Blink-182 will release eight new songs as part of the deluxe edition to their 2023 reunion album, “One More Time…” The expanded LP will be released on Sept. 6 via Columbia Records.
The band revealed the tracklist for “Part 2” on Monday, sharing a first look at the limited-edition “blue balls” vinyl packages available for pre-order. New songs include “Every Other Weekend,” “No Fun,” “Can’t Go Back,” “Everyone Everywhere,” “One Night Stand,” “Take Me In,” “If You Never Left” and All In My Head.” The latter song will be released as a single on Aug. 23.
“One More Time” topped the Billboard 200 albums list upon its release in October. The record logged a total of 125,000 units in its debut week as a top-selling album with pure album sales equating to 101,000 units sold.
“One More Time” is Blink-182’s first record with Tom DeLonge since he re-joined the band in 2022. DeLonge has also been on the road with original members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker since the beginning of this year. After playing a series of dates in North America this summer, Blink-182 will return to the United States in September for festival appearances, including Austin City Limits in Austin, Texas.
Pop-punk icons Blink-182 and emo band Pierce the Veil may very well make fans want to “take off their pants and jacket,” and who would blame them with this hot lineup?
After co-vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge rejoined in Blink-182 in 2022 — after a seven-year absence — the band released a track, “Edging,” to mark the occasion. This tour serves as further notice of the trio being back together, revisiting hits like “I Miss You” and “All The Small Things” and even releasing new music — like recent album One More Time.
With openers jxdn and Pierce the Veil, the audience is sure to have nostalgic flashbacks of, say, skating around the neighborhood listening to Collide With the Sky … or other emo anthems to soothe the bruises from falling off said board.
When Toddy Smith enters the Zoom call, he’s immediately warm and friendly…a good sign for an interviewer when you instantly feel comfortable with them. We dive straight into his start on Vine, the OG video-sharing app that launched careers for stars like himself, Shawn Mendes, and many more. In Toddy’s case, he began making Vines with friend, fellow songwriter, and vlogger Scott Sire.
Sire’s Vine fame arose while Toddy was off filming a reality dating show called Sweet Home Alabama. He made it to the top 3 and came back to see that Scott had summated an impressive 25,000 followers. He doesn’t take credit for any Vine fame- calling himself the sidekick to Scott, Zane Hijazi, and Heath Hussar’s videos.
Through making these videos on Vine alongside Scott Sire, Toddy met his other best friends Zane and Heath amongst other Vine and YouTube creators along the way. But while he was joining the Vlog Squad on YouTube and becoming the massive Internet personality he is, there was always music in his mind.
He tells me how he always admired 21 Pilots and enjoyed writing short stories, finding that lead singer Tyler Joseph matched his writing energy. The similarities and inspiration he drew from the band that gave us songs like “Heathens” and “Stressed Out” pushed him to start creating his own music as a hobby.
Since he had no instrument, he moved to Los Angeles, hired Jason Nash’s children’s piano teacher, and launched from there. The rest of the pieces fell into place from there- Scott Sire invited Toddy out on tour with him to play the keyboard. It’s something he describes as a “dream come true” to play onstage, and the music became more than just a hobby.
His first song was “Natalina”, a synth-y, pop-indie sound that he went into writing with the idea already formed, so it felt easier for him to write. And while songwriting didn’t come as easily then, he feels much more confident with every song he puts out – honing into his craft, developing his sound, and seeing what works for him.
With songs like “Past Life”, his collaboration with Scott Sire, he was able to have a blast creating a track he loved. Nick Anderson, lead singer of The Wrecks, helped create the track with the duo- which came to fruition based on his relationship. He was inspired by M83 at the time and The Drive soundtrack- but perhaps the most interesting part is that the song is unfinished, but they liked how it sounded as it was.
“I set up that session and I had a few keywords ready to go…Nick Anderson is one of the best producers and the best people I know. He really helped bring that song alive…We were just sitting there all three of us kind of throwing words around, but when we sat down that night it wasn’t finished and we just liked how it sounded. It’s a bit of a weird structure, but Nick’s verse just brings it all together.”
Alongside 21 Pilots, Toddy grew up with a lot of punk-rock influence like Green Day, Blink-182, The Circle Jerks. The early 2000s were a great time for angst, which is when he grew up. However, his music takes on a more 80’s synth pop sound that makes you want to dance around and be carefree. It’s a sign he’s staying true to himself…after he admits he tried to replicate the 21 Pilots sound, it felt better to make music that worked for him.
