Instead of shrinking from mainstream success, the band embraced it. DeLonge and Hoppus fired their original drummer and hired Travis Barker, who is (unlike either of them) a virtuoso; in 1999, the trio released an album called “Enema of the State,” which eventually sold more than four million copies in the United States. In the video for “All the Small Things,” they dressed up as members of an unusually inept boy band, but as the song ascended the pop chart, eventually reaching No. 6, the parody began to seem like a prophecy. They more or less looked the part—one early review in Billboard flagged their “beach-boy good looks.” And their commitment to juvenile humor (the stage banter on their live album can be summed up in two words: “dog semen”) camouflaged an equal interest in the evergreen pop topic of adolescent melancholy. At the center of “Enema of the State” sits “Adam’s Song,” a plainspoken chronicle of depression, with a video that became an MTV staple. They were pop-punk pop stars, and they cannily found ways to shift their focus without unduly complexifying their music.
The band went on a four-year hiatus from 2005 to 2009. DeLonge focused on Angels & Airwaves (with elements taken from Box Car Racer), Hoppus fronted +44 with Barker, who also worked on solo drum work and collaborated with the late DJ AM. After the band’s reunion in 2009, they released Neighborhoods to critical acclaim in 2011, although the album left mixed feelings in the divided fanbase.
Blink-182's Tom DeLonge leaves band … maybe Read more Arriving five years after their last album, Neighbourhoods, Blink-182’s seventh record has endured a development process as painful as the enemas the band used to gleefully reference in their late-90s heyday. Last year members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker legally separated from guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge due to his unwillingness to record it, replacing him with Alkaline Trio vocalist Matt Skiba. The album’s promotional build-up, meanwhile, has been overshadowed by claims from DeLonge that he’s working with the US government on investigating UFOs. Perhaps understandably, California bears the scars of that difficult gestation. At 16 tracks, it feels bloated and unfocused, tonally offering up an uneasy mix of cheery pop-punk (Kings of the Weekend) and moody, goth-tinged alt-rock (Los Angeles). There are a few spirited attempts to summon the adolescent irreverence of old, but generally this is a tired – and tiring – work. Perhaps the presence of DeLonge and his tales of alien invasion might have livened things up a bit. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blink-182 – Bored to Death video on YouTube
DeLonge lives on a pristine, palm-tree-lined street in an upscale beach town outside San Diego, in a Fifties-style ranch home full of futuristic touches, like art-deco swivel chairs painted with tiny UFOs. Jennifer, his wife of 15 years, greets him at the door along with his two big dogs, Luna and Henrey. Inside, his son, Jonas Rocket, 9, is playing a Star Wars video game in pajamas. Daughter Ava Elizabeth, 13, is at school. As a dad, DeLonge can be strict; he polices the kids' Internet privileges to make sure they can't access Blink-182's raunchier catalog.
The group expanded its sound later in its career. "I Miss You" is acoustic, and features an upright bass, a cello, and a brushstroked drum loop.
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For 2011's Neighborhoods, he clashed with his bandmates over the sound of the album and recorded his parts in a San Diego studio two hours away from Hoppus and Barker. "I was so bored with just what we've been doing for so long," he says. "I go do six records, then we come back and all of a sudden I'm thinking, 'Why don't we do this? Why don't we create these landscapes?' I think we should have been pushing ourselves, and trying to push the genre forward."
The resulting album, California, was produced by John Feldmann. He was the group's first new producer since longtime collaborator Jerry Finn. Prior to his involvement, the trio began writing together at Barker's studio and completed dozens of song demos. They decided to shelve them upon working with Feldmann to start fresh, and they proceeded to record another 28 songs. California was recorded between January and March 2016. The band, as well as Feldmann, would regularly spend "18 hours" in the studio a day, aiming to start and complete multiple songs in that timeframe. "We all wanted to write the best record that we could It does feel like a new beginning. It feels like when we used to tour and sleep in the van because that's all we wanted to do is play rock music," said Hoppus.
