"We can’t wait to get our old Dickies shorts back on and rock this summer!”
There was a time, precisely thirty years ago, when chain wallets were a marker of exquisite taste, plaid could be mixed and matched with many other plaids, male hair was best in shades of dayglo plus spiked and music selected by the surf film impresario Taylor Steele formed the soundtrack of our lives.
The golden middle-1990s through middle-aughts. A decade of carefree livin’ and immature lovin’.
Well, those who miss their salad years will be thrilled to learn that the distressed cobbler Vans is bringing back its Warped Tour for 2025 and stocking the show with wonderful nostalgia acts. Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Dance Hall Crashers, Miss May I, Chandler Leighton and Pennywise have already been announced, but festival heavies plan to announce new acts each day over the next thirty.
Dates, thus far, include, Washington, D.C. (June 14-15) at the Festival Grounds at RFK Campus; Long Beach, CA (July 26-27) at Downtown Long Beach Shoreline Waterfront; and Orlando, FL (Nov. 15-16) at Camping World Stadium Campus.
Kevin Lyman, who founded the Warped Tour in 1995, told Variety, “Putting together a lineup is never an easy task, but each act, both new and returning, plays an important role in delivering an unforgettable experience for fans, especially at the price point we’re offering. We collaborated closely with the bands to create some exciting surprises, exclusive content, and more for fans to enjoy. So follow along, soak in the journey, and who knows—you might just discover your next favorite band!”
Simple Plan drummer Chuck Comeau added, “When we started hearing rumors that Warped Tour might be coming back in 2025, we were so excited! Warped has been a huge part of our journey as a band – from playing the smallest side-stage back in 2001 to the multiple cross-country treks over the years, the Warped Rewind at Sea cruise, Warped Australia and the final run in 2018, Warped has always felt like home. We’re thrilled that so many pop-punk fans will get a chance to relive their best teenage summer memories one more time and that an entire new generation will get to experience what our scene is all about. Getting the chance to be a part of such an iconic festival once again is a privilege and we can’t wait to get our old Dickies shorts back on and rock Washington DC this summer!”
Will you be attending?
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truth: 2006 took 13 year old daughter and wife to Vans Warped at the CV Amp. Told them was going to say hi to a couple Sack Lunch guys at the PENNYWISE stage and next thing I know i’m being shoved up backstage being nearest to the ramp ropes. So i’m up there and the band just starts off just AMPED and it was like being in a constant earthquake sound explosion…those guys are the real deal and were in their prime playing out of their minds!!
Punk needs more brass.
Tarararara!
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Never had a flat brim cap or anything from Dickies BUT bought these at a warped tour gig in or around 2000, Pennywise was headlining. It was a good day. These shorts have seen a lot in the 25 years since.
Pennywise is / was really good, but I drifted away after Straight Ahead.
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How can shorts of this vintage not have paint on them? Do you outsource your manual labour notsurfingorasitseemsdoinghousemaintenancetoday?
Fair point but these are an item of personal memorabilia. Still managed to get a number of dubious stains on them, inevitably.
Fuck yeah.
Xox
If they fit you now, you’re lying.
It was the baggy 00’s thankfully, so they had an extended lifeline
So did ya turn up to the show in ya undies with the intention of buying them ?
Or did ya poop ya pants waiting for the bands to start and had no choice but to replace them ?
Sooo many important questions about this…
That’s a sensitive question – i had to double down on shorts the whole day. Twice as many pockets and added moshpir protection so it wasn’t all bad.
No GG allin?
Requires a tetanus shot and antibiotics.
speaking of nostalgia tours and actual surf news:
The 2025 WSL Pipe Pro kicked off today to onshore winds and small sloppy surf.
Upon opening my personal email from WSL, I deftly clicked on the forecast, and low and behold, there were the same old fucking WSL commentators looking older and talking the same as they have since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
I just made another lap around the sun recently, and didn’t feel older until I looked at the forecast and saw these old coots that I’ve been hanging out with, every season for the past 20 years.
Bring on the FLO BROS!….and Mahina.
new blood…WSL needs a transfusion
Radio Birdman, the mc5 would smoke any of these god damn interlopers
Begrudgingly saw ‘em last tour at the Enmore. Fuck moi I felt old. And very out of place, as I was not wearing slip on check Vans, black stovepipe jeans and a flat brim cap purposely bent upwards. I also imagine not driving one of the fully bagged flatbed lowlux’s parked on Enmore Road would have me out of place. Because it’s all about me, and how I feel, and my right to be a judgey cunt.
Next time be more penny wise than Pennywise.
Sage Erickson errrr… advice!
this a lovely comment.
Happy Camping
The Sunny Garcia song in Focus was the peak https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxRL0MVHU_HkHVGJ-ysbMcAOJ8lWzhk8gy?si=Ag6_VYprkVIGseJ_
Pato and Roger come again.
