Kevin Lyman

Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman has shared that the festival’s 25th anniversary event has a few exciting announcements coming early next week. On April 1, Lyman says Warped Tour will announce more bands for the Atlantic City, Mountain View and Cleveland dates. Additionally, Lyman says an extra special announcement is in store for Atlantic […]

Warped Tour fans who weren’t able to grab tickets to the Atlantic City date might have lost their chance. Kevin Lyman confirmed via Twitter that the Atlantic City date of the anniversary shows sold out of the two-day passes. Read more: Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx apologizes for sexual assault story in band’s memoir Lyman’s response came […]

UPDATE: MARCH 3, 2019, 5:59 P.M. EST Earlier today, Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman revealed he attempted to make all of our dreams come true. A fan requested getting My Chemical Romance back together for the Atlantic City date of Warped’s 25th anniversary shows, which Lyman explained he “tried.” Now, the Warped founder is elaborating […]

Warped Tour’s number one guy, Kevin Lyman recently revealed that he tried his darndest to get the Ghost Inside to play at this year’s special 25th anniversary tour. However, the band recently revealed that they are only playing one show, and one show only, in 2019 — their comeback “Save The Date” show. Read more: Frank […]

UPDATE: MARCH 1, 2019, 11:05 A.M. EST Warped Tour revealed the actual lineup for Cleveland, Atlantic City and Mountain View today, which you can view here. ORIGINAL STORY: FEB. 27, 2019, 10:17 P.M. EST The 25th Anniversary Warped Tour shows are quickly approaching. With early bird and pre-sale tickets having gone on sale earlier this […]

UPDATE: FEB. 22, 10:01 P.M. EST Kevin Lyman has recently clarified his statement regarding more Warped Tour dates. Earlier, Lyman joked that planning an entire tour was easier than planning three shows. However, some fans took the joke as an actual possibility of more 25th anniversary shows. Nonetheless, Lyman was quick to shut down every […]

Kevin Lyman is gearing up to reveal the lineup for the Vans Warped Tour 25th anniversary shows, and apparently just connected with an amazing artist that might join the party. The creator of Warped tweeted that he was finishing up the lineup when he reconnected with an artist from previous shows. Read more: Mike Shinoda […]

We’re counting down the days until Vans Warped Tour announces the lineup for their 25th-anniversary event. In the meantime, we’re getting a tiny sneak peek into what bands may be included in that lineup, thanks to Kevin Lyman. After extending an invite to Halsey a few days ago, festival founder has offered up another invitation […]

Yesterday, Senses Fail dug back into their old Warped Tour beef with Attila. The exchange played out after a Twitter user seemingly associated with the latter band reignited the feud sparked by apparent homophobic comments that Attilla frontman Chris “Fronz” Fronzak made onstage during the summer 2015 run of the traveling tour. Soon after, Fronz responded to the […]

The 25th anniversary shows of Vans Warped Tour are approaching and one tradition from the original Warped shows will still be honored at the festival’s new era. Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman tweeted some more details about the anniversary shows on Sunday. Specifically, he addressed questions about non-profits at the show. Read more: Director defends […]

UPDATE: JAN. 28, 12:22 P.M. EST Warped Tour began answering questions regarding locations, ticket prices, lineup and plans past 2019. Check all of that out here. ORIGINAL STORY: JAN. 28, 9:06 A.M. EST A few months ago, many mourned Warped Tour as the traveling punk-rock summer camp wrapped its final cross-country run in 2018. Fast-forward […]

This year may have seen the the last full, cross-country Vans Warped Tour, but founder Kevin Lyman began teasing cities and dates for some 2019 Warped Tour festival events. Lyman confirmed Cleveland would be June 8 but left some open-ended information for the East and West Coast dates. Now, he’s teasing some more confirmations have begun rolling in. Read more: Jamie Lee […]

More information has been revealed regarding Warped Tour’s 25th-anniversary festivities. In addition to the relative locations, we now have specific dates for Cleveland, the East Coast and the West Coast. The official Warped Tour Twitter announced that Cleveland’s festival will fall on June 8, 2019. However, for the East Coast and West Coast dates, each […]

This year may have seen the the last full, cross-country Vans Warped Tour, but founder Kevin Lyman is already teasing cities and dates for some 2019 Warped Tour festival events. Are you ready for a revised Warped Tour run? If not, you better get ready, ’cause Lyman gives a brief overview of his Warped plans […]

Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman received Billboard‘s Humanitarian Award Tuesday night for his work with anti-opioid initiative FEND (“Full Energy, No Drugs”). The FEND app uses gamification to educate youth on the dangers of drugs. Read more: Stan Lee made a final superhero with his daughter Following Warped Tour’s cross-country conclusion and tragic, overdose-related deaths […]