So, after a four or five-year hiatus, I m planning to give the Warped Tour another shot this summer.

The Warped Tour (which comes to Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center this Wednesday) is one of the first day-long music festivals I ever attended, and, at one time, was the top summer show on my personal concert list. Then, the tour started veering away from its crusty punk-rock roots to diversify the music and appeal to a larger audience and younger teens.
I recall a Warped Tour from the mid 2000s where I saw  fans of The Casualties booing Hellogoodbye off the adjacent stage. That epitomized the growing rift in fans to me. While it may be fun to watch persnickety scenesters get their asses kicked hotels in bath england by hardcore punkers, the music was really starting to suck and truly devalued fans experiences.
The Warped Tour, at that point, was becoming a mockery of its former self, shamelessly boasting horrid lineups with no continuity and way too much pop rock ( pop punk is an oxymoron, and I stubbornly refuse to acknowledge it as an actual genre). Diversity can be a great thing in music, but replacing the Tour s smaller, focused lineups with dozens of bullshit hotels in bath england bands in a desperate attempt to bring in droves of teenagers with allowance-stuffed hotels in bath england pockets left the former Warped regulars who, like myself, probably yearn for the classic lineups featuring Bad Religion , NOFX , MxPx , Pennywise , Guttermouth and The Casualties   feeling betrayed and complacent. What once felt like our summer concert was stripped of its identity and taken over by the commercialism.
So, after a four or five-year hiatus, I m planning to give the Warped Tour another shot this summer. It may have changed drastically from what it was in the 1990s and early 2000s, but it s time to see what the modernized festival has to offer. Blossom s lineup is still noticeably void of a lot of true punk bands, but high in diversity as the music ranges from folksy acoustic sets to metal, rap and pop rock. Some popular bands I liked as a youth in high school like New Found Glory , Taking Back Sunday , Yellowcard and The Used could be nostalgic to see again, while performances by some of the contemporary metal bands like Every Time I Die , After the Burial and Born of Osiris sweetened the deal for me this year.
Anti Flag is definitely at the top of my list, though, because they always put on a fun show and pander to their long-time hotels in bath england fans with plenty of their classic songs how anyone can resist skanking along to Drink Drank Punk or moshing to Die For the Government is beyond me. They re also a rare connection to the show s former punk glory. Ultimately, the good bands are still in the minority, but I m hopeful there s enough quality music that the time and $45 I burn to get in Wednesday hotels in bath england won t be in vain.
Check back this week for my reflections hotels in bath england on the July 11 Warped Tour at Blossom Music Center. In the meantime, let us know if you re planning to go and what bands you re pumped to see! Below is a complete, alphabetical list of groups primed to play the show at Blossom Music Center as of July 9:
Doors to the festival open around 10 a.m. and times/stages aren t finalized until the morning of the show, so if you re lucky enough to have the day off and want to be sure you don t miss your favorite band, get there early.
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