Travis Barker revealed in an interview with Hannah Stocking that Blink-182 have recorded a new Christmas song.
Blink-182 Talk with RockUrLife
Blink-182 talked with RockUrLife about their new album:
I would say this. I try not to live and die by the comment section. The comment section is the most toxic part of the internet. It’s just people complaining. I was really surprised that people who say that they’ve been a fan of blink-182 for years, even with some surname with a 182, say on this one song: “oh you’ve ruined blink-182, this is not blink-182”. After 25 years and 9 albums worth of songs, you don’t like one song and you would turn your back on the whole band? That was surprising for me. But like I said, the comment section is always the worst part of the internet.
Goody Grace – “Scumbag” (feat. Blink-182) Video
Goody Grace has released a video for the new song “Scumbag” featuring Blink-182.
Blink-182 Cover Misfits and Dress Up for Halloween
Blink-182 headlined KROQ’s annual Halloween Costume Ball over the weekend and performed in Joker costumes. A video of their cover of The Misfits “Skulls” has been uploaded to YouTube.
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Blink-182 Talk With Rock Sound in New Video Interview
Matt and Mark of Blink-182 talked with Rock Sound in a new video interview.
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Blink-182 Interviewed and Perform Two Songs for French Radio
Blink-182 were recently interviewed and performed two acoustic songs (“Darkside,” “All The Small Things”) for the French radio station RTL2.
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Blink-182’s Travis Barker Hits No. 1 on Rock Songwriters Chart
Travis Barker has hit number one on the rock songwriters chart:
Blink-182’s Travis Barker rises to No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Songwriters chart (dated Oct. 5) for the first time, thanks to 15 songwriting entries on the latest weekly Hot Rock Songs survey.
Barker’s “I Think I’m Okay,” with Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud, leads the way at No. 3 on Hot Rock Songs, matching its peak, while 14 Blink-182 songs follow, as the group’s new album Nine arrives at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 94,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music.
Post Malone Tops the Charts This Week
Post Malone has the number one album in the country this week.
Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding nets a third straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as it earned 149,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 26 (down 25%), according to Nielsen Music. The album is the first to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 in nearly a year.
Blink-182 came in at number three:
Blink-182’s new album Nine bows at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, granting the rock trio its eighth top 10 effort. Nine bows with 94,000 equivalent album units earned (with 77,000 of that sum in album sales).
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How Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher
Derrick Bryson Taylor, writing for the New York Times:
That’s a really good question. It was funny because, fortunately most of the people I was meeting with in the early days weren’t really aware of the crazy rock and roll behaviors and antics that I’ve had in my early, mid-20s. I always tell people being a celebrity got me in a few doors, but that’s all it did. My intellect, whatever level it may or may not be [laughs], is what got those meetings to bear fruit. I think from my perspective, the most important thing that I was focused on was being eloquent. Being humble to the subject, because the subject is not a joke. I had to really be respectful about what I was saying, how I was saying it. I think because all those things, I earned trust and I earned more meetings. It was a process, it did not happen over night, it took me a couple years.
Travis Barker Shares “Heaven” Demo
Travis Barker has shared the “Heaven” demo Blink-182 on YouTube. Travis commented on the demo:
This demo inevitably turned into ‘Heaven’ on ‘NINE’ – blink-182 album. It was a small piece of a 45 minute jam / writing session with my friend Chris Greatti. The rest is history.
In a recent interview with Vogue, Mark talked a little more about the song:
[S]tarkly different to “Heaven,” a meatier track written about the 2018 mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California. “It means a lot to me personally,” Hoppus says. “What started off as a song about broken hearts became a song about living in America in 2019.”
Blink-182 Perform on Monday Night Football
Blink-182 performed “I Really Wish I Hated You” on Monday Night Football’s halftime show. It seemed to give the song quite the boost as it’s now shot up to #19 on the iTunes Charts.
What Does Blink-182 Want to Say?
Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 talks with Vogue about the band’s new album:
For their new material, the group asked themselves one question: What do we have to say about the world today? “The world is in a really strange place right now,” lead singer Hoppus tells Vogue. “This record is about being a human being in 2019: the joy, fear, and anxiety of it.” He’s not wrong. From a U.S. president who’s more corrupt than ever to technology making us all feel disconnected and sad (“people are growing distant from one another,” Hoppus says), the daily headlines can be, well, a tad overwhelming; on Nine, Blink-182 use music to cope with it all.
Blink-182 Play Saint Vitus
Blink-182 performed a small show at Brooklyn venue Saint Vitus on Thursday night for Spotify. The live stream is available to watch on YouTube, but people that were at the show say the sound was way better live.
Blink-182 to Perform on Monday Night Football
Blink-182 will perform a pre-recorded halftime show on next week’s Monday Night Football.