Panic! At the Disco To Unretire For 2025 When We Were Young Festival Featuring Weezer, Offspring and Avril Lavigne
Next year’s emo-tastic lineup for the annual When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas has yet another stacked lineup of all your Hot Topic faves. Just weeks after this year’s event swept up all its glitter and guyliner, organizers revealed that the October 18, 2025 edition will feature the return of Panic! At the Disco, who announced their split in early 2023 and played their final shows in early 2024 in Europe.
Not only that, but the band will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their beloved 2005 debut album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out in its entirety, regaling the crowd with renditions of classics including “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage,” “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and “But It’s Better If You Do.”
Other acts lined up to hit the Las Vegas Festival Grounds for the show include: Weezer, Blink-182, Avril Lavigne, The Offspring, All Time Low, The Used, Knocked Loose, Yellowcard, Simple Plan, Taking Back Sunday, Jack’s Mannequin, The Story So Far, Alexisonfire, Bad Religion, The Gaslight Anthem, I Prevail, Ice Nine Kills, Motionless in White, Plain White T’s, Straylight Run and many more.
Sign-up for the presale beings on Friday (Nov. 1) at 10 a.m. PT., with the general onsale kicking off on Friday at 2 p.m. PT.
This year’s WWWY fest took place on Oct. 19-20 and featured My Chemical Romance playing their landmark album The Black Parade, as well as sets from Nada Surf, 3OH!3, Neck Deep, New Found Glory, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Atreyu, Saves the Day, Silverstein, Coheed and Cambria and many more.
See the full lineup and Panic’s announcement below.
Gil Kaufman
Billboard