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Angels & Airwaves på Hoppus on Music

Nicklas — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:58:04 +0000

Intervju med Mark Hoppus på Nylon Guys Magazine

Nicklas — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:27:40 +0000

“Being a punk rock dad is awesome.”

Read the Q&A here

With another Blink 182 album and a FUSE television show under his belt, Mark Hoppus is one busy guy. And now the rock star and new London resident is adding another project to his agenda, the movie The Other F Word. The documentary, out this month, follows Hoppus and other punk icons as they embark on their craziest adventure yet: fatherhood. NYLON’s Willemijn Barker-Benfield spoke with Hoppus about how Blink has changed over the years, why he’s too fickle for tattoos, and the reason he hasn’t ditched his punk attitude with parenthood.

So I hear you moved to London?

Mark Hoppus: I did. It’s great, it’s very different from what I grew up with. I grew up in the middle of the desert in California, and London is the polar opposite of that. I live in Mayfair now. Not a bad spot, we’re very happy with where we live.

How did you get involved in The Other F Word?

I was asked a few years ago if I wanted to be a part of it. I don’t know how exactly it came about, but I knew it was based on the book that Jim Lindberg had written called Punk Rock Dad. It seemed in the past few years, men that are in bands that have children are proud of that fact, and I used to talk with Dave Smalley from Down By Law, about doing a band that was all dad’s that were punk rockers, so I definitely wanted to be a part of it from the first time I heard about it.

How did the punk lifestyle change for you when you became a dad?

It really focuses your world view into a very small area. You really want this life to be something good, and you want to be a good person and you want to be a good role model. Growing up punk rock you just wanted to say “Fuck you!” to the world and make a lot of noise. Then when you have a kid, you want to say “fuck off!” and make a lot of noise in a much better, positive way… It’s interesting to see how different people are as parents, even though we all come out of the punk rock scene.

It’s refreshing to see that everyone’s different.

I think that being a punk rock dad is awesome. I think that being a father and coming out of the punk rock scene, which isn’t necessarily just about “Fuck everything”, I think the ethos that I took away from punk rock was question things, don’t just take everything at face value. Find your own way in life, and I think that if you have a good foundation – this is what I look at for my son.

So you have your TV show at Fuse in New York City, (Hoppus on Music), how did you get involved in TV?

Fuse called about a year and a half ago, and they said they were wanting to produce a cool music talk show. Something that was funny, irreverent, that focussed solely on music, and I was a little suspicious at first, I didn’t know what that meant. They wanted to do cool, brave, different things and it felt like a good fit so I said absolutely, so I’ve been flying out here every week for the past year and three months or something.

How do you find the transition from being a musician, and doing that still, to interviewing musicians?

I love it because it’s so different from what I do in my normal job, and I love promoting new bands and talking to other artists about music, and I love to be silly and funny and chop it up about music. We always have great guests, we always have great performances. Yesterday we had The Joy Formidable here who just blew doors off the place.

Tell us about your new Blink 182 Album, Neighborhoods.

The new Blink album is great- knock on wood-everyone reacted really well to it; I’m really pleased with the way everyone responded to it. The tour we’ve just finished was one of the best tours we’ve ever done. I’m very excited to go and tour the UK and Europe next summer. We leave tomorrow night, I film the show here, fly to LA and then the next day we shoot a video for our song called ‘After Midnight’, and we’re continuing to work on new Blink stuff as well.

How did the new record change from the last Blink records, was there a different process to how you’ve made it?

This one we didn’t have a producer because our dear friend and producer Jerry Finn passed away a few years ago, and there wasn’t really anybody that could fill his shoes in our minds, and I think that it was very necessary for us to produce it on our own, as part of our own internal band healing process. We recorded together in a studio and also in separate studios. Tom lives in San Diego, he has his own studio there, Travis and I at the time were living in LA, and Travis and I had a studio in Los Angeles, so we would get together work out song ideas and arrangements, and then we’d break apart and work on different things, then come back together and compare notes. It was good in that I feel like great things happen when the three of us are in a room, but at the same time I feel we need individual time to explore different ideas and then come back. So it was different then before where basically everybody was sitting in a room waiting for their chance to play.

Do you have a tour ritual that you follow before a show?

Before I go on stage I brush my teeth, that’s the last thing I do before I walk out on stage. I start stretching an hour before, I start warming up my voice, I start listening to music, I have a drink about an hour before I walk on stage, and that’s my routine.

What kind of music do you listen to before you go on stage?

I listen to Ministry, because you need something to really pump you up. I listen to a band called Far, I was listening to The Naked and Famous on this last tour, sometimes Genuine, sometimes Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, sometimes The Descendants. Upbeat music that makes me want to go out and make a lot of noise and be weird.

Tattoos go hand in hand with the punk scene; did you feel pressure to get tattooed?

