After saving the day at Coachella, Blink-182 are poised for their big return, with a new album, a world tour and Tom DeLonge back in the band, and to top it off, they’re our official Artist Of The Week…

It’s already been a long and colourful career for Blink-182, but as of 2023, the pop-punk icons are officially back in business. And what better way to cement their triumphant comeback than singlehandedly saving the day at Coachella following the surprise drop-out of festival favourite Frank Ocean?

Soundtracking the mid-90s to early 2000s with a plethora of hits like ‘All The Small Things’, ‘What’s My Age Again?’ ‘Dammit’, ‘Adam’s Song’ and ‘Feeling This’, the band has sold over 50 million albums worldwide, including 13 million copies in the US alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ht5RZpzPqw&ab_channel=blink182VEVO

After years of on-again-off-again stints and lineup changes, in October last year, Blink-182 announced the return of (basically) OG guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, taking the lineup back to its gold-standard, platinum-selling iteration, complete with bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker.

They also dropped a new single, ‘EDGING,’ marking the first time in a decade the trio had been in the studio together, and announced they would be releasing a new album in 2023.

If that wasn’t enough, they revealed a massive global tour, including arena shows in our very own Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in 2024 (dates below, tickets here). The whole thing was accompanied by a perfectly juvenile, perfectly Blink-182 announcement vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP9zsx04fWY&ab_channel=blink-182

Just last weekend, the band made their triumphant live comeback, with DeLonge, Hoppus and Barker playing for the first time together in nine years, during a hits-stacked, 18-song surprise set at Coachella.

Then, after it was revealed that Frank Ocean would be pulling out of his scheduled second headline set on Weekend 2 of the festival, it was announced that Blink-182 would be filling in as the Sunday night headliners and closing out Coachella 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzmSlPiaeRU&ab_channel=Coachella

With a widely successful Coachella reunion, a new album on the way and a mammoth world tour starting in May, Blink-182 are poised for their comeback era, and we are 100% here for it.