National Lampoon Soundtrack Featuring Blink 182

Here's a product description from Amazon. com from the National Lampoon: Endless Bummer Soundtrack that mentions Blink 182 as a contributor. It might seem like a small thing, but I think it's pretty awesome that Blink 182 continues to receive some movie recognition every so often.

By the way, this product description only mentions Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker. I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe 182 The Small Things will figure this out eventually. If anyone knows, be sure to comment in.

From Amazon.com:

Product Description
Soundtrack to the 2009 comedy featuring modern cover versions of ’80s classics. Includes cuts from Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Mark Hoppus & Travis Barker (Blink 182), Pennywise, Fear, The Dollyrots and others. It’s 1984 and JD is fresh out of high school. The summer sun is hot, there’s the best music, beach babes everywhere, and a big south-swell throwing waves at his favorite surf spot: JD has the world by the tail until a routine wipe-out sends him to shore to retrieve his new board. But it’s gone! Disappeared, vanished, kaput! This is a truly mind boggling experience! The universe has come to a grinding halt! But the culprit is revealed: an interloper corrupting babes in their very midst. JD and his crew embark on the 45-mile trek to the dreaded smog shrouded valley to retrieve the board. A routine trip for most, this is one journey that JD and his friends thought they would never have to take.

Travis Barker Talking about New Blink 182 Songs

Here's an article from MTV.com where Travis Barker talks about the speed at which Blink 182 should be writing material according to him. He wants to go all out and keep writing right through the tour.

Personally, I think that that's great. You gotta stay ambitious and ready to roll when you're working with a band of their popularity.

He also mentions that their new song is "heavier" which I really like since I'm kind of a metal-head. He said it's a mix between Blink and Boxcar Racer. Good stuff.

From MTV.com:

'I wanna work on it while we’re on tour,’ Barker says of the long-awaited new record.

Travis Barker has never been one to sit still. And when it came to his role in the reunited Blink-182, that wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

“We all got together and met up and, almost immediately, we got inspired. So it went from just playing around together to being like, ‘Let’s lay down demos! And tour!’ ” Barker told MTV News. “And, to be honest, it was crazy. I was still recovering from all my surgeries [from his September plane crash], and was way out of it when we first got back in there. I was in no shape to be in the studio, and we were kinda held back a bit. We decided to just get used to playing with each other again.”

So the trio scaled back their expectations — sure, there’d still be a record, but let’s just get this massive, laser-packed arena tour out of the way first. And once they got that sorted, it all started clicking again.

“We just started practicing for the tour, going through the old sh–, playing the greatest hits — only we’d start experimenting on them a bit, working on different versions,” Barker said. “So, it ended up that some of the old songs have new flavor to them, and then we also got around to making four demos, including one song that’s pretty much complete.”

That new song is called “Up All Night,” and Barker said Blink fans can expect to hear it out on the road this summer. He calls it both “a logical step” from where the band left off [their darker, more mature self-titled 2003 album] and a hint as to where they might be headed in the future.

“When we do go in [to make the new album], it’s gonna be like that. You can’t help but have everything on the table … all the stuff we’ve done — like +44 and Angels & Airwaves — since we last played and recorded, it will influence the new stuff,” he explained. “In the case of ‘Up All Night,’ it feels like it could’ve been on the last record, or right where the last one left off. It’s kind of heavy, if you mixed Box Car Racer and Blink. It all makes sense. The pieces are all together.”

So just when can Blink fans expect to hear that new album? Well, there are no firm dates just yet, though Barker did say the band plan on entering the studio after they wrap their tour. Oh, and they’ll also be working on it while they’re on the tour too, because, once again, Barker refuses to sit still.

“I’ll have the studio out on tour with me, and I think Mark will too. I wanna work on it while we’re on tour,” Barker said. “But that’s just me. I’m taking it day-by-day. Loving life. Working.”

Blink 182 Talks About the Breakup

From Sign On San Diego:

SANTA MONICA — “Everything, absolutely everything, means more to me now,” said Travis Barker, the 33-year-old drummer in blink-182, following one of the first performances by San Diego's most successful rock band since it broke up four years ago.

The pop-punk trio's spirited appearance yesterday at a taping for Fuel TV's “The Daily Habit” show came less than nine months after Barker was one of two to survive a South Carolina plane crash that killed four people.

It took Barker's near-death experience to reunite the estranged members of blink after they acrimoniously disbanded in early 2005. The group, which has sold more than 13 million albums, launches its reunion tour July 24 in Las Vegas and plays Sept. 16 at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre in Chula Vista.

Its local performance will be exactly one year after Barker suffered second-and third-degree burns from his feet to his waist and on both hands when the Learjet he was on crashed on take-off. Two passengers, the pilot and the co-pilot were killed.
The Fontana native has since undergone more than a dozen surgeries and spent more time in hospitals than he cares to remember. But there was no visible or audible sign of his injuries yesterday, when more than 100 fans jammed the small studio to watch blink-182 soar back into action. The show will air June 19.

As singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge, 33, and singer-bassist Mark Hoppus, 37, rocked out in front of him on the TV soundstage, Barker drummed with typical flair and finesse. Although the band was required to do several consecutive run-throughs of blink favorites “The Rock Show” and “Feeling This,” his percussive attack grew more energetic and intense with each new rendition of the songs.

“The only time when I feel free is when I'm behind my (drum) kit,” Barker said. “That's when I don't have my mind racing about, or dwelling on something, whether it's the past or the future. It's my time, when I'm just in it and I don't think about that (crash) now. I just zone out. Playing the drums is my favorite place to be.”

In a separate interview yesterday, DeLonge and Barker both sounded older and wiser as they discussed the band's reunion – and the tragedy that led to their getting back together.

“I like to think this is something positive (coming) out of something very tragic,” DeLonge said. “ ... The fact that the three of us can get together, for whatever the reason, means a lot to a lot of people, especially ourselves.”

Barker is uncomfortable discussing the crash that nearly took his life. But he left no doubt that being back together with blink is exactly where he wants to be.

“Oh, it's so fun,” said the drummer, who is married to former Playboy model Shanna Moakler and has two children. “This is a breath of fresh air.”

Barker, who was previously the drummer in The Aquabats, replaced original blink drummer Scott Raynor in 1998. The band, which was formed in 1992 in Poway by DeLonge and Hoppus, already had several albums under its belt for small record labels when Barker joined. Energized by his virtuosic drumming and the trio's constantly improving songwriting and performance skills, blink struck gold – make that platinum – with its next album, multimillion-selling “Enema of the State,” in 1999.
More hit albums and world tours followed for the band, which – like its many young fans – reveled in blink's potent mix of brash punk-rock songs about teen angst and potty-mouthed humor about sex and various bodily functions.

“It makes the live situation (on stage) fun,” Hoppus said yesterday. DeLonge, the only blink member who still lives in San Diego County, smiled. “That's how we started,” DeLonge recalled. “We'd say (stuff) to make each other laugh. And years and years later, people would laugh. It was really just a way to out-trump each other with what was the most off-color remark we could say. And it really took us places!”

By 2004, blink ranked among the biggest rock bands in the world. But personal tensions among the three members boiled over at the end of the year, following a lengthy tour. The global trek left DeLonge craving time with his wife and two children at their North County home, while Hoppus and Barker – who are both also married and have young children – were eager to resume work with blink as soon as possible. Unable to reach agreement after a series of heated arguments, the trio announced in early 2005 that it was going on “an indefinite hiatus.”

DeLonge subsequently launched his own band, the four-man Angels & Airwaves, with which he has released two albums. Barker and Hoppus regrouped in a four-man band called (+44) and released an album of their own. Yet, while neither new band fared nearly as well – commercially or artistically – as blink, this year's reunion would not have come about were it not for Barker's near-fatal plane crash.

“I don't think (a reunion) was in any of our heads a year ago,” Hoppus said. “Three years ago, I would have said it was a total impossibility; a year ago, I would have thought it was highly unlikely.”

DeLonge nodded in agreement.

“I think a year ago it probably wouldn't have been something on our minds,” DeLonge said. “But it's definitely (interesting) how rapidly things can change from day to day.”

The members of blink are now engaged in the most intense rehearsals of the band's career, in part because, as DeLonge put it, “I have a lot of anxiety right now about the tour and how big it is.”

The tour will visit 48 cities in the United States and Canada between next month and Oct. 3, when it's scheduled to conclude in Atlantic City. Recording began this year on a new album, which blink expects to complete after the tour and release next year.

Will this reunion last for only one tour and album?

“Hell, no,” Hoppus said. “I hate when bands get back together and do one tour and it feels like they're going to make a bunch of money, and then they go away for awhile and then come back again. We did this (reunion) to continue being creative and having fun. I see us continuing to tour and put out albums as long as it's fun. There's no end game and no plan at all. We enjoy playing music together, that's all.”

DeLonge laughed. “No end game, no plan and no practice,” he said. “We're just going to see where that takes us.”

Travis Barker to Remix and EMinem Song

From MTV:

Travis Barker Talks ‘Dark and Moody’ Remix Of Eminem’s ‘3 A.M.’

‘There’s not many songs I hear and trip out on, but this was one of them,’ drummer says of the Relapse track.

It’s one of the darkest, goriest songs on an album positively oozing with dark and gory songs. That’s why Travis Barker knew he had to record a version of Eminem’s “3 A.M.”

