Here is Senior Editor Eric Snider’s review of Bad Religion’s performance at Warped Tour will run in the Creative Loafing that hits newsstands July 25.

Bad Religion at the Warped Tour, Fri. July 20, Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg

Walking out of Vinoy Park at about 8:30 p.m., I heard someone from the last band standing say to the crowd, “It’s hard closing the Warped Tour if you’re not Bad Religion.”

True. The legendary punk-rock band had just finished its show on an adjacent stage minutes earlier, and the Warped throng — already thinned out after more than eight hours — was beating a hasty retreat. The wilted minions who stayed for Bad Religion enjoyed a feisty, propulsive 30 minutes of old-school punk. (Full disclosure: I arrived about 20 minutes before BR kicked off their set.)

This article appears in Jul 18-24, 2007.