By March 1996, the trio began to accumulate a genuine buzz among major labels, resulting in a bidding war between Interscope, MCA and Epitaph. MCA promised the group complete artistic freedom and eventually signed the band, but Raynor held a great affinity for Epitaph and began to feel half-invested in the band when it passed over the label. The group, who were wary of purists attempting to define "punk" and discouraged by Cargo's lack of distribution and faith in the group, had no qualms about signing to a major label but were fiercely criticized in the punk community. After nonstop touring, the trio began recording their sophomore follow-up, Dude Ranch, over the period of a month in late 1996. The record hit stores the following summer and the band headed out on the 1997 Warped Tour. "Dammit", the album's lead single, received heavy airplay on modern rock stations. Dude Ranch shipped gold by 1998, but an exhaustive touring schedule brought tensions among the trio. Raynor had been drinking heavily to offset personal issues, and he was fired by DeLonge and Hoppus in mid-1998 despite agreeing to attend rehab and quit drinking.
"We had a lot of fuckin' fun. We were out all night skateboarding. We were out throwing food and drinks at security guards who were chasing us through malls, skateboarding at four in the morning, eating doughnuts at places making hot doughnuts near the beach, breaking into schools and finding skate spots in dark schools or slaloming down parking garages naked and shit in downtown San Diego."
American rock band blink-182 formed in 1992 in California, with an original line-up of Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge and Scott Raynor. The band now consists of Mark Hoppus, Matt Skiba (of Alkaline Trio) and Travis Barker, following the departure of drummer Scott Raynor in 1998 and vocalist/guitarist Tom Delonge in 2015.Considered a key band in the development of the Pop Punk genre, blink-182 have sold over 35 million albums worldwide since their debut release in 1995. Most recent album 'California' (the band's first release without original member Tom Delonge) became the band's first UK number one charting album.Tickets for Blink-182 tours sell fast, make sure you grab yours quick! This area is intended for discussion only. If you have a question about your order, use our Customer Service section. Comments enquiring about existing orders, including personal details, or with questions will be deleted.
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Blink-182 About Blink-182 Blink-182 set off the 1990s storm of pop-punk, blazing a trail in the genre with electrifying riffs and memorable lines—“Fuck a Dog,” anyone? The band has seen some lineup changes over the years, but its core trio (Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker) has mostly stood the test of time. As of 2015, DeLonge left the band to pursue other projects. Founded in 1992 in Poway, California (a suburb in San Diego), DeLonge, Hoppus, and former drummer Scott Raynor formed the band in Raynor’s bedroom, writing songs for their demos, and playing practical jokes along the way. Initially under the name Blink, the trio was forced to change the name to avoid a lawsuit with the Irish pop-rock group of the same name, so they added “182” at random (Fans continue to speculate what “182” means to this day). After releasing their demo album Buddha, Blink-182 released Cheshire Cat in 1995 under Cargo Records. While not a major success at the time, the album generated buzz from the Southern California punk scene and major labels alike. After being signed to MCA Records, the band released Dude Ranch in 1997 with the hit singles “Dammit” and “Josie”. In 1998, Scott Raynor was removed for his drinking addiction, which affected the band’s performance and created tensions for the trio. Travis Barker, formerly of The Aquabats, filled in for Raynor during the West Coast mini-tour, and was quickly welcomed as a permanent drummer. His drumming technique heavily influenced the band, causing a sonic shift in their songwriting. With the aid of their new producer Jerry Finn, Blink-182 went on to record their next album. Enema of the State was the band’s first enormous commercial success, selling over 15 million copies worldwide on the strength of singles “What’s My Age Again?”, “All the Small Things,” and “Adam’s Song.” Their 2001 release, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, peaked at #1 on U.S. Billboard and introduced the world to the catchy “First Date.” A 2003 self-titled album saw a stylistic shift in the band’s music, marked by fatherhood and maturity in songs like “I Miss You” and “Down”. The band went on a four-year hiatus from 2005 to 2009. DeLonge focused on Angels & Airwaves (with elements taken from Box Car Racer), Hoppus fronted +44 with Barker, who also worked on solo drum work and collaborated with the late DJ AM. After the band’s reunion in 2009, they released Neighborhoods to critical acclaim in 2011, although the album left mixed feelings in the divided fanbase. Upon DeLonge’s departure from the band in 2015, Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba was announced as his replacement. The new lineup returned to the studio in August of 2015 to record their long-awaited seventh album, California, which released on July 1, 2016.
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"I keep talking about Blink – we're not supposed to talk about Blink," he says. After lunch, we walk along the beach, passing the bench where DeLonge likes to sit for hours watching surfers and writing. At night, after working at To the Stars, he'll play board games with Jonas or lie on his porch playing guitar under the stars. "Quality of life comes first here," he says. "Music is secondary. I take my kids to school, I pick them up. I'm not traveling and missing baseball games.