It takes us to his most recent release, “Started As A Joke”, which actually is the second song he wrote after “Natalina”, about the beginning of relationships. “Started As A Joke” is classic Toddy Smith- fun-loving, introspective, and a bit self-deprecating in all the right ways. It takes listeners through two people falling in love when it started originally as a joke for one of them. You can listen to the song here:
Toddy makes music in a way that everyone can respect: only releasing songs that feel right, staying true to lyrics and melody without overdoing it, and never pushing something that isn’t serving him. He’s the type of person who is always writing- whether it be music or a short story, which he admits he prefers a little more because he can just write anything that comes to mind with no thoughts of melody or diction or style.
Right now, he’s back working with Nick Anderson of The Wrecks to challenge himself by turning a short story into a song. While it’s unfinished currently, they have a melody and are working backwards with the lyrics and the story. Constantly working, Smith admits a new single also is on its way in the beginning of 2024.
However, as a content creator to his core, Toddy is always looking at different creative outlets. He enjoys making short films and skits, remaining active across social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram to develop his filmmaking and music. While it may look like a relatively quiet period, you can tell that Toddy is genuinely proud of the work he’s putting out.
Alongside all of his accolades, Toddy also founded clothing brand GothicMochas which turns basics like trucker hats and oversized hoodies into a fashion statement of their own. It’s his way of staying true to his own fashion sense while making high quality, cutting edge clothes…and it works.
It’s a dream of his to go back out onstage, but he doesn’t currently have shows lined up. For now, it’s about the music, his stories, and the films, and we can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.
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Blink-182 are back in full effect. The pop-punk trio — made up of members Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus, and Tom DeLonge — reunited last year to release their single “Edging,” their first in 10 years at the time. The new track came just a few days after the band announced a reunion tour, which kicked off on March 11, a few short weeks before their surprise Coachella performance. Now, the iconic group is set to release their first full-length album in over a decade, and it’s titled “One More Time…” Ahead of the new album’s Oct. 20 release, Blink-182 released a short trailer teasing three of its tracks: “Anthem Part 3,” “One More Time,” and “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got.” The four-minute clip also features old footage of the trio and recalls what led to their “indefinite hiatus” and eventual comeback.
With the band out on the road until February 2024 and new material on the way, there’s no better time to invest in some dope Blink-182 merch. From stylish apparel and decorative items to cool collectibles for die-hard fans, we’ve got it all. Ahead, check out all the Blink-182 merch we’ve rounded up for your shopping needs.
Travis Barker is dealing with an unknown emergency regarding his family.
The Blink-182 drummer, who married Kourtney Kardashian last year and is currently expecting their first child together, was forced to leave Scotland yesterday for an unspecified crisis — and reportedly posted photos on Instagram of a prayer room.
The pop-punk band completed the North American leg of their World Tour in July and were about to launch into the European portion in Glasgow when Barker rushed home. Blink-182 added Friday that any information about the situation will be shared later.
Mere hours before the band’s announcement, Barker shared disconcerting images.
The drummer posted photos of a stained glass window, a “Together we pray” banner and a door reading, “Prayer Room.” Online sleuths apparently identified the sanctuary as that of Glasgow Airport — and speculate the emergency concerns Barker’s pregnant wife.
His former spouse, Shanna Moakler, with whom Barker shares two children, addressed the situation Friday in Los Angeles and reportedly told photographers: “I’m just praying that his immediate family — and the baby and Kourtney and everyone — is safe and OK.”
Barker kept details surrounding the family emergency private but posted concerning photos.
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“I don’t know what’s going on, I just know that our kids are safe and sound — obviously, that’s important to me,” Moakler told the photographers Friday, per Page Six. “Obviously, whenever they have to cancel shows, it’s a really big deal.”
Representatives for Barker and Kardashian did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Page Six. Neither of them nor their blended family members — including Khloé and Kim Kardashian and Kris, Kendall and Kylie Jenner — have spoken out.
Barker was married to Moakler from 2004 to 2008 and helped raise her daughter from another relationship. Kardashian never tied the knot with her ex-partner Scott Disick, with whom she shares three children: Mason, 13; Penelope, 11; and Reign, 8.
Kardashian famously announced she was expecting by attending Barker’s concert with Blink-182 in Los Angeles earlier this summer and holding up a sign that read, “Travis I’m pregnant,” as he performed. The couple revealed in late June they are expecting a boy.
I’ve always dreamed of seeing a genuine honest-to-God UFO. Like Fox Mulder of The X-Files, I really want to believe there’s something Out There in the maybe two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.
My grandparents lived just a few miles from the location of the infamous Falcon Lake Incident in 1967. Since then, I’ve been fascinated by the prospect of some kind of close encounter. I’m hoping that Star Trek will once again be prescient, and a Zefram Cochrane-like pioneer will launch the first warp drive flight (scheduled for April 5, 2061, a Borg invasion notwithstanding), attracting the attention of a passing Vulcan ship and thereby initiate First Contact.
