The Van’s Warped Tour has been my favorite festival since I attended my first one over a decade ago (man, I’m getting old), and the 2011 incarnation is looking to be one of the best in the tour’s 17-year history. Already boasting record numbers of attendees its opening weekend, Warped 2011 features the most eclectic line-up to date, with nearly every genre imaginable represented (punk, rock, metal, hip-hop, rap, indie-rock, electronic, alt-country, dubstep, reggae, folk-punk, pop…). Warped is truly a music-lover’s paradise, and this year, the tour coordinators are going the extra mile to ensure that it’s a paradise where everyone stays safe and happy (i.e., more like Gilligan’s Island and less like Lord of the Flies).
In an industry first, Warped has partnered with Klean Kanteen to provide unlimited free filtered-water refilling stations at every date on the tour. That’s filtered water, folks. No well-water for Warped fans! Patrons can fill up any cup at the stainless steel stations as much as they need throughout the day, and the tour also worked with venues and promoters on every stop to lower the price of bottled water to $3.00. No excuse to get dehydrated in that mosh pit this year!
You can check out the full list of bands playing each date at the Warped Tour website, but here are the artists who will be hitting the Pomona show this Friday (pick up tix here):
3OH!3
A Day To Remember
A Skylit Drive
Against Me!
Asking Alexandria
Attack Attack!
August Burns Red
Bad Rabbits
Big B
Big Chocolate
Big D And The Kids Table
Black Veil Brides
Blood On The Dance Floor
Cold Forty Three
Dance Gavin Dance
Enter Shikari
Every Avenue
Foxy Shazam
Go Radio
Good Guys In Black
Grieves With Budo
Hellogoodbye
I Set My Friends On Fire
illScarlett
It Boys!
Ivy League
Larry And His Flask
Less Than Jake
Lionize
Lucero
Madina Lake
MC Lars with Weerd Science
Miss May I
Moving Mountains
New Years Day
Of Mice And Men
Passafire
Pepper
Railroad To Alaska
Relient K
Set Your Goals
Sharks
Shut Up And Deal
Simple Plan
So Long Arletta
Stephen Jerzak
Street Dogs
Terrible Things
The Acacia Strain
The Aggrolites
The BOTS
The Dance Party
The Dangerous Summer
The Devil Wears Prada
The Expendables
The Exposed
The Ready Set
The Sheds
The Wonder Years
The Word Alive
There For Tomorrow
Unwritten Law
Vonnegutt
We Came As Romans
Winds Of Plague
Woe, Is Me
For more info on the Van’s Warped Tour 2011:
