Kevin Lyman

The Vans Warped Tour has had 23 summers worth of amazing songs from all of your favorite bands and as the “Misfit Summer Camp” comes to a halt, we wanted to know what one song stands out as THE song of the tour. We caught up with members of Waterparks, Palaye Royale, Motionless In White, […]

Warped Tour Founder Kevin Lyman has responded to Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch’s comment over Islander‘s “lame” removal from Warped Tour. Read more: Islander share update following Warped Tour removal Islander were recently removed from Vans Warped Tour after the band’s vocalist Mikey Carvajal dove into the drum set that the band was using during […]

It’s May 23 and on East 32nd Street, between Madison and Park Avenues in New York City, the Cutting Room is hosting an exclusive event manned by Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman. Read more: Asking Alexandria drop heartwarming video for “Someone, Somewhere” While Lyman is most famous for establishing Warped back in 1995 and […]

Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman has a lot to look forward to this year. First up is the final touring campaign of Warped, which begins in Pomona, California, June 21 and winds down Aug. 5 in West Palm Beach, Florida. After Warped though, you can call him “Professor Lyman:” He has accepted a position […]

[Photo by: BVTV Music/YouTube] Right now, Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides frontman and pop alter ego Andy Black is having a blast. BVB are currently out on tour behind their fifth album, the highly ambitious VALE, and he’s still keeping up with his Patreon talk show and conceptualizing the next chapter of Andy Black. READ MORE: 17 […]

[Photo by: Rock Feed/Youtube]  Music videographer Scott Hansen is debuting the first trailer for new documentary, Cut Throat: The Rise, Fall, & Rebirth Of The Music Industry, featuring interviews with Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman and Attila's Fronz.  Cut Throat is a film that will explore “the effects of technology on the metal and rock […]

Back in 2008, pop star Katy Perry took to the stage of Warped Tour to perform a 6-song setlist comprised of some of her then-greatest hits, including “I Kissed A Girl.” She's since grown into a mega-star, with her own headlining tours, trading in a punk rock aesthetic for glittery gowns, multiple costumes, and bubblegum […]

After much speculation at the end of this summer, founder Kevin Lyman has announced that next summer’s iteration of the Vans Warped Tour—North America’s largest touring music festival—will be the venerable summer event’s final run. Read more: Why Kevin Lyman won’t give up on punk rock “I have been a very lucky person to have […]

In October 2015, Warped Tour founder/majordomo Kevin Lyman put together a one-day festival called It’s Not Dead, which, according to both young listeners and long-in-the-toof poonks, was a dramatic departure from the summer fare Lyman is known for compiling. Yet the 20,000 rockin’ faithful who piled into the (then-called) San Manuel Amphitheatre in San Bernardino, […]

Following an incident involving the Dickies, who played a select run of dates on the 2017 Warped Tour, calling out a festival-goer on-stage, Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman has released a statement clarifying the facts surrounding the incident. “Fact—it was not a fan, but a member of the touring party,” Lyman explains. Read his statement in […]

Sure, we've probably all had our own worst day at Warped Tour. (Nasty sunburns? We're talking about you.) We talked to Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman about the festival's worst day ever, and it surely tops any sunburn we've ever had: The worst day Warped ever had was the day I didn’t show up. It was […]

APTV Orlando correspondent Tori Kravitz takes you behind the scenes of the 2017 Vans Warped Tour Kickoff Event from Full Sail University!  She talked to Warped Founder Kevin Lyman about what to expect this summer. Lyman says this year's lineup is all about having fun, challenging yourself and leaving with a little more knowledge than […]

As much debauchery happens onstage at Warped, there’s plenty that goes on behind the scenes. In case you aren’t a Warped historian, here are 17 facts you probably don’t know—directly from Kevin Lyman’s brain! Read more: A look back at Warped Tour 2008 1. It may just be an urban myth, but supposedly, the Black Eyed […]

The sun has set, the dust has settled and the bandwagons have been returned. After finishing up this year’s Vans Warped Tour, there are only a few matters left to attend to before the ledger can be closed on the summer of 2016. That’s right: We have been granted the privilege of announcing this year’s […]