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Warped Tour 2006 was the 2006 edition of the annual touring musical festival. Unlike some previous years, this year the tour only played in North America .

• 1.1 Teddy Bear Stage
• 1.2 Jack-In-The-Box Stage
• 1.3 Hurley Stage
• 1.4 Volcom Stage
• 1.5 Smartpunk Stage
• 1.6 Major League Baseball/Vagrant Records Stage
• 1.7.1 Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands Winners
• 1.8 Hot Topic Kevin Says Stage
• 1.9 Shiragirl Stage
• 1.10 Union Stage
• 2 Tour Dates

Teddy Bear Stage [ ]

Jack-in-the-box stage [ ], hurley stage [ ], volcom stage [ ], smartpunk stage [ ], major league baseball/vagrant records stage [ ], ernie ball stage [ ], ernie ball battle of the bands winners [ ], hot topic kevin says stage [ ].

• A Farewell Sets Fire
• A Life in Vain
• A Loss For Words
• The Ackleys
• After Drama
• The American Black Lung
• The Appreciation Post
• As Seasons Fall
• The Bangkok Five
• Bedouin Soundclash
• The Black Out Pact
• Black Sunday
• Building a Better Spaceship
• The Burning Room
• Calico Drive
• The Campaign 1984
• The Chop Tops
• Cities Apart
• Class of Zero
• Close to Home
• Corrupted Youth
• Crazy Anglos
• Crash Romeo
• Curt Phillips
• Dark Sunrise
• The Distance
• Dog Fashion Disco
• Eight Fingers Down
• Every Dreams Another Nightmare
• Everybody Else Wins
• The Fallen Lie
• Feature Presentation
• Final Round
• The First Burning
• Fist Full of Knuckles
• Flashlight Brown
• Happy Tragedy
• Heart of a Failure
• High School Football Heroes
• The Hush Sound
• I Voted for Kodos
• It's Pouring on Our Heads
• Jealousy Curve
• Jet Lag Gemini
• L-10 Project
• The Last Car in Alaska
• Listed M.I.A.
• Los Kung Fu Monkeys
• The Loved Ones
• The Lovekill
• MacKenzie First
• Manic Sewing Circle
• Maple Street Impressions
• Milk Carton Mug-Shots
• Minutes Too Far
• Modern Day 84
• Morgan and Me
• Morgan Knockers
• Mourningstar
• No Way Jose
• OK Stranger
• Outernational
• Pretty in Stereo
• Promise Divine
• The Randies
• Roses Are Red
• Round Three Fight
• Septic Tank Disasters
• Single File
• Sorry About Your Couch
• Space Pilot
• Split Fifty
• Starving Goliath
• Strap-On Tools
• Stuckbackwards
• Super Geek League
• Take The City
• Transfusion M
• Ultimate Power Duo
• The University
• Vampire Dolphin Repellant
• Variety Workshop
• Verbana Darvell
• Verge of Ruin
• Victory Within
• Wheels on the Bus
• The Years Gone By

Shiragirl Stage [ ]

Union stage [ ].

• The Expos (Played 8/12-8/13)
• Exterio (Played 8/12-8/13)
• The Flatliners (Played 8/12-8/13)
• General Rudie (Played 8/12-8/13)
• The Johnstones (Played 8/12-8/13)
• The One Night Band (Played 8/12-8/13)
• The Planet Smashers (Played 8/12-8/13)
• Subb (Played 8/12-8/13)

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Warped Tour 2006 Lineup and Dates Unveiled

posted Mar 14 , 2006 at 5:19 PM by deathbringer .  ( 58 Comments )

Band Photo: From Autumn To Ashes (?)

While certainly not a metal tour, the 2006 Vans Warped Tour does feature a handful of relevant bands including Bullet For My Valentine, Underoath, From Autumn To Ashes and headliners Helmet.

Billboard.com reports: The 2006 Vans Warped Tour will feature performances by AFI, Saves The Day, Against Me, Helmet, Less Than Jake, Say Anything, Senses Fail, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Academy Is, Underoath, the Living End and, as previously reported, Rise Against, Thursday, Motion City Soundtrack, From First To Last and NOFX.

The 12th edition of the tour will kick off June 15 in Columbia, Md., and run through Aug. 13 in Montreal. Tickets for some shows begin going on sale Wednesday (March 15). During this pre-sale, tickets will be sold for just over $20 (including a double-disc tour compilation CD); the ticket price will rise to about $25 afterward.

Among the other artists that will perform on at least a portion of the tour are the Buzzcocks, Anti-Flag, the Germs, Bouncing Souls, From Autumn To Ashes, Mute Math, Reggie & the Full Effect, Bullet For My Valentine, Silverstein and the Sounds.

The 2005 edition of the trek featured the Offspring, My Chemical Romance, Thrice and Hawthorne Heights, among others.

Here are the Vans Warped Tour 2006 dates:

June 15: Columbia, Md. (Merriweather Post Pavilion) June 16: Columbus, Ohio (Germain Amphitheatre) June 17: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheatre) June 18: Minneapolis (Metrodome) June 19: Bonner Springs, Kan. (Verizon Wireless Lot) June 21: Nashville (Starwood Amphitheatre) June 22: Jacksonville, Fla. (Fairgrounds) June 23: Tampa, Fla. (Vinoy Park) June 24: Miami (Bayfront Park) June 25: Orlando, Fla. (Tinker Field) June 26: Charleston, S.C. (Exchange Park) June 27: Raleigh, N.C. (Alltell Pavilion) June 28: Atlanta (Hi-Fi Buys Lot) June 30: Houston (Reliant Center) July 1: Dallas (Smirnoff Center Lot) July 2: San Antonio (Amphitheatre Lot) July 3: Las Cruces, N.M. (NMSU Practice Field) July 5: Phoenix (Peoria Sports Park) July 6: Chula Vista, Calif. (Coors Amphitheatre) July 7: Pomona, Calif. (Fairplex Park) July 8: San Francisco (Pier 30/32) July 9: Fresno, Calif. (Savemart Arena) July 11: Ventura, Calif. (Seaside Park) July 12: Los Angeles (Dodger Stadium Lot) July 13: Sacramento, Calif. (Sleep Train Lot) July 14: Boisde, Idaho (Treasure Valley Speedway) July 15: George, Wash. (Gorge Amphitheatre) July 16: Portland, Ore. (Columbia Meadows) July 18: Vancouver (Thunderbird Stadium) July 20: Calgary (Race City Speedway) July 23: Denver (Invesco Field) July 25: Maryland Heights, Mo. (UMB Bank Pavilion) July 26: Cincinnati (Riverbend) July 27: Burgettstown, Pa. (Post-Gazette Pavilion) July 28: Noblesville, Ind. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre) July 29: Detroit (Comerica Park) July 30: Tinley Park, Ill. (Tweeter Center) Aug. 1: Buffalo, N.Y. (Darien Lake Fields) Aug. 2: Fitchburg, Mass. (Fitchburg Airport) Aug. 3: Camden, N.J. (Tweeter Center) Aug. 4: Scranton, Pa. (Montage Mountain) Aug. 5: Uniondale, N.Y. (Nassau Coliseum) Aug. 6: Old Bridge Raceway, N.J. (Englishtown Raceway) Aug. 8: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Lot) Aug. 9: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Lot) Aug. 10: Bristow, Va. (Nissan Pavilion Lot) Aug. 12: Toronto (Park Place) Aug. 13: Montreal (Parc Jean Drapeau)

