Warped Weekend

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The Vans Warped Tour rolls into town Saturday, July 21, at Bicentennial Park, 1075 Biscayne Blvd, Miami. Gates open at 11:00 a.m., and tickets cost $31. Visit www.ticketmaster.com or www.warpedtour.com.

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• Warped Tour
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• Iain Terry
• Anberlin
• New Found Glory

The Vans Warped Tour, that all-day extravaganza of punkish rock bands, extreme sports, and alternative youth lifestyle branding, turns lucky 13 this summer. In celebration, the sprawling, multistage, all-day affair has grown even larger. The band lineup alone features something like 55-plus names. And then there are all the vendor tents and attractions.

Let's face it: Even if you're 16 years old and bursting with energy, and arrive promptly at the 11:00 a.m. opening, it is pretty much impossible to see every band. You need a plan of attack. Here are some suggestions for breaking down the day's musical lineup by a series of themes; the lists are alphabetized, so grab a band schedule at the venue. And if you somehow get bored, check out the Lucha Libre tent (complete with live Mexican wrestling) or the Guitar Hero II tent or the Vans Skate Ramp or....

The Sunshine State represents, from the superlocal to pop radio superstars, spread across an array of stages.

Anberlin: Orlando-based post-emo with a modern-rock radio sheen

Don't Die Cindy: Panama City fast rockers touch on prog

Lower Class Trash: West Palm Beach punk

Mayday Parade: Melodic rock from Tallahassee

New Found Glory: Coral Springs's greatest claim to fame, bona fide pop-punk stars

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus: Heard of Middleburg, Florida? No? But you've probably heard of this impassioned five-piece that headlined this year's Take Action! Tour

Almost 60 bands, and only three on the Miami bill are female-fronted? Weak, but at least we got something.

Meg and Dia: Cute sisters who sing like angels and wail like banshees

Paramore: Expansive but punchy, precocious pop-rock

Vincent Black Shadow: Vancouver genre-benders with a little cabaret style

These acts defy easy grouping with other acts on the tour. And that's truly punk.

Iain Terry and His Band: Elusive rockabilly/surf guitar god of the Sixties emerges. Who'da thunk?

K-Os: Former preacher's kid turned funky, smart hip-hop MC

Nothington: Whiskey-flavor punk with a debt to Tom Waits

Revolution Mother: Pro skater Mike Vallely turns out gnarly, unforgiving punk

Street Drum Corps: Hands-down winner of the category. Percussion-only band that favors makeshift instruments and Blade Runner style. Must be seen to be believed.

This year every foreign band hails from the United Kingdom or a former British colony.

The Automatic Automatic: Welsh rockers freak out with a dab of electro

Funeral for a Friend: More from Wales! Impressively textured posthardcore, metal, and screamo

Gallows: True Pistols- and Clash-style punk from Watford, England

Iain Terry: See Grab Bag

Parkway Drive: Straight-up hardcore from the only Aussies on the tour

In these times, it's even popular subject matter for band and album names.

Bleed the Dream: Fourth Warped Tour for dark L.A. quartet with serious riffs

The Dear and Departed: Orange County band that draws on classic postpunk (like the Church) as much as up-tempo rock

Escape the Fate: Las Vegas quintet that named its last album Dying Is the Latest Fashion

Funeral for a Friend: See Foreign

It Dies Today: Almost-metal hardcore from Buffalo, New York

These bands specialize in sounding sincerely sweet one second and lung-puncturing screamy the next.

Alesana: Issuers of shrieks that sound too painful for such young, cute bandmates

Chiodos: Taste of Chaos tour stars

Scary Kids Scaring Kids: Minor-key tales spiked with spooky synth

The Spill Canvas: Solo acoustic act turned full emo-tinged quartet

A genre that was a Warped staple in the Nineties returns, sort of.

Big D and the Kids Table: Boston-area ska-punkers at it for more than a decade

Fabulous Rudies: Extrapolate the sound from the name

Pepper: More reggae-tinged rock than ska, it's exactly what you would expect from chilled-out Hawaii

Suggestions for the aging Warped rockers — you know, people in their twenties, who like a little melody now and then.

My American Heart: Sweetly melodic San Diego quintet

Circa Survive: Proggy excursions from former frontman of Saosin

Evaline: Mature, dramatic rock from fellows who look especially good in scarves

The Graduate: Cool simply for being from Springfield (Illinois)

The Matches: Oakland foursome that's somehow both boisterous and subdued

Straylight Run: Two former members of Taking Back Sunday grow up and add female vocals and keys to the mix. Simply lovely

Purveyors of those fast, catchy songs you just can't bring yourself to forget

Amber Pacific: Tight, punk-inflected pop-rock from Seattle

All Time Low: High-energy kids from Baltimore suburbs who don't take themselves too seriously

Cute Is What We Aim For: And they pretty much accomplish it

Hawthorne Heights: Ohio quintet that actually beat Ne-Yo for a number one slot on the Billboard charts

The Starting Line: Equally slick and successful label mates of Something Corporate and Midtown

Christian bands are firmly part of the postpunk, posthardcore world. Their presence on this huge, largely secular tour cements this fact.

Anberlin: See Florida Bands

blessthefall: Irritating use of punctuation, creative blend of a dab of hip-hop and metal with easy emo-rock

Haste the Day: Indianapolis metalcore with a surprisingly dark aesthetic