2018: Final Full Cross Country Tour – July 30, 2018

Venue: PNC Music Pavilion

City: Charlotte, NC

Date: July 30, 2018

Review and Photographs by: Rachel Craig ( www.rachelcraigphotos.net )

After driving 4 hours from Knoxville, TN to the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, I finally arrived at the festival I have been wanting to see in person since I was an angsty pre-teen. Fifteen years ago, I would have never guessed I’d be finally attending Warped Tour while taking professional photos of my favorite bands and even chatting with members from some of the biggest names in the lineup. I feel a lot of regret knowing that I never had the opportunity to see Warped Tour before this year, which is the tour’s final full cross-country run.

While waiting in line to get inside, I saw Warped Tour’s founder Kevin Lyman directing fans to move the line faster. If he hadn’t been busy, I would have thanked him for being leaving such a positive impact on the music industry throughout his career. After making my way inside, I spent a while making sure I knew where all the stages were and hunting down the press area, where I was able to chat with several bands about the final run of Warped Tour and their plans after the hectic summer ends. Since most of the bands I wanted to catch were later in the day, I spent my first few hours doing interviews and soaking in the environment.

Waterparks was the first band to hit the main stage, so I checked them out to get myself and my camera warmed up. Their pop-rock catchy songs started the day off perfectly, with excited fans shouting lyrics behind me in the pit. Soon after Waterparks left the stage, the sky clouded up and it began to rain for a while (you could say it became a real Waterpark at that point). Warped Tour became a sea of ponchos, puddles, and soaked Vans shoes, but the show went on without any problems.

Luckily, the storm cleared up quickly and the rest of the day was beautiful, hot, and sunny. I returned to the main stages again to grab shots of one of my favorite bands on the lineup, Falling In Reverse. I was very happy to hear that they extended their run on the tour to include Charlotte. Frontman Ronnie Radke is full of personality, and the fans went wild when he came out on the Right Foot stage to start their set with “Just Like You.” After getting my shots (while singing along to “I’m Not A Vampire”), I watched the rest of their set from the crowd to just be a fan for a while.

The next band I checked out on the Left Foot stage was 3OH!3, one of the biggest names in the festival’s lineup. They were also one of the most fun bands I saw that day. They turned the amphitheater into a 2000s-era dance club with songs like “My First Kiss” and “Don’t Trust Me.” They also brought out We The Kings’ frontman Travis Clark to perform “Starstrukk.”

I made my way through the humidity to check out the Mutant White Lightning stage, where Motionless In White was about to perform. This is where most of the goths at Warped Tour converged. I also saw a few people taken to the First Aid tent for heat-related problems after being stuck in the hot crowd in the sun. This is the 4th time I’ve seen Motionless In White live, and they’re easily one of my favorite heavy bands to see in person. I always try to catch them whenever they’re playing near me because they were the first band to kickstart my career in concert photography. Motionless In White’s setlist included “Reincarnate,” “Abigail,” “Soft,” their recent single “Voices,” and concluded with “Eternally Yours.” MIW has also become a huge part of this final run of Warped Tour, since they’ve been very vocal about the tour kickstarting their career when they first played in 2005.

After shooting for my first 3 songs, I headed over to the Mutant Red Dawn stage to listen to the rest of Motionless In White’s set and got ready to see another one of my favorite bands, The Amity Affliction. This is the first of 3 Australian bands I saw at the show within a few hours – so Warped Tour’s unpredictable schedule can be interesting sometimes. The Amity Affliction is currently on the tour with Casey McHale on drums after the departure of Ryan Burt, and Matt Rogers from Deez Nuts is also filling in for guitarist Dan Brown. They started their set with “I Bring The Weather With Me,” “Open Letter,” and “This Could Be Heartbreak” before I headed out of the photo pit to see them from the crowd. They also performed “Ivy (Doomsday)” from their upcoming album Misery, along with older favorites like “All Fucked Up,” “Don’t Lean On Me,” and “Pittsburgh.”

I spent the next few hours between the Mutant stages and the Full Sail University stage, shooting Deez Nuts (Aussies), In Hearts Wake (more Aussies), along with Skyward Story. This tour has kickstarted the careers of so many bands on smaller stages like Full Sail, so I’m curious to see if the end of the tour will make it harder for new bands to make themselves heard. The hot sun began to set when I stepped into the photo pit for Ice Nine Kills, which was easily the most theatrical band I saw that day. It was at this point that I realized the day was coming to an end and there were so many bands I was not able to see. The tour really demands all your energy to run from stage to stage if you can schedule things perfectly, and I personally know a lot of people who went to multiple dates just to get the full experience. After Ice Nine Kills murdered the crowd with their metalcore horror movie-themed set, I headed back to the main stage to see the last band of the night, Simple Plan.

Back in my pre-teen days, Simple Plan was one of my favorite bands so I was instantly hit with nostalgia as the pop-punk legends took over the Journeys Right Foot stage with “I’d Do Anything.” It’s hard to stay still while listening to Simple Plan live, since they’re full of energy and jumped around the stage (especially during the song “Jump”). The band also gave fans some relief from the heat with a water gun. I walked out of the photo pit while hearing “Welcome To My Life,” a song that was an anthem for misunderstood kids in the early 2000s that I’ve listened to probably hundreds of times. The night wrapped up with “Perfect” before the sea of teenagers, their parents, and long-time Warped fans left for the last time and many of us realized that this is it. Warped Tour is just a memory.

The Vans Warped Tour held its final show just a few days later in West Palm Beach, Florida after 24 years of rocking cities across the country. I hope that Kevin Lyman understands what a wonderful impact he’s left on the music community by creating this tour, and I also hope that maybe there will be something just like Warped Tour to begin in the near future. Next year is the tour’s 25th anniversary, so perhaps things have not wrapped up just yet, but that’s only speculation. I am forever grateful to have the opportunity to finally experience the tour and do what I love while I’m there. To conclude, I will quote Lyman’s tweet on the final day of Warped Tour: “I have done what I can do and now it is your turn. Do amazing things, much love to those who got it!”

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I’m so jealous I’ve wanted to go on that tour since I was a teenager just like you.

Megan – Rachel has brought a fun approach to shows we cover and we appreciate her youthful enthusiasm!!!

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Lyman explains how a mix of factors led him to his decision to end Warped after one last run in 2018. He also teases which bands will make up the final lineup, and what to expect for Warped 25th…

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The music industry’s last remaining major traveling festival is saying goodbye.

Next year, The Vans Warped Tour will ride into the sunset for a final summer’s worth of North American dates. According to producer Kevin Lyman , who founded the fest in 1995, numerous factors — including an evolving summer festival industry, a shrinking pool of bands, and declining ticket sales amongst its teenage demographic — led him to declare the tour’s 24th year its last.

