It’s seventy days until The Vans Warped Tour! The annual outdoor tour has been making its lap of the continental US every summer since 1995. Although it started as an alt rock sponsored by every skateboarder’s favorite brand of shoe, Warped has expanded into an all-inclusive fun-for-all. Attendees can now see rappers, rockers, pop punkers and every genre in between at their local show. From The Aquabats and Antiflag to Goldfinger and Green Day, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, The Misfits and Pepper, Saves the Day, Say Anything, The Starting Line, Tonight Alive and countless others have cut their teeth during the hot days of Warped. In a way, the tour is a great equalizer. Sure, there are different stages with bigger speakers that allow for larger crowds, but out amidst the muddy fields and catering tents bands as big as Blink 182 share space and probably sunscreen with up-and-coming acts. Everyone is there for the same purpose: music.

Here are some bands from this year’s line-up that you should be sure to catch when Warped comes through this July:

3OH!3
Genre: Rap?
Hometown: Boulder, CO
For Fans of: LMFAO, Travie McCoy/Gym Class Heroes, early Ke$ha, white guy rap, Coloradians
Listen to: “BASMF” off of Night Sports

Against the Current
Genre: Pop Rock
Hometown: Poughkeepsie, NY
For Fans of: Set It Off, Tonight Alive, We Are The In Crowd
Listen to: “Running With The Wild Things” off of In Our Bones

Bullet For My Valentine
Genre: Heavy Metal
Hometown: Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom
For Fans of: Five finger Death Punch, As I Lay Dying, Atreyu
Listen to: “You Want a Battle (Here’s a War)” off of Venom

Issues
Genre: Metalcore
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
For Fans of: Twenty-one Pilots, Crown the Empire, Memphis May Fire
Listen to: “The Realist” off of Headspace

Less Than Jake
Genre: Ska / punk
Hometown: Gainesville, Florida
For Fans of: NOFX, MxPx, Streetlight Manefesto, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Listen to: “All My Best Friends Are Metalheads” off of Hello Rockview

Masked Intruder
Genre: Pop punk
Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin
For Fans of: The Get Up Kids, NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket, Fest 2015
Listen to: “Stick ‘Em Up” off of Masked Intruder

Knuckle Puck
Genre: Pop punk
Hometown: Chicago, IL
For Fans of: Neck Deep, The Wonder Years, Seaway
Listen to: “Disdain” off of Copasetic

Mayday Parade
Genre: Rock
Hometown: Tallahassee, Florida
For Fans of: You Me At Six, Have Mercy, PVARIS
Listen to: “Keep in Mind, Transmogrification Is a New Technology” off of Black Lines

New Found Glory
Genre: Pop punk
Hometown: Coral Springs, FL
For Fans of: The Starting Line, Saves the Day, early Green Day
Listen to: “My Friends Over You” off of Sticks and Stones

Real Friends
Genre: Pop punk
Hometown: Tinley Park, IL
For Fans of: Neck Deep, Modern Baseball, State Champs
Listen to: “Colder Quicker” off of The Home Inside My Head

Reel Big Fish
Genre: Ska
Hometown: Orange County, California
For Fans of: Operation Ivy, The Aquabats, ska in general
Listen to: “Sell Out” off of Turn The Radio Off

Roam
Genre: Pop punk
Hometown: Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom
For Fans of: Trash Boat, Moose Blood, As It Is
Listen to: “Hopeless Case” off of Backbone

Set It Off
Genre: Pop rock with a touch of brass
Hometown: Tampa, FL
For Fans of: Sleeping With Sirens, new Fall Out Boy, Anarbor
Listen to: “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” off of Duality

State Champs
Genre: Pop punk
Hometown: Averill Park, New York
For Fans of: Handguns, Like Pacific, Transit
Listen to: “Elevated” off of The Finer Things

Sum 41
Genre: Punk rock
Hometown: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
For Fans of: blink-182, Simple Plan, American Hi-Fi
Listen to: “In Too Deep” off of All Killer, No Filler

Teenage Bottlerocket
Genre: Punk
Hometown: Laramie, WY
For Fans of: The Copyrights, Joyce Manor, The Smith Street Band
Listen to: “Dead Saturday” off of Tales From Wyoming

The Maine
Genre: Rock
Hometown: Tempe, AZ
For Fans of: The Technecolors, Lydia, Nick Santino, Go Radio
Listen to: “Another Night on Mars” off of American Candy

The Summer Set
Genre: too pop for the punk kids, too punk for the pop kids
Hometown: Scottsdale, AZ
For Fans of: The Ready Set, The Maine, A Rocket to the Moon
Listen to: “Figure Me Out” off of Stories for Monday

Waterparks
Genre: Synth rock
Hometown: Houston, TX
For Fans of: Neck Deep, Stages and Stereos, hairdye
Listen to: “I’m a Natural Blue” off of Blacklight

We the Kings
Genre: Pop rock
Hometown: Bradenton, FL
For Fans of: Boys Like Girls, Selena Gomez, Forever the Sickest Kids
Listen to: “Check Yes Juliet” off of We The Kings

The Story So Far
Genre: Rock
Hometown: Walnut Creek, CA
For Fans of: Man Overboard, Comeback Kid, Citizen
Listen to: “Heavy Gloom” off of The Story So Far

With Confidence
Genre: Pop punk
Hometown: Sydney, Australia
For Fans of: Set It Off, We Are The In Crowd
Listen to: “Godzilla” off of Distance

Yellowcard
Genre: Pop rock
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
For Fans of: Angels & Airwaves, late All-American Rejects, string interludes
Listen to: “Make Me So” off of Lift A Sail

Young Guns
Genre: Alt rock, synth rock
Hometown: London, England
For Fans of: Kids in Glass Houses, new Bring Me The Horizon
Listen to: “Rising Up” off of Ones and Zeroes

Chunk! No Captain Chunk!
Genre: Metal mixed with pop punk (I’m not kidding)
Hometown: Paris, France
For Fans of: Four Year Strong, EatmewhileImhot, A Day To Remember
Listen to: “The Other Line” by Get Lost Find Yourself

by Zoe Marquedant