Mark Hoppus wants to release new Blink-182 in 2010
2011 is too far away. Gonna do all I can to have a blink-182 album in 2010. – Mark Hoppus via his Twitter page.
After recent reports saying that Blink-182 wouldn’t release their new album in 2011, Hoppus has been on the war path trying to do what he can to bring the masses a new Blink album before the year’s end.
MTV recently spoke to Hoppus on Blink’s status of their new LP. “We did a bunch of writing before we left on this tour, then we came home and decided we were going to take a couple of months and chill and do other stuff, then get back together in the beginning of the year,” he said. “And now that it’s almost February, we decided it’s time to get back in the studio and do what we do. So that’s the plan: just get back together and get to work.”
As to what the new album would sound like, Hoppus gave some insight as to what the boys of Blink were listening to for inspiration.
“Tom is really into, like, ’80s stadium rock; huge, monumental ’80s rock bands. Travis is all over the place, musically, and he always comes up with beats and drum parts that are so way out that I would never think of them. And I’ve just been listening to a lot of weird indie rock. So somewhere between amazing hip-hop beats, stadium rock and indie rock, you’ll find Blink.”
But with Tom Delonge working on Angels and Airwaves new album Love and Hoppus producing new bands (recently he produced Motion City Soundtrack’s My Dinosaur Life), how would they focus on Blink-182 related music?
“I know it’s confusing for people, because everyone’s like, ‘Tom’s doing this, and Travis is doing this, and Mark’s producing … why aren’t you guys focusing on Blink?’ But I think what people need to understand is that, that’s how we focus on Blink. We go off, and we bring all these different pieces and ideas back, and we get inspired by other artists and get inspired by working with different people, and then when we come back to Blink, it just helps us.”
So here’s hoping that Blink-182 will burn the midnight oil and bring an older generation of punk-poppers and the new generation of Hot Topic kids an album that we can all appreciate.
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