Taco Bell is officially adding nacho fries to their menu for a “limited time.” Delish reports:
Nacho Fries start at $1 and come with a side of the brand’s bright orange cheese sauce. They can be upgraded to a supreme or Bell Grande status (for $2.49 and $3.49, respectively), and topped with beef, sour cream, and pico de gallo. And, of course, more cheese.
It looks like Young Thug and Travis Barker are working on something together.
Cameron Hurley has put together a cover of Blink-182’s “Dumpweed” in the style of The 1975. You can stream that below.
Romantic Rock has announced the second annual “Punk Rock & Paintbrushes Holiday Art Show.” This year will feature artwork from Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182, Chali 2NA of Jurassic 5, Hunter Burgan of AFI, Warren Fitzgerald of The Vandals, Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly, Jennie Cotterill of Bad Cop / Bad Cop, and more. The full press release can be found below.
Taco Bell may start serving french fries … and I guess we can thank Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus for that.
Small Town Heroes have changed their name to The Faim. They recently hit the studio with John Feldman and wrote some new songs with Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 and Josh Dun of Twenty One Pilots.
Travis Barker of Blink-182 recently talked with Music Radar:
A lot of people go, ‘Oh, Travis Barker has a solo album, I hope he’s doing drum solos everywhere.’ Well, unfortunately not every song requires a drum solo. Even with Blink it’s weird if I’m going crazy in every song. There comes a time with musicianship that you have to do what the song is asking for. […]
I am 70 percent done with my new solo album. The next part, the most important piece, is for me to go play drums on it now. We’ve got the programming, I’ve made all of the beats, the second step was to get all of the artists and find out which artists sound great on which beats. The third step is me playing drums on it, mixing it and then putting it out.
Chris DeVille, writing at Stereogum:
Although it isn’t as easy to play as, say, Blur’s “Song 2,” most middle-school hacks can easily bang it out after a few minutes of practice. Many of them could write something similar. Chances are it wouldn’t be quite so stupidly infectious, nor would it probably arrive attached to a song so bracingly alive. Anyone can string together some notes in C major; it’s a testament to the writing prowess of Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, and not-Travis-Barker that they flipped that rudimentary guitar figure into one of the greatest pop-punk songs of all time.
I can’t think of a song I played more often than this one for a good two year stretch after the release of Dude Ranch.
Blink-182 have released a limited edition “Houston Relief Tee” and will be donating all proceeds to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
Mark Hoppus’s clothing company, Hi My Name is Mark, is looking for donations of “new/newish” clothing that can be sent to Houston to help out those in need. All the details can be found below.
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