I didn’t get tattoos for the longest time, and I only have two tattoos. I have my sons name on one wrist, and my wife’s name on my other wrist, and I’ve contemplated getting tattoos, but I’m so fickle in what I’m into at any given time, that depending on what period of my life I was in, I would have tattoos of Star Wars, of pirate ships, of haunted houses, of weird art, it would have just been a mess. It’s interesting when you look at people and you see they’ve got one sleeve done at one point in their life, and a bunch of different stuff done at different points in their life, and it must be a great scrapbook of memories for them, but to me it looks like you didn’t think it through at all.

Mark: “It was awful. It was terrible”

Nicklas — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:55:08 +0000

Tack till wwwblink182hu som lagt klippet på Youtube.

Angels & Airwaves på Billboard

Nicklas — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:07:39 +0000

Tom och David pratar om att kombinera AVA och blink-182, LOVE pt. 2 och LOVE-filmen.

Tack till wwwblink182hu för uppladdningen.

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Marks favoritsaker

Nicklas — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:15:56 +0000

Från SPIN.com:

This week: Mark Hoppus, bassist-vocalist for pop-punk vets Blink-182, which are currently crossing the country on the Honda Civic Tour and preparing for the September 27 release of Neighborhoods, their sixth studio album and first release in eight years. Hoppus — a former SPIN.com columnist – also hosts a TV series on Fuse called Hoppus on Music.

FAVORITE SONG:
“Currently it’s ‘Whirring’ by the Joy Formidable. It’s an amazing song that transforms from mellow and beautiful to huge and cacophonous. I heard it for the first time while walking to the Fuse offices in New York, and I was so struck by what I was hearing that I stopped on the sidewalk and listened to it three times in a row. I ended up late to filming. Even months later, I’m still completely blown away that a three-piece band can make a noise this big.”

FAVORITE ALBUM:
“My tastes change daily, if not hourly, but I’d say‘The White Album’ by the Beatles [their 1968 self-titled LP]. It has so many different sounds, styles, and themes. They hated each other during the recording, but in that tension the band created a double album of great, timeless songs. ‘The White Album’ is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before. You can almost hear them in the studio saying, ‘Fuck it, we’re going to do whatever we want.’ What they created, on tape, with just a few tracks, surpasses 90 percent of any music made since.”

FAVORITE NEW ARTIST:
“Best Coast. In the world of first-to-know, ‘What-you-haven’t-heard-of-Timmy-and-the-Balsamic-Vinaigrette-Uni-Brow?’ hipster coolness, they might not be considered new. But they’re new to most of the world. From the first time I heard Best Coast, I was hooked, and their latest album is ridiculous. It’s like a modern-day Beach Boys with a female singer, and songs strong and catchy enough to stick in your brain for weeks. Strange, the dichotomy between female- and male-fronted bands; a male band can have a whole album dedicated to heartbreak or a specific breakup, and it will be heralded as a triumph of tragedy. But when I played Crazy for You in my car one day, my friend said, ‘Sounds like this lady needs to get laid.’”

FAVORITE RECORD STORE:
“iTunes. I wish there was some cool, independent record store that I could name. I love those stores. I grew up in those stores, and I wish there were more of them. But as much as I enjoy browsing the aisles and digging in bins, I also love the convenience of being able to buy music at 3 A.M., half-drunk, and in my underwear.”

FAVORITE FOOD:
“Near our recording studio, there’s a restaurant that we order from. Every. Single. Day. Our engineer and I order a chef’s wrap (no onions) and a breakfast burrito. Then we split the order. So you get the salsa-y, chicken-y goodness of the chef’s wrap, followed up with the scrambled egg/salty tastiness of the breakfast burrito. Wash it all down with a double cappuccino. I’ve never tasted anything so delicious. We do this five days a week, for weeks on end, and never get sick of it.”

FAVORITE DRUG:
“I’m not personally into drugs, but I do enjoy gin. Gin is my friend. Gin is my secret lover. Gin is my spirit animal. One night, I ran out of tonic water, so I mixed gin and Diet Coke, and a new best friend was made. I don’t know if this drink has a name already, but I am laying claim to it, and I call it a ‘Pants de Leon.’”

FAVORITE VIDEO GAME:
“Words With Friends. It’s fun, straightforward, and you can play it from the toilet. Who knew that ‘qi’ was an actual word? I love that people try and create new words, depending on the letters they possess. Hmmm. Is ‘zarq’ a word? No? Shit. I would’ve had a triple-letter triple-word score!!! Guess I’ll just have to go with ‘za…’”

FAVORITE BOOK:
“Anything involving World War II. I’ve read dozens of books about it. I know I never will, but I’m always trying to wrap my head around how something so horrific could happen in our world. Maybe my interest stems from having three grandfathers involved in the war. Mom’s dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. Dad’s dad was a B-29 pilot running missions over Burma and Japan, and was an alternate crew for the Enola Gay. Stepfather’s dad was a Marine fighting in the Pacific Islands campaign, Okinawa in particular. How they endured the atrocities and devastation of that war and came home decent, loving, humble men, I will never understand.”

