Drummer Travis Barker revealed on Rock This podcast with Allison Hagendorf that the band’s follow-up to NINE features those artists and that it is “60 per cent done” after revealing a month ago that the album would be arriving in 2021.

“There’s like a song with Grimes right now that’s really, really cool that I love. There’s a song with Uzi that’s really, really cool that we did with Pharrell,” Barker said about the album’s collaborations.

But don’t expect the album to be a rap one—according to Barker, the band won’t stray far from its roots as a punk-rock band.

“I don’t think Blink will ever be anything but a pop-punk band,” he continued. ​“I mean, that’s who we are. And I feel like our fans have kind of journeyed with us when we’ve done songs like “Miss You” or ballads like “Adam’s Song”.”

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The group also shared the cover for the album on their social media.

NINE will serve as a follow up to Grammy-nominated California from 2016, which was their first studio release with new vocalist Matt Skiba.

Blink-182 already presented three singles from the new record: “Blame It on My Youth,” “Generational Divide,” and “Happy Days,” while a fourth one, titled “Darkside,” is expected to drop in next couple of days.

 The band will spend the rest of the summer on the road, with their tour with Lil Wayne scheduled to wrap up on September 20^th with a show in Brooklyn. Besides treating the fans with all of their biggest hits during the tour, Blink-182 are also celebrating 20^th anniversary of their seminal album Enema of the State while on the road, playing the record in its entirety.

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“After playing in this band for 27 years, I want to push it and do different things and take blink to places where we haven’t been before, ” Hoppus told Kerrang!. “We’re really trying to do that on the new record. We want to do with our band what we did in 2003 with Untitled, where we take our foundations and go off in completely weird directions.”

The 46-year-old added that he, drummer Travis Baker and guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba are writing new songs and spend a lot of time in the studio.

“We’re in the studio all the time,” – he said. “That’s the thing, our main bands are our main focus and will always be. We all have our outside interests and our outside things, but we’re pretty straightforward with one another; blink really is everybody’s priority and that’s understood among all of us.”

After founding member Tom DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2015, Mark Hoppus and Travis Baker decided to recruit Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba to replace him and record a new album with them. The new formation released their first studio effort in 2016 when they presented California. Despite the mixed reviews from the critics, the album was well received by the audience and ended up topping charts in several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Drummer Travis Barker revealed on Rock This podcast with Allison Hagendorf that the band’s follow-up to NINE features those artists and that it is “60 per cent done” after revealing a month ago that the album would be arriving in 2021.

“There’s like a song with Grimes right now that’s really, really cool that I love. There’s a song with Uzi that’s really, really cool that we did with Pharrell,” Barker said about the album’s collaborations.

But don’t expect the album to be a rap one—according to Barker, the band won’t stray far from its roots as a punk-rock band.

“I don’t think Blink will ever be anything but a pop-punk band,” he continued. ​“I mean, that’s who we are. And I feel like our fans have kind of journeyed with us when we’ve done songs like “Miss You” or ballads like “Adam’s Song”.”

The post Blink-182’s New Album Will Feature Grimes, Lil Uzi Vert, and Pharrell appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

The group also shared the cover for the album on their social media.

NINE will serve as a follow up to Grammy-nominated California from 2016, which was their first studio release with new vocalist Matt Skiba.

Blink-182 already presented three singles from the new record: “Blame It on My Youth,” “Generational Divide,” and “Happy Days,” while a fourth one, titled “Darkside,” is expected to drop in next couple of days.

 The band will spend the rest of the summer on the road, with their tour with Lil Wayne scheduled to wrap up on September 20^th with a show in Brooklyn. Besides treating the fans with all of their biggest hits during the tour, Blink-182 are also celebrating 20^th anniversary of their seminal album Enema of the State while on the road, playing the record in its entirety.

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“After playing in this band for 27 years, I want to push it and do different things and take blink to places where we haven’t been before, ” Hoppus told Kerrang!. “We’re really trying to do that on the new record. We want to do with our band what we did in 2003 with Untitled, where we take our foundations and go off in completely weird directions.”

The 46-year-old added that he, drummer Travis Baker and guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba are writing new songs and spend a lot of time in the studio.

“We’re in the studio all the time,” – he said. “That’s the thing, our main bands are our main focus and will always be. We all have our outside interests and our outside things, but we’re pretty straightforward with one another; blink really is everybody’s priority and that’s understood among all of us.”

After founding member Tom DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2015, Mark Hoppus and Travis Baker decided to recruit Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba to replace him and record a new album with them. The new formation released their first studio effort in 2016 when they presented California. Despite the mixed reviews from the critics, the album was well received by the audience and ended up topping charts in several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom.

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