Source: Billboard.com

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58 Comments on "Warped Tour 2006 Lineup and Dates Unveiled"

1. ItDiesToday writes:

not a bad lineup, except for the 95% of it that is gay a$$ punk rock

2. eddie is real writes:

i hate punk rock sh it but im goin for there pits even thoe they will probly be fuc ked up ones and the fights i hope to get in to with some fag secne kids

3. The Omen writes:

This tour sucks!

4. Kingspade writes:

I think im gunna end up going, some good bands on the line up...f*** up some gay a$$ kids...the tickets are cheap enough, and Thursday is good as hell. But some of these bands are terrible Underoath, Motion City Soundtrack, and From First to Last...i just cant stand them.

5. sevenchurches writes:

this is a breeding ground for emo kids and posers

helmet is the only good band and they only have one good album (MEANTIME)

6. Opeth Suck!!! writes:

For those of you actually going to this sh** are f***ing gay as hell. I don't give a sh** if this bullsh** concert was a dollar there's no way I would go to it. Not a bad line-up? ur gay as hell!!! lol

7. Rulin Kmadd writes:

should listen to Betty from Helmet i liked it better than In The Meantime. sh** i go to see NOFX, Germs and The Buzzcocks that band is legendary!

8. Heretic writes:

at least its better than last year...my god, last year was horrible

9. Chad Ferguson writes:

Im pumped for the Warped Tour pumped for From autumn to ashes , underoath , bullets for my Valentine

Former Contributor

10. RememberMetal? writes:

NOFX, Less than Jake and AFI have my respect just for bringing something new to a stale genre.

From Authumn to Ashes have to be the most technical, heavy, interesting and least punk band on the bill....Senses Fail are snotty little elitist punks though so f*** them....And Saves the Day is emo bullsh** garbage that makes Weezer sound like the best band ever....

Every other band on the tour falls somewhere between decent and total whale sh**.

11. BLACKDOG writes:

If I show up it would be to see HELMET & that's IT !!!!

12. JT writes:

Helmet...it's almost worth it just for them. NOFX were pioneers in modern punk...and put on quite a good show...and c'mon...Joan Jett and the Blackhearts...who doesn't want to hold their lighters up to "Crimson and Clover" or pump their fist in the air to "I Love Rock n' Roll?" Hmmmm...did Joan Jett ever have a hit that wasn't a cover? (just a small knock on her...because in actuality she is quite a good guitar player...Dave Mustaine called her the female Chuck Berry). Anyway...I'm not saying I would go...but I could see myself hanging out for a few bands on that list. Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know that makes me suck...and I guess I'll have to live with that.

13. heavy hepp writes:

ok this is bullsh**. why is their news about the warped tour on a site called METAL UNDERGROUND. I dont give a sh** about warped tour. Bullet for my valentine and from autumn to ashes should'nt even be considered metal.

14. sevenchurches writes:

the only metal band there is helmet

15. Kingspade writes:

Whatever Bullet For My Valentine is terrible, and Saves The Day isnt emo their indie f.y.i. But idk im still up in the air on this, if i have the money and i dont have work that day ill probobly go for the few good bands playing.

16. DDAMM writes:

This sh** is why there are so many p***ies whining about how much their lives suck. Get over it and raise some hell you half-punk p***ies. Getcha pull and f*** something up at a real concert like the Unholy Alliance. BLOOD AND METAL b****es.

17. silly emo kids writes:

i wonder how many razor blades and wet hankys will be in the trash at the end?

18. charest writes:

ddamn said it best, f u c k i n g slayer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

19. bradispissed writes:

just curious as to know:

why the f*** is it even on the site deathbringer

20. A7X24/7 writes:

This lineup is the worst ever! Bullet For My Valentine is the only decent band.

21. Kingspade writes:

Im sorry but i cant stand bullet for my valentine.

Founder, owner & programmer

22. deathbringer writes:

OK, for the reading imparied (or those who can't get past the headline), I prefaced teh articles with this: "While certainly not a metal tour, the 2006 Vans Warped Tour does feature a handful of relevant bands including Bullet For My Valentine, Underoath, From Autumn To Ashes and headliners Helmet." That's why it's on here. Clearly not for the rest of the band on the bill.

23. bradispissed writes:

ok sir i know you run the site but....for the metal impaired (imparied i think is a fencing term jackass)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Warped Tour LogoWarped Tour is a touring punk music and extreme sports festival. The skateboarding shoe manufacturer Vans has sponsored the tour every year since 1995, so it is often referred to as the Vans Warped Tour.

from autum to ashes: emocore/screamo/ridiculous underoath=every other hardcore crossover killswitch wannabe bullet for my valentine=sh** helmet= ok i'll give you helmet is pretty cool

but most of these bands arent relevent to metal whatsoever

now quit being a defensive b**** and put up a god damn article for some west coast gore dose metal dates you trendy puss

24. Metal Slug writes:

I remember about 10 years ago when this tour was ok when Deftones was headlinin. What the silly f*** is going on with this tour now-a-days?Bullet for my f***in Valentine? Why is Helmet even considering being in the same as area as these other fags?? f*** it!

25. Kingspade writes:

I agree with you completely, in fact I was just about to dring that up....what happened to like you know good bands on warped tour like Sublime, grant it they're not a band anymore R.I.P. Brad Nowell (what do u want they're one of my favorite bands lol)...but honestly this line-up is sh!t.

26. azuramouse writes:

hmm is kingspade park of king klick? Anyways, mute math, hell yes!

27. kingspade writes:

azuramouse, yea it is.

28. dako writes:

super:)

29. Rulin Kmadd writes:

are you fukkin nuts?! Germs, Buzzcocks, Nofx, Bouncing Souls, Helmet, Joan Jett for 20 bucks shiit i'd say that's a bargain compared to ModNuMetalfagfiesta aka Ozzfest 2006.

30. santi writes:

dude NOFX is the f***ing sh** i was along before all you little posers and punk was here a looooong time before metal besides we all noe what punk is..fat guys playing fast uncordinated music with pubic hair growing from their head...the only good metal band is avenged sevenfold and metallica

31. fucker ball writes:

NOFX and helmet are the only good bands

32. MyMindHasFallen writes:

ok u guys need to gro wup seriously cuz if they like the music then let them listen 2 it!!! u guyz are way too conformist ok im not saying the tour's gonna be that great but let um be.... and besides i like the buzzcocks so HA!