(This is a perfect example of why it’s lame to completely change your post after you post it, no offense Non. That originally said “Is ska coming back too”)
Muah ha ha
Just looked it up in the credits and the name of that band is Pegboy. What an unfortunate name.
“There was a time, precisely thirty years ago, when chain wallets were a marker of exquisite taste, plaid could be mixed and matched with many other plaids, male hair was best in shades of dayglo plus spiked and music selected by the surf film impresario Taylor Steele formed the soundtrack of our lives.”
This has got to be a Coos Bay thing. Only people with dayglo, spiky hair were the weird skier guys like Glen Plake. Otherwise, this is called bubblegum punk (or pop punk as Chuck Comeau put it) and was a far cry from anything close to punk rock. Granted, I am a fan of PW, Bad Religion (they crossover between true punk and bubblegum), Sprung Monkey, RKL, etc. so not knocking the music overall, just the concept that people listening to it had weird colored hair, plaid, and $1500 Crocs.
The EXPLOITED Exploitation.
Oh pop punk probably arrived in Coos Bay just last year! We did get very early drops from Pac Northwest 90s music scene though. A very fine moment.
A chas memoir on coos bay would be great
With all the secret spots in a fifty mile radius.
The most famous musician from Coos Bay is Buddy Hayes. Played tuba for Lawrence Welk.
“Punk” in the 90s: 😆
On the West Coast US, punk was a rotting corpse by 1982.
disagree re: 90s skate/shred punk. some gems in that genre, Strung Out in particular.
Yeah mate agree.
Strung Out between Another Day in paradise and American Paradox was sick. Seeing them
These days is embarrassing though.. Old mate Jason seems to have lost his voice.
oh, that guy hasn’t been able to sing live for the past decade and the albums have compressed and auto tuned him to oblivion since Agents of the Underground. the real travesty is them booting Jake Kiley on guitar before this train wreck of a new album, though I’m sure he’s doing just fine touring with Me First And TGG
True “Punks” took it up the butt as Bubba’s bitch in the big house.
🎯
“We’re thrilled that so many pop-punk fans will get a chance to relive their best teenage summer memories…”
Presumably that Hand(job) guy from the last sharticle will be there with Chas and Chas’s pod-partner, but what about K-Hole and the 2%’ers ?
And this time will their wives pick them up afterwards, instead of their mothers ?
Pennywise have never stopped touring consistently. And Jim also releases and tours his solo, dad rock.
Good on them.
Couple Black Pacific tunes aren’t too bad. Always thought he and Greg Graffin, especially, were kinda legends having a music career and obtaining high level university degrees.
Fully agree. Jim was an English major and loves literature.
Buncha people don’t like Offspring and Dexter but he seems very chill to me and gotta respect him getting that PHd and conducting valid research that’s actually cited by others.
Is Jim still flipping off the camera in 1990 tough guy fashion?
so gay.
Time Life: Moshing with the Oldies
I stopped listening to Punk when Slam Dancing became “Moshing”
so gay
Excluding the kids that are being dragged along by their battle-vest wearing Gen-X dads at all ages shows (and wearing a battle vest after age 30 is a hard nah in the barrel or nah department), I have reliably been the youngest person at every single punk show I’ve been to since like 2015.
Who cares?
you evidently care enough to reply😂
Because in spite of all the things we told ourselves our consumer choices did not prevent us from turning into our old parents.
Such punks! Wild boys on the loose…
What do you do for fun taste master?
Lot’s of fun here in São Paulo. But for sure the 90’s were the golden years. Insane urban nightlife, largest city down the equator.
Although in the balance more argues against the merits of getting old, being too old at the time to be interested in post-punk pop punk goes on the credit side of the ledger.
Too old to be interested, but not young enough to avoid suffering through the heydays of the rather insufferable aforementioned genres (neither of which deserve the “punk” honorific).
That depends on what you consider post-punk. The original wave of post-punk far exceeded punk on creativity and influence. Groups such as Joy Division, Wire, The Fall, Swell Maps, A Certain Ratio… just to name a very few took rock music into new areas and transcend punk.
I generally lump that into the New Wave paradigm and reserve post-punk for the annoying nonsense that occurred in the late 90s/00s.
Friggin’ sweet! I get to be disparaged over my taste in alternative music by guys who only listen to Tame Impala once again!
I really don’t like Tame Impala.
Is it the annoying falsetto or the Wes Anderson stylistic pastiche?
Yeah I’m with ya there Chassy, wild animals (especially impala’s) are far better to eat…
Never tame.
Katy perry is your jam, we know.
I’ve moved on. It’s Sofie Royer now!
I can’t believe the thumbs down, Com. Have you ever sampled?
Though ‘pop-punk’ never was, still isn’t, and never will be, classified as ‘alternative music’…
If you think this will make me rid my deep collection of Simple Plan t-shirts… you are mistaken.