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Warped built its brand of a “punk-rock summer camp” by bringing out scene staples like NOFX and Bad Religion numerous times. But it was also an early champion of bands like Blink-182, No Doubt, and Paramore — punkers eventually embraced by the pop world. And outside of punk entirely, Warped’s past lineups are ridded with pre-superstardom misfit toys who found an early home amongst the skate shows and merch tents: Katy Perry, Eminem, Kid Rock, the Black Eyed Peas, G-Eazy, Bebe Rexha. Their ranks were rarely favorites of critics, but they no doubt shaped culture.

After coming on as an initial sponsor in 1995, Vans became Warped’s primary sponsor the following year and it’s been the Vans Warped Tour ever since. “Kevin came to us about how he wanted to do this tour and he needed money,” the iconic sneaker company’s vice president Steve Van Doren remembers. “For myself, Vans was really strong in Southern California, but I wanted to get our brand out to the youth of America around the country.” The son of Vans co-founder Paul Van Doren, he’s been a fixture on the tour since that first summer, distributing stickers in the Vans tent at center festival, flipping burgers at their nightcap barbecues each evening. But he, too, echoes Lyman’s sentiment: “I just turned 62 years old… I’ve been doing this since day one, almost half my life.”

“I wanna go have fun,” he says. “It hasn’t been fun the last few years.”

Here is a condensed version of our lengthy conversation.

Take me back to 1995, when the Warped Tour began. How has the playing field for punk bands changed since then? 

Back in ’95 I was still working in the clubs. Every night I would hear [about eventual Warped Tour acts], ‘Oh, you would’ve done better if Seaweed wasn’t [on the bill]. Oh, you would’ve done better if L7 wasn’t here.” I felt the community of punk rock I grew up in was kind of fragmented and one of the reasons I put Warped together was to bring that community together.

Then it evolved to where the community was strong… NOFX and Bad Religion would take a step back to move forward, and they would bring the young bands up behind them. [Bad Religion guitarist] Brett Gurewitz once said it best: “We all get under the Warped umbrella to keep the community strong.”

Then we went into that phase [around the turn of the millennium] where radio couldn’t ignore the strength of the bands. We were going around the country doing 10,000 to 15,000 people or more a day. So we had this relationship with labels on how to work together. They would invest in the bands around Warped Tour, release records on Warped Tour, and then we would try to build, develop headliners. And then I had the opportunity to work with some of these bands one-on-one as they were breaking — acts like Paramore, A Day to Remember. They would come out when they didn’t really mean anything, and then they would come back when they were kind of getting known, and then they would come back and actually draw, helping people to see the new wave of future young bands.

I get a sense, working in music, that artists sometimes turn down potential fans in favor of chasing some aesthetic or “cooler” fanbase. 

Yeah. We do so much data and so much research on our fans. So I kind of know what these people want to see. And when the band says, “Oh, we’re not really into that,” I’m like, “Wouldn’t you want to go where the people who really want to hear you are?” It just makes sense to me.

I watched the people who did it right. I watched Gwen Stefani… I always have that [saying], “You gotta be ready to give up the punk when you go pop.” And when you’re ready, you have to have your fanbase so solidified so they’ll follow you, understand you’re maturing as an artist. Hayley Williams has done that well. But I watch artists now, all of a sudden they start grasping onto a scene of music, and then they decide they’re gonna go into another scene of music: “Oh, we’re gonna be indie now.” Well, that indie world is a weird world to navigate. You haven’t even solidified the fans who really back you and then you’re gonna jump to another scene of music? You see that story happen quite a bit.

What about it in terms of ticket sales and profits? Was there a dip that influenced this decision?

We were doing fine, but we had a pretty big dip last year. It was that younger end of the demo. It was an interesting tour — the bands didn’t feel the dip because the fans that were there were super engaged… Everyone’s lining up at 11 o’clock and they don’t want to miss a band. So that [younger] demo changed, but then I talked to people after the tour and bands did great on merchandise, they had great crowds — everyone had good crowds in front of the stage. But that casual fan that’s learning how to go to a music festival — they were not there last summer… It was a really great show, sponsors were happy, but our attendance was down.

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In a 2015 interview , you floated the idea of imposing an age limit on Warped musicians and crew. Do you think having a younger crowd than most festivals led to some behavioral issues?  

Well, there were those, and then to be honest, this past summer, the 14 to 17-year-olds disappeared. I kept thinking, “Is it the Warped Tour? Is it the bands I booked?” Well no, I booked all the bands that should become the next Sleeping With Sirens or Pierce the Veil. I booked Neck Deep and Knocked Loose and I Prevail and Beartooth — all doing really well as bands. But when our demo jumped, our average age jumped almost three years last year, up to 19. So then you’re sitting there at night on the bus going, “Where are the kids?”

This year, The Atlantic ran a great story wondering if kids just don’t want to go out… You talk to people across the country and they say, “Yeah, my kids don’t want to go out anymore. They just stay in their room. They want to stay in their room and they want to watch Netflix.” So I think as an industry, we’re gonna be facing some big challenges. And then some people go, “Well, kids are into hip-hop right now.” And I go, “Well, the younger end of that is not going to shows.” But if we don’t get kids out of their rooms and going to shows, they’ll turn into 18-to-21-year-olds soon… If you don’t have the DNA of going to concerts by then, it just doesn’t become a part of your lifestyle.

Aside from kids not leaving the house and the role of technology, do you think some of this has to do with rock music just having a smaller place in the culture these days?

There’s this weird undertow of fear and nobody knows what this fear is now. After 9/11 we just had this general kind of [general attitude], “If my kids want to stay in their room, I’ll let them stay in their room. I feel they’re close to me. I feel they’re safe.” Even though we know that the mobile device can be as dangerous as anything, almost. You know, we have the highest rate of teen suicide in America right now. If my kids want to stay in their room, fine. There’s a lot of reading I’ve been doing and putting it all together in pieces, because it was my thoughts of what was going on this summer.

What about the shooting at Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last month? As someone in the industry, what was your reaction to it?

I’m speaking at the Billboard Touring Conference about it actually. I’m part of [Tuesday’s] panel [“Silence Is Not an Option: A Conversation With Everytown For Gun Safety”]. My personal thing is that it’s inevitable in the society that we live in. If you take the progression of the attacks on venues and things, I think it went to a whole new level. But I wasn’t 100% shocked. If you just go back a couple of years, to the Bataclan in Paris, venues are soft targets. Then I saw what happened with Ariana Grande [in Manchester]. That happened right before Warped Tour this year.