33. cpt-anarchy writes:

whers the fuc king good music we dont want this e.m.o sh it isint the warped tour a punk tour

34. cfhon writes:

35. Cfhdon83 writes:

i just f***ed a chubby girl, life sucks. R.I.P Dime 666

36. Cfhdon83 writes:

Warped Tour isnt that bad, hot chicks. u can tell them u like fall out boy and get laid.

37. Penis rape writes:

Uhhhh vagina

38. natalye writes:

omg i cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

39. hawthorne heights fan writes:

Is Hawthorne Heights going to be there again

40. MyMindHasFallen writes:

.......................................you people are great....

41. FUCK YEAH writes:

VALIENT THOR!

42. YAY writes:

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

43. underground metal scene writes:

put up some real metal tourdates and line ups like the sounds of the undergound tour not this warped tour s&#t

44. Morgan writes:

DAmn, no slayer. the only band worth listening to is less than jake. Last one i went to in NJ the mosh pits sucked. Except for Suicide MAchine. They put on a kick a$$ show.... still prefer slayer, hatebreed, etc damn.

45. kori writes:

well the warped tour is awesome so back off you weird-os i'ght -k-k-k-k-k-k

46. arcticbobcat38 writes:

your all faggits! all of you. I dont understand why people cant have an opinion anymore. if u like music, u like music, who the f*** are any of you to call anyone gay for the music they listen to? im sure there are 90 punk rock sites just like this ripping metal kids like all of you. and its dumb. whats the point of hating opther ppl for th emusic they listen to, its f***ed. ur all f***ed. I like punk rock. I like metal. I like stoner music. If u people really knew music, u could sya the same thing. instead u just stand for something and hate cuz ur f***ing idiots. just to piss people off, im gonna say f*** METAL!!! NOFX IS f***ING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! dont write any comments back. i wont read it. f*** you.

47. Fredmofchoice writes:

I believe you hit the nail on the head arcticbobcat, you said it all man, wow........wow...

48. sevenchurches writes:

id only go for helmet. but ill wait to see them another time.

49. sevenchurches writes:

In a post that was quickly deleted by Dave Mustaine on the MEGADETH Message Board, the following was posted: Droogies!

I am very, very, VERY happy to announce that I have finally decided on the final line-up for this year's Gigantour! I know you Droogs have been going ape-sh** with lists and such, and I have been paying attention! And as you all know, I found God recently as well. In the past, I did something stupid; I refused to play on the same bill as a band of current devil worshipers. It was a foolish thing to do, and as of now, I am now putting that behind me! Regardless or religion, I have picked this year's Gigantour line-up of the best of the best! Yeah, a lot of other bands are tied up with other tours and such, but this is going to be a great tour!

Main Stage: MEGADETH VENOM ANTHRAX DIAMOND HEAD

Second Stage: OVERKILL TESTAMENT AMEN

This is going to be a great tour and I and the rest of the bands can't wait to see you on The Killing Road!

50. RED Power Ranger writes:

Underoath, Bullet for my Valentine, and From Autumn to Ashes all sound exactly the same. Even an admission of $20 is too much. I wouldn't even go to see it if it was free. At least we all know that the Gigantour tour is going to be good this year! ANTHRAX KICKS ASS

51. you'regay writes:

all of you kids that say , "you're gay if you listen to (insert your music here) ahem, you're a f***ing loser, get over yourselves. you're all stereotypical hypocrites...go f*** yourselves..and half the bands going to warped tour are probably a lot more talented than you...just because you don't like their music ..screw you..METAL SUCKS ASS.

52. you'regay writes:

all of you kids that say , "you're gay if you listen to (insert your music here) ahem, you're a f***ing loser, get over yourselves. you're all stereotypical hypocrites...go f*** yourselves..and half the bands going to warped tour are probably a lot more talented than you...just because you don't like their music ..screw you..nobody cares if you're going to warped tour...so umm stop being a f***ing idiot.

53. sevenchurches writes:

^talk like a human you fa**ot. you're gay is a fag. metal>;all

54. Dante writes:

Sounds like a whole lot of gay to me. All i can say is that the unholy alliance tour and sounds of the undergound are going to be gorepounding.

Meh, the bands for the warped tour have talent so hurray for the fans.

55. discordthrenodybass writes:

Autumn to ashes, Bullet for my Valentine, Underoath all sound the same? I beg your pardon, Ive seen the latter 2 live, Underoath is unimpressive, but Bullet has a sound that I can easily distinguish, how many of you retards even know how to play music? Let alone b**** about how others do.

Besides, when it comes down to it, they're on tour, living it up playing music, while you're just another guy on a forum hating on them but secretly wishing you could have their lives.

56. bradispissed writes:

i guess most of the retards here expect the vibrations coming from the strummed whatchamacallit to produce something that well, kind of sounds like music?

57. Alyssa writes:

Omg alexisonfire and thursday, ill be there forshure...even though i just seen thursday on monday<;3

58. cfhdon writes:

funny sh**, omg

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Epitaph announces Warped Tour 2006 plans & line-ups!

(Epitaph, Los Angeles) The biggest event of the summer for over a decade, the Vans WARPED TOUR has once again tapped some of Epitaph’s biggest and best bands to create a one-of-a-kind musical event. Beginning on June 15th and running through August 13th, the 2006 WARPED TOUR will feature five Epitaph bands, including three on the coveted main stages for the whole tour.

Exploding onto the main stage for the first time this summer, FROM FIRST TO LAST are defying convention and defining rock for a new scene. Currently touring in support of their addictive new release Heroine, FROM FIRST TO LAST are killing it night after night on the Fall Out Boy tour, and will be primed and ready to bring their unbelievably intense live show to Warped ’06.

Also spending their summer on the main stage is MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK, whose synth-pop perfection is guaranteed to get the crowd dancing. Their latest CD, the stellar Commit This To Memory and their sold-out headlining spring tour have been stunning old fans and winning new MCS converts across the country.

Finally, Warped Tour vets the BOUNCING SOULS will be shredding the main stage with their own raucous brand of east coast punk rock. With a heart-felt new record, The Gold Record, dropping June 6th, the BOUNCING SOULS are sure to be a big crowd pleaser again this year.

In addition to the main stage acts, Epitaph is proud to announce the Warped Tour debuts of I AM GHOST and ESCAPE THE FATE, two fantastic label newcomers. I AM GHOST will be blowing minds with their unique dark brand of classically driven hardcore, while Las Vegas’s most remarkable hard rock / screamo band, ESCAPE THE FATE, will be recruiting legions of loyal fans at every stop.

The 2006 WARPED TOUR promises to be the best ever, and Epitaph is pleased to once again play a part in bringing the best new music to the starving masses.

