After a years-long hiatus, Vans Warped Tour came back to life to celebrate 30 years, and Orlando received the reanimated fest with open arms and plugged ears.
The once summer-only touring fest is largely credited with changing the music festival landscape. It started as an alt-rock and punk fest that grew into a musical cottage-industry, helping to launch artists and serve as a model of what a community-forward fest could look like.
It’s been three decades since, and a 2025 Warped Tour brought with it much of what it used to be — this time, wrapped up in shiny new checkerboard-print packaging…