That one affected us, probably in a lot of ways, because parents were questioning, “Should my 14-16-year old go to that festival or concert this year?” Given the option that you still have the control, I think that a lot of people were like, “You know, stay home. You know what? You can go next year.”

Well, that sexual harassment didn’t happen on Warped Tour. If you go through every one of those stories, it didn’t happen on Warped Tour. The Jonny Craig thing did happen on Warped Tour, and I addressed it the same way. We sent him away. And then all of a sudden, I’ve gotta have town hall meetings with it. But if you really go through all that stuff, things happen prior to the tour or things… it’s part of the culture.

Warped Tour, the thing is, it’s funny because the way we used to deal with any problem was if we found out an artist was disrespecting a woman, they were usually brought back behind a tour bus by some people on the tour, and given a few options in life. Your life was not being threatened, but you were educated out there.

There’s artists that come to me and go, “You know what? I was young. I didn’t know I was offending the women… I didn’t know that until one of the bands that I respected growing up pulled me aside and told me this is unacceptable.” The Front Porch Step thing , to be honest — he wasn’t on the tour, but then we brought him to that one show. I was still going under the premise of asking professionals, thinking it was the right thing to do. I still looked to professionals, because I’m not a trained therapist or psychologist. So the way we addressed it was, I supplemented the organization A Voice For the Innocent to come out and be a part of my tour. They’ve grown into a large organization that’s helping all these kids year ‘round now.

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What was it like for you as those disputes moved from being settled in person to being aired on the social media?

Maybe it was logistically difficult from them to bring it to you?

No, that’s why I have Bus 1. Bus 1 is parked in the same spot every day. You know? It’s not logistically big that way. We always have the same catering, we always use the same production office, I sit under the same tent every day. And that’s when I had to go back and tell people, “Look, you’re not going to be on my tour unless you can at least discuss situations with me before I read about it in public. If you still then don’t agree, or if we don’t come to a resolution, then that’s what it is. But you at least owe me that respect, because I am paying you, right, to be out here? I am feeding you to be out here. At least have the respect to have that discussion with me.”

And maybe I come from an old school of doing business, but I thought, “It’s my school,” you know? And when you’re on the Warped Tour, it’s kind of my place, to have those discussions with you.

Let’s say there’s a young pop-punk band. They’re fairly new, around the popularity level of a band trying to get a few dates on Warped for the first time.  What long-term advice would you pass onto them?

And the managers — constantly these stories come out — we have to teach these bands to be citizens. They live in a different world. They don’t get the opportunity for error that maybe growing up used to allow. Does that make sense? I’m watching today — this band With Confidence had to kick their guitar player out because of some discussions he had with an underage girl online. It’s a really tricky world out there right now. And as my wife said this weekend, we watched what happened with Brand New and these kinds of things. And she goes, “Oh, I see a storm gathering. You’ll get sucked into this somehow.”

But I also learned not to react to everything online. You know, when someone posts something and they think they’re being funny, but maybe it’s an offensive thing. You just let it go. I’ve learned also through the years — I’m in my mid-50s — you can’t negotiate, you can’t debate and you can’t educate people a lot of times on the internet, you know?

What are some bands you’re hoping to have this coming year?

I’d like to have The Maine and Mayday Parade and those kind of bands because they’ve shown how to navigate a tricky system. The Maine is an indie band. Those are they type of bands I’m looking to be out with. Would I love to have Pennywise, NOFX, and Bad Religion at some shows? Absolutely. Let’s see if we can figure it out.

It’d be lovely to have Eminem come back. Ice-T, maybe — he’d be fun to have out for some shows. It would be fun to have more recent bands like Fall Out Boy come back and play. It’d be super fun. All those bands from that era were welcome. Maybe Katy Perry wants to get back to her roots! That’d be awesome, huh? We’d have a spot for her. Thirty minutes, you know? [ Laughs. ] She exemplified the person that I so loved working with on tour. She worked so hard. She was kind. Also, she’s been an exemplary citizen with all her work for MusiCares and other charities. Maybe in a small way, Warped Tour helped with that.

It would be cool if Blink-182 played Warped Tour again. I’ve never really sat on my laurels for what I’ve done. But I look back and there’s been a lot of people across that platform: Deftones, My Chemical Romance — they all broke around that period. Avenged Sevenfold, really — probably outside of Metallica or those bands that were pre-Warped Tour, [they were] the biggest metal band of the last 15 years to break. Avenged Sevenfold, man. They were cool. They showed up with a smoke machine on Warped Tour. Playing at 3 p.m. with a smoke machine, you know they were gonna be big at one point.

I remember being there. 2005 was crazy because Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance were on the main stage all summer, while simultaneously they were breaking on MTV and Top 40.

That was the summer of Warped and TRL , you know? We seemed to be perfectly in line. It was also the year Warped Tour almost collapsed under its own success. These kids got off their couches from TRL in the afternoon then came to Warped. But they weren’t ready to be out in the sun. And the medical we had to deal with on that tour. All these kids didn’t eat breakfast. They didn’t go to the bathroom. Drink water! As soon as they band started, they’d pass out.

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Was that one of your more financially successful years? 

Yeah, well the Warped Tour’s only made money on tickets once, and that was the year. People don’t realize that Warped only made money on tickets once, and that was the year. If we turn a profit, it’s going to be from sponsorships and merchandise. And to be honest, the finances of Warped Tour — last year was really tough. The two prior years, we broke even, kind of got everyone paid. We kind of did our thing, and I was happy with it because I have other businesses and things now.

Despite what people’s perception is, I do it because I love music and I love turning people onto new bands. Last year, the finances weren’t good, and it was tough because you’re sitting there going, you worked this hard, and at the end of the summer, you might be in a position to write a check, to keep it going. So we’re not ending it because of that. We don’t mind running it to break even. But you’ve got to be smart in business, too.

But really, this decision, to be honest, was made last year. It was prior to this summer that we were talking about this.

Warped was the last major traveling music festival. Why do you think it endured so long?

I’ve been getting people — this word’s kind of been filtering around — I’ve gotten calls from people saying, “Hey, Kevin why don’t we just buy the brand from you?” And I go, “You know what? That wouldn’t be the way for me to do it. I don’t think I could send the brand out without me being attached.” For whatever reason, if it’s right or wrong, it’s the thing I worked my whole life and dedicated my whole life to. I just don’t think I could trust… I don’t think I would let someone [else] go out there and run it.

Post-Warped Tour, what endeavors will you personally be working on? 

