what happened to Blink182?

Question

i'm probably not very up to speed but i use to love them then i saw two of the band on a music video for a group called +44. Please someone tell me what happened! thanks x

i'm in the uk, what is this red Box car racer people have mentioned?

Answer 1

In mid-February 2005 the band cancelled a performance at Music for Relief's Concert for South Asia. Shortly thereafter (February 22, 2005), the band announced they were going on an "indefinite hiatus".

Three weeks later DeLonge announced his new band, Angels and Airwaves. As his reason for why blink-182 went on indefinite hiatus, DeLonge suggested the mounting tension between himself and Hoppus, ultimately caused by DeLonge's desire for a break with his family coupled with Hoppus's feelings of betrayal after the formation of Box Car Racer. He also announced his plans to create a film about the final days of blink-182.[3] Angels and Airwaves released their debut album We Don't Need to Whisper on May 23rd, 2006, where it debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200. The band went on tour in the summer of 2006, with Taking Back Sunday as co-headliner.

Hoppus and Barker's new project +44 surfaced on December 13, 2005 with the song, "No It Isn't". Incidentally, the song was leaked on the same day that Angels and Airwaves were slated to release their first song (and also Tom DeLonge's 30th birthday), though the release of the latter was delayed. Initially, Hoppus was hesitant to admit any deliberate correlation between the song and breakup, but has since admitted the song was about DeLonge and the breakup of the band. +44 released their first album When Your Heart Stops Beating on November 14, 2006.

SIMPLY PUT: They split up and the members formed two new different bands: Angels and Airwaves and +44.

Answer 2

They broke up, sadly. I used to like their music and the childish outcomes on serious topics. But either way, they broke up. Tom became part of Angel and Airwaves and I also believe took part in Box Car Racer along with Travis?

Anyway, they all went into their own bands, as I said Tom, in Angels and Airwaves while Travis and Mark settled in +44.

Answer 3

ummmm. I think two are in a band on a music video for a group called +44.

Answer 4

Mark and Travis are in +44 they just put out their first album, it's alright. And Tom started Angels and Airwaves, he put out an album late last year, i didn't really like it.

Answer 5

Tom DeLonge got too big for his boots when he went to Angels and Airwaves, the other two werent interested in his cockiness after that.

Answer 6

they all found better things to do than sing about high school despite being 30 years old. Travis moved on to The Transplants, then that stupid TV show

Answer 7

Well, all I know is Tom Delonge, the lead singer, is now in Angels and Airwaves. I think they broke up.

Answer 8

They broke up. The lead singer is in the band Angels and airways. Sorry =(.

Answer 9

they broke up. tom started his own band called angels and airwaves and mark and travis started +44.

Answer 10

The new-school punk trio blink-182 was formed in the suburbs of San Diego, California around guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Scott Raynor. Originally known as simply Blink, the band debuted in 1993 with a self-released EP, Fly Swatter. After releasing the album Buddha in 1994, the trio signed to Grilled Cheese/Cargo and released Cheshire Cat the following year. The threat of a lawsuit from a similarly named Irish band forced them to change their name to blink-182, but the group earned a higher profile touring the world with Pennywise and NOFX on the 1996-1997 Warped Tour, plus appearing on innumerable skate/surf/snowboarding videos.


The third blink-182 LP, Dude Ranch, was jointly released in 1997 by Cargo and MCA. Dude Ranch expanded the group's audience and went platinum by the end of 1998, due in part to the popularity of their infectious teen anthem, "Dammit (Growing Up)." The group also signed officially with MCA, which released the band's fourth album, Enema of the State, in the summer of 1999. The album, produced by Jerry Finn (Green Day, Rancid), also welcomed a new member into the trio's ranks; Travis Barker, formerly with the Aquabats, settled in on drums after Raynor left midway through a 1998 U.S. tour. Enema was greeted with almost immediate success, and helped the band achieve the mainstream status of toilet-humored pop-punk kings that Dude Ranch had only hinted at. Driven by the commercially successful singles "What's My Age Again?," "All The Small Things," and "Adam's Song," music videos for the three songs (whose clips included themes of streaking and boy band spoofs) were MTV smashes as well.


After selling over four million copies of Enema of the State, the trio played on with the limited-edition release The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back) in fall 2000. The album featured the band's radio hits in a live setting, intertwined with their quirky sense of humor as well as the new song "Man Overboard." Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, issued in spring 2001, saw the band return to their SoCal punk rock roots. Maturity, of a sort, came with 2003's self-titled album, released on Geffen. Not only did the album sport a song ("All of This") that featured Robert Smith of the Cure, but "I Miss You" also topped the modern rock charts in 2005.

In February 2005, however, popular as ever and seemingly indestructible, blink-182 unexpectedly announced they would be going on an "indefinite hiatus," supposedly to spend more time with their growing families. Asking fans for help in selecting tracks, the group issued Greatest Hits that November. Bandmembers also continued on with other projects: Barker -- who had previously released an album with DeLonge as Boxcar Racer -- continued playing with the Transplants and running his clothing company, Famous Stars and Straps. His family was also spotlighted in the MTV reality show Meet the Barkers. Hoppus carried on with his Atticus fashion venture, began producing -- starting with Motion City Soundtrack's Commit This to Memory -- and hosting his own podcasts. He further began work with Barker in a new band, Plus 44. DeLonge also continued work with his lifestyle clothing company, Macbeth, and formally announced his new project, Angels and Airwaves, that fall.