Noisey is reporting that Vans Warped Tour will be coming to an end next year after one last cross-country tour, eliminating both the traveling punk-themed music festival itself and the Warped Tour’s use as a metric for just how out of touch a given person is with what “the kids” are listening to today. That means young people will no longer be able to spend a summer day in a mosh pit, listening to their favorite songs from Being As An Ocean, Doll Skin, Hands Like Houses, and Carousel Kings, while older people will no longer be able to peruse a list of bands like that and wonder if any of them are real.
Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman announced the news himself in a statement on the festival’s website, and though he doesn’t give a specific explanation for why the festival is ending, he does touch on a lot of the ways that the music world has changed since Warped Tour began in 1995—perhaps implying that things have now changed too much. Whatever the reason, he touches on a lot of the big acts that have gone through the Warped Tour over the years, including Blink-182, No Doubt, The Offspring, Rancid, Avenged Sevenfold, and Fall Out Boy, as well as Katy Perry and The Black Eyed Peas.