Alkaline Trio Interview

Kevin Ryder on KROQ

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

As Alkaline Trio preps to head out on the road with blink-182, Matt Skiba has a great analogy for his time in both bands. The longtime co-lead of the Chicago group stepped in for Tom DeLonge during his time away from blink, and now with Mark, Tom, and Travis together again, Skiba will open the show with Alkaline Trio.

"I feel like I walked into a family, like I'm the new, maybe mistress or the new wife, that luckily the kids all approved of," Skiba says of his role with blink for nearly 7 years. "And Alkaline Trio is the successful marriage that I went off and cheated, and came back and they were still on the couch reading US Weekly."

Alkaline Trio is once again rolling out new music, this time with the help of Travis Barker as executive producer on the new tracks, including the lead single, "Oblivion."

"They turned out great," says Dan Andriano of the 3 songs they created with Barker. "It was so easy, and Travis in the studio was great, like the energy was very natural and everything flowed, and when we left, we were like, 'that was easy.'"

Everything in the life of Travis Barker seems "effortless," as Matt says. "The things that he's survived, he's done with such grace and I think he makes even difficult things look easy."

To hear more from Alkaline Trio on their new song "Oblivion" and their upcoming tour with blink-182, check out the full interview with Kevin Ryder above.

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0:00.0	106.7 K Rock is KROQ. It is Kevin Ryder in the afternoon with the guys from Alkaline Trio joining us in studio. Welcome.
0:08.5	Hello.
0:09.3	Thank you. Adam, you drum to every song that you see? Air drum?
0:14.1	I mean, I can't help it. We can't get him to stop. He taps on everything when there aren't songs playing.
0:20.6	Oh, man.
0:21.1	It's constant. Does it drive you nuts? Sometimes. I don't need an alarm clock in the bus anymore. I just get drums happening. Tap taps. I mean, sometimes hands in my box. Nobody hates it more than me. Pounding on my chest. All right, let's talk about new music, shall we? We shall. Please. You got oblivion out.
0:18.7	Tell us about oblivion because I love that song. All right, let's talk about new music, shall we? We shall. You've got Oblivion out.
0:38.9	Tell us about Oblivion, because I love that song.
0:41.9	Oh, thanks.
0:43.7	Yeah, we're proud of it.
0:45.3	Our friend Travis Barker, I think you've met.
0:47.8	Sure.
0:48.5	We had a great time recording it with him.
0:51.9	And, yeah, it's a song about a vampire in his uh take on the world today
0:57.6	and then going down with the ship it's pretty accurate with the things that are happening today well
1:03.6	yeah and the video that accompanies the song is it all kind of just fell into place and uh with
1:09.0	Travis's help it yeah it sounds pretty good i think so this is
1:12.5	one of three songs that you have with Travis that's true right yeah yes and you're gonna put out the
1:18.1	other two when well not to be greedy because we're just getting into oblivion i know we're just getting
1:23.7	into it we had a plan and now we don't know what the plan is. We were going to go,
1:33.6	you know, every few weeks and just release a single, but, uh, like maybe one a month. But now who knows? Who knows? Are we working toward an album? Another question that we've been
1:39.6	discussing. Asking each other. We had so much fun like the the pressure of making a record is different
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