Attention elder-emos and Alt-music lovers, dust off your vans and get your eyeliner ready, because Warped Tour is officially returning in 2025.
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In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the iconic Punk Rock festival, which started in 1995, is set to takeover parking lots in three different cities for two-day shows.
After embarking on its “final” cross-country trek in 2018, Warped Tour was revamped but remained with a two city stint in 2019, to commemorate its 25th anniversary.
“Since 1997, I said I was hoping that there was some kid in a garage that was going to come out and kick Kevin Lyman’s a** someday, and put on a better festival,” Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman told Rolling Stone. And since no has yet to do as such, the founder has taken matters into his own hands.
“People start remembering once something’s gone that it was important, it was fun — and I’m hoping to recapture a lot of that again,” Lyman expressed.
Warped Tour 2025 will start off at Washington, D.C.’s RFK Stadium Festival Grounds on June 14 and June 15, before making its way out West to Marina Green Park in Long Beach, California, on June 26 and June 27, and finally closing out in Orlando, Florida, on November 15 and 16 at Tinker Field.
“My body won’t take riding around on a tour bus for 40 cities,” Lyman says of the decision to keep Warped Tour 2025 contained to three cities. With that said, he remains open to the idea of adding more dates in the future if this year’s fest is successful. Noting, “If it works, we’ll look to the future to do more.”
While the festival’s lineup has yet to be announced, Lyman promises a healthy mix of millennial scene-kid approved past Warped Tour bands, as well as newer artists. Which checks, since launching rising artists is part of the Warped Tour philosophy.
“We’re getting very, very selective in trying to find some unique twists to the lineup,” he shared, with anywhere from 70 to 100 bands joining at each stop. Making note that while Warped Tour 2025 intends to bring back elements of its glory days, there is no aim to be a nostalgia fest. “I’ve always felt we need to pay homage to the past, but we’re looking to the future of the artists and the community,” Lyman said.
In that spirit, the festival plans to release a weekly rollout of the lineup to put a spotlight on smaller bands and musicians who may get overlooked on a larger festival poster.
Ticket pre-sales for the festival begin October 24 at 12PM ET/9AM PT, with two-day tickets starting at $149.98 (a $119.99 ticket, with $29.99 in fees).
And that’s all we know for now… Stay tuned, and keep checking warpedtour.com, for more info.