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.

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.

Här är en måndagsmorgon uppdatering från Mark

Monday morning by Mark Hoppus

 Detta är sent, men bättre sent än aldrig. Mark avslöjar namnet på det kommande albumet. Lyssna på klippet HÄR.

Denna artikel är från MTV.com:

Sure, there’s already been a reunion tour, but Thursday, Blink-182 officiallyreturned with “Up All Night,” their first proper single in nearly seven years.

And while the song recalls elements of Blink’s past (not to mention all those side projects), it’s by no means nostalgic. With its darkly undulating electronics, churning chords and Barker’s mighty mashing, it also represents a new Blink for a new millennium.

And that’s even more impressive when you consider that the song’s actually been around for more than two years now, ever since Blink-182 first resumed jamming together in early 2009. During that time, it’s undergone some rather drastic changes, but it’s always remained core to what the band hoped to do on their new album, Neighborhoods. How do we know all this? Because Mark Hoppus told us, in an email Friday morning (July 15), just hours after “Up All Night” nearly broke the Internet.

” ‘Up All Night’ was the first song that we started writing when the band got back together,” he wrote. “The foundation of the song remains largely the same as when we first began, but over the past two years, as we’ve been recording others songs, coming back to this one, working on something else, coming back to this song, it’s gotten harder and heavier than its original incarnation.

“Initially the chorus had much more air. It was a lofty, synth-y chorus, but we wanted the first song that people heard to be much more of a rocker. We changed a bunch of the instrumentation, recorded heavier guitars and bass, and Tom [DeLonge] wrote the progression that the guitars take on in the chorus,” he continued. “Then Travis [Barker] took it over and the drumsreally solidified the rock element of the track. The half-time intro of the last section was all him, and I think punctuates the song very well.”

After all that work, you can imagine how thrilled the guys in Blink have been by the song’s initial reception. But that’s just the first part of their return. As Hoppus wrote, the next step is letting fans hear Neighborhoodsitself. He’s beyond excited for that, too.

“I’m so glad to finally have new music out, and cannot believe how well it has been received,” he wrote. “[Our website] crashed out several times, my Google-plus account crashed out twice, and blink-182 was a top trending topic worldwide. Totally amazing. Now, I can’t wait for the album itself to be released.”

Mark skrev detta på sin Facebook:

1230 at night here in los angeles. sitting on the floor of my hotel room, listening to the first mix of the first track to come back from the new album. stoked beyond words to be listening to new music from our band. on the OTHER side of the creative process. listening to the songs not to figure out what and if it needs more of. listening just to hear the music. i love this song, and the mixer did a great job, it sounds amazing. i can’t wait until this album comes out, and i hope that when it does you all are as excited as i am sitting here by myself in the middle of the night, cross-leeged on the floor of a hotel room, with headphones on, listening to this song over and over. thank you for supporting our band. blink-182 life, for life.

Markskrev följande på Tumblr:

late night flight from jfk to lax.  in the past two days we taped a lot of great segments for hoppus on music.  beady eye (former members of oasis), awolnation, simple plan, the brothers carney from spider man turn off the dark, cults, and a panel discussion on tour riders.  we also shot two commercials for the show.  question: why is my go-to television voice always just me yelling into the camera?

tomorrow morning early the movers come to my home to pack up everything i’m taking in the move to london.  a few of you have asked why london and how am i going to be able to continue working with blink-182 and the tv show.  the answer to the second part is: i will never sleep.  i’ll be traveling back and forth to new york to tape the show, and flying out to wherever blink-182 has concerts, press, video shoots, etc.  or if tom needs a hug.  or if travis needs a partner for mixed martial arts tournaments.  a lot of you may not know that, while i may APPEAR soft, infirm, and a bit out of shape, i’m actually the pinnacle of virility, strength, and masculinity.  ready to GO at the drop of a hat.  yeah, i’m kind of a bad ass.  but i don’t like to be showy about it.  as for why move to london, there’s no one real answer.  i just want to check out the uk for a bit.  i’ve lived in and loved southern california for most of my life, and want to try a change.  i want to know what it’s REALLY like to live the european experience.  by completely immersing myself into a foreign culture.  jump in feet-first.  i want to go to YOUR starbucks, to wear YOUR ed hardy t-shirts, and to ride rides at YOUR disneyland paris.  i want to open my mind to a whole new world.  i want to be jasmine, and the uk and greater european continent to be alladin, and the eurorail will be our magic carpet and we’ll fly high above the landscape opening up beneath us… “a whole new world (don’t you dare close your eyes…)”  got a bit off travk there, sorry.  the uk rules, and from there we can check out places in europe and scandinavia, etc.  also, i like tea.  and crumpets.  but i gotta be honest, the sport of cricket completely defies me.  any game that takes days to decide is beyond my capacity for caring.  it takes all the patience and determination i possess to watch a 90 minute football match that ends in a 0-0 draw, and not launch something blunt and weighty into one of the 60” flatscreen tvs that hang on every wall of my sprawling mansion.  interesting side note: aside from clothes, the amount of “stuff” i’m bringing with me overseas and on tour, the NECESSITIES of my very existence, objects with which i would be completely unable to function, all fit into two small boxes.  and a pro-tools rig and some guitar cases.

