Travis Barker has shared news of a new Blink-182 song and has updated fans on the status of the band’s upcoming EP.
Speaking in a new interview, Barker revealed that he hopes the band’s long-awaited EP, which Mark Hoppus said last year would feature Lil Uzi Vert and Pharrell Williams, “will be out in late summer.”
He also said that the band would release a new song called ‘Quarantine’ before the release of the EP. “There is a song called ‘Quarantine’ that is coming out very, very soon,” he said. MTV. “It will be a Blink favorite. It will be like all of our fan favorites. Is incredible.”
The news comes after Goldfinger leader and producer John Feldmann said earlier this month that Blink-182 is “in touch with its roots” during its last recording sessions.
He said RockSound: “The band has definitely been in touch with its roots. The songs we’ve been working on have been super classic Blink and I couldn’t be more excited. ”
Watch Barker talk about the band’s new music below (at the 33:45 mark):
In another part of the interview, which saw Barker and new collaborator jxdn meet up to talk to MTV, the drummer revealed that he still hates flying after his near-death experience in 2008 when the plane he crashed in Carolina from. South.
“I still hate flying,” he explained, before revealing that another fear he has is regret. “Live to the fullest so you don’t regret anything.
“One thing I heard is really strong one day is: you’re going to die. It is just a fact. Live your life. Make yourself happy Accomplish your goals. Have goals. Create goals and simply mark them one at a time. Just do it. Stay on people’s necks and really be relentless. “
Meanwhile, Machine Gun Kelly has just figured out what the Blink-182 ‘Take Off Your Pants And Jacket’ album title means.
The rapper, a longtime friend of Barker’s, had no idea that the title of the 2001 LP, featuring the singles ‘The Rock Show’, ‘First Date’ and ‘Stay Together For The Kids’, is a game by words. male masturbation (“Take off your pants and put it on”).
