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Dozens of millennial emo and pop-punk acts to play Las Vegas’ When We Were Young festival

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Update: After tickets for the October 22 sold out, promoters have added a second date—Sunday, October 23—which will feature the same lineup. Tickets are on sale now at whenwewereyoungfestival.com.

 

Live Nation’s When We Were Young festival—the single-day, band-packed event whose poster looks like a millennial’s skateboard deck—relocates from Southern California to Las Vegas on October 22.

Large-font names—presumably headliners—include My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Bring Me the Horizon, A Day to Remember, Avril Lavigne, Bright Eyes and Jimmy Eat World, and the undercard is similarly stacked: Taking Back Sunday, AFI, The Used, Dashboard Confessional, Alkaline Trio, Glassjaw, Car Seat Headrest, Thursday, Wolf Alice, The All-American Rejects, The Linda Lindas, Manchester Orchestra and literally dozens of others will spread out across multiple Las Vegas Festival Grounds stages for an all-day emo and pop-punk buffet.

Tickets are premium-priced for a single-day event. General admission tickets cost $225; GA+ tickets, which include a dedicated entry lane and air-conditioned bathroom, range from $400 to $420. VIP admission, which includes the above plus a separate main stage viewing area and phone charging stations, is $500, and the baller VIP Cabana experience, which bypasses merch lines and offers covered viewing areas, is a royal $12,500 for a group of up to 10.

It seems entirely likely that festival-starved frequent flyers, grounded these past two years, will swarm on these tickets once they drop on January 21. If you want to grab yours, go to whenwewereyoungfestival.com now and make a $19.99 down payment.

 

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