…Education, philanthropy, and music are important to me. My biggest thing about stopping this thing is, how are we gonna continue all the non-profits that I’ve been involved with, whether it’s the blood drive, the canned food drives. So a lot of my future initiatives I hope will include me working in that direction —  HeadCount , registering people to vote, things like that.

As a company, I really enjoy working with a small crew of people and everyone’s been aware of what’s going on and we’re also looking at it like we’re also working with brands now. I’ve been lucky enough to be part of different brands like a craft brewery which was for surfers and skaters [Saint Archer] and I’m partners with Hayley Williams on her hair dye company. Things like that.

But the biggest thing is, I’ve put my body and soul into this thing. I’ve had a knee replacement. I’ve had an ankle rebuilt. I’m going to beat the hell out of myself working in this business for 37 years. You look at pictures from four, five, six years ago, and these years have taken a toll on me. I’ve definitely taken on the weight of a lot of different things, and you know that when you don’t sleep at night. You’re lying there thinking about things, and it’s time to make a change for your own health.

Anything else? Any other loose ends you want to toss out there? 

I’m looking to bring everyone a great show and have a great summer and connect with a lot of people, you know? For me, the saddest thing is I’ll be seeing sunrises and sunsets for the last time in a lot of those parking lots.

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Final Warped Tour Lineup Announced

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Warped Tour has announced the lineup to their 2018 run, which marks their “ the final, full cross-country run .” Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, the Used, Simple Plan, Silverstein, Underoath, All Time Low, We the Kings, Four Year Strong, Bowling for Soup, and many more bands are set to play. Additional special guests will be revealed later. Find the lineup poster below. Although the touring aspect of Warped Tour is set to end, there will be a “celebration” for the festival’s 25th anniversary in 2019. Vans Warped Tour 2018 begins its North America run on June 21 in Pomona, California, and wrap up August 5 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Find its full schedule .

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No Country’s Guide to Nashville Warped Tour 2018: 20 Can’t Miss Performers

Returning to Nashville for the fifth year in a row, following an extended Music City absence, the long-running  Vans Warped Tour , now in its 24th consecutive year (making it the longest running traveling summer fest by a huge margin), is set to make its final cross-country trek this summer , with one final stop at  The Fairgrounds Nashville  this Tuesday,  July 10 . Gates for the  all ages  affair open at 11:00 a.m. , with music slated to start shortly thereafter, usually running through the early evening. Tickets are still available online or at the gate (though are VERY close to selling out this year), and, while early bird rates have passed, at $49.99 , you’re still averaging less than $1 a band.

While Warped’s lineup is, and has long been, largely aimed at the teenage demographic, the fest has always maintained a fairly eclectic lineup (if not the most diverse one), balancing a healthy crop of long-running acts with a new batch of artists ranging from punk to ska to hardcore to metal to hip hop to EDM to indie and everything in between. Despite hopes from the nostalgic older crowd to see more legacy spots, this year is pretty par for the course, boasting a few ’90s and early ’00s favorites, tons of breakout acts from the last decade, and a healthy crop of young up and comers. To help you navigate the 60-act bill, spread out across six stages, we’ve rounded up our top performers, and ranked the 20 you don’t want to miss. Check out our picks below, and help send Warped Tour out with a bang!

#20: NEKROGOBLIKON

Mutant White Lightning Stage

Taking a cue from committed costumed metal masters GWAR, LA’s  Nekrogoblikon  are a melodic death metal band with a goblin-glad hype man (and who largely craft goblin-related songs), who’ve achieved viral fame thanks to their collaborations with  Metalocalypse  creator Brendon Small. That either sounds like your cup of tea or doesn’t, but personally, we’re all in.

LISTEN | “No One Survives”

WATCH | “Dressed As Goblins” (Official Music Video)

CONNECT |   Facebook  |  Twitter  | Instagram

#19: TATIANA DEMARIA

Full Sail Stage

English rocker  Tatiana DeMaria  is best known for fronting TAT, the band she formed in 2003 at age 15, after developing an early affinity for punk rock while growing up in Paris, before returning to her birthplace of London to hone her musical career. Now turning her sights on a solo run, DeMaria brings her polished style and pop-accessible, punk rooted sound to Warped’s intimate Full Sail stage.

LISTEN | “What It Is About You”

WATCH | “Too Much” (Official Music Video)

#18: PALAYE ROYALE

owly.fm Stage

Canadian born, Vegas based band of brothers  Palaye Royale  might not be on your radar if you’re above a certain age, but this promising young group (who formed a decade ago while in their teens) are fast picking up steam. Conjuring an old school flair they call “fashion art rock,” their sound and swagger will seem familiar to fans of ’70s glam, but they’ve smartly crafted their style in a way that meshes with goth-tinged modern punk as well.

LISTEN | “Morning Light”

WATCH | “Mr. Doctor Man” (Official Music Video)

CONNECT |   Site |  Facebook  |  Twitter  | Instagram

#17: THIS WILD LIFE

Journeys Right Foot Stage

An acoustic emo and pop rock duo made up  of two former drummers, Southern California’s  This Wild Life  found surprisingly swift success a few years back, thanks to their earnest, raw writing style. Over three full-lengths in four years, they’ve become a bit more cohesive and fleshed out, but retain that accessible, relatable charm, and are always a solid bet when they appear on Warped.

LISTEN | “History”

WATCH | “Headfirst” (Official Music Video)

CONNECT |   Site |  Facebook  |  Twitter  | Instagram

#16: DOLL SKIN

There’s no getting around the fact that Warped Tour is basically a sausage fest, and while that’s always been one of its most frustrating aspects, it’s still great to see great acts like Arizona’s  Doll Skin  tipping the scale, if ever so slightly. Barely out of high school, the band have been called a “millennial Runaways,” but definitely flex more range with faster punk and even metal tendencies (notably, Megadeth’s David Ellefson has helped guide their career, which is just revving up).

LISTEN | “Persephone”

WATCH | “Let’s Be Honest” (Official Music Video)

#15: WILLIAM RYAN KEY (of Yellowcard)

Journeys Left Foot Stage

Best known for his two decade stint fronting iconic pop punk group Yellowcard, singer and producer  William Ryan Key  has, since his group’s disbandment last year, been crafting a new artistic identity, playing with New Found Glory, operating a recording studio in Franklin, composing for film and television, writing comic books, and performing a softer, more intimate solo, acoustic act, with his first EP,  Thirteen , released earlier this year.

