WARPED TOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE WARPED TOUR July 1 @ Cal State Long Beach 2005 July 3 @ Seaside Park, Ventura July 6 @ Pomona Fairplex by BRIEN OVERLY
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VANS WARPED TOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE WARPED TOUR July 1 @ Cal State Long Beach 2005 July 3 @ Seaside Park, Ventura July 6 @ Pomona Fairplex BY BRIEN OVERLY It’s that time of year again, sweltering heat, Disneyland-priced concessions, 10-year-olds with liberty spikes and 40-year-olds with Sublime T-shirts, when even the most macho of dudes will don their girlfriends’ MAC eyeliner for a day. That’s right kids, punk rock summer camp is rolling through town again with the 11th annual Vans Warped Tour. Only the most successful touring festival in rock, Warped Tour always brings together the hottest bands in hardcore, emo, screamo, pop, alternative and even hip hop with the icons of punk past and present. It is with good reason that thousands of kids bear the sun and humidity to see them. Here we’re counting down the top 20 for you. Transplants TOP 20 BANDS 17. Silverstein – Melody and hook- cry. Well worth checking out to 11. Atreyu – Orange County unlike many bands that have been YOU NEED TO SEE driven vocals over hard-rocking satisfy the closet emo-pop fan in all hardcore at its finest. While their around as long as they have, they guitars and drums, Silverstein’s style of us. OC brethren in Avenged Sevenfold haven’t settled into a rut of AT WARPED TOUR is of course going to be more than a have taken an ’80s metal direction, regurgitating the same material little common at Warped this year. 14. Bullets and Octane – Raw, dirty, Atreyu’s members remain on the from the last 10 years. They’ve 20. Horrorpops – If No Doubt was The only thing is that Silverstein just sweaty and kind of guiltily sexy, shredding and growling straight and grown up a lot since the days of Danish and had sleeve tattoos and does it better than all those other Bullets and Octane is the Warped narrow. They wowed the Ozzfest Smash, and even more since the go-go dancers, you’d have the bands. band that will leave you in need of a fans last year, it’s about time they “Pretty Fly For a White Guy” era. Horrorpops … kind of. Unarguably cigarette or three after their set is threw a bone to kids on the other Armed with maturity never really a live show that’s unlike any you’ve 16. MxPx – Another longtime staple over. With his Scott Weiland-esque end of their hard music spectrum. exhibited on past albums, the rock seen on Warped before. of punk, the members of MxPx have stage presence, frontman Gene staples are making some of their Bullets know how to work a crowd 10. The Offspring – Chart-topping best music yet and are always as his band rocks the hell out of it. mainstays and punk pillars The worth seeing. Offspring have played a lot of shows 13. Bleed the Dream – Achingly since they started. A lot. They know WARPED TOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE emotional and almost painfully raw, what works and what doesn’t, and CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 > Bleed the Dream knows a thing or two about emoting aurally. With an intensity that’s just barely subdued, a Bleed the Dream set is a steady buildup of tension, compelling OTHER WARPED listeners to wait for the release. You may be a little emotionally drained by the time they finish playing, but you’ll be glad you stayed for them. ATTRACTIONS 12. Rufio – A staple of the modern Reverse Daycare: For kids old Vans, Rufio flip-flops or My pop-punk scene, the Rufio guys enough to enjoy mosh pit- Chemical Romance fuzzy slippers have worked their way from the inspired music yet still two years … back off! They’re mine. ground up, into one of the more away from that long-awaited recognizable names of Warped. driver’s license, here’s the place to Take Action! at Warped: Come, MxPx They’re infectiously catchy and just drop off your ride home. Bring join hands and get empowered by inherently likable, with music that your parents to this air- Take Action’s mssion: Creating a 19. Gatsbys American Dream – a much more mature charm about all but begs its listeners to sing and conditioned tent, slip them a pair better world, one voice, one action Intelligent while still being catchy, them than the twentysomething jump along in unison. They’re just a of “noise-proofed” earphones, at a time. This tent will feature Gatsbys walk that super-fine line pop-punkers who think they’re still fun, upbeat group in the midst of a introduce them to the masseuse support and community outreach between indie and emo that few to high school freshmen. They’re a little majority of bands with a much and then run! You’ll