Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup Lead Warped Tour Lineup
- Vans Warped Tour announces first artists for 2025 lineup, including Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Pennywise, Miss May I, Dance Hall Crashers, and Chandler Leighton, with full lineup to be revealed over 30 days.
Vans Warped Tour, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year , is back with the first slate of artists from its 2025 lineup: Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Pennywise, Miss May I, Dance Hall Crashers, and newcomer Chandler Leighton.
The full Warped Tour lineup will be revealed over the next 30 days (ending Feb. 26) in a series called "30 Days of Warped." The festival is set to boast 70 to 100 acts, playing across three cities, Washington D.C., Long Beach, California, and Orlando. The unorthodox approach to festival lineup announcements aligns with Warped Tour's mission to highlight smaller, up and coming artists. Additionally, lineup posters will be organized alphabetically in order to give equal representation to every artist.
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Warped Tour is bringing all the nostalgia with festival veterans Simple Plan and Bowling for Soup, each of whom have appeared at several festivals over the years. Bowling for Soup will perform at the Washington, D.C. (June 14-15) and Long Beach (July 26-27) shows, while Simple Plan will only play in D.C.
Meanwhile, ska punkers Dance Hall Crashers will reunite for the first time in 20 years in D.C. and Long Beach. Pennywise, Miss May I, and Chandler Leighton will take the stage at all three tour stops (the Orlando shows are scheduled to take place Nov. 15-16).
In October, Warped Tour announced its return after a five year hiatus. The iconic festival is back with some notable changes, including only three two-date tour stops instead of its famous cross-country trek.
Even so, founder Kevin Lyman was determined to keep the old Warped Tour ethos alive. At the time of the return announcement, Lyman told Rolling Stone , "People start remembering once something's gone that it was important, it was fun — and I'm hoping to recapture a lot of that again."
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