Warped Tour

Warped Tour's 2013 Line Up Has Been Posted-- And It's Just "Okay"

The Warped Tour lineup was released yesterday afternoon, and while we were (foolishly) hoping that Kevin Lyman would have a change of heart and model the long-running festival after something like Punk Rock Bowling or The Fest, the lineup, unsurprisingly, still caters to Hot Topic tweens. There ar ... More >>

Reality TV Show Warped Roadies Sweats it Out in Phoenix Tonight

Touring around the country for two months to set up and break down Warped Tour almost every night sounds like a nightmare, especially in a place like Phoenix where the heat isn't doing anybody any favors. Being a part of the road crew is a tough job, yet the stars of Fuse's Warped Roadies behind the ... More >>

Top Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that our you the reader might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories ... More >>

Warped Tour 2012, Camelback Ranch Baseball Stadium, 6/28/12

Vans Warped Tour Camelback Ranch Baseball Stadium Thursday, June 28 Despite my trepidation about being able to handle the heat and a slew of young bands that had little to do with the Warped lineups of my youth, I survived. Another Vans Warped Tour is in the bag. This was the first year it was he ... More >>

Crowdsourced: Fans Beat the Heat at Vans Warped Tour 2012

See also: Valley Bands Sweat it Out on Warped Tour Stages See also: Vans Warped Tour 2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Auto-Tuned See also: Warped Tour 2012, Camelback Ranch Baseball Stadium, 6/28/12 Yesterday was my first Warped Tour in eight years. A lot has changed, though oddly enough, Anti-Flag ... More >>

Valley Bands Sweat It Out on Warped Tour Stages

Vans Warped Tour 2012: The Good, The Bad, and the Auto-Tuned

See also: Vans Warped Tour 2011 See also: Hot Chicks at Wicked Tattoos at the Vans Warped Tour If you're going to The Vans Warped Tour this Thursday, look around and try to spot the dinosaur. It won't be a giant carnivorous lizard with huge teeth and disproportionately small arms. It will be me. ... More >>

Rock the Block

First Five Bands Announced for Punk Rock Bowling 2012

The term "punk festival" conjures up images of bratty tweens with asymmetrical haircuts crowd surfing at Warped Tour. Remember when Warped Tour actually had punk bands and was, you know, good? It may seem like a bygone era, but the annual

The Devil Wears Prada's Jeremy DePoyster on Dead Throne Hear an Unreleased Song

BY LAUREN WISE ​ The Vans Warped Tour blew through Phoenix this past Sunday, and one of the bands that concert-goers were itching to see was metalcore's rising star The Devil Wears Prada. These Warped Tour veterans have three released albums and have a fourth due next month, Dead Throne. Known ... More >>

Vans Warped Tour 2011

Maria VassettEyes Set to Kill​ The heat. Yeah, that's the first thing you expect when you start reading about the Vans Warped Tour. Yes, it was hot. Yes, most of the stages, merch booths, and product tents are set up on a parking lot, and of course, this is not helpful in regards to staying cool.B ... More >>

Vans Warped Tour, Wicked Tattoos, and First Friday Over the Weekend

​Vans Warped Tour 2011 The heat. Yeah, that's the first thing you expect when you start reading about the Vans Warped Tour. Yes, it was hot. Yes, most of the stages, merch booths, and product tents are set up on a parking lot, and of course, this is not helpful in regards to staying cool...ful ... More >>

The Vans Warped Tour Is Known for Punk, But There's More

Incoming: Alison Krauss, Bill Callahan, David Bazan, Dirty Beaches, Vans Warped Tour

Warped Tour 2011 - coming to a parking lot near you​Not a whole lot of new shows to announce this week, but at least there's a Warped Tour for that. The venerable punk rock tour is now in its 17th year, a rather impressive feat in this day and age. Bands such as NOFX, Poison The Well, Gym Class He ... More >>

Unwritten Law @ Marquee Theatre

Justin Bieber: The New Face of Nail Polish

rtvchannel.tv​Can somebody please tell me why the hell Justin Bieber is the new face of nail polish? Seriously, what has the world come to?According to Just Jared Jr., J. Biebs has teamed up with Nicole by OPI to make the One Less Lonely Girl Collection because "nail polish really makes girls feel ... More >>

Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival

Rockstar Energy's Uproar Festival @ Tempe Beach Park

Andrew W.K. Defines Partying, Talks Good Persian Food, and Discusses the Social Connotation of the Word "Cult"