All confirmed 2006 Warped Tour dates are as follows:

06/14 Columbia, MD Merriweather 06/15 Columbia, MD Merriweather 06/16 Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheatre 06/17 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre 06/18 Minneapolis, MN Metrodome 06/19 Kansas City, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot 06/21 Birmingham Starwood Amphitheatre 06/22 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Fairgrounds 06/23 Tampa, FL Vinoy Park 06/24 Miami, FL Bayfront Park Amphitheatre 06/25 Orlando, FL Tinker Field 06/27 Raleigh, NC Alltell Pavilion 06/28 Atlanta, GA Hi-Fi Amphitheater Lot 06/30 Houston, TX Reliant Center 07/01 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Music Center Lot 07/02 San Antonio, TX Amphitheatre Lot 07/03 Las Cruces, NM N.M.S.U Practice Field 07/05 Phoenix, AZ Peoria Sports Park 07/06 San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheatre 07/07 Pomona, CA Fairplex Park 07/08 San Francisco, CA Pier 30/32 07/09 Ventura, CA Seaside park 07/11 Fresno, CA Save Mart Arena 07/12 Los Angeles, CA Dodger Stadium Lot 07/13 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre Lot 07/14 Boise, ID Idaho Center Amphitheatre 07/15 Seattle, WA Gorge Amphitheatre 07/16 Portland, OR Columbia Meadows 07/18 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium 07/20 Calgary, AB Race City Speedway 07/22 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds 07/23 Denver, CO Invesco Field 07/25 St. Louis, MO UMB Bank Pavilion 07/26 Cincinnatii, OH Riverbend Music Center 07/27 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion 07/28 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot 07/29 Detroit, MI Co-America Park and Street 07/30 Chicago, IL Tweeter Center 08/01 Buffalo, NY Darien Lakes Fields 08/02 Brockton, MA Brockton Fairgrounds 08/03 Scranton, PA Montage Mountain 08/04 Philadelphia, PA Tweeter Center at the Waterfront 08/05 New York, NY Randalls Island 08/06 Old Bridge, NJ Englishtown Raceway 08/08 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot 08/09 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot 08/10 Washington DC Nissan Pavilion Lot 08/11 Cleveland, OH Tower City 08/12 Toronto, QC Park Place 08/13 Montreal, QC Park Jean Drapeau

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For Punk Bands, the Warped Tour Is a Launching Pad, a Place to Land or Somewhere to Hang Out

By Kelefa Sanneh

• Aug. 7, 2006

UNIONDALE, N.Y., Aug. 5 — On Saturday afternoon the Northern State Parkway was full of cars going east, inching deeper into Long Island. The sky was as clear as the highway wasn’t, but it looked as if many of these poor souls were about to waste a perfectly great day by going to the beach.

Perhaps they didn’t know that, only a few miles from the shore, they could have worked on their tans in the picturesque parking lot of the Nassau Coliseum. There, the only noise one could hear was the gentle sound of about a hundred sweaty punk bands, all hoping fans would express their devotion by purchasing T-shirts. (The profit margin is much better than it is on CD’s, and copying a T-shirt for a friend takes much longer.)

This was the Vans Warped Tour ’06, the latest installment of a yearly punk tour, and it pulled into town looking more or less healthy but slightly undernourished. Last year’s Warped Tour featured My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy, a couple of multimillion-selling emo bands at the peak (so far) of their popularity. But this year’s Warped Tour is a bit more low-key, which explains why ticket sales have been down slightly; the Long Island show didn’t have any bands that currently sell lots of records.

What it had, most of all, was veterans. The two biggest stages played host to lots of them: the reconstituted precision-metal pioneers in Helmet, the long-running Florida ska-punk group Less Than Jake, the New Jersey punk traditionalists the Bouncing Souls (closing in on two decades together), and the indefatigable Joan Jett (closing in on three decades as a star, though she introduced herself with a simple “We’re the Blackhearts”).

On a day like this, it made sense that the last big-stage band was NOFX, known for songs that are short and loud and criminally inane. (In the best sense of course.) The band was formed in 1983, and the lead singer, Fat Mike, seemed to enjoy being the youngest member of the oldest band playing a not-so-old tour for a not-at-all-old bunch of fans.

The Warped Tour is often described as a launching pad for young bands; certainly Saturday’s show included a few that seemed capable of graduating to bigger stages. The emo screamers in Aiden are perfecting their shameless approach: pulpy lyrics (part soap opera, part horror movie), crashing guitars, zombie-drag-queen makeup. And in the MySpace tent, which was barely bigger than a big umbrella, the Utah band known as Meg and Dia (and led by harmonizing sisters of the same name) played wispy but propulsive pop songs.

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, a rather charmless emo band now being pushed by Virgin Records, began an afternoon set with a song called, “In Fate’s Hands.” It starts, “I remember a year ago, standing in the crowd/Waiting for my chance to break through.” This is the old Warped Tour myth: You can go from the crowd to the stage to the pop charts, if only you want it badly enough.

As Joan Jett and some of the other veterans have figured out, this launching pad makes a pretty comfortable landing pad too. The Warped Tour is a place you can go after you have gone places. And it’s not only 1970’s rock stars who need a landing pad. The members of Thursday were downright defiant about their brush with rock stardom a few years ago. “This is where we started and it’s good to be back,” said the lead singer, Geoff Rickly.

When you’re the lead singer of a breathless and chaotic (and sometimes great) band like Thursday, then anything you say will sound better if your face is covered in blood. That was Mr. Rickly’s situation after a collision near the beginning of Saturday’s set. As his nose pumped red into his mouth, he found a clever way to introduce “Counting 5-4-3-2-1,” a recent single that missed the pop charts. “This is a song that we let on the radio,” he said. “Now we’re taking it back.”

Launching and landing: many of these bands care an awful lot about their careers. Or, more accurately, they don’t pretend not to care. Which brings us to Page 64 in the official Warped Tour program. It contains a picture of NOFX looking like an emo band (tight T-shirts, black hair, serious expressions; the drummer is holding a T-Mobile Sidekick). The fictional biography claims that the group was formed in 2005, with the help of a “$6,000 charge to Mom’s MasterCard.” And Fat Mike offers an inspirational quote: “With our SoundScan numbers dropping in the Midwest, this year’s Warped Tour is the perfect chance for us to bring the NOFX road show to our target demographic.”

That is Fat Mike’s way of mocking his careerist peers. But the truth is that the Warped Tour is pretty useful for NOFX too. This band uses the tour as neither a launching pad nor a landing pad but a crash pad: a place to hang out for a night, for a summer, for a decade. It’s not going anywhere, except the next city.

