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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. How Warped Tour led the consumerist music festival revolution The iconic festival was as much about brands as it was about bands. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Mark Hoppus of Blink at Warped Tour The band wore clothes from the then-new surf label Hurley onstage to defray costs.
Lots and lots of stuff — from brands, bands, and nonprofits — was available at Warped Tour booths. Dropkick Murphys perform at Warped Tour , the most successful iteration of the festival.
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For more newsletters, check out our newsletters page. Part of the reason fans turned out so early Thursday was most likely due to the genius of the Warped Tour's long-standing tradition of not announcing the order of the bands until the morning of the show. And there were some big names in those early time slots, as it turned out. But there was also an unmistakable feeling that this was a special occasion — the end of an era for a lot of punk fans, some of whom have never known a world without a Warped Tour.
As Danny Torgersen of local rockers Captain Squeegee, among the final acts to take the stage, summed up the situation, "You're here for the last hours of the last Warped Tour Phoenix will ever know. Most performers I saw made mention of the fact that this would be the final Warped Tour stop in Phoenix, encouraging fans to make the most of it. They're dead now. They also did "Don't Stop Believin'," first as a down-tempo reggae song before kicking it into overdrive with the reckless abandon of punk.
It was among the day's most entertaining sets, thanks in part to Aaron Barrett's goofy sense of showmanship, which really came across in the multiple versions of "Suburban Rhythm" that they played, from breathless punk to funk to a version that had people square dancing in the pit and finally, death metal with Cookie Monster vocals. Other frequent fliers included two metalcore veterans — Every Time I Die eight times and Motionless in White nine times.
This tour has always done its best to represent a wide variety of alternative sounds, and this year had two stages devoted to bands on the heavier side of the underground, from MyChildren MyBride to Nekrogoblikon and Senses Fail.
It was almost like a festival within a festival. If you wanted to stick to the heavier side of the tracks, those stages had you covered. Alternative Press declared Issues "the future of metalcore" in in response to their self-titled, full-length debut and went on to name them Artist of the Year in Alternative Press is as close to a bible as the Warped Tour has, so it was no surprise to find them on one of the festival's main stages.
And they definitely lived up to the hype, incorporating elements of prog-rock, noise-rock, rap-metal and soul. Tyler Carter took the stage in a Playboy T-shirt, demanding to know "Where my expletive hooligans at?
On "Never Lose Your Flames," those soul vocals were driven by a hyperactive thrash beat. And when Carter said, "I want to see that mosh pit one more time," the pit exploded, looking nothing like the circle pit that Reel Big Fish inspired. IsThe Maine were definitely on the more pop-oriented side of Warped, and they owned it, taking the stage in matching outfits and setting the tone for their set with a joyous version of "Song 2" by Blur.
Singer John O'Callaghan was in rare form, telling the crowd on more than one occasion, "We're the sixth best band on Warped Tour" and "This is a rock-and-roll guitar concert. Midway through their set, he plucked a guy named Nino from the audience to come onstage, where O'Callaghan taught him the chorus to "Girls Do What They Want. The guy was reluctant at first but by the end of his performance, O'Callaghan had coaxed into shouting along.
Jason DeVore of Authority Zero commanded the stage with the self-assurance that comes with having toured for more than 20 years, but he was clearly loving every minute of it. Early in the set, he asked if anybody in the crowd had no idea who they were. And when some people indicated that they'd never heard of him, DeVore responded with a grin, "All right. You're honest. I like that. The highlight of their set, though, was the circle pit DeVore encouraged fans to form around the soundboard, a wildly entertaining spectacle.
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