LISTEN | “Vultures”

WATCH | “Form and Figure” (Official Music Video)

CONNECT | Site  |  Facebook  |  Twitter  | Instagram

#14: STATE CHAMPS

New York’s  State Champs  are among the new crop of revivalist pop punks, who, despite their young age, sound like they grew up on a strict diet of New Found Glory, Blink-182, and Yellowcard, much more than the radio-pandering, “neon” pop punk wave that would have been all the rage in their teens. That’s not to say they don’t adopt a modern flair; in fact, they’ve so well perfected a hook-laden pop polish without comprising their energetic, angsty backbone, that they’re well on the way to cementing a legacy as one of the scene’s biggest acts.

LISTEN | “Secrets”

WATCH | “Dead and Gone” (Official Music Video)

#13: BOWLING FOR SOUP

In a lesser year, they might have popped up a bit lower on the list, but few bands epitomize Warped Tour (for those of us who were teens in the late ’90s to mid ’00s) quite like Texas pop punk goofballs  Bowling for Soup . They’ve made this trek countless times, got swept into the mainstream at pop punk’s height, and even nabbed a Grammy nomination, but have always epitomized Warped’s communal, DIY, screwball spirit. It’s unclear how or when we’ll see them around post-Warped, so one last epic singalong seems mandatory.

LISTEN | “Ohio (Come Back to Texas)”

WATCH | “Girl All the Bad Guys Want” (Official Music Video)

#12: YUNGBLUD

The press in his native U.K. have been going wild over 19-year-old up and comer  Yungblud , and with a brand new debut LP, a song in  13 Reasons Why , and his trek on Warped, Americans are swiftly taking notice too. A poetic, socially charged fusion of punk, indie rock, and alternative hip hop, this rising star is doing something refreshingly unique, and feels like destined to be the latest (maybe last?) “I can’t believe he played Warped Tour” story in a few years.

LISTEN | “I Love You, Will You Marry Me”

WATCH | “Psychotic Kids” (Official Music Video)

#11: KNUCKLE PUCK

Hailing from Chicago,  Knuckle Puck  combine elements of emo and pop punk to forge a sound that has helped them become a buzzy fixture in the scene over the past few years, adopting a more indie and ambitious bent than many of their peers. Part of the pop punk’s organic, much-need course correction, which has seen a talented crop of substantive, emo-derived acts emerge, Knuckle Puck’s two excellent full-lengths have set them in a class of their own, and several years on the road has a live show honed to match.

LISTEN | “No Good”

WATCH | “Want Me Around” (Official Music Video)

#10: SLEEP ON IT

owly.fm Stage

With an accessible, seasoned sound, Sleep On It are fast becoming one of the most exciting pop punk bands in the Chicago scene, and with their debut full-length, last fall’s  Overexposed , really flexed their range with their strongest, most cohesive effort to date. They make it to Nashville semi-regularly and are always a blast- for a fresh dose of the best of what’s next, this band are a must-see.

LISTEN | “Fireworks” ft. Derek Discanio

WATCH | “See You Around” (Official Music Video)

CONNECT | Site | Facebook | Twitter  | Instagram

#9: CHASE ATLANTIC

Made up of brothers Mitchel and Clinton Cave and longtime friend Christian Anthony, Australian dark alt-pop/r&b trio  Chase Atlantic  have been building buzz for a few years now, finding breakout success across the native continent and earning praise throughout the blogosphere with a series of strong, independent early EPs. After first catching the eye of the Madden Brothers (of Good Charlotte fame) then subsequently inking a deal with Warner Bros., the band dropped their eponymous debut full-length last year, and have been fast becoming a global fixture ever since.

LISTEN | “Swim”

WATCH | “Numb to the Feeling” (Official Music Video)

#8: SENSES FAIL

Few bands in the scene have had as exciting a second act as New Jersey post-hardcore outfit  Senses Fail , who originally rose to acclaim with their beloved 2004  Let It Enfold You . More recent years have seen lineup shifts, experiments and sound, a fiercely independent focus, and, most significantly, the emergence of singer Buddy Nielsen as a champion for inclusivity and accountability within the punk scene. New LP  If There Is a Light, It Will Find You  also happens to rip, so be sure to revisit this long-standing Warped fave.

LISTEN | “If There Is a Light, It Will Find You”

WATCH | “Buried a Lie” (Official Music Video)

#7: REAL FRIENDS

For the last several years, pop punk has seen something of a sonic and philosophical course correction, moving away from the reactionary scene that sprung up after the style became all the commercial rage in the ’00s, and moving back towards the rawer, faster, more punk rooted approach that ruled the ’90s and early ’00s. Like Knuckle Puck, State Champs, and more, Real Friends  are part of this refreshing new wave, and perhaps best nail the sound, earnestness, energy, and feel of favorites like The Starting Line, Taking Back Sunday, and New Found Glory.

LISTEN | “I’ve Given Up On You”

WATCH | “From the Outside” (Official Music Video)

CONNECT | Site  |  Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Instagram

#6: REEL BIG FISH

Though the popularity of ska at the mass-cultural and commercial radio level has all but faded away, a few lingering bastions of the third wave, ’90s ska punk movement still remain, and  Reel Big Fish  are inarguably one of the most influential and enduring. With hits like “Sell Out” and “Beer” considered something of modern classics, the legendary band, and long-running regular Warped performers, are still doing their part to give you a reason to strap on those checkered Vans, plaid pants, and suspenders, and get to skanking.

LISTEN | “Sell Out”

WATCH | “Take On Me” (Official Music Video)

#5: MOVEMENTS

Formed just three years ago in Southern California,  Movements  have swiftly become one of our favorite new acts in the underground punk scene. Adopting a raw, resonant, post-hardcore style with elements of emo and spoken word akin to groups like mewithoutYou and Balance & Composure, the band’s sophisticated and earnest aesthetic feels almost out of place at a fest that prefers flashier, pulpier, more populist-geared acts (we wish  this side of the scene had won in the battle of popular opinion). You won’t see us complaining though- don’t miss this exciting new act.

LISTEN | “Kept”

WATCH | “Daylily” (Official Music Video)

#4: SIMPLE PLAN

16 years ago, Canadian pop punks Simple Plan  erupted to international fame, thanks to their infectiously catchy and well-timed debut,  No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls , which hit right at the moment pop punk was about to become the dominant force in rock for a few years. The band have continued to maintain respectable success and release new music, four more albums in total, maturing along the way, and have once again become a Warped fixture in recent years, after springing from the tour in the early days. If you were an angsty teen in the early ’00s, their set will be a nostalgic sendoff for this long-running tour.