And there’s something to be said for that. NOFX played a short, exuberant, deeply silly set, consisting solely of songs that began with the letter “S.’’ When Fat Mike wasn’t laughing at the other bands, he was laughing at himself: an old punk making a living off the new ones. “This is an old song from 1989, before most of you were born,” he said, as the band got ready to tear through “Screaming for Change.” (No, not that kind of change: the lyrics pay tribute to panhandlers.)

“It’s not very good,” he added, “but it does start with the letter ‘S.’ ”

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Most of what I remember about being 14 involves wanting stuff: I wanted straighter hair. I wanted to seem like a grown-up (or at least like a 16-year-old). And I really, really wanted to go to Warped Tour.

It was the summer of 2004, and pop-punk was ascendant. In Canada, where I grew up, this meant listening to a steady stream of Sum 41, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, and Billy Talent — all homegrown acts that got regular radio play thanks in part to Canadian content laws . With that as our gateway, my friends and I began our foray into skate-punk lite, memorizing Taking Back Sunday lyrics, trying (poorly) to land an ollie , and developing extremely unrequited crushes on any boy who bore a passing resemblance to Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge.

To us, Warped Tour — the traveling “misfit summer camp” that merged punk, ska, rock, and emo with extreme sports and a healthy array of corporate sponsors — was the pinnacle of cool. Unfortunately, I never got to attend, on account of being at actual summer camp.

This summer, Warped Tour celebrates its 25th birthday, making it far older than the teenagers it has courted for two and a half decades. Last year was the tour’s final cross-country run — it featured hundreds of bands over the course of 38 stops for which nearly 550,000 tickets were sold, but this impressive turnout was buoyed by the announcement that it was the event’s last hurrah. Attendance the prior year, in 2017, had been down significantly, particularly among the 14- to 17-year-old demographic that had historically been Warped’s lifeblood. The audience was getting older, production costs were rising, and bands weren’t sticking around year after year like they used to. Plus, according to founder and producer Kevin Lyman, he was just getting tired.

But in the era of reboots and remakes , it’s not surprising that organizers would want to honor the tour’s silver anniversary just one year after it shut down. The result is a three-city affair: a single-day event in Cleveland celebrating the opening of a retrospective exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and weekend shows in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Mountain View, California. While not strictly a nostalgia play — there are up-and-coming bands booked alongside veterans, and plenty of fans are first-time Warped attendees — this year, the average age of concertgoers appears to be more than a decade older than it was at the tour’s height (15 or 16, as of 2006 ), and plenty of the once-wayward youth now have kids of their own in tow, keeping them a safe distance from the mosh pit.

This is how, on a Saturday in late June, I find myself on a crowded Jersey beach sandwiched between Caesars Casino and the Atlantic Ocean, belting out Simple Plan’s “I’m Just a Kid” with nearly 30,000 other people — many of whom, like me, were in fact kids when the song came out in 2002. High school may be a distant memory, but at least now I’ve finally made it to Warped Tour.

”Oh, my god, I am 12 years old again,” says the sunburnt guy in checkerboard Vans beside me as the crowd whines along with singer Pierre Bouvier: “Nobody cares, ’cause I’m alone and the world is having more fun than me tonight.”

The lyrics don’t exactly fit the setting — no one here is alone and everyone seems to be having fun — but the feeling’s still there. For a little while, we’re all our angsty teen selves again. Likewise, there’s a twinge of irony when Good Charlotte tear into their breakout single “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” a middle finger to celebrity culture written long before Joel and Benji Madden (the band’s lead singer and guitarist) married Hollywood it-girls (Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz, respectively).

Warped Tour itself is a contradiction — it’s a punk rock festival that’s also a prodigious marketing machine, sponsored from top to bottom by brands hoping to win over fans in between shows. This isn’t a knock on the tour, really: if it weren’t able to bridge that gap, it probably wouldn’t exist.

The idea for Warped began germinating while Kevin Lyman was working as a stage manager for the alt-rock-focused Lollapalooza in the early ’90s — back when that, too, was a touring festival. He had been immersed in SoCal’s hardcore and ska scenes growing up and wanted to bring some of his favorite bands to audiences around the country with a back-to-basics tour that did away with the music industry’s hierarchies and out-of-control egos: no headliners, no arenas — just a few thousand fans in a parking lot and an average ticket price of less than $30.

Even for the biggest acts, that DIY spirit shone through. “You feel more like a carnie on Warped Tour than you do on any other tour or at any other festival,” says Adam Lazzara, the lead singer of Taking Back Sunday, who are currently in the midst of a 20th-anniversary tour , “just because you’re literally there setting up and breaking down into the next town.” Lyman also tapped a handful of pro skateboarders and BMX bikers to come along, recognizing the crossover between extreme sports fans and punk rock’s moshing masses, as well as the fact that both subcultures were becoming increasingly mainstream.

In 1995, the same year Warped made its debut run in the summer, ESPN aired the inaugural X Games (then called “Extreme Games”), with athletes competing in action sports such as barefoot water skiing, street luge, and skateboarding. The year prior, the Offspring and Green Day — both bands with roots in California’s underground punk scene — released best-selling albums that catapulted them into popular culture.

The time was ripe for something like Warped to exist, though in order to get it off the ground, Lyman needed to buck one of the central tenets of punk and get a few executives to break out their checkbooks. “I grew up with that whole ‘eff corporate America’ mentality,” he says. “And then, for me, I just started looking at corporate America, and no matter how punk rock we were or whatever, we were still supporting it in some way. We were buying their brands; we were using their products.” He looked at the Rolling Stones pulling in millions through sponsorships with Jovan fragrance and Budweiser, and thought: Maybe we can get some money too.

It didn’t go seamlessly at first. After the 1995 run — which featured an eclectic lineup that included the ska-reggae band Sublime, a Tragic Kingdom -era No Doubt, and the grunge pioneers L7 — the tour was in dire straits financially, as the small sponsorships Lyman had landed from brands like Converse and Spin weren’t enough to cover the significant production costs. To keep it going, he was desperate enough to consider brokering a deal with the decidedly not-punk Calvin Klein to become the title sponsor. “I don’t really think that would have worked,” he now says, matter-of-factly.

Fortuitously, the meeting with the fashion brand was delayed by the devastating East Coast blizzard of 1996, and before they could go any further with the arrangements, Lyman got a call from Vans CEO Walter Schoenfeld.

Founded in 1966 as the Van Doren Rubber Company, Vans had engendered strong ties to the skateboarding community, which was loyal to the brand’s sneakers thanks to their grippy soles. The $300,000 check the company wrote turned the Warped Tour into the Vans Warped Tour, giving Lyman some financial runway while securing the festival’s ties to corporate America. (At the time, Vans was owned by the venture banking firm McCown De Leeuw & Co., thanks to a $71 million 1988 leveraged buyout .)

