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Are you ready for a return of Warped Tour in 2025? Because it might be happening.<\/p>\n
According to a report by Rock Feed<\/em>, multiple sources familiar with the matter have alluded to a return of Warped Tour in 2025. The alleged return will be overseen by Live Nation with involvement by founder Kevin Lyman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, Warped Tour will celebrate its anniversary with a series of festivals next year when Warped Tour returns in 2025,” said Rock Feed<\/em>‘s Brian Storm<\/strong>. “The rock festival will now be overseen by Live Nation, although Festival founder Kevin Lyman<\/strong> is said to be heavily involved. A request for comment from Live Nation was not returned.”<\/p>\n Warped Tour originally ran as a full-on touring festival between 1995 and 2018, with some 25th<\/sup> anniversary one-off shows happening in 2019. Lyman<\/strong> teased a possible return of the festival under a different name for 2021<\/a>, but of course the pandemic got in the way. There was also talk of Attila<\/strong>‘s Chris Fronzak<\/strong> buying the festival<\/a>, though that never seems to have come to fruition.<\/p>\n As Lynman<\/strong> said to Kerrang!<\/em> in a 2019 interview regarding the shutdown of the festival:<\/p>\n “It got very frustrating around 2017. I was challenged by the fractured fan base, the fractured band base, the sense of community and what I got involved in this for, and what brought me into punk rock that I said ‘you know, if it’s changed this much, maybe it’s time for me to wind this thing down.’<\/p>\n “2017, no matter who I put up, it was like ‘F that band, F that band, where’s this band?’ It was just like, what happened to the acceptance of music and that love of music? And I realized that we had pushed the audience down to a young level\u2014’Warped got known as a young [tour.] But I did that because I wanted to young people to get exposed to this music, to maybe support independent music for a longer time.”<\/p>\n \n