The best fan shot video I’ve seen from Blink-182’s performance of “Bored to Death” does a pretty good job highlighting Matt Skiba’s verse — worth a watch if you’re curious how the song’s going to sound live.
Blink-182’s “Bored to Death” has jumped into the top five at alternative radio, coming in at number four this week.
Blink-182 played KROQ’s Weenie Roast last night. They performed “Bored to Death” live for the first time along with “Brohemian Rhapsody.” You’ll also find a video interview with the band below.
Mark Hoppus sat down with Music Feeds in Australia to talk a little more about the upcoming Blink-182 album, his description of some of the new songs may excite you:
There’s a song called “Cynical” that’s really fast, really punk rock. There’s a song called “Rabbit Hole” that I think sounds like it should’ve been on Enema of the State that I think people will really love. Bored To Death is obviously a lot of fun to play.
There’s a song called She’s Out Of Her Mind that sounds like it could’ve been on Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. I think people are going to be really happy when they hear the full album. I can’t wait to play the songs live.
Blink-182 will be playing Good Morning America’s “Summer Concert Series” on July 1st.
Blink-182 have added a second San Diego show.
John Feldmann is on the latest episode of Mark Hoppus’s podcast.
Travis Barker from Blink-182 is on this week’s episode of the Mike Herrera podcast.
Kevin Rutherford, writing for Billboard, points out that Blink-182 just had their highest alternative song debut ever with “Bored to Death.”
All three chart positions mark the highest debuts on each tally in the band’s two-decade career. On Alternative Songs (the only chart of the three that predates Blink-182’s first album, Cheshire Cat, in 1995), the No. 18 opening of “Bored” bests the band’s previous top entrances of No. 25 logged by “First Date” in 2002 and “Up All Night” in 2011. (Those songs went on to peak at Nos. 6 and 3, respectively.)
Blink-182 have shared their new song “Built This Pool” on YouTube. I think they meant to release the lyric video this time since the song’s available for free download on their website.
Also, did you know this song is like six years old?
Fuse spoke with John Feldman about working with Blink-182 on their new album:
It gave me goosebumps on the spot. I thought, “This is it.” In my mind I knew I had the job. Then he started playing bass chords and I was like, “Fuck, I’m in love with this guy.” That was the first song we did together as a group. [Matt] Skiba came in, he’s the new guy, he liked that Mark liked it. He wrote the whole second verse. He came in and sang it in one pass, he’s that kind of guy. He crushed it in one take. At the end of the track Travis asked, “Why don’t you give me one minute of click and let me just play whatever the fuck I want?” which is how the ending of the song becomes this big crescendo of Travis Barker with these strings and Matt Skiba gang vocals.
NME interviewed D*Face, the artist behind Blink-182’s latest album artwork:
“But those first ideas that I sent, they said ‘nothing’s really doing it for us.’ [see above and below for the rejected album artworks] There was an illustration, however, that I’d worked on about a year and a half ago that I’d parked up and not got round to finishing. I looked at it and thought how California, to me, is about driving, the birth of the hot-rod and that whole lifestyle – so it made sense if it had a car in it. So that was the first checkpoint for me where I realised it was working. I sent that idea over and Matt [Skiba] and Travis were like ‘that’s the one. That the shit!’ But, to be honest with you, Mark [Hoppus] was like ‘I’m not so sure…’ – so it wasn’t straightforward, let’s put it like that!”
Seeing some of the rejected art ideas is pretty cool, but I’m definitely more of a fan of what they ended up with.
Blink-182 continued their media blitz yesterday with Live 105’s Kevin Klein. Mark Hoppus talks about how Tom DeLonge’s Facebook post came as a surprise and how he hadn’t spoken to Tom in over a “year and a half,” how he is really just focused on this new album, and how great it’s been to work with Matt Skiba.
According to Mediabase, Blink-182’s “Bored to Death” was last week’s most added song on alternative radio. It tripled up number two: Young The Giant’s “Something To Believe In.”
I can’t figure out what’s really “exclusive” about this ET Online interview with Blink-182, but this tidbit about “Teenage Satellites” seems to be the most new information:
“One of the last songs we wrote, called ‘Teenage Satellites,’ it was one of the last days of recording, and it was another song that came together really fast,” he recalled. “I got to the studio early and I was literally just hitting one chord on the guitar over and over again. John [Feldmann, the album’s producer] walked in, and he’s like ‘What’s that?’ and I said, ‘I don’t know, it’s just something I made up.’”
You can also find an audio interview with Travis Barker on 101 WKQX-FM below.
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