“I first heard it on some blogs, and right away, I was like, ‘Oh, damn, this is demonic,‘ and I love stuff like that.” Barker laughed. “So I spoke to [Blink-182 and Eminem manager] Paul Rosenberg and said I wanted to do a remix of it, then Em and I spoke and discussed putting a rock twist on the song, and I got to it.”

So, over the course of four very short days — during breaks from rehearsals for Blink’s upcoming tour — Barker and a pair of his engineer pals laid down live guitar and bass tracks (and, of course, a healthy dose of his patented precise-yet-pounding drums). He sent them to Em for some tweaking, then put the finished product up on YouTube, and the rest is history.

“There’s not many songs I hear and trip out on, but this was one of them. The song is really dark and moody, and so that’s what I wanted the remix to be,” Barker said. “And it was cool, because I got to work with Eminem the producer, which is something that I don’t think a lot of people get to do. He listened to it, made some tweaks and gave it the OK.”

And for Barker, it was a welcome return to the world of remixing — a world he’s dominated over the past years with his takes on Flo Rida’s “Low” and Soulja Boy’s “Crank That.” He had to take a break from remixing while recovering from the dozens of surgeries he endured after walking away from a fiery South Carolina plane crash last year.

“I hadn’t done one since I was out of the hospital, so it was time, you know?” Barker said. “This was a dope-ass song, and when things come at me that I love, I pursue them. I was due for one, and it won’t be the last.”

Blink 182 and Their Reunion Tour

From MTV.com:

Blink-182 Talk Reunion, First Tour In More Than Four Years
'I think it's gonna be amazing,' Tom DeLonge says of the jaunt, which will include Weezer, Fall Out Boy and other acts.


On Thursday night in Hollywood, Blink-182 ended a four-and-a-half-year hiatus with a surprise performance at a T-Mobile party at Paramount Studios. And now that they're officially, 100 percent back, how would they rate the reunion so far?

"Awkward, weird ... a little standoffish. Me and Travis are on one side [of the studio], behind a brick wall, and Tom is outside the wall knocking," Blink's Mark Hoppus told MTV News at the event. "You ever seen that episode of 'The Odd Couple' where they drew the line down the middle of the room? Yeah, it's kind of like that."

"And there's a couple holes where we stick various parts of our bodies through," Tom DeLonge added. "It's really super strange and weird. But it rocks."

And judging by what we heard onstage Thursday night, it does, indeed, rock. So now that they've got one performance under the belt, what about Blink's much-hyped summer tour with Weezer, Fall Out Boy and a rotating list of huge acts (Taking Back Sunday, All-American Rejects, Panic at the Disco, Asher Roth and Chester French)? What can fans expect to see out on the road? Well, lots and lots of lasers, apparently.

"I think it's gonna be amazing. There are amazing bands, they're all big. When we started talking about doing the tour again ... we had all these options start popping up. It was really amazing to be able to end up on the bands we had," DeLonge said. "Usually when you go out on tour, there's a lot of negotiations as far as time and who can do what and when they can do it, or whatever ... I'm gonna be honest right now. The tour is gonna be good. Mark, after f---ing 17 years, might let me have lasers!"

"It's true," Hoppus laughed. "[Lasers] broke up our band at one point, and now it's lasers that are bringing us back together."

Tour 2009 Blink - Blink 182 Tour Dates Revealed

Blink 182's 2009 tour dates are finally all revealed. Here's from billboard.com:

Blink-182 Announces Summer Tour Plans

If it hadn't been for drummer Travis Barker's near-fatal airplane crash last year, Blink-182 might not be touring this summer.

But after a five-year hiatus, Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge will embark on a nearly 50-date North American arena and amphitheater tour, beginning July 24 at the Joint in Las Vegas, and wrapping Oct. 3 at the Borgata Events Center in Atlantic City, N.J.

The Live Nation-produced trek will feature support on various dates from Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth and Chester French.

"My goal was to have name-brand acts all the way," Blink-182 manager Rick Devoe tells Billboard.com.

The rock act has also tapped stage designer Martin Phillips to help create "the most ridiculous display of lights and images we can imagine," Hoppus said in a statement. Phillips has worked on tours stage designs for such artists as Kanye West, Daft Punk and Nine Inch Nails, among others.

Rumors that Blink-182 could reunite after its messy split in 2005 started last year after Hoppus posted a blog saying that Barker's survival and the death of Blink-182 producer Jerry Finn put the band members back in touch.

"Unfortunately it took something catastrophic to do it, but sometimes that's how life is," Devoe says. "These guys got together for the right reasons."

Although Blink-182 confirms it is writing new songs, "the word on the street is that this tour is about the hits," says Devoe, who couldn't say when a new album might be released. "As the rehearsals go by, we're hoping to have at least one new song in the repertoire."

The manager adds that Blink-182 fans who are short on cash this summer will be happy to learn that amphitheater lawn tickets will be available for $20. "If you have $20, you get in. No fees or anything," he says.

