Warped Tour

Epicenter 2013 Lineup Announced

The lineup for the Epicenter festival was announced today. The fifth installment of the So-Cal rock fest features OC punk heroes like Bad Religion, Pennywise and the Offspring while still showcasing newer local punk acts like FIDLAR and Plague Vendor.

OC Music Awards: Robert Jon & The Wreck Win It All

OC Music Awards Best Live Band Finals House of Blues Anaheim February 26, 2013 Last night, the final round of the Orange County Music Awards battle for best live band gave us one big-bad ass rock show that tested our attention to detail. Rolling out a well-crafted line-up (not a filler band in sight ... More >>

Vans Warped Tour Goes Green(er), Partners With Online Carpooling Company

Last week we mentioned that the Irvine City Council brought up some collective beef over the Vans Warped Tour's Irvine stop at the Great Park on Thursday--and all the troublesome, traffic-making punks that will come with it. Well, even though the fest will certainly foil any dog walking, kite flying ... More >>

Vans Warped Tour's Kevin Lyman: "I think the brand new bands like Matt Toka, Hyro Da Hero, Tomorrows Bad Seeds, and this great little band Cherry Bomb are the ones to look out for"

At the Vans Warped Tour official kick-off party and press conference at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles last week, creator Kevin Lyman marveled, "It's really cool--18 years and people still care!" Back in 1995, Lyman started the Warped Tour and showcased bands like No Doubt and Sublime. Today the ... More >>

Warped Tour to Stop at Irvine This Year

​Vans Warped Tour is doing OC locals a favor this year; it's making a stop at Irvin on June 21, a day before its Pomona show. Unlike previous years, they're lumping all the SoCal dates together instead of looping around and coming back towards the end of the tour; the tour's Ventura date is on Jun ... More >>

The Bad Rabbits Talk Origins and How Touring Makes You Gay at the Warped Tour

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyAt the Warped Tour in Ventura​Join the Urban Nomad as he profiles old friends and rising stars Bad Rabbits on Vans Warped Tour in Pomona. They discuss their origins, how to take control of an indie music career, working with Teddy Riley and Chino Moreno of the Deft ... More >>

2011 Vans Warped Tour in Ventura Last Sunday

​Vans Warped TourVenturaJuly 3, 2011Since its 1995 inception, the Vans Warped Tour has tried to be a youthful, day-long gritty, grimy window into festival culture, all while representing the punk rock music market. A check-in with the 2011 tour confirms that on the first front, at least, Warped h ... More >>

Lucero Show Home Is Where the Band Is

The Memphis group lights the midnight lantern for the latest incongruous bill of their career: The Warped Tour

Free Filtered Water at Every Warped Tour Stop

​Last year, a 26-year-old man died at the Warped Tour stop in Kansas. At the time, the death was rumored to have been caused by dehydration, partly due to the fact that water is $4 per bottle at the Warped Tour. In response, for the 2011 festival, which kicked off in Texas this weekend, Warped To ... More >>

Official Warped Tour Compilation CD: By The Numbers

​It's that time of the year again, when lovers of emo sculpt their bangs to fan their faces and draw on eyeliner on with impunity to head over to various dates of the Warped Tour. To commemorate it, the Warped Tour Compilation CD is releasing a two-disc set. Here's a short by-the-numbers FYI on th ... More >>

Gossip Girl Gone Reckless

Taylor Momsen translates TV fame to rock & roll stardom easily

Vans Warped Tour Death in Kansas: An Official Statement

​As our sister publication The Pitch reports from Kansas, a 26-year-old man died at the Vans Warped Tour yesterday. The man's name has not been released, and the death was rumored to have been caused by dehydration (maybe due to the fact that water is $4 a bottle at the Warped Tour?). T ... More >>

What You Missed: Warped Tour, The Slam Skate Competition, Psychedelic Furs

Doug Neill​So the weekend's over, the US is out of the World Cup, and yeah, you're back in the office. Already. But let's relive the weekend. Just for a bit. What'd you miss? We were all over the place again, dropping in on the Warped Tour in Carson, the Slam OC Skate Competition in Costa Mesa and ... More >>

Weenie Roast Lineup Doesn't Suck

[Mental Notes] Also: Buzz about the Golden Bear, the Dirty Heads' no. 1 hit and how you can get on the warped tour next year

Warped Tour Founder Offers Performance Slot to 2011 OC Music Award Winners

If only Dusty Rhodes and the River Band had waited a year to win OC Music Awards Best Live Band award.​Even though it's way to early for us to start thinking about the 2011 OC Music Awards, we recently got word of a special offer made by Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman that involve ... More >>

