Vans Warped Tour

Vans Warped Tour Still Rocks

The Vans Warped Tour has a certain ethos no other festival has been able to reproduce. The music is only one part of the appeal of this traveling circus — the rest, as longtime attendees can attest, is a combination of nostalgia, anticipation and perspiration. Warped has become legendary for its history of breaking countless new bands and for...
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The Blackouts (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Warped T.O. Gets Rainy

As I stepped out of my front door on Saturday morning and caught a whiff of my skin turning to bacon, my first thought was that I had died and gone to the hottest pits of hell. The notion was only reaffirmed as I pulled into the parking lot of The International Centre for this year's Toronto edition of the Vans Warped Tour, where shade and shelter...
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Say Anything's Max Bemis (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Warped Tour Having Personality Crisis

Now a staple for more than a decade, Vans Warped Tour once again descended upon Park Place in Barrie for a day of music, fashion and corporate sponsorship. This was my first time attending since 2000, having grown a little disenchanted with the amount of marketing and merchandising that seemed to be consuming the fest. Now closer to 30 than 20, I...
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Joan Jett

I Read The News Today... For May 2, 2011

Wow, there were some pretty epic asses on display at the Big 4 show in California last week. Meanwhile, a Big 4 show has been announced for the Bronx in September. Suck it, Brooklyn! Ian Mackaye says Fugazi may end their hiatus to play again sometime, but don't hold your breath. Selena Gomez is co-hosting and performing at the MuchMusic Video...
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Megadeth

I Read The News Today... For March 28, 2011

Guided By Voices, Neko Case, No Age, Kurt Vile and a bunch of other Pitchfork types got added to... the Pitchfork Music Festival. The Strokes are going to start working on yet another Strokes record that sounds like Is This It next month. —Consequence Of Sound You can add Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner to the list of people who dislike...
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Neko Case

I Read The News Today... For Feb. 24, 2011

Antony And The Johnsons will release a new Swanlights EP digitally and on 10-inch vinyl on April 26, and a CD release will follow. If you want to pick it up before it's technically out, you can get the vinyl on April 16, which is Record Store Day. It's got a remix of the title track from last year's Swanlights, along with two B-sides. There's been...
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Antony And The Johnsons' Antony Hegarty

I Read The News Today... For Feb. 17, 2011

The Raveonettes have made "Forget That You're Young," which will appear on their upcoming Raven In The Grave album, available for free download. The LP is out April 5.Young Galaxy have released a free remix EP featuring four reworkings of Shapeshifting's "Cover Your Tracks." Montreal's CFCF, Teen Daze and Toronto's Freedom Or Death are among those...
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The Raveonettes

I Read The News Today... For Dec. 20, 2010

Wintersleep's Paul Murphy has made two unreleased songs from his Postdata project available for free download as a special holiday present. You can get them here.In case you still care about them, Panic! At The Disco will release a new album called Vices And Virtues in March. —Alternative Press Paramore drummer and guitarist Zac Farro and Josh...
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Postdata

I Read The News Today... For Dec. 15, 2010

Alexisonfire will play a secret (well, not anymore...) surprise free show on Friday at Toronto's Sonic Boom record store. It starts at 3 p.m. Oh, and it'll be streamed live on Facebook for everyone who can't make it there.Bright Eyes will tour North America throughout March in support of their The People's Key album, which comes out Feb. 15. —...
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Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst

I Read The News Today... For Nov. 26, 2010

AFI electronic side-project Blaqk Audio have released a new track called "Down Here." You can hear it below.Arcade Fire singer Win Butler says he doesn't "envy" Barack Obama's job right now, but thinks the U.S. president is doing a better job than his predecessor, particularly with regards to Haiti. —Metro Angels & Airwaves' long-awaited Love...
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Arcade Fire

Vans Warped Tour Lineup Announced

Sum 41, Reel Big Fish, The All-American Rejects, Andrew W.K., Motion City Soundtrack and The Dillinger Escape Plan are among the first acts confirmed to play next year's Vans Warped Tour. The 2010 trek runs from June 24 in San Diego until Aug. 15 in Hillsboro, Ore. Additional acts should be announced shortly. Ticket information isn't available...
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Sum 41

Vans Warped Tour Unveils 2010 Dates

The 2010 Vans Warped Tour unveiled its itinerary yesterday, and it's a slightly leaner affair in terms of dates and length. "Taking into account all the back to school schedules, we've shortened the tour by a week and so check out the Dates page to see when and where the tour will be hitting your town," a statement read on the tour's...
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NOFX

Alexisonfire Off Two Warped Dates

Alexisonfire have cancelled two of their appearances on the Vans Warped Tour due to family emergencies. Vocalist George Pettit, vocalists/guitarists Dallas Green and Wade MacNeil, bassist Chris Steele and drummer Jordan "Ratbeard" Hastings will no longer perform on Warped's Tuesday date in Cincinnati or the Sunday stop in Minneapolis....
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Alexisonfire

Warped Tour Going Country

Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman is saddlin' up to launch a country version of the popular festival next summer. No acts have been announced for the as-yet-nameless tour, but Lyman has already opened a branch of his 4fini production company in Nashville staffed by relocated Chicago executives Sarah Baer and Kate Truscott and former Clear Channel...
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Kevin Lyman

Every Time I Die Are Warped

Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
The Flats at Arrow Hall
City: 
Mississauga, ON
Date: 
July 19, 2008
Every Time I Die

Confide Will Shout The Truth At Warped Tour

Los Angeles post-hardcore band Confide are geared up for the June 17 release of their Science Records debut, Shout The Truth. The quintet are fronted by Ross Kenyon and rounded out by bassist Billy Pruden, drummer Arin Ilejay and guitarists Aaron Van Zutphen and Jeff Helberg. They worked with producer Cameron Webb (Pennywise, Silverstein) at...
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Against Me!, Pennywise And Norma Jean To Play Canadian Warped Stops

Emo kids, ska fans and every punk in between, listen up, because the moment you wait for every year has arrived: The lineup and itinerary for this year's Vans Warped Tour have been announced. This year's tour includes stops in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Saskatoon. Against Me!, Protest The Hero, Pennywise, Gym Class Heroes and many more acts...
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Against Me!

Save Ferris

Photographer: 
NA
Venue: 
Vans Warped Tour
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
August 3, 1998

Hair Casualties

Photographer: 
Keith Carman
Venue: 
Molson Park
City: 
Barrie, ON
Date: 
August 26, 2002

Thursday Dances With The Vans Warped Gods

Photographer: 
Suzy Azevedo
Venue: 
N/A
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
August 23, 2004
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