Warped Tour Potentially Confirmed for 2025 Return

Warped Tour is returning in 2025, founder Kevin Lyman confirmed on September 20. The legendary concert event toured for 24 years before retiring in 2018, to the dismay of fans everywhere. According to Lyman, changes in the community led to the end of the tour. Allegedly, some bands didn’t want to perform with each other and declined Warped Tour invitations.

Now, however, Lyman has confirmed that Warped Tour is coming back while speaking with Pollstar. “We have something cooking for 2025. Details should be ready in a few weeks,” he said. While there have been no further details, like lineup or venues, it is important to note that 2025 coincides with the festival’s 30th anniversary.

While the tour closed in 2018, it was revived the next year for a trio of shows to celebrate the 25th anniversary. So many legendary bands have played Warped Tour stages, from Fall Out Boy and Paramore to Avenged Sevenfold, Sum 41, Green Day, and so many, many more.

Warped Tour To Allegedly Return for 30th Anniversary

Warped Tour began in 1995 and traveled around North America for 24 years. It was the jumping-off point for a lot of punk and emo acts through the years, like Against Me!, AFI, Incubus, and The Damned, to name a few.

“I’ve done everything I can in the format that this is in,” Kevin Lyman told Billboard in 2018, when the tour was getting ready to retire. “It wasn’t supposed to be around 24 years. It wasn’t supposed to be around more than one year. But enough people saw what I was trying to do.”

The final three shows in 2019 featured an array of Warped Tour alumni. Bands included Blink-182, 311, Bad Religion, The All-American Rejects, Andrew W.K., Anti-Flag, Gym Class Heroes, The Offspring, Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Taking Back Sunday, Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, and Good Charlotte.

Warped Tour had an immense cultural effect on punk, emo, and alternative kids in those 24 years. The bands that played in their early days went on to have illustrious careers in the genre. It’s probable to say that the ending of Warped Tour directly led to the inauguration of the When We Were Young Festival. Now, the OG is returning, hopefully, just in time to celebrate turning 30.

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