With a high-energy reunion tour wrapped up, 90’s punk band Blink-182 is taking some time to rest. Still, according to their drummer Travis Barker, a new song is on the way.
Barker announced that Blink-182 will create a brand new song that will go on his solo album, reports MTVNews.com.
“There’s some stuff on my record that’s not going to have a bunch of guitars, that are just straight-up hip hop records,” he told MTV News. “We got a new Blink song on there, I think I’m going to do something with Chester Bennington from Linkin Park. Hopefully a guest appearance from Slash, I’m doing his big fundraiser that happens in a month. I think there’s going to be a collaboration with [Kanye West's touring DJ] A-Track, so it’s gonna be really in all directions.”
Barker does not have any details about the new Blink-182 tune, mostly due to the fact that the band hasn’t written it yet. But one thing is for sure: the song will be brand new. While the band wrote a new song recently, entitled “Up All Night,” it wasn’t played on their tour and so far does not have a home. Still, “Up All Night” will not be the track on Barker’s solo album.
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Ashlee Simpson was seen instigating a fight with her husband, Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, Saturday, reports Perez Hilton. Wentz was celebrating the one year anniversary of his bar, Angels & Kings, following a performance by his band at the Blink 182 concert in his hometown of Chicago.
Eye-witnesses say an extremely drunk Simpson went up to her husband in the bar’s DJ booth and yelled at him to leave. “They fought,” reported a witness, ”she told him he was horrible in front of a whole group of people and made him leave his own party early. So they make a scene and leave the bar.”
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After a five-year hiatus, Blink-182 are coming back in a big way this summer.
The band has announced a nearly 50-date North American tour that kicks off July 25 in Las Vegas and runs through Oct. 3 in New Jersey. The trek includes eight Canadian cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto.
And the band isn’t setting out on their own – the trio will be supported on various dates of their arena-and-amphitheatre tour by Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French and Asher Roth.
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Former Blink-182 vocalist and guitarist Mark Hoppus is going solo and said “the future is wide open” to a possible Blink-182 reunion with drummer Travis Barker and the rest of the band, to MTV News.
“Travis has played on a bunch of [my] tracks, and he’s working on his own album as well,” Hoppus told MTV News. “We totally support each other in whatever we’re doing. He’s like a brother to me.”
According to Hoppus, him and Barker have been collaborating, “I see him in our studio every week, and we’ll be in the room of the studio he’s working in, listening to stuff he’s recorded, or he’ll come into the room where I’m working and check out my songs.” said Hoppus to MTV News.
Fans can expect to hear a song Hoppus co-wrote in the movie “Fired Up,” coming out in February. Hoppus also produced the New Found Glory record “Not Without A Fight” which hits stores in March.
Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM (Adam Michael Goldstein) were aboard a Learjet that crashed upon takeoff Friday night, reports E! News.
There were 6 passengers on the flight and while Barker and Goldstein survived, the other four passengers were killed.
A friend of Goldstein’s says that the DJ is “really, really badly burned” and confirms that “his face is very burned.” The sources adds, “More than 50 per cent of his body is burned and the worst is on his face.”
Barker is said to be burned “mostly from the waist down.” Both Barker and Goldstein are in critical but stable condition at the Joseph Still Burn Center in August, Ga.
One of the four passengers who died was Barker’s friend and business partner “Lil Chris” Baker. “He was the sweetest, nicest guy. He was like Travis’ right-hand man,” said the source.
When Tom DeLonge shoots for the stars, he really means it.
DeLonge told Billboard.com that his band Angels and Airwaves will be teaming up with NASA during their upcoming fall tour. “I’m working on doing some incredible things with them and incorporating NASA’s technologies into our show,” Delonge said. “I think people will be wowed with what I have in mind. Hopefully I can pull it off.”
DeLonge has 24 other partners in mind for the tour.
And that’s not all the band has on its plate: a documentary about the formation of Angels and Airwaves entitled “Start The Machine” has already been submitted to several film festivals and will be released in theatres in 2008.
Of the doc, DeLonge said that “We started out making this documentary about the making of the record, and so much more happened. I told (director Todd Fjelsted), ‘Dude, just make it true and make it real and don’t let me come in there and edit you at all.’ I saw it the first time … and I’m like, ‘Jesus Christ, look at me. I’m crazy!’”
LATEST: Rocker TRAVIS BARKER has reunited with his estranged wife SHANNA MOAKLER, the former Miss USA has confirmed.
The MEET THE BARKERS stars split in August after less than two years of marriage and two children together.
Barker held a party to celebrate Moakler’s 32nd birthday in Miami, Florida over the weekend, although her actual birthday falls on March 28.
Despite their rekindled romance, Moakler insists she is not pregnant, despite reports to the contrary.
She tells People.com, “While I hope one day to have more children with Travis, I am not pregnant. But yes, I’m madly in love with my husband.”
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Travis Barker’s soon-to-be-ex-wife has broken her silence on her marriage ending with the Blink 182 singer, and did so in the form of a message on her MySpace page.
“I am very devestated [sic] and very much heartbroken over the demise of my marriage and for the upset of my family,” Shanna Moakler wrote on her message board.
Barker then fought back with a post of his own on his own page saying that he took care of the kids while she slept in, and that she often was out late partying.
“I was informed by our realtor [sic] that Shanna was doing Dancing wit [sic] the Stars? Why wouldn’t she tell me, right?” he wrote. “A MySpace account? Where she posts pix of our kids and her and I half naked??????? Weird [sic]???” Barker wrote.
He also said he got suspicious of his wife when he found condoms in their home because the two did not use condoms.
But it didn’t end there. Moakler retorted back via her publicist.
“I have been 100 percent faithful in my marriage and a devoted mother, two facts of which Travis is well aware. I still happen to be very much in love with Travis, and his using the media to take low blows at me isn’t just embarrassing, it’s hurtful,” she said.
She also claimed the entry was not written by Barker, and said she was afraid for her safety. Soon after that, Barker removed his statement from his MySpace Page.
Looks like the reality show for these two stars hasn’t ended yet.
