Summer School Tour returns with Warped Tour ethos, emerging acts

• Summer School embodies a similar ethos to Warped by featuring up-and-coming artists while promoting advocacy through partnerships with organizations like peta2 and Save the Music Foundation.

Flashback: The tour is the brainchild of longtime music manager Michael Kaminsky (3OH!3, Neck Deep) and Hopeless Records executive Eric Tobin.

• Fittingly, the duo brought Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman on board to help launch Summer School last year.

What they're saying: "When Warped ended, the culture and community built around it no longer had this pillar to hold it up," Kaminsky tells Axios.

• Tobin sees Summer School as "an opportunity to raise awareness, give back and create a functional, positive culture younger people can identify with."

What's next: The tour runs through Aug. 10 and includes a stop at Lyman's revamped Warped Tour on July 26 in Long Beach, California.

If you go: Tickets for the Agora show start at around $47.