Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, and Travis Barker are Getting Back Together for the Kids
blink-182 is back (again), baby.
The Mark, Tom, and Travis show has returned once more.
Early this morning, bassist and co-lead vocalist Mark Hoppus, 50, broke the news that the trio known as blink-182 would be getting back together—again.
In a video shared via Instagram, the band teased their return the only way they knew—with plenty of euphemisms.
In the tongue-in-cheek video, fans were asked a question, and they all responded with some variation of they're "coming," before the video cuts to the three bandmates and what sounds like a snippet of new music.
"We're coming. blink182.com," Hoppus captioned the post.
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The band's most notable drummer, Travis Barker, 46, shared the news via Instagram. Alongside the promo video, Barker wrote, "We’re coming !!!! Blink182.com."
Barker, who has made headlines for his recent marriage to Kourtney Kardashian, joined the band in 1998 after jamming in the ska-punk band The Aquabats. So while he's not technically an original member, the band's original drummer, Scott Raynor, was kicked out after Raynor's alcohol use sparked tension in the band.
Barker stepped in during the band's 1998 tour and eventually helped the band find mainstream success with their 1999 LP, Enema of the State.
But fans were most excited about the fact that the band's original guitarist and co-lead vocalist, Tom DeLonge, 46, announced he'd be returning to the band.
"We are back, and we brought d–k jokes. Song available Friday, Tickets available Monday. @blink182," DeLonge's caption read.
This is DeLonge's third return to blink-182, and it never gets old.
The guitarist initially left the band in 2005 to "spend time with his family" and work on a new musical project, Angels & Airwaves, as originally reported by Rolling Stone.
After his departure, the band went on hiatus; Hoppus and Barker later formed the band +44 and collaborated with other artists.
Then, in 2008, a travesty hit when Barker was involved in a deadly plane crash that left four people dead and the two sole survivors—Barker and the now-late Adam "DJ" Goldstein—severely injured.
This is also a moment that the band has credited with bringing them back together because a year later, blink-182 announced its first reunion tour. In 2011, the band released a new album, Neighborhoods, which they took on tour for several years—despite the band's guitarist diagnosis with skin cancer—before DeLonge decided to step away again in 2015.
This time, however, the band decided to replace him with Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba and released two albums with him, California and NINE.
Fast forward to 2021, Hoppus was diagnosed with stage four diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer. After opening up about his battle online, DeLonge told NME that this traumatic event lead the two to repair their friendship.
And just like that, a year later, the band announced they were back together again.
According to the band's latest tweet, they have new music on the way—the new song they teased in the promotional video will be out Friday—and an international reunion tour is scheduled for 2023 to 2024.
Also said to join the band on its reunion tour are special guests Turnstile, Rise Against, Wallows, and the controversial pop-punk band The Story So Far, whose lead singer (Parker Cannon) is known for violently assaulting fans at shows–he even got the band permanently banned from a Toronto venue for dropkicking a fan off stage–and is currently under fire for working with Harry Corrigan, a longtime member of the punk scene and a musician that has admitted to sexual assault, on his latest project.
Tickets for the tour are scheduled to be released on Monday, Oct. 17, at 10 a.m. local time.
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