Tickets for the tour go on sale May 30 at livenation.com. Presenting sponsors of trek include T-Mobile Sidekick LX, State Farm Insurance and MySpace.

Beyond October, Blink-182 has offers to play Australia's Big Day Out and other European music festivals in 2010, according to Devoe. "That's what I'm hoping is going to happen," the manager says. "And in between these tours is when they're going to be working on an album."

Blink-182 doesn't plan to route another North American tour until the band releases a new album, Devoe says. He notes that Blink-182 can't work as quickly as it used to because the band members have family obligations and some live in different cities.

"Everyone has got full lives," the manager says. "It's a different Blink, in the sense that you have to pick your kids up after school, and one of your kids has dance class and the other kid has this."

Blink-182's last tour in 2004 grossed $14.4 million from 42 concerts that drew more than 421,000 fans, according to Billboard Boxscore. The trio's self-titled album in 2003 has sold 2.2 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Here are Blink-182's upcoming tour dates:

July 24: Las Vegas (the Joint)
July 28: Vancouver (GM Place)
July 30: Calgary, AB (Saddledome)
July 31: Edmonton, AB (Rexall Place)
Aug. 1: Saskatoon, SK (Credit Union Center)
Aug. 2: Winnipeg, MB (MTS Centre)
Aug. 4: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheater)
Aug. 6: Boston (Comcast Center)
Aug. 7 Quebec City, QC (Colisee Pepsi)
Aug. 8: Montreal (Bell Centre)
Aug. 9: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach)
Aug. 12: Hershey, Pa. (the Star Pavilion)
Aug. 13: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)
Aug. 14: Pittsburgh (Post Gazette Pavilion)
Aug. 15: Chicago (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)
Aug. 16: Omaha, Neb. (Westfair Amphitheater)
Aug. 18: Minneapolis (Xcel Energy Center)
Aug. 20: Indianapolis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Aug. 21: Buffalo, N.Y. (Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center)
Aug. 22: Detroit (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
Aug. 23: Toronto (Molson Amphitheater)
Aug. 25: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
Aug. 27: Saratoga, N.Y. (Saratoga Performing Arts Center)
Aug. 28: Camden, N.J. (Susquehanna Bank Center)
Aug. 29: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Center)
Aug. 30: Washington, D.C. (TBD)
Aug. 31: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach)
Sept. 2: Cleveland (Blossom Music Center)
Sept. 3: St. Louis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Sept. 4: Kansas City, Kan. (Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone)
Sept. 6: Denver (Fiddlers Green Amphitheater)
Sept. 7: Salt Lake City (David O. McKay Events Center)
Sept. 10: Seattle (White River Amphitheater)
Sept. 12: Sacramento, Calif. (Sleep Train Amphitheater)
Sept. 13: Mountain View, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheater)
Sept. 14: Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara Bowl)
Sept. 16: San Diego (Cricket Wireless Amphitheater)
Sept. 17: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Sept. 19: Phoenix (Tempe Beach Park)
Sept. 21: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion)
Sept. 23: Woodlands, Texas (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)
Sept. 24: Dallas (Superpages.com Center)
Sept. 26: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheater)
Sept. 27: Tampa, Fla. (Ford Amphitheater)
Sept. 29: Atlanta (Lakewood Amphitheater)
Oct. 1: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Oct. 2: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Oct. 3: Atlantic City, N.J. (Borgata Events Center)

182 The Small Things Cd Single Cover

"All The Small Things" was released by Blink 182 on their album Enema of the State, but they also released it as a single. I've found a couple covers for there single release of "All The Small Things," and I really wonder in what countries Blink 182 released these.





This cover for Blink 182's single shows the boys in line for the sexy nurse, just like in their album artwork for Enema of the State. This cover really gives that simple, fun feel that I think made Blink 182's fan base so large with the release of 182 The Small Things.





This "All The Small Things" cover simply shows the boys in all their smiling glory. I can't believe how young Blink 182 looks in this one since Travis Barker has those short dreads going instead of his hawk and Delonge's hair is quite short.

I Miss You 182 - Video For I Miss You By Blink 182

Blink 182's "I Miss You" video clearly presents more of the band's distinguished side. Tom Delonge is shown with his new pastel-colored guitar and Mark Hoppus with a "small" upright bass, Blink 182 style. Travis showcases a new drum pattern in "I Miss You" that's more reserved compared to most things that he's played in the past.

Of course, most of the songs on Blink 182's self-titled album present a much more tasteful side to the band. Even some of the framing and footage from "I Miss You," like the women and the small crows, set a very strong, dismal mood. Blink 182 went a very different route with this song, "I Miss You," and this video, but I think it worked out as the best thing.

Check out the I Miss You 182 video for yourself here!