Their adolescent outlook, especially in the early years, occasionally found expression in spiteful breakup songs in which boys wonder what’s wrong with girls. “Enema of the State” included “Dumpweed,” a downright giddy farewell to a “nightmare” girlfriend, in which DeLonge sings, “I need a girl that I can train.” But many of Blink’s best songs endure because they turn inward: the lovelorn boy has sense enough to wonder what’s wrong with him.
The band went on a four-year hiatus from 2005 to 2009. DeLonge focused on Angels & Airwaves (with elements taken from Box Car Racer), Hoppus fronted +44 with Barker, who also worked on solo drum work and collaborated with the late DJ AM. After the band’s reunion in 2009, they released Neighborhoods to critical acclaim in 2011, although the album left mixed feelings in the divided fanbase.
Blink-182's Tom DeLonge leaves band … maybe Read more Arriving five years after their last album, Neighbourhoods, Blink-182’s seventh record has endured a development process as painful as the enemas the band used to gleefully reference in their late-90s heyday. Last year members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker legally separated from guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge due to his unwillingness to record it, replacing him with Alkaline Trio vocalist Matt Skiba. The album’s promotional build-up, meanwhile, has been overshadowed by claims from DeLonge that he’s working with the US government on investigating UFOs. Perhaps understandably, California bears the scars of that difficult gestation. At 16 tracks, it feels bloated and unfocused, tonally offering up an uneasy mix of cheery pop-punk (Kings of the Weekend) and moody, goth-tinged alt-rock (Los Angeles). There are a few spirited attempts to summon the adolescent irreverence of old, but generally this is a tired – and tiring – work. Perhaps the presence of DeLonge and his tales of alien invasion might have livened things up a bit. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blink-182 – Bored to Death video on YouTube
DeLonge lives on a pristine, palm-tree-lined street in an upscale beach town outside San Diego, in a Fifties-style ranch home full of futuristic touches, like art-deco swivel chairs painted with tiny UFOs. Jennifer, his wife of 15 years, greets him at the door along with his two big dogs, Luna and Henrey. Inside, his son, Jonas Rocket, 9, is playing a Star Wars video game in pajamas. Daughter Ava Elizabeth, 13, is at school. As a dad, DeLonge can be strict; he polices the kids' Internet privileges to make sure they can't access Blink-182's raunchier catalog.
The group expanded its sound later in its career. "I Miss You" is acoustic, and features an upright bass, a cello, and a brushstroked drum loop.
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For 2011's Neighborhoods, he clashed with his bandmates over the sound of the album and recorded his parts in a San Diego studio two hours away from Hoppus and Barker. "I was so bored with just what we've been doing for so long," he says. "I go do six records, then we come back and all of a sudden I'm thinking, 'Why don't we do this? Why don't we create these landscapes?' I think we should have been pushing ourselves, and trying to push the genre forward."
The resulting album, California, was produced by John Feldmann. He was the group's first new producer since longtime collaborator Jerry Finn. Prior to his involvement, the trio began writing together at Barker's studio and completed dozens of song demos. They decided to shelve them upon working with Feldmann to start fresh, and they proceeded to record another 28 songs. California was recorded between January and March 2016. The band, as well as Feldmann, would regularly spend "18 hours" in the studio a day, aiming to start and complete multiple songs in that timeframe. "We all wanted to write the best record that we could It does feel like a new beginning. It feels like when we used to tour and sleep in the van because that's all we wanted to do is play rock music," said Hoppus.
By March 1996, the trio began to accumulate a genuine buzz among major labels, resulting in a bidding war between Interscope, MCA and Epitaph. MCA promised the group complete artistic freedom and eventually signed the band, but Raynor held a great affinity for Epitaph and began to feel half-invested in the band when it passed over the label. The group, who were wary of purists attempting to define "punk" and discouraged by Cargo's lack of distribution and faith in the group, had no qualms about signing to a major label but were fiercely criticized in the punk community. After nonstop touring, the trio began recording their sophomore follow-up, Dude Ranch, over the period of a month in late 1996. The record hit stores the following summer and the band headed out on the 1997 Warped Tour. "Dammit", the album's lead single, received heavy airplay on modern rock stations. Dude Ranch shipped gold by 1998, but an exhaustive touring schedule brought tensions among the trio. Raynor had been drinking heavily to offset personal issues, and he was fired by DeLonge and Hoppus in mid-1998 despite agreeing to attend rehab and quit drinking.
