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Blink-182’s Travis Barker Talks New Song “Up All Night”

6/8/09, 10:27 am EST

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With Blink-182’s reunion tour set to kick off next month, drummer Travis Barker is giving fans some hints about to expect from the band’s next album. Barker tells MTV News, the bands Blink members joined during their hiatus — +44 and Angels & Airwaves — will definitely have an influence on Blink’s new tunes, but the trio will also try to pick up where they left off.

“All the stuff we’ve done since we last played and recorded, it will influence the new stuff,” Barker said. One new song fans can expect to hear this summer is called “Up All Night,” which reportedly continues the darker sound of the trio’s self-titled 2003 album. That new tune “feels like it could’ve been on the last record, or right where the last one left off,” Barker said. “It’s kind of heavy, if you mixed Box Car Racer [Tom DeLonge and Barker's side project] and Blink. It all makes sense. The pieces are all together.”

Like No Doubt and Aerosmith, Blink are hitting the road prior to recording a new album in order to get the creative juices flowing. Blink hoped to start making demos right away, but Barker’s recovery from his September 2008 jet crash, coupled with the band’s desire to rebuild their onstage chemistry delayed any new material. “We just started practicing for the tour, going through the old shit, playing the greatest hits — only we’d start experimenting on them a bit, working on different versions,” Barker said. “So, it ended up that some of the old songs have new flavor to them, and then we also got around to making four demos, including one song that’s pretty much complete,” he added, referring to “Up All Night.”

While the band hopes to work on the new album as soon as the tour wraps, both Barker and Mark Hoppus are planning to bring a studio on the road with them during their reunion tour.

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Anonymous | 6/8/2009, 11:34 am EST

“It’s kind of heavy, if you mixed Box Car Racer and Blink. It all makes sense. The pieces are all together.”

I really liked Boxcar Racer and Blink’s last album (maybe more so than earlier releases), so if what Barker says is true, I feel relieved.

HOLE | 6/8/2009, 1:04 pm EST

Oh goody…I am so excited :-P

Every says the same shit when they “reunite” Man this is going to be heavy and we have all grown…..just shut the hell up and go get your paychecks

Rocka | 6/8/2009, 5:17 pm EST

Box Car Racer is about as heavy as a feather.

HOLE | 6/9/2009, 1:58 pm EST

3 comments….no fans
new music?
yup….about as exciting as a new No Doubt record
nostalgia act

Anonymous | 6/9/2009, 3:55 pm EST

Actually its 4 comments including yours. Don’t you feel like an ass.

Into | 6/10/2009, 9:18 am EST

I was into Blink, Boxcar and Angels, so I’ll definitely give a new record a listen. I won’t catch a show though.

blinkfanatic | 6/19/2009, 9:32 pm EST

God i hope their new songs sound like angelas and airwaves. Tom did AMAZING work with them.

blinkfanatic | 6/19/2009, 9:32 pm EST

God i hope their new songs sound like angelas and airwaves. Tom did AMAZING work with them.

mc rocker | 6/22/2009, 11:26 pm EST

OMG this is gunna be great i cant wait to lisent to my bigests fans new songs about time woohoo! :)

mc rocker | 6/22/2009, 11:33 pm EST

hope fully thay are as good as they used to be i really hope so :) :):):):)

blink is a joke | 6/23/2009, 8:05 pm EST

fuck you all……jesus.

bgut | 7/8/2009, 12:09 am EST

Boner is all i have to say

blink | 7/9/2009, 11:09 am EST

there new stuff was good but there old stuff was a shit ton better…i want their punk sound back…but atleast they are back

brian | 7/16/2009, 12:34 am EST

yea, i really hope their music is really good again! i love blinkkk!

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what is this douchebag doing???

blink is a joke 6/23/2009, 8:05 pm EST

fuck you all……jesus.

Tyson | 7/20/2009, 5:48 pm EST

I second that, bgut.

cock in my ass!! | 7/24/2009, 12:03 am EST

oh god, oh god, oh god, give it bgut!!

shinmrpunkrock | 7/24/2009, 4:42 pm EST

tom always had a way with riffs
the 3 of em could make such great music i hope we get a good vocal flow on the record ,and heavy asin like how PARK covered blink182’s obvious
that would be rad …blink 182 is back !!!!!

vincas | 9/5/2009, 3:18 pm EST

from where this song be can download? please add there link. thanx :)

Blink=Awesomeness | 9/8/2009, 12:11 am EST

Holy Shit lol Blink Is The Greatest Fuck The Haters

humam | 9/9/2009, 2:50 am EST

is really good

Aimless Again | 9/26/2009, 10:37 pm EST

blinks amazing . hopefully it sounds like them and not AVA. and hopefully tom has a high pitched cool voice again, not deep and wierd like AVA

Scottish Blink Fan | 10/15/2009, 6:38 pm EST

Yeah im so excited about their new stuff, just hope it lives up to expectations!!! Tom’s voice did sound a bit mingin live though :S guess that won’t matter on the album right enough, think Tom and Mark are just great pop songwriters!

Anonymous | 11/24/2009, 4:40 pm EST

honestly if you hate them don’t even waste your time coming onto these sites and making hater comments. its insane, you obviously have no life to being doing this, so cut the shit, stop making hater comments, no one thinks its funny but you, gosh.

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