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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NEWS ....................................
OPINION ............................... 
ARTS ......................................
CLASSIFIEDS.........................
MiC.........................................
SPORTS................................

NEWS
Governor’s race

Gubernatorial candidates 

declare campaign finances. 

>> SEE PAGE 8

NEWS
Summer Ross

Incoming Business 

students from under-

resourced high schools 

take summer classes. 

>> SEE PAGE 3

OPINION
Skinny repeal

“14 million more 

Americans would go 

uninsured in 2018...”

>> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS
Album Review: 
Arcade Fire 
disappoints with 
Everything Now 

>> SEE PAGE 6

SPORTS
Men’s basketball

Reports have John Beilein 

adding two new members 

to his coaching staff.

>> SEE PAGE 12

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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

