Vans Warped Tour 2013

2013 Lineup

Unlike other stationary music festivals like SXSW or Glastonbury, the Warped Tour (or rather Vans Warped Tour) is one of those rare travelling music festivals. Traditionally, the Warped Tour feature more punk-rock music, but it would seem that they are opening up the lineup to feature more diversity (as seen in one of our spotlight on Wallpaper. below).

If you’re into skateboarding, trick bicycles, and other extreme sports and love punk music, it’s really the place to be. We are covering the Warped Tour this year in Shakopee, Minnesota, at Canterbury Park, so check back next week for a report.

Vans Warped Tour event listing:

Overwhelmed by the nearly 150 bands on the Warped Tour lineup for 2013? Fear not, let us spotlight on some of the bands (NOTE: not all bands mentioned here will be covered):

WALLPAPER.
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Oakland, CA based artist Wallpaper. will be playing this year’s Vans Warped Tour in Shakopee, MN on July 21st. Wallpaper.’s frontman Ricky Reed has been popping up on music spotlights such as MTV and Entertainment Weekly for his “awesomely doltish ode to Saturday-night oblivion (Entertainment Weekly).”

The band’s debut LP, Doodoo Face (Eenie Meenie Records) was released in 2009 to much praise for it’s party anthem sound. Wallpaper. drops their debut album Ricky Reed is Real (Epic Records) on July 23rd.

We will be covering the show, so stay tuned for the article and pictures that will be posted shortly after 7/21.

SLEEPING WITH SIRENS
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Sleeping with Sirens highest chart-topper album to date is their third album, Feel, which came out April 23, 2013, on Rise Records.

Sleeping with Sirens is known mostly for lead singer Kellin Quinn’s ability to reach low/baritone-esque vocals styling.

Also, although the Floridian band is known for its post-hardcore music, you’d be interested to note that the second single from Feel, “Alone”, features rapper MGK. Alt-Press commented on the song as actually making sense: “seems bizarre on paper—actually gels perfectly and could totally be a crossover smash.” Not sure how the band will perform that song live (if at all), regarding the rapping portion.

BRING ME THE HORIZON
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Sheffield’s Bring Me the Horizon is a metalcore band, currently signed to RCA Records (but is exclusively distributed in the U.S. by Epitaph Records). The band stole their name from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Sempiternal is Bring Me the Horizon’s fourth album, which came out on April Fool’s day to a variety of formats: Standard, Deluxe, and Digital Standard and Digital Deluxe. For fans and collectors alike, it was a bit of a nightmare to track down all the songs, for instance, the Digital Deluxe includes “Join the Club” and “Deathbeds” while the Physical Deluxe containing these extra tracks: “Join the Club”, “Chasing Rainbows” and “Deathbeds” (US Physical Deluxe had “Skank”, displacing “Chasing Rainbows”).

Florida’s Go Radio is currently on the Warped Tour in support of their sophomore album, Close the Distance, out now on Fearless Records.

They must really love Warped Tour, because the band previously toured with Warped in 2011 for their Lucky Street album.

The band came about when singer Jason Lancaster left Mayday Parade (Derek Sanders took over as lead vocals for Mayday Parade) five years ago to start Go Radio. Since then, Go Radio has found success with Lucky Street debut at #77 on the US Billboard 200 Charts (top 20 on the Rock, Alternative, and Independent charts).

Never Shout Never is from Missouri, with five full-length album: their latest is called Sunflower, which just came out last week (July 2).

Originally the band started as nevershoutnever! as the project from Christofer Ingle at the tender age of 16 in 2007. Then it was NeverShoutNever!, and now, simply known as Never Shout Never.

By 2009, Ingle signed with Warner Bros. Records (under their Sire label) and released The Summer, and steadily released music since then.

Never Shout Never will be playing the main stage on the Vans Warped Tour all summer. If you can afford it, Never Shout Never will be hosting a special VIP behind-the-scene music workshop at all the Warped Tour dates. These VIP workshop is strictly limited to 50 people at each show.

Sydney’s New Empire is returning to the U.S. to join this year’s Vans Warped Tour.
The three piece (Jeremy Fowler, Kyle Lane and Kale Kneale) play pop punk tunes, much like their idols Taking Back Sunday.

The Australian band’s last release, Symmetry landed #39 on the Australian Charts, even gaining top 4 Australian artists on Channel V and had their song “One Heart/A Million Voices” featured in the 2012 Olympic Games.

Check out their latest single, “Relight The Fire” on YouTube.

Trivia: The band was previously called Freedom1.

New Zealander Gin Wigmore just wrapped up her U.S. tour dates with Phillip Phillips and has jumped on the Warped Tour.

Currently signed to Mercury Records, her music was recently used in the Heineken/Skyfall cross-promotional TV spots (“Man Like That”) and the Guinness Black Lager ads (“Black Sheep”), which is taken from her sophomore album, Gravel & Wine.

If you get a chance to see her live, you can find out why London’s Sunday Mirror is calling Gin Wigmore “New Zealand’s best export”.