Filed under: Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Rock | Tags: +44, angels & airwaves, blink-182, mark hoppus, new found glory, travis barker
Ok, so MTV News isn’t COMPLETEY useless I suppose. They recently caught up with Mark Hoppus to ask him a few questions about the blink-182 reunion rumors and the future of +44.
“To answer your question about the interview at the Woodies — and, by the way, I want to thank everyone at MTV for choosing the most flattering photos possible to go in the article — the reason I wasn’t able to answer with a great deal of specificity is that I didn’t really know how to say what was going to happen. Since late August of last year, I’ve been in the studio every week writing songs with the intention of putting out a record of my own. As of this week, I’ve got about 10 songs in various stages of completion and another 10 ideas that I still want to work on. … By the way, this interview will be the first time many people at the label are going to hear about the possibility of me doing an album on my own. Hi, Interscope!”
No mention of +44…and THANK GOD. When Angels & Airwaves released We Don’t Need to Whisper I thought there was nothing that could disappoint me more. But, a few months later when +44 released When Your Heart Stops Beating, I was proven wrong. Don’t get me wrong, A&A and +44 have one or two songs here and there that I don’t mind. But, for the most part everything the former members of blink-182 have released on their own has been sub-par at best. So my expectations for Mark’s solo material are quite low.
I am however quite interested in how the upcoming New Found Glory record is going to sound seeing as how Mark produced it. If you haven’t heard the first single (“Listen to Your Friends”), I highly recommend giving it a listen.
Filed under: Alternative Rock, Pop Punk | Tags: +44, blink-182, dj am, travis barker, trvsdjam
Travis and DJ AM.....pre-crash
A story came out today that Travis Barker is suing Clay Lacy Aviation, Global Exec Aviation, Inter Travel Services, Goodyear and aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Inc. over the September 9th plane crash that he and DJ AM were involved in.
Let me start this by saying that I am a drummer and have been a pretty big fan of Travis for quite some time now. With that said, he has lost a decent amount of my respect today. Granted, I have never been involved in a plane crash nor do I ever wish to be. But it seems to me that crashing is just sort of a possibility you accept when you board a plane….especially one of those scary-ass private planes.
I also found it kind of odd DJ AM was not involved in this lawsuit. The only other person involved in the suit is the bodyguard’s mother. Maybe they’re letting Travis test the waters and see if there is any money to be made out of it. Because you know if he wins everyone else remotely involved in that crash is gonna try and sue them too.
