Tom DeLonge has rejoined Blink-182. The band has announced a massive world tour with Turnstile, Rise Against, and The Story So Far, and their new single “Edging” is out Friday. An album is coming. Check below for all the updates and current clips.
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For posterity, and for those with a social life that doesn’t include refreshing your feeds all weekend long like the loser that I apparently am, I’ve rounded up the official Blink-182 teases we’ve started to see below.
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Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 sat down with People.com:
”Today I’m doing good. The recovery is taking a lot longer than I had hoped, but I am in a much better place,” says Hoppus. “I feel like I have a second shot at life.”
Adds Skye, also 50: “He’s a rock. He rose above and got through it…The last couple years threw a lot of wrenches in our system, but we’re on the other side of it even stronger.”
Since doctors gave him the all-clear, Hoppus has been getting back to work. He’s writing a book, launched the record company Verswire and is hosting his radio show on Apple Music.
Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 took to his Discord today to clear up a few random rumors that had started circling around the ‘ol internet. While speculation around Tom DeLonge’s return to the band happens with just about every single social media post he makes, last week things were kicked into high-gear because he updated his bio to include the band’s name in it, Funko’s celebrating the band’s 30-year anniversary were announced and promoted by him, and Matt Skiba commented that he didn’t know the current status of the band.
Toss in a radio station in Chicago saying an announcement was coming, and, we got some chaos-182 for the band’s anniversary. The updates from Mark can be found below, but the basics are: no extra announcement coming today, no tour dates are currently planned, check the official channels for information about the band, and they will be touring again in the future. As for today’s news: they have some new anniversary merch up, the Funkos are up for pre-sale at various retailers (more, more, and UK more), and my recommendation as someone that’s been covering this band for most of their career: it’s best to just wait until someone you trust spills the beans instead of reading into bio changes or cryptic social media posts.
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Blink-182 are teasing some Enema of the State era Funko’s to be released on August 1st.
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Travis Barker has shared a health update:
I went in for an endoscopy Monday feeling great.
But After dinner, I developed excruciating pain and have been hospitalized ever since.
During the endoscopy, I had a very small polyp removed right in a very sensitive area, usually handled by specialists, which unfortunately damaged a critical pancreatic drainage tube. This resulted in severe life-threatening pancreatitis.
I am so very very grateful that with intensive treatment I am currently much better.
Blink-182 have released some new merch for “Blink-182” day, including a team up with Guy Fieri’s Flavortown.
Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 was recently interviewed on Altitude Sports Radio.
Read More “New Mark Hoppus Interview on Sports Radio” Apparently Mark Hoppus found some rare Dude Ranch-era material, according to a fan report from his Discord:
This week on his Discord, he said that he finally came into possession of the multitrack master reels for Dude Ranch, which we all believed were burned in the warehouse fire a few years ago. This morning, Mark said that there are recordings of 2 non-album songs. One is labeled “Voyeur 2” and one is “Don Keydick.” He is still in Italy so he’s not able to listen to them yet, but he believes “Don Keydick” is the second non-album song that was on the Dude Ranch demo tape.
Veeps founder Sherry Saeedi, blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, and music manager Nick Lippman are teaming up to launch Verswire, an artist development incubator that also boasts Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz as a strategic advisor, as well as Warped Tour Founder Kevin Lyman and manager Gus Brandt (Mark Hoppus, Foo Fighters) as investors. The press release can be found below.
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Tom DeLonge has teased his new film Monsters of California.
Read More “Tom DeLonge Teases ‘Monsters of California’” The Howard Stern show has been uploading some videos from their archive on YouTube. One such video is Blink-182 performing “What’s My Age Again?” live on the show.
Read More “From the Archives: Blink-182 on Howard Stern” Rick DeVoe, longtime manager of Blink-182, is on the latest 182 News podcast.
Read More “Rick DeVoe on New Podcast” Tom DeLonge is the latest guest on the Turned Out a Punk podcast.
Read More “Tom DeLonge on New Podcast” Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian were maybe married in Las Vegas:
A source at the chapel where they had the ceremony tells us they’ll only perform it with a marriage license, but a source close to Travis and Kourtney tells us they hadn’t gotten a license and only did it for fun.
