[quote]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.
Warped still has one final summer’s worth of dates on the road. No artists have been confirmed, and in fact, Lyman is still filling the bill, hoping some Warped icons will hop on to make the last hurrah extra special. “You’re gonna see a big mix of bands I felt really embraced the Warped Tour lifestyle,” he says. “I don’t want to say a ‘mature’ lineup, but bands that I think could use one more big push of Warped Tour to help further their careers."
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.
Although 2018 spells the final trek across the continent, the Warped name won’t be going away, at least not until it celebrates its 25th year in 2019. In our exclusive interview, Lyman teases what the future holds, outlines his wish list for the 2018 lineup, and reflects on one final summer of 5:30 a.m. wake-up calls, 100-degree afternoons, and nights up late navigating the latest crisis.
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DANG this is sad to me. I haven't gone for a while but Warped Tour was a such a big part of my high school and early college years!
Good, warped tour killed punk.
warped tour hasn't been good in years, it's about time
[QUOTE=omarfr;52911507]DANG this is sad to me. I haven't gone for a while but Warped Tour was a such a big part of my high school and early college years![/QUOTE]
Currently me, although I've only got to go to one, and that was two years ago ):
[quote]But it was also an early champion of bands like Blink-182, No Doubt, and Paramore -- punkers eventually embraced by the pop world.[/quote]
Calling even early Paramore 'punk' is a fucking disgrace. It's always been like, middleroad modern contemporary rock at the absolute [I]best[/I] and now it's degenerated into unlistenable "LYF SUX" wannabe-Primal Scream garbage.
Most of my friends are either sad or grateful this is happening; sad because of all the memories they had there, and grateful because of how it "ruined punk/pop-punk, turned into a shitty music festival" and gave the stage to a few pedophiles/creeps over the recent years.
I've never been to Warped, myself, but it's kinda sad to see music festivals are more of a thing of the past.
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I've never been to Warped, myself, but it's kinda sad to see music festivals are more of a thing of the past.[/QUOTE]
Festivals are becoming a thing of the past because becoming a promoted musician performing your own gigs is way easier. Way more venues, way more labels, way more avenues of performance. Festivals barely need to exist anymore because you don't need to bunch together so much to make money.
Honestly, this should have been done a while ago. Take the stage away from those creeps.
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With that being said, no matter what my standpoint on it is right now Warped Tour, before it came the shitfest it is today helped define my music taste.
I only went to one Warped Tour. A friend of mine was a regular goer, since he likes shitty metalcore, and I saw that The Protomen were playing so I was willing to go just for them. Didn't [I]hate[/I] most of the other bands but I didn't like most of them either.
[QUOTE=Hilton;52911605]Good, warped tour killed punk.[/QUOTE]
and youtube killed the video star.
Went to Warped Tour this year and had a fuckin blast. Not really into the punk that they usually have, but this year they had some pretty gnarly deathcore/metalcore.
Shame that next year is the last, will definitely make a trip out there.
[QUOTE=Sableye;52912347]and youtube killed the video star.[/QUOTE]
Youtube [B]has[/B] killed a lot of contemporary tracks that would've sold a lot better because of video repetition. Back in the eighties a lot of popular-at-the-time hits that nobody remembers now got their start purely because MTV would play them ad nauseam. Who here remembers Vienna by Ultravox? Together Forever by Rick Astley? Always On My Mind by the Pet Shop Boys? They only really got so much exposure at the time because of overexposure. Nowadays people can just not watch the music they're not interested in.
Whether this is good or band depends on your opinion toward the mediocre midrange drudge that fills the charts. As someone who's worked in a store with 24/7 radio blaring I can safely say that I'm so fucking glad that contemporary pop is getting further and further from my consciousness due to the expansion and dilution of music. I hate eighties mid-road tracks just as much as I hate new mid-road tracks. We only remember the hits.
I went once like years ago back when I got into new metal from my friends in highschool, but I stopped since I didn't like the new bands that started going. Last time I went was for a local metal band I follow that wasn't even close to the style of warped.
A lot of my friends are pretty sad about it though.
[QUOTE=drake90001;52911907]Currently me, although I've only got to go to one, and that was two years ago ):[/QUOTE]
Warped Tour is definitely fun! I know a lot of people round these forums aren't into post-hardcore,metalcore,pop-emo, pop-punk, because it's "gay angsty teenage garbage"
But I only have good memories of enjoying music I love with people who just want to sing along here and hug eachother, while breaking for moments o beating the shit out of eachother.
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