LISTEN | “Your Love Is a Lie”

WATCH | “I’d Do Anything” (Official Music Video)

CONNECT | Site | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

3: EVERY TIME I DIE

Heavy music is a huge an integral part of Warped’s makeup and popularity, but you’ll notice that our list doesn’t include much in the way of metalcore; we dig metal and hardcore, but the modern, track-laden, gimmicky metalcore movement that has become so popular with the Warped crowd just doesn’t do it for us. That said, one of Warped’s OG metalcore bands,  Every Time I Die  will forever be our go-to to show the kids how it’s done, and with timeless modern classics like  Gutter Phenomenon  and  New Junk Aesthetic , they remain our preeminent southern-tinged, math-y, metalcore heroes.

LISTEN | “Wanderlust”

WATCH | “Map Change” (Official Music Video)

#2: THE MAINE

We’ve written about  The Maine  on a handful of occasions, and have always remarked at their ability to mature, transform, and evolve, finding a way to stay anchored to their roots, without feeling beholden to the scene’s confines and sonic cues. Slowly shedding their sugary pop punk beginnings, the band took a raw rock then anthemic, unabashedly nostalgic  alternative turn on recent releases. Not only one of the pop punk world’s most talented groups, The Maine are also one of its nicest, maintaining a humble, respectable, and accessible relationship with their fans amidst an increasingly exploitative scene.

LISTEN | “Happy”

WATCH | “How Do You Feel?” (Official Music Video)

#1: THE USED

Since breaking out with their angsty, eponymous 2002 effort then cementing their status with 2004 followup  In Love and Death , The Used have proven an enduring act with surprising range, finding an alt rock bent on more recent work, without abandoning the intensity or passion that made them so beloved. Hailing originally from Utah, the band found fame while touring on Warped in the early ’00s, and are one of the longest-running groups to consistently return to the tour by choice rather than necessity. If, like us, you have fond memories of seeing them in the old days, then you’ll without a doubt want to make them an essential part of Warped Tour’s final run.

LISTEN | “The Taste of Ink”

WATCH | “Over and Over Again” (Official Music Video)

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Though the Vans Warped Tour has rightfully been deemed as the 'punk rock summer camp,' this doesn't necessarily mean that other genres and sub-genres have not been featured throughout it's 24 summers. In fact, throughout it's two + decades, the Vans Warped Tour has been a stepping stone for various hip hop acts.

We've narrowed down the many Vans Warped Tour veterans and compiled a list of some notable non-punks to step on stage at the traveling festival.

Who: G-Eazy

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When: 1999, 2000

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Big Stars Who Played Warped Tour

  By now, you’ve probably heard that the beloved Vans Warped Tour is in the midst of its grand finale. The traveling music festival has been one of the largest and longest running of its kind since its inception in 1995, but this summer will ultimately be its final full cross-country tour. Overwhelmingly known for being a premier punk-rock scene, Warped Tour has featured several mainstream artists over the years who do not necessarily fit into that musical sector. In fact, the tour’s lineups have managed to span an array of genres, ranging from pop to alternative to rap, even if it was crafted as a playground of sorts for punk rockers and their loyal fans. Check out 10 of the more surprising music stars to have performed at Warped Tour during its substantial lifespan.

No Doubt – 1995 & 2000

  They might not have known it at the time, but those in attendance for the inaugural Warped Tour were treated to performances by one of the biggest bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s. No Doubt, led by pop-rock superstar Gwen Stefani, would soon blowup on the back of Tragic Kingdom . All in all, their third studio album would sell over 16 million copies, largely because of hit singles “Just a Girl” and “Don’t Speak.” With undeniable ska influences, Stefani and No Doubt became one of the best-selling bands of their time, and would later return to perform at Warped Tour in 2000 following their meteoric rise to prominence.

Beck ­– 1996

  For some, he may be known for shocking the mainstream music world with his 2015 Grammy win for Album of the Year, but that shouldn’t take anything away from the success Beck has experienced since he first arrived on the music scene over 20 years ago. Alt-rock loyalists had likely known of Beck due to the 1994 release of “Loser” prior to his 1996 appearance on Warped Tour, but I’m sure very few thought he’d go on to produce acclaimed albums for the next two decades. Let’s just say the eccentric singer-songwriter doesn’t exactly fit the punk-rock style that has historically been the norm for the traveling music festival, but that doesn’t change the fact that the man that beat out Beyoncé and Sam Smith was one of the first Warped Tour artists to hit it big.

Limp Bizkit – 1997

  These famous rap rockers wouldn’t become household names until a few years later, but they ultimately fit in well on the Warped Tour scene. They joined the cross-country tour hoping to draw attention to their debut album, Three Dollar Bill, Yall . However, most would consider their biggest success and true breakthrough to be “Nookie,” off of their second studio album. They managed to maintain a loyal group of listeners well into the 2000s, even if their hardcore rap rock style wasn’t for everyone.

Incubus – 1998

  Incubus used Warped Tour 1998 as a means to support their second studio album, S.C.I.E.N.C.E . This ultimately set the stage for them to truly take off a year later, with the release of the hugely popular Make Yourself . The versatile performers would be considered alternative rockers by most, but actually integrate several different styles and influences into their music. Even though their big hits “Drive” and “Stellar” were not yet released, they’re sure to have put on a great show for those in attendance at Warped Tour.

Deftones – 1998

  Following the theme set forth by the first few artists on this list, Deftones were still on the rise during their time with Warped Tour. The alternative metal group hit their peak a few years later, with White Pony . Highlighted by “Change (In the House of Flies)” and “Elite,” White Pony was the result of years of crafting their sound. While they didn’t have the name recognition at the time of their Warped Tour appearance, it acted as a critical moment early on in their career.

Ice T – 1999

  Not many people realize that this rap pioneer additionally co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count. Ice T is the group’s lead vocalist as well as the primary songwriter, and although their lyrics have caused some controversy, Body Count undoubtedly found success in the rap metal sector. Not nearly as well known for his music as the others on this list, you’ve probably seen Ice T in his role as “Fin,” the badass sergeant on hit TV show Law & Order SVU , making it even more crazy that he performed at Warped Tour nearly 20 years ago.

Black Eyed Peas – 1999

  At this point, the Black Eyed Peas were still trying to get noticed. They hadn’t yet added vital band member Fergie, and although they had released two albums, their music only achieved modest success. However, with the release of Elephunk in 2003, the group would finally take off. “Where Is The Love?” would end up being one of the most popular songs of its time, and the Black Eyed Peas would continue to churn out hits while seamlessly blending their dance pop and hip hop influenced musical styles.

Eminem – 1999

  Warped Tour has been known to sprinkle in a rap artist or two to diversify their lineups and keep audience members on their toes, and Slim Shady is indeed an alumnus. 1999 was pre- The Marshall Mathers LP , which would feature hits ranging from “The Real Slim Shady” to “Stan.” It may have been too early to tell at the time, but Eminem was well on his way to cementing his status as a hip-hop legend. Clearly Warped Tour was onto something when they booked the young rapper.