The Warped partnership was led by Steven Van Doren, the company’s vice president of events and promotions and the son of Vans founder Paul Van Doren, who saw an opportunity to give the brand national exposure beyond the Sun Belt states that at the time accounted for most of its sales. He also introduced amateur skateboarding competitions to the tour, giving contestants the chance to win pro contracts with Vans. “Having Steve involved really solidified our partnership,” says Lyman, noting that he turned down bigger subsequent sponsorship offers from the shoe brand Airwalk because he felt Vans was in it for the long haul.

He was right: By 1999, Spin reported at the time, Vans owned a 15 percent stake in Warped and was paying $1 million per year “to strengthen [its] presence with ‘Generation Y’” (or, as we’d call them today, “millennials”). Two years later, it stepped up its investment, paying $5.2 million for a 70 percent controlling stake, according to Forbes .

Today, Vans is a $3 billion brand — current parent company VF Corp bought it for $396 million in 2004 — and a household name for most Americans, including those who have never set foot on a skateboard. Even as it has grown well beyond its fringier roots, though, the brand’s relationship with Warped has endured, and at the 25th-anniversary show, seemingly every other fan is wearing Vans sneakers: Sk8-Hi’s , Old Skools , the ubiquitous checkerboard slip-ons .

(Airwalk fizzled by the early 2000s and was reborn as a Payless brand; its current owners — the same company that recently acquired Sports Illustrated — are trying to stage a ’90s-nostalgia-fueled comeback .)

Even with the Vans investment, Lyman had to hustle to keep the tour afloat in the early years. “We had to raise nearly $4 million in sponsorships to make the ticket price what it was, to give you the show you wanted, to bring all those side stages that developed young artists,” he says.

In 1999, he signed a partnership with the brand new surf label Hurley and got up-and-comers Blink-182 — then still a year out from the explosively popular Enema of the State — to wear the brand’s clothes onstage in exchange for free seats on one of the Warped Tour’s buses, since the band couldn’t yet afford their own transportation. It was a turning point for both band and brand: Blink had just replaced its former drummer with Travis Barker, who’s still with the group today, and Hurley’s founder Bob Hurley had left a successful career with Billabong to start his namesake clothing line earlier that year. Four years later, Blink was selling out arenas and topping Billboard charts, and Hurley had grown into a $70 million business, which Nike acquired in 2002 .

It wasn’t just hormone-addled fans going through an adolescence of sorts at Warped. “I always said Warped was a developmental spot, not only for bands but for crew people to learn how to tour and learn how to be good citizens in the music community, as well as brands,” says Lyman. “A lot of brands got their starts in those parking lots.”

One of those was Monster Energy, which has been a tour sponsor since it launched in 2003, back when it was made by a California soda company called Hansen’s Natural Co. The company set up a portable rock wall, became “the official energy drink of the Vans Warped Tour,” and embarked on a wildly successful rebrand that has seen its stock soar more than 72,000 percent since its public debut that same year. According to Lyman, Monster also came up with the idea of “Tour Water” — specially designed cans of water that make it look like bands and crew members are chugging energy drinks all day onstage without the risk of cardiac arrest; the concept is now an industry standard, and cans from early tours go for more than $75 on eBay .

Another was Jeffree Star Cosmetics. Before Star was a beauty mogul, he was a MySpace-famous scene kid who performed on the tour as a solo artist in 2008 and 2009. In the following years, he came back to host meet-and-greets with his YouTube fans and, when he launched his makeup empire in 2014, set up shop among the merch tents.

The Warped Tour also forced more corporate brands to loosen up a little: After the PlayStation team showed up in uniform polo shirts their first year on the tour, Lyman told them they’d have to change, citing a life motto of his: “Never trust a person in a golf shirt unless you’re at a golf course.” (They’re either a douchebag or they don’t know what they’re talking about, he says.)

When the tour created a “reverse day care” for parents on-site in 2001 — complete with air conditioning and noise-canceling headphones — Lyman convinced Target to put its bull’s-eye logo on top, sans brand name, citing the symbol’s history with ’70s mod bands like the Who and the Jam. He even dug out the Ramones’ tour rider to persuade the makers of Yoo-hoo that the chocolate drink was, in fact, kinda punk rock, and by the 1998 tour, fans were climbing a rock wall shaped like a giant Yoo-hoo bottle and competing for branded skateboard decks .

Walking around the grounds in Atlantic City, there’s a near-endless array of stuff to buy at Warped this year: limited-edition Vans, commemorative 25th anniversary bracelets, T-shirts reading “Mall Goth Trash” and “SadBoy Crew,” henna tattoos, water bottles, skate decks, and beer koozies (plus $14 Pacifico). There are also plenty of freebies: branded coupon wristbands from the teen retailer Journeys, which has been the tour’s presenting sponsor since 2014; T-shirts from Truth, the anti-smoking organization; stickers from PETA.

Among the panoply of shoppable teenage rebellion are booths with a cause, like Hope for the Day , a suicide prevention organization, and A Voice for the Innocent , a nonprofit that offers resources to survivors of rape and sexual abuse, which was brought on board in the wake of a series of sexual assault and harassment allegations involving artists who had performed on the tour.

”The Warped Tour is really interesting because it jumped early on the idea that crowds could be commodified,” says Gina Arnold, a former rock journalist and the author of Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella . “They were able to widen out the notion of the festival as a marketplace — not so much of ideas, but a marketplace of actual things.”

Today, the concept of festival-as-shopping-mall is well established — so much so that this year’s Coachella attendees could have Amazon orders delivered same-day to lockers on site — but in the ’90s, it was still a novel idea. Before then, it was all “bad food and band T-shirts,” as Arnold put it. (The exception: the parking lot of any Grateful Dead concert, long a thriving marketplace of tie-dye tees , beaded jewelry, DIY taco stands, and any drug you might fancy, collectively known as Shakedown Street .)

Band T-shirts still make up the bulk of the merch at Warped, just as they do at most concerts these days. As album sales have dropped off a cliff and services like Spotify have taken their place, paying a fraction of a penny per stream, merchandise has become an increasingly essential part of artists’ income. A superstar like Taylor Swift or Kanye West can gross $300,000 to $400,000 in merch during a single show, according to a Billboard interview with licensing exec Dell Furano. Warped artists aren’t coming close to that, but especially at the tour’s peak, they were pulling in a good amount of cash.

Taking Back Sunday made a reported $20,000 to $30,000 per show on merch on the 2004 tour; My Chemical Romance set the record the next year, selling $60,000 worth of black T-shirts, sinister-looking posters, and fingerless gloves at a single stop. 2005 was also the only year Warped made money on ticket sales, according to Lyman. Headliners Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance were regulars on MTV’s TRL thanks to crossover hits “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” and “Helena.” Teens who hadn’t heard of most of the “authentic” punk bands the tour had booked in prior years were turning out in droves. By the end of the 48 dates, 700,000 fans had bought tickets, and the tour grossed an all-time high of $25 million .

