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Tom Delonge, supposedly said via Modlife, that AVA will release their third album and the movie to go along with it on Christmas Day, for FREE.

A slow news day so i thought i would post this interview from a week or so ago.

Marks Tweet:

“The irvine show sold out so fast we’re adding a 2nd one w/ FOB supporting. Also looking at a possible 2nd vegas since that one went so quick”

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KROQ Reports :

“Mark Hoppus wants you to buy your tickets directly from him! He’ll be at the House of Blues Sunset box office Saturday at 10am selling tickets to their September 17th Verizon Wireless show. Cash only.  Lineups will start at 8 AM.  Four ticket limit per customer.  Quantities are limited— while supplies last. Rock out with your _______ out!”

Marks tweet:

“At blink rehearsal. Adding man overboard, adam’s song, don’t leave me, and reckless abandon to possible set list.”

From the Spin Article :

The fun-loving bassist talks about his band’s reunion tour, being a Twitter guru, and whether guitarist Tom DeLonge will finally lighten up.
BY PETER GASTON 05.29.09 11:49 AM

Good morning! I’ve got 8 hours of press today. That’s a lot of me talking about me. I’m gonna start 2 hate me by the 2nd hour!”

It’s not even 7 A.M. and the Blink-182 bassist is tapping away at a Blackberry in Los Angeles, as he does every morning from wherever he happens to be, greeting some 525,000 fans who follow his Twitter feed. No, that number isn’t a misprint — and it’s likely to have grown by the time you read this.

Hoppus also spends time updating his blog, Hi My Name Is Mark, where hundreds of fans post comments on everything Mark decides to share — from Blink-related articles, to Obama videos, to SPIN’s octodrive giveaway.

This month, Blink ended their five-year hiatus and are mapping out their first summer tour since guitarist Tom DeLonge called it quits and headed off to form Angels and Airwaves. So how did Hoppus manage to stay so spectacularly popular for all those years? By being the same guy he’d always been: witty, oversharing, with an innate ability to engage and involve every fan he’s ever earned.

We carved out 20 minutes with Hoppus during one of those epic runs of interviews — “That’s my job,” he says without a hint of sarcasm, “it’s what I do” — to get his take on the budding Blink-182 reunion, their massive tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy, and whether bandmate DeLonge has finally cheered up after half a decade of extreme seriousness.

How are you feeling about the tour? So far you’ve done two Leno performances and a T-Mobile party.
We’re kind of taking baby steps back into playing live. The T-Mobile party was so much fun. It was so much fun that Tom actually doesn’t have any memory of it.

How does it feel to be back on stage together?
Honestly, it feels like coming home. We’ve spent the past two months in a rehearsal spot, and we’re going to spend two months before the tour starts, and things are coming together really nicely. There are songs that we run through the first time and remember everything, and then there’s other songs where I go, “Wait, what did I play on bass there?”

What can you tell us about the tour’s staging?
We’re working with Mark Philips, who designed sets for Daft Punk and Kanye West and Nine Inch Nails. We had a meeting with him a few weeks ago. It’s like we’re talking to Albert Einstein about math, because it’s so far beyond our imagination. We told him that it’s really important to us that the entire arena is involved in the show. He hasn’t sent us any sketches yet, but I heard something about different areas of the stage moving in different directions or something like that. Hopefully, it’s like a punk rock Cirque du Soleil.

If I see you on trapeze I might be a little bit scared.
Travis [Barker] has been upside down flipping on his drum kit before, so there’s no telling what this guy’s going to come up with.

What about having Weezer open for you guys? Is that strange, since they broke out early and paved the way for bands like yours?
No, we’re really honored that they wanted to be a part of the tour. I remember one of the very first Blink tours, driving a van around and listening to the Blue Album on cassette and singing along with it and just being huge fans of that band. We’re really stoked to be touring with them.

They went through something similar to Blink, where they took some time off and went their separate ways before reuniting to fan hysteria…
The other night, we threw a big tour launch party and invited all the bands down to a Mexican restaurant in Hollywood. It’s always kind of strange at the beginning of the tour because you don’t necessarily know everybody, and people are in their dressing rooms, and sometimes it takes a week or two before you even see everybody. We wanted to eliminate all that and have just a big party beforehand. So we saw [Weezer] there and talked about the tour a little bit. But we didn’t really talk about the histories of our bands or anything like that. It was mostly just being excited about touring together.

I’ve heard you guys are keeping ticket prices low.
Oh yeah, totally. Throughout Blink’s history, we’ve always tried to have low ticket prices and make the shows accessible to everyone that wants to come, and on this tour we actually worked really hard with CAA, our booking agents, and Live Nation, the promoter, and we have $20 all-inclusive tickets, for all the shows. And that includes parking. There’s no service fees, no hidden charges, so you’ll get into a show with 20 bucks.

You’ve got Daft Punk’s set designer creating crazy things and you’re only charging $20? Are you going to make any money?
For us, this isn’t one of those reunion tours where the band is hurting for money and they go out on tour and play the hits, then come home, take a bunch of time off, and maybe do another reunion tour a few years later. It’s more about us having a fun time this summer than making a bunch of money. And we’d rather play for 20,000 people and not worry about making as much money than gouge our fans.

There’s been a lot of talk about whether you’re going to release a new Blink-182 single.
Well, we’ll definitely play at least one or two new songs on the tour, but I don’t know yet if the single’s going to be released. Ideally, I would love to have a single come out around the time we’re going to be going on tour, just so people have a little taste of the new music and can enjoy it at the show. New songs at shows always seem a little weird. When I go and I see a band play and they’re like, “We’re going to play some new stuff now,” I just go, “Oh my God, for real?” I just want to rock out with the stuff I can sing along with. So I would love to have a single out beforehand.