FAVORITE WAY TO PASS TIME ON THE ROAD:
“On my computer. During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer. Snapshot of a typical day: wake up, check email, check Twitter, check Facebook, check Google+, maybe check the news (I never check the news). Eat breakfast. Get back on computer for non sequitur Googling (recent searches: lcd vs. led vs. plasma; target heart rate; mauve Pantone colors). Read Kindle. Sneak to dark corner of venue to secretly read reviews of last night’s show. Check Tumblr. Eat lunch. Listen to music, search Spotify, watch Netflix, and aimlessly roam the web. Realize it’s nearly show time and get ready to rock. ROCK!!!!! (… or attempt to rock). Shower. Eat dinner. Pick up computer and repeat all of the above.Fall asleep with MacBook Air on chest, wake up with it on floor. On days without internet, I shake and cry until show time.”

FAVORITE PLACE TO ESCAPE:
“Antarctica. Best trip of my life. Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation. Every day, we’d take excursions from the boat to the land to see thousands of penguins, or cruise the ice fields. Centuries-old glaciers, leopard seals sleeping on icebergs, penguins tending their rock nests on a frozen landscape. Moments of beauty so inspiring you’d almost break down to tears from the overwhelming vastness of it all. Then we’d go back to the ship and complain that there was nothing good to watch on TV.”

FAVORITE LIE:
“‘No, go on, I’m listening’ while typing something into one’s cell phone.

“So I can see us lasting for many years.”

Nicklas — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:33:12 +0000

En artikel från Gibson:

Punk-pop group Blink-182 are back with a new album, Neighborhoods (out September 26), and a cross-country tour with emo-punk band My Chemical Romance. So, what took the guys so long to put together the album – their first collection of new material in eight years? According to bass player Mark Hoppus, the band needed to get reacquainted as friends and bandmates, and that’s chiefly what took so long for the reunion to happen.

“I think it took, first of all, reconnecting as friends after not having spoken for about five years. And then it took getting back into the studio as well as getting back out on the road,” he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

“It definitely took time for us to kind of put all of these different pieces back together to run the business appropriately,” added frontman Tom DeLonge.

Hoppus went onto assure fans that Blink-182 is “our priority” – well above any band members’ side projects – and that the guys plan to stick around for the long haul.

“Blink will last as long as we enjoy what we’re doing, and recording this album has been a lot of fun,” he said. “I think there’s something in the madness and in the creative process between the three of us that can be so frustrating at times, but it can also be a massive joy. And somewhere in that tension I think is where the good work from Blink-182 gets done. So I can see us lasting for many years.”

In other Blink-182 news, the outfit have chosen “After Midnight” as the second single off of Neighborhoods.

Set list klar

Nicklas — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:47:23 +0000

Mark skrev på Google+:

We now have a set list. I think everyone coming to the shows will be very pleased. You want old? We got it. You want new? We got it. You want medium? We got that, too. You want Nickleback covers? Sorry. We don’t have that.

Mark avslöjar inspiration för Neighborhoods

Nicklas — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:08:25 +0000

Denna artikel är från MTV.com:

Last week was a big one for Blink-182 … and their fans. Not only did theband debut “Up All Night,” their first new song in almost eight years, but they revealed the title of their much-anticipated new album, too:Neighborhoods.

Of course, while all of this was happening, Blink bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus was e-mailing MTV News, first to express his excitement about the new music, and then to reveal just how “Up All Night” went from being a rehearsal favorite to Blink’s official comeback single.

And now he’s at it again, this time talking about the inspiration behind the album’s title. As is the case with everything involving Blink these days, it seems the Neighborhoods name owes much to the long road Blink have taken since going on indefinite hiatus back in 2005.

“As Blink-182 reformed, we came to realize that, as close as Travis [Barker], Tom [DeLonge] and I are, we are all very different people. With very different tastes. Travis just released a hip-hop album, Tom always talks about U2, Coldplay and the Police, and I listen to obscure indie rock stuff,” Hoppus wrote. “We each bring a very different aesthetic, talent and sound to the band. And in the differences between our ideas, the struggle and edge of all the different directions, is where the good things happen when we write together.

“So we’re each like different neighborhoods in a city. Everybody in the world thinks of something unique unto themselves when they hear the word ‘Neighborhoods,’ ” he continued. “To some it is a big city, others a small town, others suburbia, everything. The world is wide, exciting and very different. That’s what Neighborhoods means to me.”

Blink-182 will return to the road alongside My Chemical Romance on the 2011 Honda Civic Tour, which kicks off August 5 in Holmdel, New Jersey.Neighborhoods is tentatively due in stores on September 27.

8:35 uppdatering från Mark

Nicklas — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:48:43 +0000

Här är en måndagsmorgon uppdatering från Mark

Monday morning by Mark Hoppus