Flier of the Week: Walk the Rio (and Set to Sea!) at Warped Tour

​This isn't the prettiest or the most creative flier that we've ever featured on Flier of the Week; it's really just Photoshopped stock crowd photos and a bunch of logos. What makes this flier important is the information it relays: that Walk the Rio, a dancey/rock electronica band from the city o ... More >>

Unwritten Law Acoustic Performance

Sutra

How I Almost Attended Warped Tour 2009

Robert FayetteMy biggest media hero is Howard Stern. There are many valuable lessons one can take from him, but probably the biggest is simply how honest he is with his audience. In the old days of radio, the rule of thumb was that even if the building was on fire while you were on air, you would ne ... More >>

TODAY: Warped Tour Kicks Off at Pomona Fairplex

Oh yes. For the third year in a row, the Vans Warped Tour is kicking off at the Pomona Fairplex (in, uh, Pomona). It's also the 15th anniversary of the Warped Tour! Hooray.Performing on this opening gig: Bad Religion, NOFX, Less Than Jake, TSOL, Thrice, the Maine, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Meg & ... More >>

Jonathan Rach's Documentary Reveals the True Side of the Warped Tour

Thrice's Sixth Studio Album Announced for October, Get Ready for Warped Tour

Dustin RabinThrice prepare for the summer's Warped Tour (poorly).Irvine's favorite sons (other than Will Ferrell, maybe, but post-Land of the Lost that's questionable at best) Thrice have announced that their sixth album, the follow-up to 2007 (and 2008's!) four-disc, dual release The Alchemy Index ... More >>

New Albums for Three Warped Tour Bands

Before they embark on the Warped Tour's maiden voyage to Pomona, there's one major house keeping issue that some bands chose to attend to before traveling all over the country playing to thousands. That usually involves cranking out a new album. Tomorrow, three of the tour's bands are releasing new ... More >>

TONIGHT: Riverboat Gamblers at Detroit Bar

Yes, it's not a state secret...Wednesdays are boring. Usually. But then again, there's always room for surprises. Like the whoop-ass Texas-born punk of The Riverboat Gamblers. Passing through California on a west coast stint, this furiously energetic tattooed five piece makes a stop at Detroit Bar, ... More >>

Flipper news

San Francisco punk/art/noise band Flipper has lots of news to share. I'd tell you all about it, but they already did on their myspace page. For those too lazy to leave this site, I'll copy and paste the info.   And for those even lazier, the jist of it is this: Two new records out soon. One is ... More >>

Warped Tour to Launch in Pomona This Year, Lineup Announced

For the third straight year, the Vans Warped Tour--46 dates in 2009-will be kicking off at the Pomona Fairplex, this time on June 26. Pre-sales for tickets start April 1 (not a prank), with the "regular" on-sale date being April 18. They've also announced the list of bands performing, though we don' ... More >>

Circa Survive

Jonezetta at Chain Reaction

[Aural Reports] Garden Grove-Based Online Shop Smartpunk Serves the Savvy Punk/Metal Fan

Pop Punk Past

Unwritten Law

[Trendzilla] Summer-Music-Festival Hippiewear

This Week in The OC Weekly

In this week's issue: Daffodil J. Altan follows Alfonso Guerrero and Manuel Chavez on their wedding day in "Eat Drink and Be Gay Married: After 27 years together, one couple finally has its big, fat, Mexican, recovering-drug-addict, HIV-positive, ex-transgender gay wedding" Rich Kane offers some ... More >>

Is the Pomona Stop on the Vans Warped Tour Mosh Ado About Nothing?

Staying Relevant

M.D.C.

The Aloha-ha Spirit

Pepper’s Reggae Rock Brings Much-Needed Levity to the Warped Tour

What A Hoot!

Saturday was the annual rockabilly festival Hootenanny in Irvine, and I had a rockin' good time. There were tons of people, but not in the overwhelming I'm-going-to-die-of-heatstroke-and-no-one-will-find-me way of, say, Warped Tour or Coachella. People could actually find spots in the shade. Lots ... More >>

Tonight! Warped Tour Pre-Party

Tonight the Glass House will be hosting the Warped Tour Pre-Party with Gallows and Big D And The Kids Table. For those of you who just absolutely cannot wait, the show will be just a teeny taste of one of the years most anticipated tours. Both bands playing tonight will be with the Tour during the m ... More >>

Punk Rock Gets Malled to Life

Twelve years on, Vans Warped Tour goes through a difficult adolescence

Eight Days

Where the Real Roots Lead

The Hootenanny has become predictable but thats good

More Live Previews

Eight Days

Post-warped tour notes

Stupor-Sized!

Its a Big, Fat, Corporate Rock World

Welcome to Schmoozeville

Relishs 29-hour drive as a career metaphor

Propaghandi Mix Pop With Politics

Steve Soto

'Noise and Chaos'

Relish on the road with Warped

Rage Against the Machine's Machine