Elder emos rejoice — and scoff — at Warped Tour’s return in 2025 with 3 2-day festivals, including Long Beach

Warped Tour is “so back” with three two-day festivals celebrating the 30th anniversary of the iconic music festival announced for summer and fall of next year, including Long Beach.

Not a single band has been announced for the events — Washington D.C. (June 14-15), Long Beach (July 26-27) and Orlando (Nov. 15-16) — but presale is set to launch Thursday, Oct. 24 at 9 a.m. PST with two-day passes starting at $150 (fees included), according to the official Warped Tour social media accounts.

Each festival will feature 70 to 100 bands, founder Kevin Lyman told Rolling Stone, adding that it will be a mix of past Warped Tour bands and new artists.

In a video posted on Instagram, Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson laced up a pair of classic Vans shoes at Marina Green Park, where the festival will take place.

“This is big,” Richardson says in the video. “This will be the biggest music event in Long Beach history.”

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The first Warped Tour, founded by Kevin Lyman, traversed the U.S. in 1995, with Vans coming on as the primary sponsor the following year. It ran every summer with dates across the country — and internationally — through 2018, hosting more than 1,700 bands, according to Lyman.

In 2019, the festival returned for its 25th anniversary, not as a tour, but as a series of three events in Cleveland, Atlantic City and Mountain View.

While many veterans of the sonic symphony are eagerly awaiting the drop of presale tickets, others have taken to social media to voice their frustration with the condensed format, lamenting what they say made Warped Tour so special in the past — namely actually being a tour.

“[W]hat was so loved and cherished about warped was the fact that it was a touring festival,” @lmaopayton said on X. “[A] cheap, one day show full of all the bands you wanna see. [N]ot a whole weekend event. [W]e already have shit like this and we don't need anymore lineups of the same recycled bands.”

Others noted the cost of the festival — especially with no bands announced. For the 25th anniversary show in Mountain View, early bird two-day passes started at $100, followed by general admission presale going for $120.

Like many festivals nowadays, the cost does not stop at the tickets. Many will travel to these dates, incurring additional costs such as flights, hotel rooms and more.

“That’s why Warped Tour coming to you was so special,” State of the Scene wrote on X.