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The Vans Warped Tour returns with the Shoreline Waterfront Long Beach leg

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The Vans Warped Tour, which ended in 2019, will return next year with three dates, including one in Long Beach.

The festival announced on social media Thursday that it will return for its 30th year with stops in Long Beach, Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Florida.

Vans Warped Tour lineup

As of Friday, no artists had been announced.

“We’re so back,” the festival announced on X.

Vans Warped Tour presale

Tickets go on sale October 24th at 9 a.m. on the festival's website at vanswarpedtour.com. Two-day passes start at $149.98, including fees, the post says.

The all-ages Long Beach shows are July 26 and 27 at the Shoreline Waterfront, 386 E. Shoreline Drive. Entrance is at 11 a.m

Regular two-day passes and VIP two-day passes are listed, but pricing was not available until Thursday.

What is Vans Warped Tour?

Founded by Kevin Lyman and sponsored by Vans, the Vans Warped Tour was a traveling punk and alternative rock tour that began in 1995 and ended in 2019.

Over the years, Eminem, Machine Gun Kelly, Ice-T, Katy Perry, Insane Clown Posse, No Doubt, Weezer and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts have toured.

For its 25th anniversary in 2019, the festival made three stops in Mountain View, California, Cleveland, Ohio and Atlantic City, New Jersey. The latest tour was a significant reduction in tour stops compared to 2018, when there were nearly 40 shows across the country.

Recent dates in Mountain View have featured punk rock acts The Offspring, Bad Religion and Sum 41. Musician Yungblud and hip-hop members Chali 2NA and Cut Chemist also performed.

In 2018, founder Kevin Lyman announced that it would be the last year that so many dates would take place across the country.

“It is with mixed emotions that I am here to announce that the final full cross-country run of the Vans Warped Tour will take place in 2018,” Lyman said in a statement on the festival website this year.

The 2018 festival made stops in California in Pomona, San Diego, Mountain View and Ventura, as well as the East Coast, Midwest and South. Included were electro-pop act 3OH!3, pop-punk group Good Charlotte and country singer Cassadee Pope.

In a Kerrang! In the 2019 podcast, Lyman said, “When I finally started thinking about ending it after 25 years, I thought, 'I think we've lost the sense of community.'”

Wes Woods II covers West County for the Ventura County Star. Reach him at [email protected], 805-437-0262 or @JournoWes.

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