Catching Up with Blink 182

Ongoing History of New Music

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Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Blink‑182’s story has always been chaotic, inspirational, and a little unbelievable...and the last decade has been no exception. We thought this would be a good time to revisit the band’s evolving saga since our original 2017 trilogy on their rise, fall, and rise again. A lot has happened: lineup changes, personal crises, UFO hunting, bestselling side projects, a Grammy nomination, a global pandemic, and even a life‑threatening illness that ultimately brought them back together. We pick up the trail with the Matt Skiba era and the unexpected resurgence brought on by the "California" album. From there, we follow the band through creative experiments, personal struggles...including Mark Hoppus’s battle with stage‑4 lymphoma...and the emotional reunion that brought Tom DeLonge back into the fold. The result? A renewed Blink‑182, a triumphant Coachella comeback, and their 2023 album "One More Time". It’s a story of fractures, forgiveness, survival, and one of the most resilient bands in modern punk history. Blink‑182 is well into their fourth decade...so how much longer can they run? If history is any clue, never count them out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing
0:04.3	history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.
0:09.3	In early 2017, I did a three-part series called The Rise and Fall and Rise of Blink 182.
0:16.2	The goal was to chronicle the band from their very beginning through all the troubles with Tom DeLong
0:20.7	and the return with Matt Skeba in Tom's place. It was an interesting narrative arc,
0:25.7	and at the time, it looked as if this lineup would be the future of the band. Well, no, that's
0:31.9	not what happened. Matt replaced Tom in March 2015. There was an album called California,
0:37.2	that became the group's second number one album on the Billboard 200 and their first in March 2015. There was an album called California that became the group's second
0:38.4	number one album on the Billboard 200 and their first in the UK. There was a single called Bore to
0:43.3	death and it was the biggest thing they'd done in years. The album and the single both went gold. The
0:48.6	album was nominated for a Grammy and there was a massive world tour that drew in millions. So,
0:53.9	fantastic comeback story, right?
0:56.2	Smooth sailing after that.
0:57.9	New lineup, no more problems, continued superstardom.
1:02.1	Uh, no.
1:03.5	It looked like when those episodes were released,
1:06.6	that was the way things were going to be,
1:08.5	but that's not how things proceeded.
1:11.0	Oh, Blink 182 is still doing fine, but there were some, well, twists to this story.
1:16.9	In fact, things have changed so much that we got to look at the situation again.
1:21.3	So, it is time to catch up with Blink 182.
1:26.5	This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.
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