As you may recall, last week
Warped Tour announcedthat they will be bringing their traveling carnival of skateboard tricks and faux-hawks to Nashville for the first time since 2006. Now we know who — at least in part — to thank (or blame, depending on how mad slam-dancing makes you):
high-concept synth-rock locals The Protomen have been added to every single date of this year's Warped Tour.
As announced on Warped Roadies, a reality show about loading gear out of trucks on a cable channel that I don't get, The Protomen will join bands with names like Tear Out the Heart, Plague Vendor and Stray From the Path for the entirety of the Vans Warped Tour — from mid-June to early August. I can only assume that they will be the only band with the “Opera” genre under their name. Devoted Proto-fans may recall way back in 2008, when the band was up for a battle-of-the-bands contest in Atlanta. Better late than never, I guess.
For those of you keeping score at home, The Protomen aren't the first unlikely locals to join up with the Vans Warped Tour — just last year, electro-noise trio Five Knives landed on a short stint of dates and, before that, Wick-It the Instigator manned the ones and twos for disaffected youths/this guy doing the robot in Portland. Lineup additions are announced weekly on the aforementioned roadie show, so we'll keep an eye out for other locals joining up on the bill.
In other Warped Tour news, tickets to the July 29 stop at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds have gone on sale for the low, low price of $25. Scoop them up now, for the sneering teenager in your life. And if you want to see The Protomen play indoors, they're co-headlining a New Years Eve party with Diarrhea Planet at Exit/In.