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I want there to be a black monolith with perfect proportions buried under my hydrangeas in the backyard that warns me to leave Europa alone. I dream of picking up an Alan Freed broadcast from 1955 on my little transistor radio, reflected back to us by a civilization somewhere within a 35-light-year radius (I’d prefer that to the Hitler stuff they had to deal with in Contact.) And those fast radio bursts? They’d better be actual interstellar/intergalactic WOW signals — especially this one. That would be a lot more fun than looking for hydroxyl emissions.
But alas, even though I keep watching the skies, I’ve never seen anymore more than shootings stars and passing satellites and space stations.
Lately, though, I’ve become more optimistic. First came the New York Times reports on US Navy pilots dealing with UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, the new re-branding for UFOs). Additional reporting piled up so high that this past week, whistleblowers testified under oath in front of the House Oversight Congressional Committee regarding an alleged massive coverup, claiming that “non-human” bodies and extraterrestrial technologies have been recovered from crashed vehicles.
Millions of us await the truth, including a number of high-profile musicians.
At the front of the line is Tom DeLonge, now back playing guitar with Blink-182, has been on the scent of aliens for decades, long before the group got together. Back in the band’s early days, he was known to spend hours on the tour bus looking out the window for UFOs. The band’s 1999 multi-platinum pop-punk classic, Enema of the State featured the song Aliens Exist.
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It’s said that Tom’s relationship with the band — he was estranged from mates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker for years before a 2022 reunion — was strained because of his passionate pursuit of theories and conspiracies involving aliens and UAPs.
When he separated from Blink, Tom co-wrote a number of novels and non-fiction books about “sekret machines” (His term for UAPs; I’ve devoured them all) and was behind the History Channel series, Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. Also during his hiatus, he founded To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, a company with both an entertainment division and one seriously devoted to aerospace, ufology, and technological research. It’s stocked with academics, engineers, NASA scientists, and ex-government types, including at least one ex-CIA dude. The Academy has been relentless in demands for government transparency.
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These days, he’s pretty excited about the latest revelations. On Blink-182’s current tour, bandmate Mark Hoppus has told the crowd “Tom was right.” Over at To the Stars, everyone is pretty pumped at what might be coming next. Meanwhile, if you ever have a chance to talk to Tom, ask him about his theories on “zero-point energy.” Prepare to spend a few hours on the subject.
But Tom isn’t the only musician who wants the truth exposed. Matt Bellamy of Muse is another longtime UFOlogist. Not only has be expressed a desire to go alien hunting with Tom (he has a standing invitation to check out a warehouse near Las Vegas that’s apparently loaded with “weird alien [stuff]”) but he thinks he might have been abducted (probably by those damn Greys) at one point. He saw a flashing light in the woods at about one in the morning and went to check it out. The next thing he remembers is waking up at home. He does, however, admit that some recreational substances may have had a role and that it may have just been an ordinary helicopter. No word on if any probing was done. Meanwhile, he’ll continue to write songs with conspiratorial, cosmological, and astronomical themes.
Black Francis of The Pixies has some thoughts about aliens, too, having written songs on the subject as part of the band as a solo artist. This stems from a 1965 sighting by his mom and several of his cousins. “There was a flying saucer floating above the house for half an hour and everyone just stood there and watched it. … It was just hovering. Then the state police came and chased it but they couldn’t catch up with it. My mother’s weird but she’s not that weird. She’s got no reason to make this stuff up.” Later he commented about The Pixies’ mission: “We’ve tried to elevate the sci-fi thing, make it more opera-ish, more of a serious rock thing. We want UFOs to be an acceptable topic. They’re romantic.”
Shaun Ryder of The Happy Mondays claims to have multiple encounters with flying saucers, saying “I don’t go looking for aliens. They find me.” At age 15, he and a mate were walking to a bus stop when “we just saw these things, zig-zagging about.” (He says he was way too young to be ingesting anything hallucinogenic.) This spurred a lifelong obsession with all things extraterrestrial — an multiple observations of UAPs (including from his own backyard) over the years. He, too, has made a documentary series on the subject.
If aliens are looking for a place to land, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones says he has it on good authority his Redlands estate in West Sussex was a landing site for UFOs back in 1968. I quote: “I’ve seen a few, but nothing that any of the ministries would believe. I believe they exist — plenty of people have seen them. They are tied up with a lot of things, like the dawn of man, for example. It’s not just a matter of people spotting a flying saucer. … I’m not an expert. I’m still trying to understand what’s going on.”
And then there’s Dave Grohl. Foo Fighters is derived from the nickname given to Allied airmen who scrambled to investigate mysterious balls of fire — feu — along the French-German front in World War II. He even named his label Roswell Records after the town in New Mexico where they want us to believe a weather balloon crashed in 1947. If you believe that, then you probably think there’s nothing strange happening at Area 51 and nothing weird stored in Hanger 18.
