To say that Vans Warped Tour changed the fabric of music and pop culture is a serious understatement. The once annual summer traveling festival helped spawn some of pop-punk, metalcore, and post-hardcore’s biggest bands. Can you imagine seeing a band play the smallest stage possible and then witnessing that same band headline a thousand cap…
Do you miss shows? Of course you do. We all are pining for the return of our favorite bands to the stage. Tour postponements/cancellations hurt, but are necessary at this time. Some bands, like Dance Gavin Dance, have set a more concrete timetable for this fall for a return. Recently, though, a Vans Warped Tour…
When Issues released their much-hyped single “Flexin” on Friday, the third taste of their upcoming album Beautiful Oblivion debuted to the most polarized reaction in the “Warped Tour scene” in recent memory. As of the time of this writing, the music video was sitting about 3,100 likes and 2,400 dislikes on YouTube, and the fanbase’s…
Following the announcement that 2018 would be the last cross-country run, the Vans Warped Tour headed out for a final summer of music, philanthropy, and community. Looking back on it now, Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman shares, “It was truly an honor to do a final cross-country run of Warped in 2018; to…