Shawn AndersonAndrew W.K. at Warped Tour. See the whole slide show here.​Andrew W.K. likes to have a good time. And it's no secret that he was our favorite at this year's Warped Tour. The musician, entertainer, and professional partier ripped through a killer set in the middle of yesterday's sizz ... More >>

Vans Warped Tour: Disappointment Is the Best Word to Describe It

Shawn Anderson Andrew W.K.: The only really amazing part of Warped Tour.​I have a vague recollection of always wanting to go to Warped Tour when I was in middle school. It was just a few years after it had begun, and it was the first time in my life that punk rock could have made sense to m ... More >>

We Are the In Crowd Hopes Vans Warped Tour Fans Want to Join Their Clique

​If you're heading to the Vans Warped Tour at Cricket Wireless Pavilion today and are a little overwhelmed by the array of band choices in front of you, newbies We Are the In Crowd might be worth a listen--especially if you're a fan of female-fronted groups with catchy pop hooks. The band from Pou ... More >>

Vans Warped Tour 2010: A Survival Guide

Johnathan McNamara​ For a lot of people, the Vans Warped Tour is a mixed bag. Though the idea of putting on an all-day rock music event at Cricket Wireless Pavilion sounds like a good time, there are a lot of different things that can put a damper on people's good times. The most obvious of whi ... More >>

Anarbor Are Recovering on the Warped Tour After Bombing in Japan

Vans Warped Tour's 10 Biggest Douchebags

  Jonathan McNamara ​To some, the Vans Warped Tour is heaven -- dozens of pop, rock and punk bands on multiple stages and tons of young, scantily clad people reveling in the sweaty, fun mess of dancing and moshing. And to others, Warped Tour is hell. Besides the 100-plus degree heat, ... More >>

The Summer Set Gears Up For (Go Figure) a Busy Summer with Hot Topic In-Store Appearance and Vans Warped Tour

The Summer Set: Their bikes could beat up your bikes​Fresh off a successful run on the AP Tour this spring, Scottsdale pop rockers the Summer Set are not slowing down. The band returns to the road this week as part of the annual Vans Warped Tour. The genre-bending mega-festival kicks off this Frid ... More >>

The Fast and the Bi-Curious

Punk-rock flick showcases Blink-182, NOFX, and . . . Katy Perry?

Anarbor Song in Scooby Doo Movie, Band Plays Tempe Show Tommorow

Fresh off their stint on the Warped Tour, Phoenix pop act Anarbor has landed their song "You And I" from its debut EP Free Your Mind in the upcoming Cartoon Network movie Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins. The band is also featured (briefly) in the commercial previewing the movie (above). Hear the re ... More >>

Intense Apparatus

Vans Warped Tour at Cricket Wireless Pavilion: The Maine, Dear and the Headlights, and Popsters Aplenty Entertain the Twees

The local heartthrobs of The Maine: Better than NOFX and Bad Religion. Until yesterday, I used to loathe the Warped Tour. Not because of the bands or music, mind you, but rather because of some bad experiences I'd had while attending the annual summertime mega-tour. When the Warped Tour first c ... More >>

The Maine Jump To Warner Brothers

Tempe pop-rockers The Maine have jumped from Fearless Records (a pretty decent label in it's own right) to Warner, one of The Big Four, reports Absolute Punk and elbo.ws.The band already had pretty legit distribution, but they're now making an even bigger push, re-releasing their 2008 debut, Cant' S ... More >>

Summer Slaughter Tour

Valley Bands on the Warped Tour

Pretty Things Peepshow

J.J. Keo

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Have Another Ball!
(Fat Wreck Chords)

The Other Big Party

Vans Warped Tour in Photos

A Q&A with Greeley Estates guitarist Brandon Hackeson

Tour de farce: the corporate-sponsored tours we don’t want to buy tickets to

Post-Hardcore Meltdown: A preview of Greeley Estates' forthcoming new album

Moneen

Six stars out of five

Out From Down Under

Aussie punks seek American airwaves

The Lawrence Arms

Oh! Calcutta!
(Fat Wreck Chords)

Warped Minds

A day at punk rock's biggest summer tour takes more than just stamina

Opiate for the Masses

The Spore
(American Voodoo)

Edgefest

Another festival flogs the field at Peoria Sports Complex

Vans Warped Tour

Hundreds of bands converge on Peoria Sports Complex

Electric Youth

The upstarts of Static Management bring new energy -- and undiscovered bands -- to the Vans Warped Tour

The Vans Warped Tour

Long-standing Lollapalooza knockoff rages on