Sirius Satellite Radio's action sports/music channel, Faction (28), is giving full behind the scenes coverage of America's music and extreme sports touring festival: the Vans Warped Tour.
The 13th annual Vans Warped Tour line-up this year includes Bad Religion, Coheed and Cambria, Paramore, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Circa Survive, Hawthorn Heights, Pennywise among many others.
Pro skater and musician Mike V will be Faction's onsite reporter with daily updates and weekly wrap-ups. He'll also be skating in a custom-built half-pipe and performing with his band Revolution Mother in his spare time.
"Warped Weekly" airs Sunday's at 7pm ET and "Warped Weekly" airs... everyday. Tully (Faction's daily afternoon host) is also broadcasting live backstage from select cities.
Coverage airs all summer long through August 25th.
OzzFest and Warped Tour... XM continues to do nothing of significance with their Effanel property.
Kinda makes one glad that XM didn't get the WCS spectrum; management would be incapable of doing anything with it.
it would be difficult for me to call either the warped tour or ozzfest "significant". to me they are just corporate sponsored events to make kids feel good about shopping at walmart. one dowside to a merger would be one less chioce for people who dont care to listen to that kind of vapid performance. i applaud xm for not participating in these events.
Great job by Sirius and Faction in keeping up with current music. I'll be at Warped this year checking out Coheed, Killswitch, and one of my favorite up-and-coming bands, Chiodos (among many others). I'll be talking up Sirius to anyone I meet.
Mike V. is 100% badass. It's a bonus to have him representing on Sirius. I'm looking forward to seeing his skate demos at Warped.