"We had a lot of fuckin' fun. We were out all night skateboarding. We were out throwing food and drinks at security guards who were chasing us through malls, skateboarding at four in the morning, eating doughnuts at places making hot doughnuts near the beach, breaking into schools and finding skate spots in dark schools or slaloming down parking garages naked and shit in downtown San Diego."
American rock band blink-182 formed in 1992 in California, with an original line-up of Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge and Scott Raynor. The band now consists of Mark Hoppus, Matt Skiba (of Alkaline Trio) and Travis Barker, following the departure of drummer Scott Raynor in 1998 and vocalist/guitarist Tom Delonge in 2015.Considered a key band in the development of the Pop Punk genre, blink-182 have sold over 35 million albums worldwide since their debut release in 1995. Most recent album 'California' (the band's first release without original member Tom Delonge) became the band's first UK number one charting album.Tickets for Blink-182 tours sell fast, make sure you grab yours quick! This area is intended for discussion only. If you have a question about your order, use our Customer Service section. Comments enquiring about existing orders, including personal details, or with questions will be deleted.
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Blink-182 About Blink-182 Blink-182 set off the 1990s storm of pop-punk, blazing a trail in the genre with electrifying riffs and memorable lines—“Fuck a Dog,” anyone? The band has seen some lineup changes over the years, but its core trio (Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker) has mostly stood the test of time. As of 2015, DeLonge left the band to pursue other projects. Founded in 1992 in Poway, California (a suburb in San Diego), DeLonge, Hoppus, and former drummer Scott Raynor formed the band in Raynor’s bedroom, writing songs for their demos, and playing practical jokes along the way. Initially under the name Blink, the trio was forced to change the name to avoid a lawsuit with the Irish pop-rock group of the same name, so they added “182” at random (Fans continue to speculate what “182” means to this day). After releasing their demo album Buddha, Blink-182 released Cheshire Cat in 1995 under Cargo Records. While not a major success at the time, the album generated buzz from the Southern California punk scene and major labels alike. After being signed to MCA Records, the band released Dude Ranch in 1997 with the hit singles “Dammit” and “Josie”. In 1998, Scott Raynor was removed for his drinking addiction, which affected the band’s performance and created tensions for the trio. Travis Barker, formerly of The Aquabats, filled in for Raynor during the West Coast mini-tour, and was quickly welcomed as a permanent drummer. His drumming technique heavily influenced the band, causing a sonic shift in their songwriting. With the aid of their new producer Jerry Finn, Blink-182 went on to record their next album. Enema of the State was the band’s first enormous commercial success, selling over 15 million copies worldwide on the strength of singles “What’s My Age Again?”, “All the Small Things,” and “Adam’s Song.” Their 2001 release, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, peaked at #1 on U.S. Billboard and introduced the world to the catchy “First Date.” A 2003 self-titled album saw a stylistic shift in the band’s music, marked by fatherhood and maturity in songs like “I Miss You” and “Down”. The band went on a four-year hiatus from 2005 to 2009. DeLonge focused on Angels & Airwaves (with elements taken from Box Car Racer), Hoppus fronted +44 with Barker, who also worked on solo drum work and collaborated with the late DJ AM. After the band’s reunion in 2009, they released Neighborhoods to critical acclaim in 2011, although the album left mixed feelings in the divided fanbase. Upon DeLonge’s departure from the band in 2015, Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba was announced as his replacement. The new lineup returned to the studio in August of 2015 to record their long-awaited seventh album, California, which released on July 1, 2016.
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"I keep talking about Blink – we're not supposed to talk about Blink," he says. After lunch, we walk along the beach, passing the bench where DeLonge likes to sit for hours watching surfers and writing. At night, after working at To the Stars, he'll play board games with Jonas or lie on his porch playing guitar under the stars. "Quality of life comes first here," he says. "Music is secondary. I take my kids to school, I pick them up. I'm not traveling and missing baseball games.
Their adolescent outlook, especially in the early years, occasionally found expression in spiteful breakup songs in which boys wonder what’s wrong with girls. “Enema of the State” included “Dumpweed,” a downright giddy farewell to a “nightmare” girlfriend, in which DeLonge sings, “I need a girl that I can train.” But many of Blink’s best songs endure because they turn inward: the lovelorn boy has sense enough to wonder what’s wrong with him.
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