After a "friendly divorce" from long-time friend and bandmate Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker decided to continue performing and making music as Blink-182 with Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba. After commenting on his own Instagram post, the hard-hitting drummer confirmed that a new album from the pop-punk trio is on the way for 2016.
The news follows five freshly crafted tracks with the latest trio lineup, including "Punk Rock Cliché." Aside from the highly anticipated 2016 Blink release, Barker further revealed in an instagram comment on his own photo that he'd be dropping a new LP with Antemasque, taking on two Transplants EPs and putting fourth his own solo material.
A photo posted by travisbarker (@travisbarker) on Dec 7, 2015 at 11:00am PST
"@blink182crew A #Blink album, an #Antemasque album, 2 #Transplants EP's and a solo album," the Famous Stars and Straps creator wrote.
"Matt's killing it," the Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death and Drums, Drums, Drums author told NME. "He's fun to play with and write with. We're just getting started, but I think we've got like four or five songs right now that I'm really, really happy with. There's a song called 'Punk Rock Cliché' which I love the most right now. It's about friends of ours and their relationships."
It's odd for punk rock fans to listen to a trio without DeLonge and his signature lingering vocals, but the former frontman has moved on to projects of his own. Although the choice to leave the band was his own, the Angels and Airwaves singer knows the group will forever be a huge part of his life. DeLonge recently dropped AVA track "Into the Night," which is linked to another project of his, a novel titled Poet Anderson...of Nightmares.
"We haven't spoken since all that sh*t's gone down - but that's not un-normal," DeLonge told Rolling Stone. "The Rolling Stones would go three years without talking to each other, then Mick and Keith would be hugging and saying, 'F*ck, I missed you.' It's just how it works."
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