Rise Against, Thursday, Motion City Soundtrack, From First To Last and NOFX are the first acts confirmed for the 2006 Vans Warped Tour. The 2005 edition of the trek featured the Offspring, My Chemical Romance, Thrice and Hawthorne Heights, among others.
Rise Against has enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2005 with its latest Geffen album, “Siren Song of the Counter-Culture,” which has sold 292,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The group will hit the studio in February with producer Bill Stevenson to record its next album, which is expected for release next summer
As previously reported, the reunited Dinosaur Jr. will film a live DVD during its Dec. 2-3 shows at New York’s Irving Plaza.
— Katie Hasty, N.Y.