Warped Tour announces Vegas venue

Unwritten Law: one of the bands performing at Warped Tour 2011

By Spencer Patterson

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 | 10:01 a.m.

And Las Vegas’ first Warped Tour stop in seven years will take place at … the parking lot to the south of the shuttered Plaza Hotel.

The annual, traveling summer music festival—making its first appearance here since a 2004 date at Desert Breeze Skate Park—lands Downtows on June 30. Pre-sale tickets go on sale March 26 at 10 a.m., and the official Warped website is currently hosting pre-registration for ticket-package deals.

Confirmed bands for the tour, thus far: A Skylit Drive, Abandon All Ships, Bad Rabbits, Big B, Big Chocolate, Big D and the Kids Table, Black List Royals, Black Square, Blood on the Dance Floor, Cold Forty Three, D.R.U.G.S., Dance Gavin Dance, DC Fallout, Demerit, Enter Shikari, Every Avenue, Eyes Set to Kill, Family Force Five, Foxy Shazam, Freshman 15, Gatsby’s American Dream, Go Radio, Good Guys in Black, Grieves with Budo, Hellogoodbye, I Set My Friends on Fire, IllScarlett, It Boys!, Larry and His Flask, Lionize, Lucero, Machree, MC Lars with Weerd Science, Middle Class Rut, Miss May I, Mojo Morgan, Moving Mountains, My Arcadia, Neo Geo, New Years Day, Of Mice and Men, Passafire, Peelander-Z, Pepper, Places and Numbers, Relient K, Rivery City Extension, Set Your Goals, Sharks, Shut Up and Deal, Sick of Sarah, Simple Plan, Stephen Jerzak, Terrible Things, The Acacia Strain, The Aggrolites, The Black Pacific, The BOTS, The Dance Party, The Dangerous Summer, The Expendables, The Exposed, The Menzingers, The Narrative, The Ready Set, The Sheds, The Suit, The Wonder Years, The Word Alive, There for Tomorrow, Unwritten Law, Veara, Vonnegutt, We Came as Romans, Winds of Plague, Windsor Drive, Woe Is Me and Yelawolf.

The average high temperature for June 30 in Las Vegas is 103 degrees, according to weather.com.