The 2010 Vans Warped Tour has been up and running for two weeks now—and so is our latest issue, which has micro-profiles on most of the bands playing this year’s punk-rock-summer space camp. We made a valiant attempt to get the most up-to-date list of bands to accommodate our deadlines for the magazine. So imagine the editors’ collective horror after discovering we went to print with more than a few constellations short of the larger cool-rockin’ universe we had intended to you to explore in the first place. We had the coordinates in the system, cap’n; the flux capacitor just got its panties in a bunch.

In an effort to make it up to all of those hard-working bands who got unfairly shut-out of printed-page love, we’re running those pieces right now. We didn’t set out to diminish any band’s status during the creation of our Warped issue: To use a space metaphor, we weren’t taking anything away from them the way astronomers robbed Pluto of its once-mighty planet-hood. Not only are we apologizing profusely, we’re owning up to our mistake, the way you should when you wake up late to pick your buds up to go Warped and they miss their favorite bands. —Jason Pettigrew
 

[RH] Robert Ham
[SH] Scott Heisel
[EL] Evan Lucy
[JP] Jason Pettigrew
[AZ] Annie Zaleski

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
ON THE TOUR: All dates
STAGE: Teggart
The Dillinger Escape Plan built their reputation on complex musicianship and a stage show that’s so relentless, sometimes folks are put off—like Warped founder Kevin Lyman. “The majority of the shows we play are our own,” begins DEP guitarist Ben Weinman, “and when we first started playing a few Warped gigs here and there, we weren’t used to adjusting our show for the circumstance. To make a long story short, we were being bad boys. But at the end of the day, we really enjoyed the gigs, and Warped Tour really appreciated having an older band with our work ethic and attitude.” Math-metal mania aside, we’re hoping Weinman fills the DEP merch table with Garmutt, his special line of rock shirts created for dogs. [JP] (Photo: Jens Oellermann)


DAVE DZAMBO FOUNDATION
ON THE TOUR: 7/11, 7/15-18
STAGE:  Kevin Says
Dave Dzambo was a respected member of the East Coast Independent production crew who frequently traveled on Warped Tour. In response to Dzambo’s untimely passing earlier this year, ECI has set up a charity directive that gives unknown bands from the Northeast a chance to play a slot during Warped. Find out more information at davedzambo.com [JP]



CLOSURE IN MOSCOW
ON THE TOUR: All dates
STAGE: Ernie Ball
Think you’re Closure In Moscow’s biggest fan? You obviously haven’t met Tony de Cinque. Referred to as “Tone Loc” by the band, de Cinque has probably seen more Closure shows than you, even flying halfway around the world to catch the Australian prog-emo quintet at Emo’s in Austin, Texas, during 2009’s South By Southwest music festival. Granted, de Cinque is the father of CIM frontman Christopher de Cinque, so he has some vested interest in seeing the group succeed, but still—do you know how far Austin is from Melbourne? It’s fucking far, man. [SH]


DEAL’S GONE BAD
ON THE TOUR: 7/26-8/2
STAGE: Kevin Says
Their band may not be a household name, but Deal’s Gone Bad have been kicking a steady stream of rocksteady, ska and soul from their homebase of Chicago for nearly 15 years. Long enough for guitarist Dave Simon to be able to afford that neck tattoo that reads “GOON.” [RH] (Photo: Gary Copeland)



COBRA SKULLS
ON THE TOUR: 8/7-15
STAGE: Kevin Says
Cobra Skulls are bringing their melodic-punk deftness to Warped for the first time. While doing the tour is always an adventure, it probably won’t compare to the time the band played a show in Austria in a cave where Jews used to be smuggled and hidden from Nazis during World War II. “The opening act was an old anarchist choir of 50 80-year- olds,” remembers vocalist/bassist Devin Peralta. “Some drunk guy wanted Adam’s [Beck, guitarist/vocalist] Cobra Skulls hoodie so bad, he was offering his mail-order wife to him. She was actually pretty hot, but Adam was too freaked out.” [JP]


DEATH PUNCH
ON THE TOUR: 8/11-15
STAGE: Kevin Says
Although their music packs a life-threatening wallop, the moniker of this gnashing thrashing punk band from Los Angeles is a reference to the arsenic-tainted Kool-Aid served up by the late cult leader Jim Jones. Think twice before accepting any drink offers from these boys. [RH]



CONFIDE
ON THE TOUR: All dates
STAGE: Skullcandy
The hot summer sun is the No. 1 cause of smelly band dudes at Warped. Fortunately, Confide frontman Ross Kenyon has a limitless stash of shirts for such an occasion. In his downtime, Kenyon runs his own clothing line, Agape Attire, which sells a variety of tees and hoodies. He and his bandmates won't have that much free time this summer, rocking the Skullcandy stage for the whole tour, but Kenyon says Warped is actually one of the easiest tours around. "It's the most organized and professional tour we've done," he says. "Everything is already planned out for you: your set time and all your meals. It's real easy on the bands." [EL]


DISCO CURTIS
ON THE TOUR: 7/20-8/15
STAGE: Skullcandy
Their power-pop emo expresses a lot of heartache and emotional turmoil, but this Dallas quartet do have a sense of humor. Their band is named after a local musical icon that put a disco beat on every song he played while performing live with a bag over his head. [RH]

DEAS VAIL
ON THE TOUR: 8/1-15
STAGE: Kevin Says
Likeminded heart-melters Copeland, Owl City and Mae have all tapped Deas Vail (Latin for “humble servant”) to open their tours. The dreamy piano-pop band released an album and several EPs on Brave New World, the label run by DC Talk guitarist Mark Lee Townsend, before switching to Mono Vs. Stereo for last year’s Birds And Cages. [AZ]