KEVIN LYMAN Confirms Warped Tour Will Return In 2025

Warped Tour founder Keven Lyman has confirmed the rumors that Warped Tour will return in 2025. Whereas no specifics have been unveiled, Lyman commented in an interview with Pollstar: “We’ve one thing cooking for 2025. Particulars ought to be prepared in a couple of weeks.”

Lyman‘s feedback observe a report by Rock Feed, who revealed in a current video that a number of sources acquainted with the matter believed Warped Tour to be returning in 2025. The return will likely be overseen by Lyman and apparently Reside Nation, who haven’t supplied a remark but.

“Based on a number of sources acquainted with the matter, Warped Tour will have fun its anniversary with a sequence of festivals subsequent 12 months when Warped Tour returns in 2025,” stated Rock Feed‘s Brian Storm on the time. “The rock competition will now be overseen by Reside Nation, though Pageant founder Kevin Lyman is alleged to be closely concerned. A request for remark from Reside Nation was not returned.”

Warped Tour initially ran as a full-on touring competition between 1995 and 2018, with some 25^th anniversary one-off exhibits occurring in 2019. Lyman teased a potential return of the competition under a different name for 2021, however after all the pandemic received in the way in which. There was additionally discuss of Attila‘s Chris Fronzak buying the festival, although that by no means appears to have come to fruition.

As Lynman stated to Kerrang! in a 2019 interview concerning the shutdown of the competition:

“It received very irritating round 2017. I used to be challenged by the fractured fan base, the fractured band base, the sense of neighborhood and what I received concerned on this for, and what introduced me into punk rock that I stated ‘you recognize, if it is modified this a lot, perhaps it is time for me to wind this factor down.’

“2017, regardless of who I put up, it was like ‘F that band, F that band, the place’s this band?’ It was identical to, what occurred to the acceptance of music and that love of music? And I noticed that we had pushed the viewers all the way down to a younger stage—’Warped received referred to as a younger [tour.] However I did that as a result of I needed to younger individuals to get uncovered to this music, to perhaps help unbiased music for an extended time.”