”That was a pretty wild year, with all the bands exploding,” says Lisa Johnson, who’s been photographing Warped Tour since its first run. “I’m not gonna lie, it was a little frustrating in the photo pit because it was so jam-packed. And a little dangerous, because there were so many kids coming over the barricade constantly. But at the same time, how fantastic is that?”

Of course, not everyone agreed. From its inception, Warped provoked criticism from punk purists who argued — not without reason — that the corporate-sponsored festival was antithetical to the values of the genre. It also ruffled feathers with the bands it booked, particularly as the rise of “mall punk” and emo put bands like Good Charlotte, Blink-182, and My Chemical Romance alongside punk mainstays like Rancid, Pennywise, and Bad Religion.

”You go to the Warped Tour and walk around and you’ll hear 100 bands that try to sound like Green Day or NOFX. It’s just disgusting,” said Mike Avilez, a vocalist for the California punk band Oppressed Logic, in the book Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day . “They’re missing the angst. To me, punk rock is supposed to be angry and pissed off.”

The tour has also caught flak from within over the years. In a 2004 Chicago Reader piece , “Punk Is Dead! Long Live Punk!” the music critic Jessica Hopper chronicled a clash between Lyman and a band called the Mean Reds: “It was only the sixth day of the tour, and they were already on ‘probation’ for running their mouths onstage about what a sold-out capitalist-pig enterprise Warped is, how it isn’t really punk, et cetera.”

Even Adweek, hardly a voice of the counterculture, said in 2005 that the influx of corporate cash “does somewhat undermine the legitimacy of the event, even as it introduces groups of men in tight pants to new audiences.”

Among those who’ve been along for the ride since Warped’s early days, though, ambivalence about the scene’s brushes with the mainstream is tempered by ideas both idealistic — that the tour provided a platform to bands that otherwise might not have made it, and a community for kids who didn’t always fit in elsewhere — and practical.

”There’s always going to be critics,” says Shira Yevin, who’s performed at Warped as Shiragirl since 2004, and for a decade produced a stage at the tour dedicated to promoting women-fronted bands. “But they’re the same ones bitching because they only got paid $100 for the gig and they don’t have enough money to get to the next state, you know?”

In 2019, the idea of “selling out” seems like a product of an earlier generation — one without climate change or student loans or school gun violence to worry about. And anyway, the purists may be getting their way for now, since even pop punk isn’t popular these days. Instead, the top 40 charts are ruled by Lil Nas X’s boundary-pushing country trap, genre-fluid acts like Billie Eilish , and mumble rappers like Post Malone. The loud, fast, guitar-driven sound that Warped is known for? “In top 40, it’s very rare,” says Nate Sloan, a musicologist and the co-host of Vox’s Switched on Pop podcast . “Even the bands that sort of assert that look and that style and may throw a guitar around their shoulder, the actual sound doesn’t necessarily have that.”

On the second day of the Atlantic City shows, in one of the festival’s seemingly endless meet-and-greet lines, I meet 20-year-old Sam and 14-year-old Tori, friends from Philadelphia who made the trip down for their first Warped Tour. Sam has rainbow hair and rainbow gauges in her ears; Tori’s wearing a Set It Off band tee. They met at the Hot Topic where Sam works, a store that itself has transformed from mall-goth central into a haven for geek fashion .

”I basically live there,” says Tori.

”We vibed about the music we listen to,” says Sam.

”I don’t really have any other friends that listen to this kind of stuff,” explains Tori. “I almost kind of get made fun of, because it’s like, ‘Oh, emo music, what do you do, cry all day?’”

At Sam’s high school, most guys listened to trap or rap, while “angsty music” was mostly the domain of girls or “the guys who had a bad upbringing.”

”It was just divided,” she adds. “Like the way the country is right now.”

While genres may separate fans into factions in high school, Sloan says they’re not necessarily as diametrically opposed as they seem. “A lot of the sensibility of rock ’n’ roll has gone into the sound of SoundCloud rap and mumble rap,” he says. “This genre is sort of the spiritual heir to a lot of the acts that first kicked off the original Warped Tour. Sonically, it feels like a world apart in a lot of ways, but in terms of the intense emotional affect, it’s very clearly picking up the mantle.”

Part of the transformation may be technological. “Maybe 20, 30 years ago, if you were an angsty teenager, the easiest way to express yourself would have been by installing yourself and your friends in the garage with a couple of crappy guitars and a battered drum set,” says Sloan. “Today, the easiest way to express your angst would be through a pirated copy of [the music software] FruityLoops and a USB microphone.” This evolution may also help explain why punk’s communal, anti-commercial spirit seems to have fallen out of favor while themes like alienation and disaffection (which Gen Z artists like Eilish mine extensively) have endured.

Shifting musical tastes are just one factor contributing to Warped’s decline. Most people I talked to had similar theories about what’s behind the drop-off in teen attendance: It’s not just that today’s rock bands can’t compete with the colossal forces of hip-hop and pop; they’re also up against YouTube, Netflix, TikTok , esports, and social media, all of which are pouring billions into the race for young people’s attention. Plus, parents are warier about sending their kids to live shows because of tragedies like the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas and the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England .

Lamenting the changing habits of teenagers has always been an adults’ game, though. For the current generation of fans and artists, the end of the tour is, inevitably, the beginning of whatever comes next. Not Ur Girlfrenz was the youngest touring act at Warped last year, and now at ages 13 (bassist Gigi Haynes) and 14 (lead singer and guitarist Liv Haynes and drummer Maren Alford), the trio is on the cusp of what was once the festival’s prime demographic. They also just released their first EP, the title track of which, “New Kids in America,” riffs off the Kim Wilde hit with bouncy pop-punk energy and lyrics like, “When did the trend of no one ever having fun / Spread throughout the land infecting everyone?”

Still, they’re more optimistic about the future of the kind of music they play. “Kids our age these days just aren’t really exposed to it anymore. It’s not exactly like they just don’t like it. They’re just not exposed to it,” says Maren. She’ll introduce her friends to a new band or tell them to stay and watch whoever Not Ur Girlfrenz has opened for, “And they’re like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is my new favorite band!’”

Plus, with early-aughts nostalgia already trending heavily among Gen Z (so much so that this year’s VidCon — a conference for online video creators and their mostly teenage fans — featured a meeting room decked out in Lizzie McGuire posters and blow-up furniture), a musical comeback seems timely. “You hear the 1975 bringing back the ’80s sounds, so I think now’s the time to bring back the 2000s,” reasons Liv.

At their Sunday set, it’s easy to see why they’re hoping for another Warped Tour next year — even if Lyman insists that, for real this time, this is the last. Fans are yelling their names and singing their lyrics back at them from the crowd.

”I did the whole thing where, you know, someone points at you and you look behind you and then you’re like, ‘Oh, wait, it’s me!’” Liv says with a laugh.

At a signing at their merch tent after the set, the screaming starts again. “We were like, ‘Is somebody famous here? Oh, my god, is it Blink-182?’” recalls Gigi.

