I caught a glimpse of The Sounds, and also watched Motion City Soundtrack, Hellogoodbye, and the Pink Spiders. I am thoroughly confused by this new electronic wave taking over the Warped Tour. Ten years ago, bands with that kind of sound would never be considered to play. Now, it's the new fad. Long Island girls could be seen dancing to these bands in their miniskirts, singing every word, and calling out to their favorite member in desperate shrieks. Since when did Warped become the new Tiger Beat?
Then there are the more "hardcore" bands; Aiden, Underoath, 18 Visions, From Autumn To Ashes, Rise Against, and Thursday. Aiden was headlining this tour, and why a hardcore band is headlining Warped Tour is incomprehensible to me. Underoath was a no-show, they dropped the tour due to "friendship issues," which is speculated to be a cover-up to the possibility they were offended by rude and crass comments made by Fat Mike of fellow Warped Tour band NOFX.
18 Visions is metal, and this is not Ozzfest. From Autumn To Ashes, Rise Against, and Thursday are all hardcore-type screamo, and no one associates punk music with screamo, ever. Although, I was impressed by Thursday's performance, when lead singer Geoff broke his nose after bashing his face in with his microphone while swinging it, and continued the song and screamed his heart out all while forming a blood bath on stage, on his face, and on the mic in true rockstar fashion.
Then, I found it. The reason I had came, the reason Warped Tour was made. The last traces of original punk rock roots on this tour. No strangers to Warped Tour, Less Than Jake took the stage with a huge following. It was one of the few bands I had come to this show specifically for.
Chris Demakes, guitarist and vocalist, made the comment, "It seems that bands today don't sing anymore. All they do is whine about their life and then scream uncontrollably." Chris then proceeded to comically demonstrate the hardcore screaming found in bands like Underoath. "But we're Less Than Jake, and me and Roger are going to sing you a f**king song." For their last song, Less Than Jake formed an enormous circle pit, and had the crowd more energized than I had ever seen.
Article comments
1 - author sucks
hi. your punk. so is the warped tour.
fuck your god fuck your religion fuck jesus fuck the warped tour and fuck you posers. only good bands on the tour are buzzcocks, germs (not even the real band anymore w/o darby (r.i.p.), against me and nofx. warped tour is as commercial as fucking christmas now. and stop confuse the shit that passes off as punk today with the true 80's punk/emo.
2 - author sucks
oh and if you know anything rock you know that the warped tour is a piece of shit show filled with a bunch of 15 yr old losers who probably couldnt even tell you who the bad brains or DK were let alone leftover crack, crucifucks, reagan youth and Millions of Dead Cops.
3 - "Author"
wow. way to be an ignorant stereotype. i feel sorry for you and what you think is such a righteous "battle".
P.S. next time don't waste your time trying to school a vet. I'm no 15 year old and I'm no name-dropping "poseur" who needs to curse to justify myself.
THANKS FOR READING =)
4 - lovett
id just like to say...
i ersonally like nofx they are a great band even if they do offend christians but if you looed at other music of theirs they also critisize government such as president bush himself ect
also rise against being my favourite band are great...you said that they are screamo or to a certain extent, and i have to say they are not really that screamo if you listened to more than a few tracks you would realise that they are not screamo they are more rock/punk with a slight bit of screaming in it, if you want to hear screaming then go listen to bands such as soil!
however you are right in your reply before you do not need to curse and scream to justify yourself, and i am a 15 year old who trys to enjoy all the rock music they can get (for the person above)
at the end of the day each to themselves but thnx for the report tis nice to read others than the mainstream reports given by the official concert providers
5 - xinsanity
Actually just because ur 15 doesn't mean u dnt have great taste in music.
Leftover crack happens to be me nd my friends fav. Band.
We go to all of their shows.
And yes I know they aren't allowed to play in the city (n.y), but guess what. THEY STILL DO
U just have to know the right place to go to.
6 - stevie
WHT D F S D WARP TOOR
7 - joe armstrong
I love Jesus. You need to burn in hell "Author Sucks"