Artists discuss the
evolution of Warped Tour
By DOMINIC POLSINELLI
Summer Senior Arts Editor
I’m sure a lot of you are
wondering why the Daily is
covering Warped Tour in 2017. As
a college newspaper, our standard
music coverage typically includes
anything from indie rock to
underground hip hop — anything
but the Warped Tour scene. Yet
in recent years, Warped has been
actively marketing the festival
toward older crowds, those who
reveled in the scene as tweens in
the earlier part of the 2000s. With
bands like Silverstein, Hawthorne
Heights, Adolescents and more
whose popularity exploded more
than a decade (or even two) ago,
Warped 2017 has made a clear
attempt to diversify its crowd
demographic.
By attending Warped Tour’s
Auburn Hills date just over a
week ago and speaking with a few
bands, I’ve learned that Warped
is more than its perceived social
stigmas. Warped is more than an
opportunity for bands to perform
to wide audiences and garner
some new fans. It’s a time for
bands and attendees alike to hang
out with their friends and revel in
the camaraderie of music.
Knocked Loose
It really goes without saying
that Knocked Loose is a brutal
band. With arguably the most
popularity of the newcomers
on the Full Sail Stage (the stage
reserved for new, young bands
on the tour), Knocked Loose’s
crowds have been explosive and
aggressive.
Frontman
Bryan
Garris, while soft spoken and
thoughtful in conversation, packs
a punch on stage with his harsh
vocals and an energy to match
the crowd’s. Halfway through
Warped, Garris has reflected
positively on his experiences so
far.
“(Warped has) been going
great. It’s been a lot of fun. It’s
hard work, but it’s so rewarding
because our sets have been going
better than they ever have. We’ve
gotten the opportunity to play in
front of so many new people. On
top of that, we have old friends
and have been making a lot of new
friends. So it’s just been such a fun
tour,” he said.
Garris has been fully aware
of the band’s relatively popular
status on Warped, citing past
tours that have helped them
gain this credibility with only
one album and a few EPs to their
name. Their set in Michigan was
by far one of the best I witnessed
throughout the day, featuring a
pit barely contained within the
confines of the width of the stage.
“I think that the overall hype
has grown a little bit. Since then
we toured Europe and Australia.
Then we did a full US with Every
Time I Die. I think that’s obviously
helped people to notice us and
help people to find out who we
are so that our sets are a little bit
bigger when we play on Warped.
And then also we try to learn from
everybody that we tour with… We
are still very new, and we’re all
very young so we look up to a lot of
the people we’re fortunate enough
to call our friends,” he said.
Garris also cited Hatebreed and
Stick To Your Guns as his favorites
to see on Warped this year, along
with fellow newcomers Boston
Manor and Movements.
After Warped, Garris said that
we can expect new material to
be on the way: “We were just so
focused on Warped and preparing
for this tour that we kind of put
writing off, and we’ll probably
jump into it when we get home
because all of us are in that zone
now — we are ready to write.
If you’re attending one of the
later Warped dates, you can check
out Knocked Loose on the Full
Sail Stage where you can expect to
hear some mind-blowing modern
hardcore.
Microwave
As another first timer on
Warped, frontman of Microwave
Nathan Hardy has gained a
positive outlook on the festival
from his experiences, despite
previous
misconceptions
of
Warped’s social stigmas.
“We actually really love it. We
were really hesitant for a long time
about wanting to participate with
Warped, just because we’re stupid
I guess,” he laughs off. “I don’t
know, I feel like there was a stigma
associated with Warped for a long
time… Like you’re marketing
yourself to 14-year-old girls or
something. But honestly it’s been
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CEOs from health
and ecology sectors
discuss effective
business models
By EDUARDO BATISTA
Daily Staff Reporter
Nearly
30
entrepreneurs
gathered at the Ann Arbor SPARK
headquarters on South Division
Street to discuss emerging initiatives
in the entrepreneurship community
in Michigan Tuesday afternoon.
In addition to hosting CEOs
from a variety of industries — from
healthcare technology to gaming —
the event also featured Rep. Debbie
Dingell (D–Mich.), who represents
Michigan’s 12th District.
Among the companies represented
was
Collective
Scientific
LLC,
an
accelerating
drug
discovery
startup that works closely with drug
developers to optimize research
processes in the earlier stages of
medicine discovery.
Bret Self, co-founder and CEO
of Collective Scientific, highlighted
his company’s role in reducing the
amount of time research institutions
spend on early development stages.
“At
Collective
Scientific,
we
speed up the process of developing
early pharmaceutical research by
using our softwares, algorithms
and simulation to help our clients
discover marketable drugs,” he said.
“And we do this by modeling, through
our molecule research services, a
protein target and decomposing its
properties on the molecular level, so
we can understand how to speed up
research.”
The
event
also
featured
a
ANN ARBOR
See WARPED, Page 7
See DINGELL, Page 3
GRAPHIC BY MICHELLE PHILLIPS
Dingell talks
community
involvement
with local
businesses