Travis Barker talks Blink-182's album release and more.

Earlier this week, Travis Barker, drummer of Blink-182, gave Blink-182 fans a little extra update to keep a smile on their face, if there was not enough lately anyways.

In an exclusive interview with MTV, Barker sat down to talk about his new album and upcoming tour and questions came up about Blink-182's album release date in the midst of the interview. Barker responded with, "...We'll turn in our album in June or July, honestly, and, I mean, the stuff's awesome," Barker said. "It's coming close, to the point where these are completed songs and they're not going to change. These are album versions."

Additionally, Barker posted on his Twitter account further clarifying the release date stating, "For those of you asking GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME is out March 15th and BLINK album is out THIS SUMMER!" Give The Drummer Some, of course, is Barker's new solo album he is releasing with many featured artists from Slash to Lil Wayne. He will be touring with Lil Wayne, Nikki Minaj from March 18-May 1 this spring.

On top of the Barker release, Tom Delonge, guitarist, just got off tour with his side band, Angels & Airwaves, and Mark Hoppus, bassist, has been releasing new lyrics and hosting his second television show on Fuse.tv (www.adifferentspin.com), "Hoppus on Music". There is a lot to be happy about in the Blink-182 world right now. Even with all of these new items, the band has even found time to add a few more dates to their summer European tour, which has been extended from June 18-July 19.

Let us hope the boys find time to finish their last few tracks and finish their album before they head off to Europe, the follow up from their self-titled album has been in the making for far too long.

The Wonder Years finish new album

After a year of going through the writing process and two months of studio recordings and updates, the The Wonder Years have announced today they have finished their album. This album will be the third full-length released by the band and the first album released on their new label, Hopeless Records, which they joined late last year.

The information on the new album was released Wednesday from a Twitter post by lead singer, Dan “Soupy” Campbell’s account (@headabovewater), saying: “My voice is totally gone. We have to be at the airport to go to Kerrang tour in five hours but I think we just finished a record.” This news couldn’t come at a better time as they finished the recording in time for their European Kerrang Tour with Good Charlotte and Four Year Strong.

The band has posted this record will be split into 13 parts which are supposed to be 13 pieces to a chronological journey that has taken place from November 2009 to November 2010. The record, according to Campbell, does not stray far musically from their sophomore album, The Upsides.  In January 2010, The Upsides landed at #5 on Billboard Alternative album chart.
As The Upsides was an upbeat and positive album, Campbell claims,“Lyrically, I think at first people will be a little confused, because it’s not as overwhelmingly positive. Upsides was a record dealing with depression and social anxiety and seasonal affective disorder, and so it was kind of a record about beating that sadness. Whereas this is a record where all of the parts that seem negative, I think, are outside of me. I’m talking about negative things, but it’s not in my own head anymore—it’s problems I’m seeing with the world.”

The band has not released a working title or a release date yet. European fans can catch them on tour from Feb. 4 - Feb. 18, or American fans can catch them this summer as they make the full trek on the Vans Warped Tour.

Check out an interview with Soupy from last years tour with Four Year Strong HERE
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Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 Reveals lyric sneak peak

Blink-182 fans, please take a deep breath and keep your faith alive.

On Wednesday, Mark Hoppus, bassist of the San Diego punk trio, Blink-182, posted what appears to be the first sneak preview of lyrics for their upcoming album.

On his Facebook and Twiter accounts, Hoppus posted a picture of what appears to be lyrics for an upcoming song. The words read:

Burning lights on the street I’m fight fighting the gravity
When I’m beat and defeated They’ll take you away from me
Dead and lost in a dream This is the last of me
I’m always fighting the gravity

After a band disagreement, the band went through a five-year hiatus. During the hiatus, Hoppus and Travis Barker (drummer) left to form a side project entitled +44. Tom Delonge (guitarist) formed his own band Angels and Airwaves, which turned into what is now his second band.

After not speaking for several years, it took a plane crash that severely injured Barker to get the three in a room again together. The three were able to talk and rekindle their long-term friendship and, shortly thereafter, the band announced at the Grammy’s that they would be reuniting. After an American and European tour, they have left their fans hungry for a new album to follow up their 2003 self-titled release.
Although not officially stated as lyrics for an upcoming Blink song, one can only assume these four sentences scribbled down are just that. Now speculation comes into play if they are actually Blink lyrics and not just for one another possible side project. Since Barker is currently tied up in his solo album and planning a summer tour and since Delonge is planning the same with Angels and Airwaves to Europe, many fans question the identity of what these lyrics are for.

The band has promised to release an album by this summer, so if these are Blink lyrics, we all have got ourselves one step closer to the promised “best album” by the band.

To view the picture and decide for yourself, head over to www.facebook.com/markhoppus and take a look.

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List of albums out today. That means go listen!

So lots of new CD's are out today, so your iTunes should be thanking you for adding some of this new music.

Albums dropping today include:

All That Remains - For We Are Many

Motionless In White - Creatures

Valencia - Dancing With a Ghost

Forever the Sickest Kids – The Weekend: Saturday

Less Than Jake - TV/EP

Vanna - The Honest Hearts EP

You, Me, and Everyone We Know - Some Things Don't Wash Out

Trapt - No Apologies

 

Go listen. Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Almost release track from upcoming EP

The Almost have released their first track, "Wrong", from their upcoming EP Monster Monster. The EP will hit stores and online this month on October 25.

To get a peek of what the new record is going to sound like, head over to their MYSPACE and take a listen, and maybe even pre-order their new CD?

Photo by azuree norman

I See Stars to make new album

I See Stars are returning back to the studio to start recording a new album. Their last album 3D, was featured as #176 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.

A statement from the band reads:

"We are taking I See Stars to the next level. This new chapter is bringing mainstream pop to hardcore music alongside build ups that spawn from the core of techno/dub-step/electro music. Catchy and melodic vocals that illustrate a concept that we feel raises the bar. You're going to dance way more, you're going to want to throw your fists way more. When you put those two together, you have a whole different game. We didn't limit ourselves, and now teaming up with 3D producer, our buddy Cameron Mizell and a balls to the wall producer like Joey Sturgis (The Devil Wears Prada, Attack Attack, Asking Alexandria) , the sky is the limit to what we can do. The wait is over, and the end is near."

from last.fm