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Having abandoned the idea of completing a full new album as “too ambitious” before its upcoming tour, blink-182 will instead have one new song ready before it hits the road on July 23 in Las Vegas.

Guitarist Tom DeLonge tells Billboard.com that the track, titled “Up All Night,” has “got a little bit of (Pink) Floyd, a little bit of Rush, a little bit of blink in there. It’s crazy, but it somehow sounds exactly like where we left off (in 2005). It’s an amazing song.”

DeLonge says the tune is nearly finished, waiting just for Travis Barker to complete his drum tracks. Release plans haven’t been determined yet.

The guitarist explains that he, Barker and bassist Mark Hoppus fully intended to complete an album but the success of the tour derailed that idea. “I think nobody realized how massive this tour was going to be,” DeLonge says. “The tickets outsold what the promoters expected, three to one. So everyone’s trying to play catch-up right now and really nail this tour to be the best it can be and get everything ready, so there’s no studio time right now. Everyone’s so busy just trying to make this thing happen, I think.”

DeLonge says blink-182 fans can expect to hear plenty of hits in a two-hour set that will feature “massive production and arcs in the show that involve lots of bad words…The talks this morning were hot to incorporate the word ‘fuck’ in such a way that it somehow is parallel if not better than when it was lit on fire 10 years ago.”

That, of course, poses an interesting conundrum for DeLonge and his bandmates, who did not have children in the days of the flaming Fuck sign.

“I remember on the very first song of some of these larger tours we did, when the big Fuck sign lit on fire, parents would stand up and walk their kids out,” says DeLonge, who’s also working on a film and movie project called “Love” with his other band, Angels & Airwaves. “Now I feel like that’s what I’m gonna be doing, but to my own (six-year-old) daughter. I’m gonna have to leave the stage to go walk her out.

“A DJ explained it really good to me once; ‘I tell my kid it’s not bad if it’s art. If you’re not doing art, you can’t say words like that.’ I thought that was a really good way to handle it.”

The All-American Rejects – I Wanna ( Mark Hoppus Remix )

The song featuring Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker in the Endless Bummer Sountrack is a cover of  The Adolescents song “amoeba”.

Thanks to Replicant81 in the forum.

This album features Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker and is released on the 23rd of June.  We are kind of clueless to what the track/s are by them. If you know please let us know on the forum.

Promotional picture for the no h8 campaign.

It might have been just another rote evening of late night TV talk show programming. But a funny thing happened at a taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Hollywood on Tuesday. Blink-182 showed up to play a couple of songs — an effort to drum up attention for the multi-platinum-selling pop-punk trio’s North American stadium tour, which kicks off July 24 in Las Vegas.

And suddenly, a full-blown rock concert broke out.

In just their fourth public performance after a five-year “hiatus” as a group, guitarist-singer Tom DeLonge, bassist-singer Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker performed energetic run-throughs of two of Blink’s biggest Warped Tour hits, “What’s My Age Again?” and “Dammit” for Kimmel’s cameras. Then, glancing at each other from across the stage with barely contained class clown glee, they decided they were having too much fun to leave.

You’d never have guessed that only a year ago the band mates hadn’t recaptured that lovin’ feeling toward each other, and a detente — let alone a Blink-182 reunion — seemed hopelessly out of reach. (An upcoming  story in The Times will shed more light on what brought them back together.)

“I love you. Travis,” Hoppus drawled into the mike between songs, prompting DeLonge to elucidate for the crowd: “It’s a physical thing.”

“And I love you, Tom DeLonge,” Hoppus continued, just before the trio launched into their single “Down.”

With Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and wife Ashlee Simpson looking on from backstage, and flanked by a gaggle of the group’s preteen children sitting on an overstuffed sofa, Blink performed eight songs (not including an off-the-cuff improv cover of the Beastie Boys’ “High Plains Drifter”) over the course of an hour. Among them: “Feeling This,” “Dumpweed,” “Reckless Abandon” and “Josie (Everything’s Gonna Be Fine).”

“We haven’t performed some of these songs in seven years,” DeLonge said. “Expect us to screw them up!”

It was in part a reward for fans who had been waiting five hours to see Blink; dozens were led up to a viewing area on the rooftop of a nearby building, where they screamed wildly. Hundreds of others hung out in alleys surrounding the concert area, taking in the jocular, snotty tunage even though they had been unable to secure tickets.

But moreover, with all of Hoppus and DeLonge’s crude sexual double-entendres and frat boy repartee — par for the course for a group that never met a fart joke it didn’t love — the mini-concert seemed more like a declaration of purpose than a tour warm-up. The implicit message was that Blink-182 is back and as solid as ever — that its tour isn’t going to be some kind of halfhearted, profit-driven road slog even if it is one of Blink’s biggest paydays to date. (At least, that’s what they said during our interview. But again, we get ahead of ourselves.)

When the performance was nearly finished, Hoppus exhorted the crowd that it had seen history in the making: “Just think, when you get home, you can say, ‘I saw Blink-182 make complete asses out of themselves on national television!’ ”

DeLonge blew a raspberry and Barker spit a loogie. And with that, it was over.