(Video: Vans Warped Tour via YouTube)

For about seven years in the mid-aughts to the early 2010s, I gathered every shekel I could, far too little sunscreen, and a really rad band t-shirt and headed to Vans Warped Tour. At BSL, we have a hunch a lot of our readers did so...

(All images by Nicole Sergent, see the full gallery here) 

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Balanced Breakfast had us thankfully praising the music gods and goddesses (Image by Nicole Sergent)

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In an amusing interview with Buddy Schaub, we got to discuss everything from Less Than Jake's musical future to kids needing to buy record players and music from the source. Check it out below!

Special thanks to Nick Arceneaux our videographer and organizers of the Warp...

Picture this: a throbbing crowd getting water guns sprayed all over them. Or maybe this: a bevy of beach balls being tossed around through an audience. Or better yet: a damn good concert.

Filling the air with ska-punk beats, Less Than Jake put on a riveting performance...

Pepper: a band that might not be a household name, but probably should be one.

When reviewing a lineup of Warped Tour, this bad stands out a bit among many screamo and guitar heavy bands. Pepper, a band consisting of three members exhibits a distinctly tropical vibe. Th...

Tucked away at the Full Sail stage, a singular man wailed his lungs out. That man was Donovan Melero, the lead singer of Hail The Sun, a hardcore band formed in Chico, California (where Ryan Atwood from The O.C. is from-swoon) that performed a strong show at Warped Tou...

For the first time in rock history, I witnessed a shift. A shift in realizing the potential of an undervalued asset. A shift in recognizing a pattern. A shift in knowing that despite whatever horror the present presents that our future holds something brighter than all...