Vans Shoes have long been associated with the music business and extreme sports culture, and the logical result of this symbiosis is the Warped Tour. Bringing some of the Punk, Ska and Hardcore scene's greatest acts (and when I say Hardcore, I mean the kind with guitars, not the Techno variety) to Canada alongside some great displays of skating and other 'street' sports, Warped is the ideal event for someone who fancies some energetic, in-your-face music but feels like a change from EDM.

The tour will visit upwards of thirty locations across the US and Canada this year. The lineup will vary from gig to gig but expect to see the likes of Flogging Molly, Sum 41, Throwdown, Mayday Parade, Killswitch Engage, All Time Low, Coheed & Cambria, Pepper, Boys Like Girls and perennial funk-metal favourites, Fishbone.