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Well, It’s coming to that time to start gearing up for one of my favourite events of the year – the Vans Warped Tour!!!

This year the tour is celebrating its 15th anniversary!

The Toronto show is scheduled for Friday July 10th, on the concrete parking lot floors or Arrow Hall.  This years tour is reportedly featuring fewer bands with the idea of giving each band an additional 10 minutes to play.  Bands rocking the various stages include, but are not limited to:

3Oh!3, A Day To Remember, A Skylit Drive, Aiden ,Anti-Flag,Attack attack, Bad Religion, Bayside, Big D and the Kids Table, Black Tide, Breathe Carolina, BrokeNCYDE, Chiodos, Dance Gavin Dance, Dear and the Headlights, Escape the Fate, Flogging Molly, Gallows, Hit the Lights, I Set My Friends On Fire, In This Moment, InnerPartySystem, ivy league, Jeffree Star, Less Than Jake, LIGHTS, Longway, Madina Lake, Meg and Dia, Millionaires, NOFX, POS, Saosin, Senses Fail, Shad, Shooter Jennings, Silverstein, Sing It Loud, Streetlight Manifesto, TAT, The AKAs, the architects, The Devil Wears Prada, The Maine, The White Tie Affair, There for Tomorrow, Therefore I Am, TV/TV, Underoath, VersaEmerge, Westbound Train

Of these bands, it appears that Saosin is the headliner

Heads up for those wanting to score early bird tickets, Thursday is your last chance to order one from Early bird ticket also come with a compilation CD and a limited edition hologram ticket.(Toronto show only has 50 early bird tickets left as of this post)

feel free to comment on your favourite warped tour band, or talk about other fun warped tour stuff!

Earlier in May of this year, the band Filter released their fourth album – “Anthems for the Damned”. I believe it to be quite a solid release. The content focuses largely on issues surrounding the state of the world today, with a strong anti-war message (as depicted by the first single, Soldiers of Misfortune). There are a number of hard hitting tracks (eg. In Dreams, The Take, and the powerful What’s Next) mixed in with some softer more emotional tunes (eg. Lie After Lie, Only You) and their more typical industrial pop songs (eg. Kill the Day) similar to Take A Picture, from their “Title of Record” release. Below I’ve included the video for Soldiers of Misfortune.

Fun facts about Filter:

Fun fact number one – their bassist will no longer be with them as he is part of the US army reserve, and is shipping off to serve in Iraq

Fun fact number two – frontman Richard Patrick is brother to Robert Patrick, the actor that played the role of the T-1000 in Terminator 2, among many other movie and tv roles

Fun fact number three – Richard Patrick was a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails in their early career