tomorrow morning after the movers leave, we have interviews.  mostly about the tour.  but inevitably and expectedly also about the album.  what does it sound like?  how many songs?  what direction did you take as a band?  why does mark look like he’s slowly metamorphosing into jane lynch from glee?  all valid and important questions, to be sure.  but also questions for which we don’t have all the answers yet.  we’re still in the thick of it.  as i sit on this plane somewhere over pennsylvania, travis is in los angeles tracking drums, and tom is in san diego tracking guitars and vocals.  i’ll be working on the songs again tomorrow after the interviews, and on and on until the album is due at the end of july.  what DOES it sound like?  i can’t tell you.  personally, i am at the point where i can’t truly see it for what it is anymore.  objectivity left a long time ago.  i CAN say that some of the best songs for the record have been written in the past month.  songs with energy and angst, and hooks and great melodies.  the original absence of there songs is the reason why we had to cancel the UK/European dates.  and also why, even as GIANT a bum-out as it was and continues to be, it was the right thing to do.  the album is much the better for having the extra time, and we have the UK and Europe to thank for it.  so thank you, and apologies again.

our single is due to be delivered to the label in two weeks.  as of now, i think we have four strong contenders for “first single.”  this is one the most exciting and stressful times of any recording process.  the part where you commit.  no more “we’ll put this in and see how it works…” we are all forced to make the decisions that will ultimately solidify whatever this new album will become, and will always be.  good or bad, right or wrong, the die is about to be cast.  the deadline is approaching.  july 31st will be here sooner then any of us realize, and a few weeks after that it will be on the shelves (or on the websites where you can purchase and hold it in a cloud) and finally everyone can hear it, decide for themselves, and we can all stop talking about when the record will be released or what it sounds like.  we can start talking about what we think of the final master.  at that point, the album will be what it is and take on its own life.  all of our ideas and work and songs will be like little birds, leaving the nest for the first time.  some will soar to amazing heights, some may fall short and struggle to take flight, and some may grow bright yellow and grotesquely large and live on a street with a green monster who lives in a trash can.  i think i’m going to like our new little record.  i hope you do, too.

also tomorrow we’re meeting a production designer to discuss the upcoming US tour.  starting to figure out what the tour will look like.  what it will feel like when the curtain drops.  what lights, what effects, what projections, or not.  is there a theme?  will there be an enormous animated skeleton named eddie that looms over the audience, or a giant inflatable pig, and what about pete wentz’s hair?   these questions will inevitably lead into the discussion of the set list for this tour, which new songs will be added, which songs will stay, will any be cut?  and tour rehearsals.  and merchandise for the tour.  and ad mats for the tour.  and crew.  and hotels.  and buses.  and semi trucks.  load-in times.  soundchecks.  meet and greets.  radio station visits.  late night truck stops where you buy a brown leather vest with turquoise inset stones and tassels because you think it’s funny and you’re still buzzed from the show. (by the way, the half-life on the comedy value of said wardrobe absurdity is exactly 3 minutes from when you walk out of the truck stop door).  tour life.

in summary (are you still reading this?!  damn, maybe try and get out a little), tonight is  june 22.  in the next six weeks we have to: 1) finish recording the album, 2) choose a single, 3) mix the album, 4) master the album, 5) design the tour production, 6) figure out the artwork for the record (damn, i’d forgotten about that until right now), 7) decide upon a setlist, learn to play the songs we just recorded in a live setting, 9) start general rehearsals for the tour, 10) shoot a video for the single, 11) do national, international, local, and long-lead press for the record and tour. additionally, for me i am committed to 12) two weeks of taping for hoppus on music, 13) flying to london to find a place to live, 14) moving everything out of my house, into storage or shipped to the tour, or to london, 15) packing for tour. 16) unburdening myself from 2 vehicles, 17) living out of a hotel for a month, 18) learning to dance the watusi, 19) convincing myself that the double-down sandwich is actually a real thing, and not a dare that someone is playing on us.  oh yeah, and we as a band need a full week of full production rehearsals. and merch designs.  wow.

so that’s the next six weeks.  i’ll speak for myself when i say i’m crazy, stressed, high-strung, unable to sleep, anxious, nervous, and loving every minute of it.  i love what we get to do.  honestly.  and the only reason we get the opportunity to do it is the support from all of you.  so, thanks again.  i hope you love our new record.  i hope to see you out on the tour this summer, and if we miss you there, maybe i’ll run into you over in jolly old england, where we can throw anotha shrimp on the barbie, mate!!!  oh. wait.  dammit.

Detta är vad Mark skrev på Facebook för att klargöra frågor kring den uppkommande Nordamerika turnén och den senarelagda Europaturnén:

Hello fellow humans in the UK and Europe. I understand your confusion and frustration at hearing the US tour announcement tonight. Here’s what’s up. This tour was booked ALONGSIDE the UK/European dates, a long time ago. We did NOT book the US tour after deciding to postpone the UK/European dates. The plan was to finish the album, tour the UK/Europe, and then come back for the US tour. We ran late on when we thought we’d finish the album, and unfortunately the time we needed made the first leg impossible.

Hopefully it’s for the best, because some of the best work on the album is being done these past few weeks. Now there’s a hard deadline for the album to be turned in, and it will be released during our US tour.

That’s what’s up. I get and share your anger at the postponement of the first leg of the tour. As we’ve said before, it wasn’t a decision lightly made. At all. But don’t think for a second that we decided to tour the US instead of the UK. It’s not the case. For me personally, I can’t wait to get back across the pond. With new songs and a new show.

And lastly, Chelsea Football Club rules. Those who disagree are just jealous, or something.