Regardless of your feelings about the Vans Warped Tour lineup, the slow drip, alphabetical order reveal is exactly the kind of conversation starter fans of pop punk love. If you’re attending the already sold-out festival, you most likely care about who will be revealed. If you attended the festival since its launch in 1995, you’re probably looking for names that played the first iteration. If you’re a music nerd, you might be checking whatever acts are on the Spotify Pop Punk Today (or whatever it’s called) playlist. This presentation is a simple, effective way to get anyone with any interest in a music festival to wonder about who’s playing a music festival.

Since we’re based in D.C., here are our best guesses on who is yet to be announced for the June 14 and 15 Washington, D.C. Warped Tour dates. A mix of vets and up-and-comers, all of these acts have either played past iterations of Warped Tour, included on an official Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist and/or already playing massive summer festivals in 2025. All of these acts are actively touring or at least not broken up. They also don’t have any conflicts, at least nothing as of this writing. This is not a wish list or paid content by Vans or Spotify or anyone. This is a fun musical puzzle. 

Here are the 23 remaining acts we think, maybe, might be announced on the Washington, D.C. 2025 Warped Tour. All of them fit the blacked out boxes, at least alphabetically and sonically.

1 – Alkaline Trio – Warped Tour vets, playing Slam Dunk Festival 2025

2 – Andrew WK – Warped Tour vet

3 – carolinesdaughter –  included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist

4 – Forever The Sickest Kids – Warped Tour vets, included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist

5 – Gatsby’s American Dream – Warped Tour vets

6 – GEL – playing Coachella 

7 – Glixen – Included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist, playing Coachella

8 – Handguns – Warped Tour vets, included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist

9 – Hot Milk – Included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist, playing Coachella

10 – Kill Lincoln – playing Buffalo Ska Fest 

11 – Less Than Jake – Warped Tour vets, playing on June 14 in Pennsylvania with already announced for Warped Tour act Fishbone

12 – Mayday Parade – Warped Tour vets, included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist, playing Summerfest and When We Were Young Festival

13 – Real Friends – Warped Tour vets

14 – Scowl – playing Slam Dunk Festival 

15 – Skating Polly – Warped Tour vets

16 – Strawberry Hospital –  included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist  

17 – Street Drum Corps – Warped Tour vets 

18 – The Acacia Strain – Warped Tour vets, included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist, playing Milwaukee Metal Fest

19 – The Academy Is… – Warped Tour vets, included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist  

20 – The Suicide Machines – Warped Tour vets, playing June 14 with already announced Fishbone

21 – The Used – Warped Tour vets, playing Slam Dunk Festival

22 – Thursday – Warped Tour vets

23 – Worst Party Ever – Warped Tour vets, included on the ‘warpedcore: the people’s playlist’ Vans Warped Tour Spotify playlist  

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