Blink 182 have split up?

i get the impression that once you reach a not-that-high level of popularity, a band can afford to just tour every summer and vacation the rest of the year if that's what they want to do. the people that tour year round and release albums constantly really want to do that (or have major debts/expenses to keep up with).

like Sonic Youth settled into a "only tour when the kids are out of school" routine for over a decade and they never did Enema Of The State numbers.

yeah whether it's due to one big album or a decade-plus of cult stardom, it's just a matter of when you make the glorified state fair circuit (and can afford more than one vehicle)

Hah if by "vacation" you mean "work at a coffee shop/bar" then yeah. Otherwise you need some radical royalties flowing in.

Didn't Blink-182 first blow up on TRL in the 90s? I remember "All the Small Things" getting to number one and most of their vids going into heavy rotation.

well i'm not talking about rando indie bands, i'm talking about decent-sized legacy artists of the Sonic Youth or Pixies variety.

this is a really fun breakup so far

it's like the Black Crowes breakup in that it's already more entertaining than any song they've written in x years

blink was a massive stadium act. my first concert was the pop disaster tour with saves the day, green day and blink in 2002. this was before american idiot so blink headlined. they sold out MSG two nights in a row. ALL their videos went into heavy rotation for almost four years. they're definitely up there in the Fleetwood Mac level of "my people will talk to your people re: this chord progression" or whatever.

listened to neighborhoods and dogs eating dogs for the first time in ages out of curiosity...they are really not bad overall (albeit overcooked) and in places quite good for what they are

i like every song on dogs eating dogs, was hoping they'd really pull it together on a new record

i've been mildly curious about angels & airwaves but remember thinking the first album was crap so i didn't try any further

holy crap on a pita after that first a&a album there is a sophomore record with terrible cover art, a wicked long double album, a remix album and a new one coming? did not know crazy tom had been that busy

the new one (which came out last month) is pretty good imo. ilan rubin really changed up the formula

as a supporter of NIN session player endeavors, i am intrigued by ilan rubin being their drummer and will have to check this out

i'm not seeing the new one on spotify altho there are singles from it i think

Blink is still a massive stadium band, you could have them headlining Coachella instead of I dunno, Jack White and people wouldn't blink an eye. A great deal of the concertgoers might even prefer them to Jack White.

Many generations relate their college years to bands like Blink. There's at least 6 generations that listened to them in college.

If I went to some summer festival and they were headlining I wouldn't mind seeing them live, could be fun. They could really be the kind of band that only plays at summer festivals every two years without releasing any album and I can bet they would drag a significant crowd.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-ballad-of-blink-182-why-they-cant-or-wont-break-up/

DeLonge could use a spirit guide in the batshit arts. He should form a band with Billy Corgan.

YES!!!!!!!!

also OTM:

Angels & Airwaves is the kind of band you start when you’ve internalized criticism that your music isn’t serious enough.

This is why every punk band in 2025 will be name-checking 5 Seconds of Summer while a handful of embittered dorks on a message board somewhere bicker about their favorite Iceage songs.

clearly hyden is not an ilxor

...or maybe he is!

Meanwhile, writers from “a certain age group” talk about the importance of Blink-182 as a matter of fact, like when Maria Sherman of The Village Voice declared in 2013 that Blink is “the most important band of the ’90s.”

Not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam, not Radiohead, not Sleater-Kinney, but Blink-182. Chew on that, Gen-Xers. Get used to that gaining traction in the years ahead. You won’t have the leverage to counter it. If you were pissed when Green Day was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, you better tell your nurse to work a double shift the day Blink gets in. You wouldn’t want to break a hip amid all the impotent protesting.

Blink’s importance will be a commonly accepted truism soon enough, and it’s not wrong, given how many current bands have copped to having a Blink phase in their formative years.

yeesh you guys

this article has also taught me that tom is a 9/11 truther??? wau

http://www.papermag.com/2015/02/tom_delonge_ufo_interview.php

Yikes. There's an lol component to this interview, but really there's nothing funny about paranoid delusions. They are not a good sign.

i mean, he's pretty convincing. i believe tom

little of that sounded batshit insane, honestly... he seems grounded, but it's hard for anyone to talk about covert govt/military operations without sounding nutty

It's not the UFO/gov. conspiracy stuff that makes him sound unbalanced (lots of people share those beliefs), it's the government spying on him/out to get him. Those beliefs are such a textbook sign of mental illness that you can't help buy worry about anybody who expresses them. Huge red flag.

eh i tend to think that most people who feel strongly about a ton of different unproven/unprovable theories about outer space or government conspiracies have a certain personality type or mindset that leads them to embrace that stuff. but i would never say that all or even most people like that are likely under the sway of serious mental illness or losing touch with reality. those topics fascinate tons of people and there are surprisingly few people of all walks of life who are really willing to look at Area 51 or the JFK assassination and say "i guess we'll never know but it's probably the simplest explanation" or whatever.

oh yeah, and obviously you can't diagnose somebody based on one interview that may not read well. But there is a huge distinction between widely popular conspiracy theories and the "the government is engaging in a cover up" mentality vs. the belief that "the government is singling me out personally and tapping my phones." The first belief is very common; the second is not and is highly correlated with schizophrenia and other mental disorders.

eh i dunno, all the stuff about being in the tent paralyzed by psychic static electricity in the middle of the night while dozens of people talked outside, it doesnt really seem crazy to me.

One explanation is that was just a dream. However, a different explanation is that aliens are here and have made contact and like to troll rock stars camping out in the middle of the desert.

I believe him. His position as a public figure makes his advocacy dangerous to the powers that be.

it's true

Look what they did to John Lennon. MLK. Paul Walker. These power-hungry FUCKS don't want the truth to come out.

Lennon and MLK, obviously, yes

someone i know on facebook is convinced she's on the royal canadian mountain police eco-terrorist list because she makes vaguely radical posts about environmentalism on facebook. she's not crazy imo she just reads really paranoia inducing stuff at a fast clip and became convinced

i didn't read the blink 182 interview

new album is pretty ok, features two co-writes from patrick stump, is the pop-punk queen of summertime

spent a lot of time trying to decide whether to bump this thread or the "i miss you" poll

Problem with teen pop punk acts is that they rarely age gracefully. Both Blink 182 and their fans are too old now and this record doesn't show much maturity. Back when 'I miss you' came out I was excited to hear where they'd go next, that songs sounds much more mature at least sound-wise than the rest of their catalogue. Then they disbanded and here we are trying to revive old glories.

the top comment on youtube "It's hard being a 40 year old high school student"

nobody likes you when you're 43