The Vans Warped Tour will return to three cities in 2025

Lace up yours Vans Sneaker, Warped Tour is officially returning in 2025.

The iconic punk-rock festival, which began in 1995, will take over parking lots in three cities for two days of events in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Warped Tour embarked on its “ultimate” cross-country trek in 2018 and hit two cities next year to commemorate its 25th anniversary.

“Ever since 1997, I've said that I hope there's some kid in the garage that comes out and kicks Kevin Lyman's ass and puts on a better festival,” said Van Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman. The Rolling Stones. No one yet heeded the call, so the founder took matters into his own hands. “Once people started to think that something was important when it was gone, it was fun — and I'm hoping to recover a lot of that again,” he says.

Warped Tour 2025 will kick off in Washington, DC on June 14 and June 15, 2025 at the RFK Campus and make its way west along the Shoreline Waterfront in Long Beach, California on July 26 and 27, finally ending in Orlando, Florida on November 15 and 16 at Camping World Stadium. on campus “My body won't ride a tour bus for 40 cities,” Lyman said of the decision to keep Warped Tour 2025 between three cities. But he did not completely rule out the idea of ​​adding more dates in future years if the 2025 iteration is successful. “If it works, we will look to do more in the future,” he added.

The festival's lineup has yet to be announced, but Lyman promises a strong mix of past Warped Tour bands and new artists. “We're being very, very selective about trying to find some unique twists in the lineup,” he says. Between 70 and 100 bands will join each stop next year. Some notable acts of the past year include Blink-182, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Paramore and even Katy Perry. Bands like Less Than Jake and Simple Plan headlined the Warped Tour with more than 10 appearances.

Warped Tour 2025 aims to bring fans the most interesting elements of its glory days, not aiming to be a nostalgia fest. “I've always felt that we have to pay homage to the past, but we're looking to the future as artists and communities,” Lyman said. Of course, launching emerging artists is embedded in Warped Tour DNA The festival plans a weekly rollout of the lineup to highlight smaller bands and musicians who might get overlooked on a big festival poster.

Another part of Warped Tour's unique strength is always the ticket price point. For Warped Tour 2025, two-day tickets will start at $149.98 (a $119.99 ticket with a $29.99 fee). Ticket presales begin next week on October 24 at 12 pm ET/9 am 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 starting at $325 (before fees) for a one-day general admission ticket.

While many factors go into Warped Tour prices, Liman credits the festival's partnership with Insomniac for helping keep tickets in the lower range of comparable events. Founded by Pasquale Rotella, Insomniac is a seasoned music-event-promotion company that has masterminded some of the world's biggest music festivals.

“[Lyman’s] Really committed to making it about people, and making sure people can come,” Rotella said. In response to rising ticket fees and exorbitant festival prices that have gripped the music industry, Lyman was adamant about including the cost of Warped Tour 2025. “It really starts with Kevin making that move, and holding his ground, and having that trust in the community,” Rotella added.

That trust has already paid off. Many of the musicians who helped make the Warped Tour a signature festival for the pop-punk and emo genres have also stepped forward to bring back Hyde's energy for 2025. “Bands get some credit here, too,” says the Insomniac founder. “Some of them had to call their team and say, 'No, I want to do this.'”

Lyman also highlighted the band's camaraderie from the music scene that enriched the Warped Tour, “It's band members talking to band members, and people saying, 'I'm on, aren't you?'”

Warped Tour's strong sense of community will be front and center for its 2025 return. “Strengthening a community can't just be an individual thing,” Lyman says, “it takes everyone there.” As an adjunct professor at the USC Thornton School of Music, the festival founder connects with young people every day and wants to make sure they feel as welcome as older, returning Warped Tour fans.

The festival grounds will again be filled with non-profit organization tents, individual bands with their own merchandise, and sponsorship booths. Lyman is especially excited to bring new nonprofits on board. “There are so many young people in the world doing great things, and we want to give them a place and help encourage them,” he says. Additionally, “new immersive elements” and community-building events like the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands will be a part of Warped Tour 2025.

Of course, at the start of each show date, fans will be greeted by the bloated, daily set list. It's part of Lyman's bold plan to bring back the appeal of the Vans Warped Tour. Even 30 years later, his promise is refreshingly simple: “It will always remind you of that parking lot, that backyard party. That's what Warped Tour was all about.”