“Edging” is an unabashed return to Blink’s original sound, but DeLonge said on Twitter and Instagram today that the song is meant to be “fun,” but the album as a whole will be “the most progressive and elevated music we’ve ever had.”ĭownload and subscribe to our weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify (or wherever you get your podcasts), and check out six years’ worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Rick Ross, Alicia Keys, the National, Ice Cube, Robert Plant, Dua Lipa, Questlove, Killer Mike, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Liam Gallagher, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Justin Townes Earle, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Eddie Van Halen, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, Gary Clark Jr., and many others - plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates, and explainers with Rolling Stone’s critics and reporters. To hear the entire episode, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play above.Įlon Musk and Tucker Carlson Discuss the Urge to Impregnate Women In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Andy Greene joins host Brian Hiatt to discuss the reunion, the new single “Edging,” and the whole wild story of Blink-182. When a fan joked on Twitter that the Earth would be losing its protector from UFOs, DeLonge replied that he planned to “save the Earth with dick jokes.” Mark Hoppus recently survived a bout with cancer, which DeLonge credited for putting their past disputes “ in perspective,” apparently paving the way for their current reunion. Travis Barker survived a horrific plane crash in 2008, and would go on to become a key bridge between pop-punk and hip-hop, as well as an architect of our current rock revival, working with Machine Gun Kelly, among others. government would acknowledge as authentic (and start his own band, Angels and Airwaves, who were not averse to similar subject matter). Well, no – that’s just me.As of 1999, guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge had already written “Aliens Exist,” but no one knew he’d become an important UFO researcher, or for that matter, that he would leak UFO videos that the U.S. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. The first song I sent over was Up All Night. But we accomplished it and that’s the big thing. Morrissey, Festival Hall, Melbourne, Photo By Ros O. "We only wrote songs together for three days. Blink-182, Angels & Airwaves frontman Tom DeLonge has written a childrens book. Out of recording for a year, we were only in the studio as all three of us together for a total of one or two weeks. Mark was in his studio in LA, I was in San Diego, everyone was so busy. If we were to start now we’d be much more unified. What was it like making a record together after so much time away from Blink? On their first album for eight years, Blink returned with their darkest effort to date. If you use a Vox and you ring out a chord it only fills that one specific spot in the spectrum and you need other things to happen.” A Mesa/Boogie is like a nuke: you plug it in and it fills up every piece of the sonic spectrum. “I went to Voxes and Fender ’65 Twin Reverbs together. We shouldn’t have ever thought that way but I did so I stuck to such a specific template. I was always stuck in this framework that it had to be certain way because we could only perform it a certain way, and people would think that we’re cheating or something. Did having a second guitarist in the band change your playing?
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