enjoy the programs such as The National no other bands can legitimately pull older (not like, old old) but revel in darker edge. show while your parents enjoy a Hope Network at 1 (800) off. Like, seriously, they wrote a the fact that they don’t need to win cold drink and talk to others SUICIDE, a 24-hour phone line whole concept album based loosely over 13-year-old girls (though singer about the woes of teen for those in crisis. Discover how on the book Animal Farm. Let’s see Mike Herrera does frequently point parenthood. you can get involved through Hawthorne Heights or The Starting out how much he enjoys women). literature, petitions, voter Line do that. Girlz Garage: Girls, girls and registration and more. Do your 15. Waking Ashland – You’ll more girls! That’s what you’ll find part and take action – because 18. Transplants – Because it’s just probably never see Coldplay or at this garage, the eye of the storm sometimes we all need a little help not the Warped Tour without Travis Bright Eyes on Warped. Big surprise, for everything a music and sports- from our friends. Barker and/or Tim Armstrong. And right? Well, you might be quite loving female could ask for. Bring —Mari Fong because you’d know those signature surprised to hear a band like Waking your tired feet and visit the Shoe keyboard notes, that raspy, near- Ashland when you actually get there. Gallery, where Warped Tour bands unintelligible monotone, the raw, Piano-driven pop/soft rock, Waking will be auctioning off their For more information and to purchase gritty yelling and that trademarked Ashland is one of those bands that personalized footwear. If you find tickets, visit www.warpedtour.com. drum pounding anywhere. just sounds so beautiful you might Rufio a pair of Tim Armstrong-designed Price: $28.50-$29.50. [JUNE 29 ’05 - JULY 5 ’05] Campus Circle 1 WARPED TOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE < WARPED TOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE just don’t care. If all the Good live shows. You’ll jump, you’ll throw up 5. Underoath – Youthfully idealistic 4. My Chemical Romance – Only, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 Charlottes and Simple Plans have your fists, you’ll sing along like nobody and at the same time mature far like, the hottest band to get the killed your ability to be enthusiastic else is watching you. Yeah, they’re just beyond their years, Underoath has a strongest cult following in the span about pop-punk, let Over It that good. dichotomy to its musical identity of the last year, the Jersey kids have 9. Fall Out Boy – Indie, emo, pop, reaffirm your faith in it. The that most bands can’t accomplish, stepped up their live show punk, who the hell knows what to call passion they show on their debut usually sacrificing one for the other. considerably, proving themselves to Fall Out Boy these days? More CD Silverstrand is one you’ve Essentially the thinking kid’s be by far the most improved band of importantly, what does it matter what probably never seen in another screamo, Underoath thrashes on Warped. Not too shabby for a band you call them? As anyone who’s remotely comparable band, and their instruments while maintaining that was pretty damn good to begin followed the band or jumped on with their ability to emote without an unforced, underlying message with. Shredding metal chaos this year’s From Under the Cork Tree whining should be reason enough throughout their music. Maybe it’s a interbred with controlled, knows, all FOB requires that you know to support them. bit moralistic for you, but you can’t emotionally driven pop, and done deny that it’s respect-worthy, if with actual integrity? If a screamo nothing else. And even if you band could be awarded the Nobel disagree, they still make some Prize, MCR would certainly warrant awesome emotion-fused hard rock. being awarded it. Senses Fail 6. Senses Fail – One of the best, no- frills live bands on Warped this year because of sheer charisma alone, Over It Senses Fail promise to rock your face off while reminding your cold and is how to jump and sing along. It’s 7. Tsunami Bomb – Only the very jaded scenester heart exactly what definitely a much easier time that FOB greatest that girl-punk has to offer, the emotion is. Each member of Senses takes us back to, one of youthful Norcal, female-fronted quartet never Fail is a distinct personality in and of simplicity, everything Warped is about. fails to put on an upbeat performance, himself, but somehow the five manage with singer Agent M even giving some to come together in one of the most 8. Over It – Epic and honest, two of the dudes she’s on tour with a run cohesively hard-rocking bands this words you don’t normally associate for their money with how hard she side of emo.