![]() Though a formative stepping stone for many bands and, eventually, rappers (you can blame Warped Tour for Tyga), the festival was not without controversy. (Think: Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die, Less Than Jake, the Maine, Mayday Parade, and even further back to NOFX, Pennywise, and Bad Religion.) In reality, it’ll be all the bands that have aged enough to be considered a throwback. ![]() ![]() I don’t want to say a ‘mature’ lineup, but bands that I think could use one more big push of Warped Tour to help further their careers.” In theory, that could mean either Katy Perry (it’s where she got her start!) or Skrillex (him too!) moshing like it’s 2004. Lyman hopes to retire the festival with a lineup banking on nostalgia: “You’re gonna see a big mix of bands I felt really embraced the Warped Tour lifestyle. “Can relate,” said a sea of 20-somethings who thought Warped Tour had already died with their youth. “Traveling around the country with a tour this size in the landscape that we’re in is … to be honest, I’m just tired,” he says. Founder Kevin Lyman has announced to Billboard that his seminal pop-rock traveling festival, which birthed a generation of disaffected tweens with unfortunate haircuts, will make its final run in 2018 after 24 years on the scene. Thnks fr th Mmrs: The Vans Warped Tour has officially kicked the bucket. “Just like the hearse, you die to get in again.”
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