OK, it's only 7:30 ... but Warped Tour ends in about an hour, so this'll be my last entry today. Got a formal review to file (be sure to check that out here), though I do plan to stay for...
That's being unleashed now by Buffalo, N.Y.'s Every Time I Die, which is absolutely killing folks with its larded-up-and-flash-fried brand of hardcore metal. Telling moment: someone threw up a blow-up doll as a sacrifice, which proceded to body-surf its way...
... for Ms. Perry: that she has to do a signing soundtracked by the horrendous racket that Greeley Estates is belching up (or, um, hurling?) on the Hurley Stage. Her tent is right across from it. Arrggh! Get me out...
... OK. Katy Perry may have underwhelmed me, but some folks - oh, I'd say about 125 right now - liked her enough to line up at her artist booth. Not to buy fresh T-shirts or crushed-velvet pink gym shorts...
Ummm ... no. I caught the last two songs of Katy Perry's set on the Hurley.com Stage, which is in the amphitheater. That would be where the Hurley Stage isn't (whew! on that near flub-up!). Where do they come up...
Man, oh man I love this band. As much as Paramore has been touring since "Riot!" shattered the ceiling for it in 2007, Hayley Williams is actually singing better than she did mid-year last year. One niggle: the set lacks...
She's supposed to take the Hurley Stage in about 10 minutes (ain't it humorous that she was scheduled to play such a small platform, even though she's got the No. 1 pop song in the country? Ha!). And the setting...
Wooow. Christian funk rockers Family Force 5 has just about as many gathered around the Hurley Stage - a smaller stage set in a corner waaay across the tent concourses from the side-by-side Main Stages - as Story of the...
Luis Dubuc is a metalhead. You'd never know it from the synth-fried beats of his band, the Secret Handshake. It's the latest in a string of electro-emo major-label success stories out of the Dallas area - Mr. Dubuc's lived in...
Despite being around for only six years, Aggrolites are already pretty legendary for its party-ready ska-reggae music. It's kind of as if James Brown, Squirrel Nut Zippers, the Wailers and Slightly Stoopid were rolled into a giant sleeping bag. On...
Oh, they're here ... whichever two are the angels in Angels & Airwaves. But the band's a little flat, because the guitarist's axe was flat all throughout "It Hurts." Otherwise, the spunk is there, even though front man Tom DeLonge...
Consider this: this is the last of back-to-back-to-back daily Warped stops. Yesterday it arrived overnight from near Kansas City: the day before that, it was the St. Louis area. Also consider this: the front side of the east parking lot...
Caught about 10 minutes of Jack's Mannequin, which is leukemia survivor and former Something Corporate singer Andrew McMahon's present deal. Not shabby - Mr. McMahon's on-stage A.D.D. mimicry is back in force, and he sang admirably, if not without a...
Set between the two main stages is a giant inflatable panel with the band schedules on it. Each band (well, the ones on most of the tour, anyway) has a vinyl-coated cloth sign with its name on it, and the...
So by the time that those two stage schedules had been sent to my phone (by the way, they've arrived just after the gates opened the past two years), I missed these bands that were mentioned in my preview in...
I caught the last part of Against Me!'s set on the right Main Stage. It was as expected; Tight, tense and swirling with electricity. Note: the singer sounds an awful lot like Ian Astbury of the Cult at times ......
... sort of. Canada's Protest the Hero is by far the most technical band at Warped this year. It's not disappointing in that regard: time changes, scale runs, vocal-style changes on a dime - heck, even the bassist is fingertapping...
OK: scratch what I just wrote about Gym Class Heroes, because it just hurled a curve ball that made even my knees buckle ... ... it just played a shortened cover of Lamb of God's "Laid to Rest." Never heard...
The folks at Warped have made a few layout changes that seem mostly to be positive. For instance: there's a VIP platform between both main stages now: pay a premium, and it won't matter how short you are! More non-profit...
You'd think, as this is the third year that Warped's offered to send stage schedules to your mobile phone via text messages, that it'd have the system virtually bug-proof. Nope. I've received skeds for just two of the seven stages...
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