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“We drove to a Guitar Center, ran in just before closing and bought a Fender P-Bass… we re-tracked almost every song on Enema of the State with it”: Mark Hoppus charts his bass origin story, embracing amp modelers and switching from Ernie Ball to Fender

In a rare interview, the blink-182 bassist shares his tone secrets, the bassline he still struggles to play, and how Ned’s Atomic Dustbin changed the way he approaches the bass

Guitar World

"Signature models mean just that. You play the same bass I play, and you're probably better at it than I am": Blink-182's Mark Hoppus gives us the lowdown on his brand-new Fender bass and discloses why he has switched to the Neural DSP Quad Cortex

The pop-punk bassist discusses his new signature model, what got him interested in Fender basses, what he believes is his greatest riff and more

MusicRadar

“Once the modelers caught up to tube amps in their tone, it was all over for me”: Mark Hoppus explains why he switched to Kemper and Quad Cortex for blink-182’s mammoth arena shows

The blink-182 bassist conducted tone tests to make sure the modelers could match his previous tube rigs

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“He’s enabled fans to achieve the iconic blink-182 tone they've always dreamed of”: Fender and Mark Hoppus team up for limited edition signature Jaguar Bass

The Blink-182 co-founder’s signature model is a real bespoke build with a Jazz Bass neck, a reverse-mounted Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound P Bass split coil and the choice of 3-Color Sunburst or Sea Foam Green finishes

MusicRadar

“He’s enabled fans to achieve the iconic blink-182 tone they've always dreamed of”: Mark Hoppus combines Jaguar, Precision and Jazz Bass parts on his new Fender signature model – including unique reverse-mounted pickups

The blink-182 bassist’s latest signature arrives over two decades after his first Fender model, and follows bandmate Tom DeLonge’s recent Starcaster guitar

Guitar World

“Pre-order now, and we’ll throw in, at no extra cost to you, anxiety, depression, band breakups, loss of self, suicidal thoughts and ideation, and, of course, everyone’s favourite: cancer!” Blink-182's Mark Hoppus announces tell-all memoir

Watch Blink-182 vocalist/bassist Mark Hoppus attempt to sell his forthcoming memoir Fahrenheit-182 via an amusing infommercial

Louder

Reading Festival review, Friday: Blink-182, Kneecap and The Prodigy bring back the festival’s bite

Festival feels back on track after all the Post Malone, Imagine Dragons and The 1975 of Reading’s recent past, the festival equivalent of a midlife crisis

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Blink 182 invites fan up on stage to sing First Date - but she sings the words to All The Small Things

Embarrassment all round at Blink's show in Columbus, Ohio

MusicRadar

What time are Blink-182 on stage at Leeds and Reading Festival?

The legendary American punk band will be taking to the stages on Friday and Saturday

Evening Standard

Blink-182 cancel three Mexico shows as bassist Mark Hoppus hit by throat infection and "severe bronchitis"

Illness leads to Blink-182 pulling the plug on three dates in Mexico this week

Metal Hammer

“If you’re not in the fields with us this year you are MISSING OUT!” Reading & Leeds announces new names for 2024 lineup, including Pendulum, Denzel Curry, The Amity Affliction and more

The annual UK pop and rock festival will return from August 23 to 25

Metal Hammer

Blink-182: One More Time review – gross-out pop-punk trio come of age

Their shtick wears thin at times but the reunited band’s ninth LP has genuine moments of introspection about friendship and mortality

The Guardian - UK

Blink-182 review, One More Time: Locker room jokes and skate park grooves are hardly revelatory

Californian pop-punk trio reunite for the first time in seven years

The Independent UK

Blink-182 review – foul-mouthed arena antics are fitfully fun

Back together after singer/bassist Mark Hoppus’s health struggles, the trio bash out pop-punk anthems with abandon – but their range is frustratingly narrow

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Evening Standard

Blink-182 back with new songs: Tom DeLonge shares One More Time and More Than You Know

The songs are from the band’s first album in 12 years

The Independent UK

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge on his mission to prove ‘Aliens Exist’, a newfound UFO fandom - and the Kardashians

Tom DeLonge took a hiatus from Blink-182 to feed his lifelong extraterrestrial passion. Eight years later, as Congress holds historic hearings on UFOs, he tells Sheila Flynn: ‘This was all part of the plan’

The Independent UK

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge on his mission to prove ‘Aliens Exist’, a newfound UFO fandom - and the Kardashians

The Independent UK

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge shows support for Travis Barker’s marriage to Kourtney Kardashian

‘I’m happy for him,’ the musician says

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The Independent UK

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge on his mission to prove ‘Aliens Exist’, a newfound UFO fandom - and the Kardashians

The Independent UK

Tom DeLonge left Blink-182 for an alien adventure. Now back on tour, his UFO mission is taking off in Congress

Metal Hammer

10 terrible punk albums with one classic song

These punk albums are stinkers that only a mother could truly love, but each features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt

Metal Hammer

How Tom DeLonge nearly broke up Blink-182… three times

When Tom DeLonge found his head turned by a series of extra-curricular activities, it nearly spelled disaster for Blink-182

MusicRadar

Watch: the time Josh Freese sat in on drums for Blink-182 at Warped Tour ’99

When Travis Barker couldn't play, four drummers on the line-up stepped up, including the new Foo Fighters member

Tribune News Service

Saying 'thank you, goodnight!' to obligatory concert encores

DETROIT — At the band's recent sold-out show at Little Caesars Arena, Blink-182's Mark Hoppus dispensed with concert tradition and cut straight to the point.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blink-182 at United Center: Hitmaking lineup reunites, older but no more mature

Chemistry of pop punk trio’s ’90s heyday remains as guitarist-vocalist Tom DeLonge rejoins the band.

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