You do so much online with your fans. Will you get them involved on tour, too?
Yeah, definitely. We haven’t decided on anything yet, but we always try to let people into the soundchecks, and we try and do meet-and-greets. Our whole thing, as part of the live show, is to eliminate the separation between the band onstage and the audience watching us. I think that Blink has always had this feeling that we’re all in this together, that the audience wasn’t a separate thing. We want everyone to feel like they’re part of the show in some way. Do not be surprised if all of a sudden we’re playing right next to you.

Seriously, you have half a million people following you on Twitter. Why?
Pete [Wentz of Fall Out Boy, 561,000 Twitter followers] and I have been trying really hard to make things cool. We’re not guys that feel like we’re above anybody because we’re in a band. Especially in Blink, we’ve always recognized the fact that the only reason we get to do what we do is because people support us. It breaks my heart when I see bands that don’t interact with their fans and think that success is deserved, rather than it being a wonderful blessing that people support your band.

One last thing: Is Tom ready to not be so serious?
I think even more so than people realize. Because Tom has been such a serious artist for the past five years, he has about five years of obscenities backed up in his system. Given a microphone and an audience in front of him, I think he’s going to say so many out-of-line things that I’d like to apologize in advance for my friend.

From RapRadar:

“Travis Barker knows how to party like a rock star.  After all, he’s had on the job training as the drummer for Blink 182. But truthfully, the So Cal native’s a hardcore hip-hop head. In fact, he’s fiddled his sticks for P.Diddy, Soulja Boy and The Game. More recently, he was commissioned to remix Eminem’s “3 A.M.”. Trav phoned in with Rap Radar to discuss how the project came to fruition. ”

How did the remix to “3.A.M.” come about?
Paul [Rosenberg] had hit me up and said that Em kind of heard in his head some sort of rock remix for it. They let me have a stab at it and then the rest is history. I had so much fun doing it. It was real cool.

Were you able to hear the record and just play it by ear?
Nah, within like the first day—it usually takes me like eight hours and I’ll pretty much have the idea like the skeleton of what’s going to happen and I’ll just add instruments to make sure the breaks are cool and instrumentation.

Will the remix be strictly viral?
It’s going to be available on Eminem.com for like some special release. I made like a video for it like I do all my remixes I do for YouTube that’s going to drop in a couple days.

You’ve done remixes for Soulja Boy, The Game, and evern appeared in Diddy’s “Bad Boy For Life” video. Are you surprised that a lot of rappers gravitate toward you?
Yeah man, I’m always stoked. I grew up listening to hip-hop just as I did, metal, punk rock, [and] everything else listening to. So it was cool to get down with some of them cause I spent so much of my childhood and my life listening to hip-hop, so I was real stoked on that and I played drums to it. Just as I was learning Van Halen records, I’d be learning Run DMC records and trying to imitate the drum machine. Trying to imitate an MPC can be difficult at times.

Who’d you grow up listening to?
As a kid, ah man. Whodini, Run DMC, big Beastie Boys fan, the Pharcyde, I toured with the Alkohiks when I was real young. That was a good time. I toured with Ice-T one time, that was real cool. But I listen to everything. Just feel good shit, from Tribe Called Quest to you know— I love 2pac, I love Dre, I love Eminem, I love Beanie Sigel. So many rappers I love.

Is there anyone that you’d want to work with that you haven’t already?
I don’t know. I think worked with so many of my peers and people I look up to know as of now. I got to play drums on a T.I. track, a couple years ago. I had Too $hort in the studio with me. I been in the studio a lot with Kid Cudi lately. I got to play on so many of my favorite rappers things. I just did a song with Beanie Sigel last year. I got to work with so many people that I love. But, I’d love to do something with Willie Nelson. I want my record to be real way out, real broad.

Do you create these remixes for personal rec?
That’s kind of how the Soulja Boy one came out. I had asked for like sessions and they made it official. Like they wanted to do an official rock remix. So that’s how that one came about. And I’m usually at the studio every day doing something. Whether its Blink rehearsal or practicing with [DJ] AM. So, when I’m here and something like this comes up, it’s just another day at the studio, but its different and I don’t usually get to remix an Eminem song everyday.

?uestlove from The Roots is known for his drumming skills too. Is there room for two drummers in hip-hop?
Yeah, man, I respect ?uest. I kind of did a drum duet kind of battle thing with him at a Grammy party. They invited me down, the Roots did, and [DJ] AM knows him real well, so I’m stoked to give back whatever I can to give back to hip-hop cause I’m such a big fan and whatever else, but I have to make room.

A lot of folks have said, “Hip-Hop is dead.” Do you think genre would ever suffer the same fate as, lets say, glam rock?
Nah. I think there’s genres— you look back at glam rock an you’re like, “What the fuck were they doing?” You look at an era of like MC Hammer and how way out he used to dress, you know, that was the time period. But, I don’t think nothing going on right now is that outlandish and far left you look back on it 10 years from now and it don’t age well. I think if anything, there’s so many different styles of hip-hip now. There are so many different rappers. Like, I’m about to be in the studio with Nipsey Hussle.

What are you doing with Nipsey?
Just writing beats. Just making shit for him so when he comes  in he has an array of beats to listen to but we been chopping it up back and forth.

That’d be a cool mash-up.
[But] that’s way different than like Cudi or Rob Roy. There are so many different people you can get down with that the subject matter would appeal to you. Like, Asher Roth exists now. Like, every kid in college, having a crazy ass time and good heartfelt goofy shit. There’s something for everyone now.”