Just as every sunrise brings a new day, so does every summer bring a new Warped Tour. Giving fans a preview of the punk festival's 2012 lineup,
Vans Warped Tour '12: 2012 Tour Compilation gives a bird's-eye view of what the tour has to offer with two discs and 50 tracks of summertime goodness. With so many tracks, the collection features a wide array of genres and artists, ranging from straight-ahead punk via
Anti-Flag and
Rise Against to the unpredictable metalcore of
Iwrestledabearonce and even the plaintive, rootsy sound of
Chuck Ragan. Like the tour compilations that came before,
2012 Tour Compilation acts not only as a preview of the tour, but also as a snapshot of the trends currently raging through mainstream punk. ~ Gregory Heaney