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Sadly, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, and Lemmy of Motorhead — all believers and witnesses — are no longer with us. But wherever their spirits are now, I’d like to believe that the truth has been revealed to them.
Today, sightings are up across the board. And if you do encounter some of those bloody shape-shifting Reptilians, don’t turn your back, especially if they’re wearing a KEEP CALM AND PROBE ON t-shirt.
Now if you’ll excuse me, there’s a man in a black suit and sunglasses who wants to see me about a flashy thing.
— Alan Cross is a broadcaster with Q107 and 102.1 the Edge and a commentator for Global News.
Kardashian announced she was pregnant during the band’s concert at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium on Friday night. She confirmed the news in a video shared to her Instagram account where she tagged Barker, who became officially married to Kardashian in May of last year.
“Someone’s having a baby,” shouted Blink-182′s Mark Hoppus before Barker abandoned his drums, hopped off stage and embraced Kardashian with a hug.
The two also shared a kiss before Kardashian lifted the sign up again and let out a scream in the crowd.
Barker has two children with his former wife Shanna Moakler, a 1995 Miss USA titleholder, while Kardashian has three children with her ex Scott Disick.
We are quickly approaching the summer, which means people are already filling their calendars with weekend trips and outdoor plans. Outdoor concert venues are re-opening for the season, and tickets are quickly selling out. Plus, the rolling lineup of music festivals keeps growing — my budget can barely keep up.
I’m always down for live music. I will go anywhere where there’s a live band, even if they’re just performing covers at a bar. Sometimes, my passion for live music leads to the greatest nights of my life — like my residency at Harry’s House at Madison Square Garden. Other times, it’s a cautionary tale — like my Coachella experience… enough said.
So you can imagine my unbridled excitement when my favorite artists embark on world tours in the summer. Needless to say, I’m ready, willing, and able to go broke.
I am always stuck in some Ticketmaster queue lamenting, every decision I’ve made up until that point. If I am allowed to buy tickets after sometimes an hour of waiting in that treacherous line, I’m almost obliged to buy one.
Maybe it’s the constant stream of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour content I’m getting on my social media. Or the looming Beyonce Renaissance tour that will soon compete with Taylor’s. Or all of this chatter about Morgan Wallen canceling his shows for vocal rest.
No matter what, I’m itching to hear some live music. If you can tell, I’m planning on attending as many concerts as humanly possible (wallet permitting). And if you’re reading this, you’re probably thinking about the same.
It may be difficult to keep track of all of these tours happening at once — especially during the summer when you want to shut off your brain instead of planning anything. So, here is a list of which tours to look out for this summer. All you have to do is brave the Ticketmaster queue. Good luck to us all.
The Jonas Brothers – The Tour
The Jo-Bros are going on tour Eras- style…playing their new music from their new album, The Album, along with classics from each of their beloved past albums. Despite the fact that we have seen Kevin, Joe, and Nick grow up in front of our very eyes…we’re eager to be plunged back into our Disney Channel-era selves the moment Burnin’ Up comes on.
Blink-182 – 2023 Tour
Following their first on-stage reunion at 2023 Coachella, Blink-182 is coming back to a stage near you. Nothing feels better than bringing back that early 2000s angst with some vintage Blink, and they’ve proven they’re still the same rock band we know and love. Travis Barker is still playing the drums sans shirt — just this time, he’s married to Kourtney Kardashian. How time flies.
Ed Sheeran – Mathematics Tour
Fans went crazy when Ed Sheeran released Subtract, the final mathematics-themed album of his discography. With a brand new documentary, Sheeran is red hot coming into the 2023 summer.
Top that off with his Mathematics Tour, which has opening acts like the lovely Khalid, and viral videos of him jumping on top of cars to serenade surprised New Yorkers. He’s known for putting on one of the best concerts you can attend, and it’s worth the money every time.
Zac Brown Band – From The Fire Tour
So Morgan Wallen canceled a few shows and everyone’s wondering what to do now. One of the most classic, fun country concerts you can go to is ZBB. They’ve created hit after country hit, toured stadiums across the country, and are ready to go back at it.
Beyonce – Renaissance World Tour
If you could be so lucky to get tickets to the Renaissance Tour, then you need to go see one of the best in the business do her thing. She’s got powerhouse vocals and choreography, lights, and backup dancers — it’s an entire production. Seeing Queen Bey reminds you how live performances can completely change the way a song sounds to you.
Drake & 21 Savage – It’s All A Blur Tour
One of the hottest tickets in town this summer is Drake and 21 Savage’s tour. Tickets sold out in mere minutes to hear the duo perform their album, Her Loss. It’s guaranteed to be rap’s biggest concert of the year, with two of the biggest artists in their genre taking the stage together.
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