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Blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker have used the band’s brief downtime to write and record a new record of more experimental material under the name Boxcar Racer. Rhythm guitarist Dave Kennedy, an old pal of DeLonge’s, and formerly of the San Diego straight-edge hardcore outfit Over My Dead Body rounds out the lineup. The side project’s debut is due out in mid-May on Blink’s label, MCA Records, and Blink’s other member, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, sings on one track. Boxcar Racer will also tour shortly after the release. The album was recorded at Los Angeles’ Larabee East Studios… Read more »

Blink-182’s Travis Barker and A Perfect Circle’s Josh Freese will perform at this year’s Drum Day L.A. festival at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles Saturday (December 8). The event, sponsored by drum manufacturer DW, will also feature a drum circle for all-comers and the Guitar Center’s Drum Off Grand Final. Others appearing include King Crimson’s Bill Bruford, Alanis Morissette drummer Gary Novak, Elton John skin man Curt Bisquera, and Zoro, the basher in Lenny Kravitz’s group. While Barker’s participating in the Drum Day, he opted against joining his Blink-182 bandmates at the Billboard Music Awards earlier this week.… Read more »

Blink-182 has postponed its fall European tour in support of its latest album, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, becoming the latest American group to make such a move in recent weeks in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Blink has rescheduled the trek for just after the first of the year, beginning in Zurich, Germany on January 4. Fourteen shows are scheduled, including a two-night stand at London’s Wembley Arena. Others to cancel overseas tours since the tragedies on the East Coast include Weezer, Janet Jackson, Pantera, and Aimee Mann.

If music can be a great escape from the cares of the day, whatever they be, then Blink-182’s fun show on Wednesday, rescheduled from a week earlier in light of recent events, was a perfect getaway. The San Diego pop-punk trio discharged their usual output of between-song locker room comments, and their three-minute tunes, which generally address little more than the standard teen concerns (first dates, school, loneliness), were all delivered with the players’ trademark sense of humor still very much intact. The 75-minute production opened with recent radio hit “The Rock Show,” which was accompanied by a giant flaming… Read more »

Blink-182 has rescheduled two Southern California shows that where postponed earlier this week due to the terrorist attacks on the East Coast. The group will perform at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim on Sunday (September 16) and at the Long Beach Arena next Wednesday (September 19). The Anaheim show was originally scheduled for September 13 while the Long Beach show was to take place the previous night (September 12). Shows in Phoenix tonight (September 14); Chula Vista, California Saturday (September 15); and at the Oklahoma State Fair in Oklahoma City on Monday (September 17) remain as scheduled. New Found Glory… Read more »

With Blink-182’s continued trek across North America tour in support of its latest album, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, comes the crass nightly onstage humor and language. The trio compounds its behavior by performing it front of a flaming, 12-foot-high sign boasting the F-word. Singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge says that it’s always been that way with the group and always will be, regardless of their occasional concern about the message to their younger fans. “When we first started playing, I remember we had so much fun just cracking jokes on the microphone, it’s like we just talked all the time,”… Read more »

One of rock’s more upbeat bands, Blink-182, will scrub dour rockers Staind from their three-week reign atop the Billboard 200 albums chart next week. Blink-182’s new album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, which boasts the radio hit “Rock Show,” sold nearly 350,000 copies last week and will land at #1, according to SoundScan data released Wednesday (June 20). The album, Blink-182’s fourth studio effort, will be their first to reach #1. Staind’s Break the Cycle will slip to #2 after selling 221,179 copies, while Destiny’s Child will move from #5 to #3 with Survivor. Sugar Ray will have the… Read more »

You can dismiss Blink-182 as cartoons if you like. They’re certainly not going to stop you. They even call their new album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket: Say it out loud, let your inner eighth-grader savor the cadence of the phrase. It sums up Blink-182’s wiseass brat-punk ethos almost as well as their recent live album, The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back), which featured the butt-stupidest stage banter since Kiss’ Alive! (Mark: “You can leave now and beat the traffic!” Tom: “Or you can stay and beat your meat!” – and they get paid for… Read more »

There were few surprises when Blink-182’s Civic Tour 2001 rolled into the Warfield on Tuesday. Singers Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge belched and told poo-poo and pee-pee jokes. Kids crowd-surfed. Bras landed onstage. New songs – there were two – sounded like old songs. Even the encore was preceded by an assurance from bassist Hoppus that the band would be right back to play more songs. And yet the trio thoroughly entertained the capacity crowd of 2,500 fans with a 19-song, 75-minute set that mixed poppy punk rock with juvenile abandon. As usual, the jokes began before the music did,… Read more »

www.warpedtour.com – The Vans Warped Tour and Blink-182 come together for a one-time only show on July 14 in Minneapolis, Minn. at Somerset Park. LAUNCH Media Inc. today announced that MCA recording artist Blink-182 will join this summer’s Vans Warped Tour for a one-time only performance in Minneapolis at Somerset Park on July 14. Veterans to the Warped Tour, Blink-182, first played the punk and skate festival back in 1997. Since then, they have experienced worldwide success, with their records reaping platinum status and their concert tours packing ’em in all across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Americas. Just six… Read more »