N.E.R.D. – 2002

  This is noteworthy, less for the hip hop/rock group itself, and more for one of its members and co-founders: Pharrell Williams. Pharrell has found success in nearly all of his endeavors: whether it be as a soloist, as part of N.E.R.D., or as half of the production duo The Neptunes. The esteemed rapper, songwriter and producer had yet to build his flawless reputation, but was still respected by others around the industry. Nonetheless, he embarked on Warped Tour and continued to connect to his peers and fans around the country.

Katy Perry – 2008

  Katy Perry might have eventually become a full-fledge pop star, but early on in her career she certainly knew how to rock. Just as she released her breakthrough album, One of the Boys, she joined Warped Tour on the road. “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot n Cold” put her on the fast track to superstardom, and gave her two hits to perform for fans that attended the traveling music fest. While she seemed to stray from her rocking roots during her more recent albums, there’s no denying that she is one of the biggest names to have ever performed at Warped Tour.

An Oral History of the Warped Tour

The hard-partying music festival holds its last Denver show this month.

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In August 1995, a traveling alt-rock music festival called the Warped Tour played at the University of Colorado’s Franklin Field in Boulder—the tour’s second show. Over the next 23 years, it helped launch the careers of big names like Eminem and Paramore, plus hundreds of less-famous talents. These days, the Warped Tour is best known as an epic musical carnival filled with nearly as much debauchery as music. Jon Shockness, of the Denver band Air Dubai, compares it to a never-ending summer block party set to ear-drum-damaging decibels. Unfortunately for the festival’s fans, the party is over: 2018 will be the Warped Tour’s final encore. In advance of its last Denver stop this month, we asked bands and promoters to recall the best, and worst, of Warped.

“Bill Bass was the promoter with [the late] Barry Fey. They were so busy with other shows they assigned an intern to run the Warped Tour. About an hour before, we realized they had no concessions. We bought two Weber barbecue grills and $1 sodas and hot dogs at the supermarket. Barry called and yelled at us because the show was a piece of crap and he lost money. All I could think was, We made $500 selling hot dogs.” – Kevin Lyman , Warped Tour founder

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“Warped Tour isn’t glamorous. Katy Perry’s going in a port-a-potty like everyone else. Toward the end of the tour, she had a number one song. She threw a crazy party in a hotel room in Portland. She was dragging us across the floor of a booze-stained hotel room. It was a rock ‘n’ roll moment.

When we did the whole tour for the first time [in 2008], we shared a bus with another band and two sponsors. This was in the emo era of music—off-center, straight, asymmetrical haircuts were in vogue. I could count the seconds until the bus was going to short out because the bands were flat-ironing their hair. The bus would just power down and go bzzzzsh. It was like clockwork.” – Nathaniel Motte of Boulder electronic duo 3OH!3, which played the entire tour three times

“Playing the show is 35 minutes of the day, and you’re there for 24 hours. My fun didn’t start till 5 or 6 at night. I got the word ‘f—’ tattooed on my back one year; I tattooed ‘f—’ on somebody else’s back.

We rode in inflatable rafts that went out into the crowd every day. Sometimes the rafts reached another stage. I’d have to grab a mic and run back to the [original] stage.” – David Schmitt of Breathe Carolina, a Denver-born EDM band that played the Warped Tour four times

“Some of [the Warped Tour’s stops] are isolated. One time, I did not want to use the port-a-potty, so I walked like five miles to find an office building in the middle of nowhere. Awesome tour. Horrible bathrooms.

Once the doors would close, the barbecue grills would light up. The parties were awesome.” – Jon Shockness , whose band Air Dubai played Warped in 2009 and 2014

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R.I.P. Warped Tour. At Least We Still Have Vans.

The skater company says goodbye to the music festival that made it cool.

By Medea Giordano

The Vans Warped Tour — the music festival that has crossed the country each year since 1995, and is frequently called a “punk rock summer camp” — is on its last run.

For 24 years, the Warped Tour created spaces for metal, punk and ska fans to meet their idols and mosh together under the hot sun: Each summer, about 70 bands and artists would play in some 40 locations, welcoming hundreds of thousands of tattooed concertgoers clad in band tees and Vans checkered slip-ons. Many musical acts that helped define the late 1990s and early 2000s graced Warped Tour’s stages, including Blink-182, Reel Big Fish and Eminem .

But recently, the show’s popularity has declined, among both bands and attendees. Some music festivals are bigger than ever — Coachella drew more than 200,000 people to the California desert for two days in April — but the Warped Tour doesn’t have the same cultural cache it once had.

“The die-hard Warped fan was still coming, but the ones for the future seemed to drop off,” said the festival’s founder and longtime producer Kevin Lyman in an email.

He said there is the possibility for other Warped Tour events down the line — including for the 25th anniversary next summer — but 2018 will be the final cross-country blowout. “I’ve done everything I can in this format,” he said. “I’m just tired. It’s time for someone else to continue or start something new.”

The final tour not only marks the end of an era in music, but of a particularly intimate brand collaboration. Vans has sponsored the Warped Tour since its second year and credits the festival with burnishing its countercultural image.

“Until we got involved with the Warped Tour, we didn’t have a national footprint to talk about who we are,” said Doug Palladini, the skate apparel company’s global brand president. “Vans is a brand that really embraces individuality, and Warped Tour is very much the same.”

Vans representatives said that the Warped Tour — which the company has a 75 percent stake in — isn’t ending because of a decline in ticket sales, and that its retirement shouldn’t be seen as divestment in music or skater culture. House of Vans, an indoor skate park and music venue with locations in Brooklyn, Chicago and London, and pop-ups around the world, will continue to host famous musicians and local, unsigned performers, and admission is free.

But the collaboration between Vans and the Warped Tour has run its course.

“We’re going to make this a part of Vans history and always hold it up as a really, really important part of who we are,” Mr. Palladini said. “It’s just the right time to put a bow on it and say thank you to all the bands and all the fans that made Warped Tour was it is.”

“One Big Family”

Vans was already synonymous with southern California skateboard culture in the 1990s when the Warped Tour started, thanks to the sneakers’ sticky soles. (They have good grip.) But the tour’s national popularity helped establish Vans as a punk brand, and that image has made the company incredibly appealing, especially to shoppers ages 16 to 34 .

In 2004, when Vans was acquired by VF Corporation — which owns JanSport, Timberland and the North Face — it was making about $325 million in sales a year. This year, Mr. Palladini said, Vans is on track to surpass $3 billion.

