Blink-182 begun their Las Vegas residency over the weekend. You can find the setlist and some videos from the performance below. (Also, if you’re a Blink fan, I highly recommend our forum thread for all kinds of great news and videos.)
Blink-182 performed “I Miss You” and “Kings of the Weekend” last night on Kimmel.
Mark Hoppus talked with Las Vegas Magazine about Blink-182’s upcoming residency:
Well, we want to make a show that appeals to people who are huge blink-182 fans, who have been following us forever and want to see some of the older stuff, some of the deeper cuts, but we also want to put on a great show for people who are in Vegas for the weekend, who decide, “I want to see blink-182,” so we’re trying to put together a set that will appeal to hardcore fans as well as people who are coming out to their first blink-182 show.
When discussing the idea of something for the 20th anniversary of Enema of the State (next year), Mark said:
Next year will be 20 years of Enema of the State, so it’s definitely something we’ve talked about and is on the horizon. I don’t know that we’ll do a whole album for the residency in Vegas, but it’s definitely something that we plan to do in the future.
Ok, Tom DeLonge’s reaction to Blink-182’s “All the Small Things” being played at a baseball game he’s attending is amazing.
Mark Hoppus has commented on Twitter that Blink-182 are working on new music, and while it’s early, it sounds like, “they pick up where Take Off Your Pants and Jacket left off.”
My thoughts? Darker and more riff-based/faster/poppy stuff like TOYPAJ sounds great to me. The biggest hurdle isn’t melodies (Mark’s so good at this) or Feldmann’s production or instrumentation (Matt should feel more comfortable bringing guitar parts to this album) … it’ll be the lyrical content and if they decide to take it up a notch and write about stuff that’s deeper than what they did last time. Make it matter and have some weight. If Mark and Matt do that, I think it’ll be great. If they don’t, the songs will suffer.
A video of Travis Barker from Blink-182 performing with Strung Out at Musink over the weekend can be found below via Facebook.
Blink-182 have announced a Las Vegas residency.
Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Blink-182 are all part of Jimmy Kimmel’s latest “mean tweets” segment.
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Infamous Fyre Festival promoter Billy McFarland may have neglected to budget for toilets, but he still managed to drop more than $150,000 on a yacht for the band Blink-182, according to documents obtained by The Post.
McFarland — who’s facing wire fraud charges and a rash of civil cases over the nightmarish music festival in the Bahamas that ended up serving cold cheese sandwiches and forcing guests to live in tents — shelled out $160,000 for the planned headliner’s perk last April, according to his bank statements and a federal source with intimate knowledge of the case.
There’s going to be a nuts documentary made about this entire thing in a few years.
Blink-182 have decided to boycott FedEx over their continued relationship with the NRA. Good for them.
Alex Melton has been recording “Free Fallin'” in the style of different artists for YouTube. So far he’s done a version in the style of (old) Fall Out Boy and another like Blink-182.
They’re pretty good.
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Travis Barker of Blink-182 revealed on Kevin & Bean that he is working on a new documentary as a counterpart to his autobiography. He also mentions this is why he was hanging out with Tom DeLonge recently:
So four people were interviewed to create this trailer. It was Mark Hoppus, my dad, and Tom Delonge.
I haven’t really said anything. It’s been in the works. It’s the same people who did Steve Aoki’s documentary. We started talking with them a while back about being inspired by the book but then digging deeper.
Travis Barker’s Musink will return to the OC Fair & Convention Center in Costa Mesa on Friday, March 16th through Sunday, March 18th. You can find the lineup below.
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