Saturday, August 1, 2009

a.k.a punkrock summer camp

Warped Tour 2009
Warped Tour 2009

i'm talking about the annual Vans Warped Tour, now in its 15th installment. This year the 46-date roadshow began in June and ends in August.
The tour started in 1995 as a showcase for skate punk (such as Lagwagon, NOFX, No Use For A Name etc) and third wave ska (Rancid, Less Than Jake, Mighty Bosstones etc), but later began to feature mostly post-hardcore, pop punk and metalcore acts, and the current 2009 edition line-ups has evolved to offer diversity of genres (3oh!3, Millionaires, Jeffree Star etc) which is kinda shitty and undermining the spirit of punkrock.

What the heck...capitalism rules...i still wish one day i could mosh in the sweaty pit
(read short history of Warped tour 1995-2008 here)
Bands on the line-up this year that i dig:


This year, Bali punkrock god Superman Is Dead was invited too to blast the stage


NOFX with their rendition of 'Dinosaurs Will Die' at Warped leg in Phoenix, Arizona

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