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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 ...

As years pass, the alternative music culture and community changes gradually—as one would expect—particularly in the way they consume, embrace and respond to the music and artists of the day. The baby boomers (born sometime between 1946-1964) went through the free love and peace-type protests against traditional values. Generation ...

Another Vans Warped Tour has come to a close, and we were granted the privilege of announcing this year’s Ernie Ball: PLAY Warped winner: Silver Age. Ernie Ball, a longtime supporter of unsigned bands, launched their PLAY Warped Tour program last year (previously Battle Of The Bands). This ...

As another Warped Tour comes to a close, those of you who’ve been lucky enough to head out to one of the many dates have your stories to tell: meeting bands, your favorite sets, even just traveling to whichever date you attended. But what about those behind-the-scenes moments that only social media can give us? Well ...

How long do you think you'd last in a Warped Tour pit while trying to mosh inside of a trash can? One Warped Tour 2017 festival-goer apparently thought he had the right stuff for the task, donning a trusty, 20-gallon, plastic garbage container for some extreme pit moves. Su ...

There's a new supergroup hitting Warped Tour this year, or at least one date: They're called Silvertooth, the lovechild of Silverstein and Beartooth. The band has resurfaced after being absent since their last collaboration at the 2015 Vans Warped Tour, and this year, they really went all out.  Read... Read More ...

Ohio, get ready! Set It Off have announced that they will be playing a special guest performance at the Cuyahoga Falls stop of the Vans Warped Tour on Tuesday!

At the New Jersey Warped Tour stop, Silverstein got a suprise guest bass player: Beefcake the Mighty of GWAR!  Read more: Hear Silverstein’s explosive new song, “Whiplash” During Silverstein's set, the guys recieved a visit from Beefcake the Mighty of GWAR. In the video GWAR shared on Fa... Read More ...

'Tis the season — for the annual Vans Warped Tour to hit a town near you, of course. The beauty of the largest-traveling music festival in the United States is its diversity: The lineup is always a well-balanced blend of veteran bands who use it as an opportunity to go on a very familiar vacation, and fresh, up-and-coming rookies that see this as the perfect networking opportunity to kickstart the

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, Eagles Of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes and the Offspring’s Noodles have spoken out in defense of the Dickies on-stage verbal response to a Warped Tour crew member. “Long live freedom ...

I Prevail vocalist Brian Burkheiser was hospitalized on Saturday, according to a report from Rock Sound. The band is currently on the road playing the 2017 Vans Warped Tour. Check out some updates from Burkheiser below. Read more: All your favorite bands spill their Warped Tour stories in new issue As Brian updated his followers on Twitter, I Prevail were forced to cut their set short at the Atla

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. "F ...

The city of Wilmington, NC have canceled their forthcoming Warped Tour date on July 4. Vans Warped Tour posted a statement in the event page detailing the surprise cancelation of the event, saying that they were "completely blind-sided by the city of Wilmington, NC" and "have tried to work through everything as fast as we could ...

The Dickies, who played a select run of dates on the 2017 Warped Tour, have been called out for their unacceptable behavior on stage—and have, in turn, responded with a statement on Facebook. A short video that was posted to Twitter shows frontman Leonard Graves Phillips using derogatory speech to directly call out a member of the crowd: I didn't think this was still allowed at @VansWarpedTour pic

Hundredth frontman Chadwick Johnson and his bandmates were asleep on their tour bus early Tuesday when a fire broke out onboard. Read more: Hundredth, Being As An Ocean’s bus catches fire mid-Warped Tour run - UPDATED The band, sharing the bus with fellow rockers Being As An Ocean, were en route from Denver to Nashville, where both acts are currently playing on the 2017 Warped Tour. No o ... Read

Hundredth and Being As An Ocean have taken to social media this morning to confirm that both bands are fine after their shared tour bus caught on fire this morning. "Woke up this morning to our bus on fire. We all got out and are okay," Hundredth shared on their Twitter this morning...

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 1997: We were in Lawren... Read More ...

A fan video of GWAR’s set at Vans Warped Tour in Seattle caught the band's first new song since their vocalist Dave Brockie, otherwise known as Oderus Urungus, passed away in 2014. Bloathar, the current vocalist, introduced a new song called “Fuck This Place” as a tribute to “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll singer to ever live, Oderus Urungus.” Read more: GWAR, Municipal Waste def...

The shock-metal band GWAR is not for everybody. The band have not only been considered offensive for their actions onstage, but they’ve also been known for being gross and over-the-top. And, may we add, funny as hell. But that shouldn’t keep you from seeing them at Warped Tour this year -- especially all you non-metal fans. Here are 1 ...

We're already counting down the days until Warped Tour — the long days, summer heat, and amazing music. Warped Tour memories last forever, and we talked to musicians from some of your favorite bands in the scene about their first-ever Warped Tour experiences. Read on to s ...