Though the pop-punk trend faded, blink-182 have remained chart favorites, scoring six Top Ten Billboard 200 albums, including 2003's blink-182, 2011's Neighborhoods, and 2016's California. The band's popularity helped propel their follow-up, 2001's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, to number one on the Billboard 200.
At a time when competition with teen pop and nu-metal was not unheard of, they broke through with their third album, 1999's Enema of the State, releasing a steady stream of hits bolstered by humorous, tongue-in-cheek music videos that were popular in the waning days of MTV's musical programming. Arriving in the wake of the pop-punk explosion set off by Green Day, the trio (whose best-known line-up featured bassist/singer Mark Hoppus, guitarist/singer Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker) gained a large fan base with their hooky, high-energy songs. One of the most prominent bands to emerge from the Southern California punk scene, blink-182 gained mainstream success in the early 2000s. Read Pitchfork’s Sunday Review of Enema of the State. All the North American dates will feature support from Turnstile.
Their tour dates include New York shows at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center and a concert at Los Angeles’ Banc of California Stadium.
It felt very back to what it should be: three friends sitting in a room.… Everybody’s in a really great place right now.”īlink-182 announced their return with a characteristically juvenile announcement video. “It’s actually better than it used to be. “It was the first time that all three of us were in the same room in, like, five years,” Hoppus said. This past August, Hoppus told People that DeLonge and Barker had visited him before he started chemotherapy. In 2021, Hoppus revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer later that year, he said he was now cancer free. Barker has collaborated with Post Malone and Machine Gun Kelly, among others, while Hoppus hosted the Apple Music 1 radio show After School Radio. The band, meanwhile, toured and released a pair of albums with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba: 2016’s California and 2019’s Nine.
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