Vans Warped Tour to Return to Three Cities in 2025
By Maya Georgi
Maya Georgi
Lace up your Vans sneakers, the Warped Tour is officially returning in 2025.
The iconic punk-rock festival, which started in 1995, will take over parking lots in three cities for two-day shows in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Warped Tour embarked on its “final” cross-country trek in 2018 and hit two cities the following year to commemorate its 25th anniversary .
“Since 1997, I said I was hoping that there was some kid in a garage that was going to come out and kick Kevin Lyman’s ass someday, and put on a better festival,” Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman tells Rolling Stone . No one has yet to heed the call, so the founder took matters into his own hands. “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,” he says.
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While Warped Tour 2025 wants to bring fans the most compelling elements of its glory days, there is no aim to be a nostalgia fest. “I’ve always felt we need to pay homage to the past, but we’re looking to the future of the artists and the community,” Lyman says. Of course, launching rising artists is embedded in the Warped Tour DNA. The festival is planning a weekly rollout of the lineup in order to highlight smaller bands and musicians who may get overlooked on a larger festival poster.
Another piece of Warped Tour’s unique energy has always been the ticket’s price point. For Warped Tour 2025, two-day tickets will start at $149.98 (a $119.99 ticket, with $29.99 in fees). Ticket presales begin on Oct. 24 at noon ET/9 a.m. PT. here .
The accessible price point is a huge point of pride for Lyman. Las Vegas-based festival When We Were Young , an emo nostalgia event with a similar audience, has tickets that start at $325 (before fees) for a single-day, general admission ticket.
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That confidence has paid off already. A lot of musicians who helped make Warped Tour a signature festival for the pop-punk and emo genres have also stepped up to bring the heyday energy back for 2025. “The bands get some credit here too,” the Insomniac founder says. “Some of them had to call their teams and say, ‘No, I want to do this.’”
Lyman also highlighted the camaraderie of bands from the music scene that made the Warped Tour thrive, saying, “It’s band members talking to band members, and people saying, ‘I’m on, aren’t you on?’”
Warped Tour’s strong sense of community will be front and center for the 2025 return. “Making a community strong can’t be just an individual thing,” Lyman says. “It takes everyone out there.” As an associate professor at the USC Thornton School of Music, the festival founder connects with young people on a daily basis and wants to make sure they feel just as welcome as older, returning Warped Tour fans.
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