Dude, Where's My Skateboard?

We love when we get the opportunity to see a ton of bands in one shot. We love it even more when a couple of the bands are old favorites of ours and others are bands we've never heard of, because it gives us the chance to check out some new music, and if we don't like what we hear, we can always go back to the stuff we know and be completely satisfied. That's why we're pumped up for tomorrow's Vans Warped Tour at the Tweeter Center.

You see, we have this love/hate thing with punk rock. But we're pretty sure that we're going to love tomorrow's show. If we don't, we suspect it will be because of the 95-degree weather and thousand percent humidity, and not the bands playing. We just can't see ourselves not enjoying a couple of our favorite punk bands of all time: Bad Religion and Alkaline Trio. It also helps that Warped, while primarily featuring punk and ska bands, has a few acts that trend more toward hard rock and metal that we can check out. Plus, there are a number of bands we've either become fans of through their CDs or seen live before and are looking forward to: Pepper, Hawthorne Heights, Coheed and Cambria, and Philly's own The Starting Line, to name just a few.

When a show has as many bands playing as the Warped Tour does, it's basically impossible to provide full coverage, but we're going to do our best. Some other unknown (at least to us) bands we're going to try to catch are The Spill Canvas, Amber Pacific, All Time Low, The Confession, The Vincent Black Shadow, and a couple of bands we've heard of but never actually listened to, like Cute is What We Aim For and Funeral for a Friend. And if we're not diggin' what we hear, at least we know there's Bad Religion to get us through.

Oh, and if you're going, remember that the set list times aren't set until the morning of the show, so get there early to make sure you don't miss anyone you want to see.

Vans Warped Tour
August 3, 2007 (Rain or Shine)
Doors at 11AM; Music at Noon
Tweeter Center at the Waterfront (1 Harbour Boulevard in Camden) (map)
Tickets: $28.

Image via Flickr user MGSpiller.