Editing Warped Tour (section)

{{Short description|Annual traveling rock music festival}}
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{{Infobox music festival
| music_festival_name = Warped Tour
| image              = Vans Warped Tour Logo.png
| caption            = 
| location           = [[United States]], [[Canada]], [[Australia]], [[United Kingdom]]
| years_active       = 1995–2019, 2025–present
| founders           = [[Kevin Lyman]]
| dates              = June–August
| genre              = {{flatlist|
* [[Punk rock]] 
* [[alternative rock]]
* [[pop-punk]] 
* [[emo]] 
* [[metalcore]]
}} <!-- genres should be kept few and general; please don't add subgenres such as post-hardcore -->
| website            = {{URL|vanswarpedtour.com}}
}}

The '''Warped Tour''' is a [[Concert tour|touring]] [[Rock music|rock]] music festival that toured the United States and Canada each summer from 1995 until 2019, and returned in 2025 for its 30th anniversary. By 2015, Warped was the largest traveling music festival in the United States<ref>{{Cite web |last=Owens |first=Paige |date=July 17, 2015 |title=Vans Warped Tour Pittsburgh Welcomes Local Band to the Stage |url=http://maniacmagazine.com/culture/music/vans-warped-tour-pittsburgh-welcomes-local-band-to-the-stage/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150819002041/http://maniacmagazine.com/culture/music/vans-warped-tour-pittsburgh-welcomes-local-band-to-the-stage/ |archive-date=August 19, 2015 |access-date=19 August 2015 |website=ManiacMagazine.com |publisher=Maniac Magazine}}</ref> and the longest-running touring music festival in North America.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hiatt |first=Brian |date=July 14, 2005 |title=Rock & Roll: Punk-Rock Circus-How the No Frills Warped Tour Grew into America's Most Successful Festival |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |page=28}}</ref> Internationally, the festival stopped in Australia from 1998–2002 and again in 2013, as well as the United Kingdom in 2012 and 2015.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vassilev |first=M. |date=July 22, 2015 |title=Vans Warped Tour 2013 |url=https://cdn.online.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/dasearch/onexhibition/1113578-4340747.PDF |edition=Draft 1 |publisher=Avert Risk Management Services 201 |page=2 |access-date=2022-11-15 |journal=Avert Risk |archive-date=2023-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519041833/https://cdn.online.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/dasearch/onexhibition/1113578-4340747.PDF |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=February 26, 2013 |editor-last=Ho |editor-first=Billy |title=Still Lame: Vans Warped Tour Australia 2013 |url=https://soundthesirens.com/still-lame-vans-warped-tour-australia-2013/ |access-date=2020-09-25 |website=SoundsofSirens.com |archive-date=2020-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919053817/https://soundthesirens.com/still-lame-vans-warped-tour-australia-2013/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Following the first Warped Tour, the [[skateboard]] shoe manufacturer [[Vans]] became the festival's title sponsor, when it then became known as the '''Vans Warped Tour'''.<ref name="waddell">{{Cite magazine |last=Waddell |first=Roy |date=July 31, 2015 |title=Vans Warped Tour Founder Kevin Lyman Reflects on 20th Anniversary: 'I Love It When People Talk Sh-t About Me' |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6649267/kevin-lyman-warped-tour-20th-anniversary-interview |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |publisher=Lynne Segall |access-date=2016-01-28 |archive-date=2016-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118203353/http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6649267/kevin-lyman-warped-tour-20th-anniversary-interview |url-status=live }}</ref>

Warped Tour was conceived by [[Kevin Lyman]] as an electric [[alternative rock]] festival, but later began focusing on [[punk rock]] music.<ref name="waddell" /> Although it was primarily a punk rock festival, it covered diverse genres over the years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=newfurymedia |date=February 17, 2015 |title=Wait, They Played Warped? 10 Surprising Warped Tour Alumni |url=http://thenewfury.com/wordpress/wait-played-warped-10-surprising-warped-tour-alumni/ |access-date=2016-01-29 |website=Thenewfury.com |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182912/http://thenewfury.com/wordpress/wait-played-warped-10-surprising-warped-tour-alumni/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Crane |first=Matt |date=January 23, 2015 |title=10 Reasons You Should Be Especially Excited for Warped Tour This Year |url=http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/10_reasons_you_should_be_especially_excited_for_warped_tour_this_year |magazine=[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]] |location=[[Cleveland, Ohio]] |publisher=Alternative Press Magazine, Inc. |access-date=2016-01-29 |archive-date=2016-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202174507/http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/10_reasons_you_should_be_especially_excited_for_warped_tour_this_year |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Christopher |date=March 11, 1999 |title=Vans Warped Tour Goes Hip-Hop |work=MTV.com |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/512761/vans-warped-tour-goes-hip-hop/ |access-date=2016-01-29 |archive-date=2015-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818123123/http://www.mtv.com/news/512761/vans-warped-tour-goes-hip-hop/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Lyman said that the 2018 Vans Warped Tour would be the final, full cross-country run. On December 18, 2018, Lyman revealed details for the tour's 25th anniversary, with only three events in 2019.<ref name="Giordano">{{Cite news |last=Giordano |first=Medea |date=July 3, 2018 |title=R.I.P. Warped Tour. At Least We Still Have Vans. |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/style/warped-tour-vans.html |access-date=2018-07-03 |archive-date=2018-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703191557/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/style/warped-tour-vans.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In November 2019, rumors spread that [[Chris Fronzak]] planned to bring back the Warped Tour after Lyman's retirement. On October 4, 2020, Fronzak confirmed his intent to be involved in the return of Warped Tour; however, "for legal reasons it (could not) come back for 'three years or so'".<ref>{{Cite web |title=News: Warped Tour Can't Legally Return Until 2023! |url=https://www.deadpress.co.uk/news-warped-tour-cant-legally-return-until-2023/ |access-date=2022-01-27 |website=DeadPress.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130144209/https://www.deadpress.co.uk/news-warped-tour-cant-legally-return-until-2023/ |archive-date=2021-11-30 }}</ref> In 2024, Lyman confirmed that Warped Tour would return in 2025, with the lineup being announced from January to February.<ref name="billboard">{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/business/touring/warped-tour-return-2025-1235780059/|title=Warped Tour to Return in 2025|website=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=September 19, 2024|last=Mims|first=Taylor}}</ref>