”Yeah, we saw this huge group of people,” says Maren, “and we were like, ‘Ooh, someone important is giving a signing. I wonder who it is.’”

”Nah, it was just us. Psh ,” Gigi sighs.

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Warped Tour is one of the biggest names in the concert canon. Those who haven't gone want to and those who have gone wait for the day they can go again. For a majority of its run, it was the largest traveling music festival in the United States. A number of past Warped Tour lineups have been impressive, but which year was the best? Help decide below! 

Starting as an eclectic alternative rock festival in 1995 and gradually morphing into a punk rock festival by the next year, the tour gained momentum when Vans, the wildly popular shoe manufacturer, was signed on as the tour's main sponsor in 1996. As Warped Tour became increasingly popular with each passing year, more sponsors signed on, slowly growing the tour's scope of influence. Sadly, 2018 proved to be the final year of the famous tour as announced by Warped Tour's founder, Kevin Lyman. 

You'll find every Warped Tour lineup here! Vote below on the best Warped Tour lineups, keeping in mind factors like the bands performing, production value, and overall spectacle. If you're an avid concert-goer, you can also check out this list of the best Coachella lineups ! (Disclaimer - some years certain dates had slightly different lineups). 

Warped Tour 2005

Notable Peformers: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Thrice, Billy Idol, The All-American Rejects, Bowling for Soup, Dropkick Murphys, Hawthorne Heights

Dates: June 18 to August 14

Warped Tour 2004

Notable Performers: NOFX, My Chemical Romance, The Used, Fall Out Boy, Billy Talent, Yellowcard, Motion City Soundtrack, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Anti-Flag, Bowling for Soup 

Dates:  June 25 to August 19

Warped Tour 1998

Notable Performers:  Bad Religion, Godsmack, Rancid, Less Than Jake, Blink-182, Beck (some dates), Unwritten Law, Reverend Horton Heat, Incubus 

Date:  July 4 to August 9

Warped Tour 1997

Notable Performers:  Blink-182, Reel Big Fish, Descendants, Less Than Jake, Sugar Ray, Pennywise, Social Distortion, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 

Dates:  July 2 to August 5

Warped Tour 2001

Notable Performers:  Pennywise, New Found Glory, Dropkick Murphys, The Vandals, Sum 41, Rancid, Less Than Jake, The All-American Rejects, Good Charlotte 

Dates:  June 29 to August 12

Warped Tour 2000

Notable Performers:  Weezer, Flogging Molly, Green Day, Anti-Flag, No Doubt, Papa Roach, The Muffs, Suicide Machines, NOFX, Good Riddance

Dates: June 23 to August 6

Warped Tour 1999

Notable Performers: Cypress Hill, Blink-182, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Black Eyed Peas, Suicidal Tendencies, Less Than Jake, Bouncing Souls

Dates:  June 25 to July 31

Warped Tour 1995

Notable Performers:  Sublime, No Doubt, Quicksand, Fluf, Deftones, No Use for a Name, Supernova, CIV, Deftones

Dates: August 4 to September 5

Warped Tour 2007

Notable Performers:  Bad Religion, Pennywise, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Killswitch Engage, Yellowcard, Ambelin, Flogging Molly, Hawthorne Heights

Dates:  June 28 to August 25

Warped Tour 2011

Notable Performers:  Paramore, Jack's Mannequin, Bowling for Soup, Relient K, MC Lars, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag, Simple Plan 

Dates:  June 24 to August 14

Warped Tour 2018

Notable Performers:  Korn, Prophets of Rage, Limp Bizkit, Reel Big Fish, Pennywise, All Time Low, Taking Back Sunday, We The Kings

Dates:  June 21 to August 5

Warped Tour 2002

Notable Performers: New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Flogging Molly, Anti-Flag, Reel Big Fish, Yellowcard, Goldfinger, NOFX, Jimmy Eat World, Bad Religion, Good Charlotte

Dates:  June 21 to August 18

Warped Tour 1996

Notable Performers:  Fishbone, Pennywise, CIV, Rocket From The Crypt, Dance Hall Crashers, Down By Law, The Figgs, Guttermouth, Blink-182, Fluf, Red 5, Sensefield, Far 

Date:  July 4 to August 8

Warped Tour 2006

Notable Performers: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts,   Less Than Jake, The Academy Is..., Anti-Flag, Billy Talent, Motion City Soundtrack, Paramore, Rise Against, NOFX

Dates:  June 15 to August 13

Warped Tour 2008

Notable Performers:  Katy Perry, Amberlin, Jack's Mannequin, Angels and Airwaves, Reel Big Fish, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Broadway Calls, The Devil Wears Prada 

Dates:  June 20 to August 17

Warped Tour 2003

Notable Performers:  The Ataris, Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, The Used, Pennywise, Less than Jake, Suicide Machines, Andrew W.K., Yellowcard, Glassjaw 

Dates: June 19 to August 10

Warped Tour 2016

Notable Performers:  Falling In Reverse, Less Than Jake, Good Charlotte, Sleeping With Sirens, New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Ghost Town, Bad Seed Rising, We The Kings

Dates:  June 24 to August 13

Warped Tour 2013

Notable Performers: Chiodos, New Beat Fund, Gin Wigmore, MC Lars, Craig Owens, Dia Frampton, Charlotte Sometimes, Big Chocolate, Echosmith, Motion City Soundtrack, Reel Big Fish 

Dates:  July 15 to August 4

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Warped Tour 2010

Notable Performers:  Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, Anti-Flag, Dropkick Murphys, Andrew W.K., Penny Wise, Reel Big Fish, The All-American Rejects, Suicide Silence, We The Kings

Dates:  June 25 to August 15

Warped Tour 2012

Notable Performers:  Falling in Reverse, The Used, Yellowcard, Dead Sara, Rise Against, Yellowcard, MC Laws, Machine Gun Kelly, Anti-Flag

Date:  June 16 to August 5

Warped Tour 2009

Notable Performers:  Less Than Jake, Underoath, Bad Religion,  T.S.O.L., The Adolescents, Sing it Loud, TAT

Dates:  June 26 to August 23

Warped Tour 2014

Notable Performers:  Breathe Carolina, Falling in Reverse, Mayday Parade, Less Than Jake, We The Kings, Yellowcard, The Ghost Inside, The Mighty, Finch

Dates:  June 13 to August 3

Warped Tour 2017

Notable Performers:   Andy Black, Beartooth, Dance Gavin Dance, I Prevail, New Years Day, Falling In Reverse, Streetlight Manifesto, Neck Deep

Date: May 27 to November 1

Warped Tour 2015

Notable Performers:  As It Is, Bebe Rexha, New Years Day, Knuckle Puck, Metro Station, Candy Hearts, Motion City Soundtrack, Memphis May Fire 

Dates:  June 19 to October 18

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