Vans Warped Tour begins to take shape

Preliminary plans for this year’s annual Vans Warped Tour have been revealed, including the tour’s initial routing and a list of featured artists that includes Weezer , 311 , Rancid , Pennywise and the Rollins Band.

The outing is set to begin on June 22 in Phoenix, and dates are scheduled though August 12.

Other artists featured on this year’s roster include: AFI, Alien Ant Farm, the Ataris, Big Wig, Distillers, Dub Pistols, Esham, Fear, Fenix TX, Good Charlotte, Grand Theft Audio, Guttermouth, H2O, Jepetto, the Julianna Theory, Kill Your Idols, Kool Keith, Less Than Jake, Madcap, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes (an all-covers side project featuring Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett and NOFX's Fat Mike), Midtown, the Misfits, Morgan Heritage, No Motiv, River City Rebels, Saves the Day, Sugarcult, Userfriendly, and the Vandals.

As it has in previous years, this year’s Warped Tour will showcase extreme sports as well as music. An initial list of athletes scheduled to appear features skater Steve Caballero, BMX rider Rick Thorne, and Moto X rider Jeremy "Twitch" Steinberg.

The tour will also feature a new attraction dubbed “Incredibly Strange Wrestling,” which tour-owner LAUNCH Media describes as “a marriage of rock music and wrestling born in the clubs of San Francisco.”

Venues and additional acts and attractions will be announced in the next two weeks, according to a tour spokesperson.

Last year’s Warped tour featured headlining act Green Day, as well as the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Long Beach Dub Allstars and others. The outing also saw one-off appearances on select dates by acts such as No Doubt, Lit and this year’s returning act, Weezer .

[Note: The following tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may occur before tickets go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]
 tour dates and tickets
June
22 - Phoenix, AZ
23 - Las Vegas, NV
24 - Fresno, CA
27 - Chula Vista, CA
28 - Irvine, CA
29 - Los Angeles, CA
30 - San Francisco, CA

July
1 - Soda Springs, CA
2 - Nampa, ID
3 - Quincy, WA
5 - Calgary, AB
6 - Bozeman, MT
7 - Salt Lake City, UT
8 - Brighton, CO
10 - Kansas City, MO
11 - St. Louis, MO
12 - Indianapolis, IN
13 - Milwaukee, WI
14 - Minneapolis, MN
15 - Tinley Park, IL
17 - Cincinnati, OH
18 - Nashville, TN
19 - Little Rock, AR
20 - Dallas, TX
21 - San Antonio, TX
22 - Houston, TX
25 - Atlanta, GA
26 - Panama City Beach, FL
27 - Orlando, FL
28 - Miami, FL
29 - Jacksonville/Tampa, FL
31 - Virginia Beach/Norfolk, VA

August
1 - Bristow, VA
2 - Pittsburgh, PA
3 - Camden, NJ
4 - New York City or Long Island, NY (TBA)
5 - Asbury Park, NJ
7 - Cleveland, OH
8 - Buffalo, NY
9 - Boston, MA
10 - Montreal, Quebec
11 - Barrie, Ontario
12 - Pontiac, MI

 tour dates and tickets
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