The first Vans store, which was known at the time as the Van Doren Rubber Company and opened its doors in Anaheim, Calif., in March 1966, was a much humbler affair. It was founded by Paul and Jim Van Doren, brothers who would take custom orders and manufacture shoes on site. Eventually the shoes’ waffle soles attracted skateboarders, and in 1976, Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta — pro-skaters who were immortalized by Victor Rasuk and John Robinson in the 2005 film “Lords of Dogtown” — designed the Era , a low-top sneaker that became a Vans classic.

There were other moments in which Vans shoes were in the countercultural spotlight, including a 1982 cameo courtesy of Sean Penn’s Jeff Spicoli character in the movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High .” But the company’s punk identity wasn’t forged until Mr. Lyman met Steve Van Doren.

A former Lollapalooza stage manager, Mr. Lyman had put together the first Warped Tour in 1995, with bands like Sublime and No Doubt on the original lineup. But he needed financial support to keep it going and was seeking sponsorship.

Steve Van Doren, the son of the Vans co-founder Paul Van Doren, was on a different mission. Separately, he was searching for someone to help him plan an amateur skate contest that would tour across the U.S. and the world. He met with Mr. Lyman, who said Vans would draw more people to skate events if live music were on the lineup.

In “Vans: Off the Wall,” a book about the company, Mr. Van Doren said that a deal was forged between the two men within 15 minutes of their meeting. Thus, the Vans Warped Tour was born.

“ Steve Van Doren. He always got it and was the driving force early in this relationship,” Mr. Lyman said. “After our first year with Vans, Airwalk approached me and offered a bunch of money to leave and go with them. I said hell no, and it was all because of Steve. Steve Van Doren continues to be the soul of Vans in my mind.”

“The Vans Warped Tour is one big family,” Mr. Van Doren said in an interview. He recalled his first summer, in which he drove from stop to stop on the tour in a van with his daughter. Though he opted to take the relatively cushy bus after that, he said he went to every Warped Tour show for 15 years.

The People’s Music Festival

Today’s popular music festivals often charge a steep price for big-name performers. A three-day general admission pass to Coachella, for example, can run $500, or close to $1,000 for a V.I.P. ticket. The Warped Tour, by comparison, costs about $45, and there is no hierarchy to the ticketing system. Even the bigger bands are never given special treatment, Mr. Van Doren said. The whole point is accessibility: There are no extra fees to meet artists, and fans can visit bands at their tents or run into them in the crowd during another performance.

“When you monetize a handshake, it changes the whole relationship,” Mr. Lyman said.

The Warped founder guessed that, of all the tour’s performers, Andrew W.K. probably spent the most time with fans. He would “sign for six hours and then go outside and sign some more. I would have to ask him to move since we needed to load the trucks to get to the next city,” Mr. Lyman said.

“Warped is a festival for the music and for the organizations that travel with it,” said Victoria Hudgins, a 23-year-old Warped Tour fan who has attended twice before. “I feel as though the younger crowd these days are more interested in putting their picture from Coachella on Instagram than they are actually going to and enjoying the festival itself. You don’t go to Warped for an Instagram picture, you go to Warped to be a part of something so big and so crazy.”

Ms. Hudgins had planned to buy tickets for two stops on the Warped Tour this summer — one in her home state of Michigan and the tour’s final show in Florida — before she got the opportunity to work on the tour full-time. (She is working for Support Tattoos and Piercings at Work, which sets up a tent at each city the tour visits, after volunteering for the organization last year.)

“To me this is going to be a summer where I feel like I’m going to fit in everywhere I am,” she said. “This is going to be a summer meeting an entire country of people. I can be a part of something so much bigger than just myself.”

Loyalty, Loyalty, Loyalty

While the Warped Tour has declined in popularity, Vans has become a global phenomenon. Between 2010 and 2014, it saw double-digit growth every year, and in 2017, the company surpassed the North Face as the VF Corporation’s top-selling brand. The shoes are just as visible in high fashion as they are in the skate park, and they have gotten musical shout-outs from young artists like Travis Mills and Ty Dolla $ign . (In 2011, the actress Kristen Stewart literally cemented the shoes into pop culture history when she wore a pair to her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony .)

“All of a sudden, everywhere I looked, it was Vans,” said Samantha Brown , a stylist and video director who has worked with Nylon magazine, Marc Jacobs and Oscar de la Renta. “They kind of make everything look cooler.”

But just as the Warped Tour kept its ticket prices down out of loyalty to its fan base — and even let parents in for free — Vans has no plans to charge more for their increasingly popular apparel. (Shoes run from about $60 to $100.) The company’s prevailing wisdom, Mr. Palladini said, is around inclusivity. “And a part of inclusivity is accessible price points.”

For Steve Van Doren, who is now the vice president of events and promotions, it’s important that the company not forget its roots. “Skaters in the mid ’70s adopted us, and I thank them still four decades later because they gave us meaning,” he said. “They gave us purpose.”

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Cassadee Pope to Play 2018 Warped Tour

By Robert Crawford

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Years before rebranding herself as a country-pop powerhouse, Cassadee Pope earned her first fans as the leader of Hey Monday. She was a teenage punk-rocker, fronting a band of mop-topped misfits whose fans included Glee co-founder Ryan Murphy – who handpicked the band’s power ballad “Candles” for a key scene in the show’s second season – and Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, who helped the band sign a record deal.

The band had taken an indefinite break by the time Pope auditioned for the third season of The Voice , a season she would eventually win on December 18th, 2012. Not long before their hiatus, though, Hey Monday crisscrossed the country on the 2010 Warped Tour, sharing the bill with acts All-American Rejects and Sum 41. Those gigs were some of the biggest of Hey Monday’s career. Nearly a decade later, Pope is making a return to the Warped stage, this time serving as the only country artist on an otherwise punk-heavy bill. The 2018 edition of the festival will also serve as its last.

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“Growing up, the thought of playing Warped Tour was a dream,” she said in a statement. “Now, not only do I get to say, ‘I played Warped Tour twice,’ I get to perform songs that I poured my heart and soul into over the last few years. It almost feels like a graduation of sorts for me, and I can’t wait to get on that stage and get all nostalgic!”

Pope will join the Warped Tour circuit for just two gigs, performing at the festival’s July 30th stopover in Charlotte as well as the Atlanta event on July 31st. In addition to a long list of punk, emo, and alt-rock acts, both shows will feature performances by Reel Big Fish and 3OH!3, two acts who shared the Warped bill with Hey Monday back in 2010. Don’t bank on an overly nostalgic set from Pope, though, whose current single “Take You Home” – a countrified love song about moving forward – paves the way for her full-length follow-up to 2013’s Frame by Frame .

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