Blink-182 have reunited with founding member Tom DeLonge and announced a 2023 tour. The classic lineup of DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker will also release a comeback single called “Edging” on Friday (October 14). Check out the tour dates, which include North American shows with support from Turnstile, at the bottom of the page, and watch the characteristically juvenile announcement video below. The band will release a new album next year, according to a press release.
DeLonge started Blink-182 with Mark Hoppus in 1992. Their debut album, Cheshire Cat, arrived in 1995, followed by the “Dammit”-featuring album Dude Ranch in 1997. After original drummer Scott Raynor was dismissed from the band in 1998, Travis Barker came aboard in time to record the band’s multi-platinum 1999 album Enema of the State, which featured the hit singles “What’s My Age Again?” and “All the Small Things.”
Their first No. 1 album in the United States followed, 2001’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. In 2002, DeLonge and Barker released a side project as a duo, a self-titled Box Car Racer album. The following year, Blink-182 released a self-titled album before announcing an indefinite hiatus in 2005.
DeLonge focused on his band Angels & Airwaves, which released their debut album in 2006, while Barker became a prolific session drummer, particularly in the worlds of pop-punk and hip-hop. In 2008, Barker was involved in a plane crash that led to the trio returning for a reunion tour in 2009. In 2011, Blink-182 released Neighborhoods and they continued to tour in the early 2010s before DeLonge departed the band in early 2015.
Hoppus and Barker discussed DeLonge’s departure in an interview with Rolling Stone at the time, saying that after the band signed a recording contract and booked a studio for album sessions, Hoppus and Barker received emails from DeLonge’s management announcing that he was leaving the band. “To be honest, I wasn’t that surprised because his attitude leading up to that had been not excited and not interested,” Hoppus said. Barker called DeLonge “disrespectful and ungrateful” to have his manager break the news and not call them himself. “Why Blink even got back together in the first place is questionable,” Barker said.
Following DeLonge’s departure, Blink-182 hired Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba. They released two albums under that lineup: 2016’s California and 2019’s Nine. The band toured consistently in the late 2010s, too, and was booked to perform at the famously doomed Fyre Festival.
During his time away from the group, DeLonge has continued recording with Angels & Airwaves. He has notably committed much of his time to the study of aliens, UFOs, and conspiracy theories. He founded the company To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2015 and was the executive producer behind the History Channel series Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. In 2020, the Pentagon declassified UFO videos that DeLonge’s company had previously shared.
In the recent past, Barker has become something of an omnipresent cultural and tabloid figure. He has collaborated with Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly, Willow, and XXXTentacion, to name a few. In May 2022, he married Kourtney Kardashian.
Since 2019, Hoppus has been hosting the Apple Music 1 radio show After School Radio. In 2021, he revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer; later that year, he said he was cancer free. In an August 2022 interview with People, Hoppus revealed that DeLonge and Barker visited him before he started chemotherapy. “It was the first time that all three of us were in the same room in, like, five years,” Hoppus said. “It’s actually better than it used to be. There was no agenda. There were no lingering grudges. It felt very back to what it should be: three friends sitting in a room.… Everybody’s in a really great place right now.”
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Blink-182:
03-11 Tijuana, Mexico - Imperial GNP
03-14 Lima, Peru - Estadio San Marcos +
03-17-19 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Lollapalooza Argentina
03-17-19 Santiago, Chile - Lollapalooza Chile
03-21-22 Asuncion, Paraguay - Venue TBA
03-23-26 Bogotá, Colombia - Estereo Picnic
03-24-26 São Paulo, Brazil - Lollapalooza Brasil
03-28 Mexico City, Mexico - Palacio de los Deportes +
04-01-02 Monterrey, Mexico - Venue TBA
05-04 Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center %
05-06 Chicago, IL - United Center %
05-09 Detroit, MI - Little Caesars Arena %
05-11 Toronto, Ontario - Scotiabank Arena %
05-12 Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre %
05-16 Cleveland, OH - Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse %
05-17 Pittsburgh, PA - PPG Paints Arena %
05-19 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden %
05-20 Elmont, NY - UBS Arena %
05-21 Boston, MA - TD Garden %
05-23 Washington, D.C. - Capital One Arena %
05-24 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center %
05-26 Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Arena %
05-27 Hershey, PA - Hersheypark Stadium %
06-14 Phoenix, AZ - Footprint Center %
06-16 Los Angeles, CA - Banc of California Stadium %
06-20 San Diego, CA - Pechanga Arena %
06-22 San Jose, CA - SAP Center %
06-23 Sacramento, CA - Golden 1 Center %
06-25 Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena %
06-27 Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena %
06-29 Edmonton, Alberta - Rogers Place %
06-30 Calgary, Alberta - Scotiabank Saddledome %
07-03 Denver, CO - Ball Arena %
07-05 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center %
07-07 Austin, TX - Moody Center %
07-08 Houston, TX - Toyota Center %
07-10 Tampa, FL - Amalie Arena %
07-11 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - FLA Live Arena %
07-13 Atlanta, GA - State Farm Arena %
07-14 Charlotte, NC - Spectrum Center %
07-16 Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena %
09-02 Glasgow, Scotland - OVO Hydro ^
09-04 Belfast, Northern Ireland - SSE Arena ^
09-05 Dublin, Ireland - 3Arena ^
09-08 Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis ^
09-09 Cologne, Germany - Lanxess Arena ^
09-12 Copenhagen, Denmark - Royal Arena ^
09-13 Stockholm, Sweden - Avicii Arena ^
09-14 Oslo, Norway - Spektrum ^
09-16 Berlin, Germany - Mercedes-Benz Arena ^
09-17 Hamburg, Germany - Barclays Arena ^
09-19 Prague, Czech Republic - O2 Arena ^
09-20 Vienna, Austria - Stadthalle ^
10-02 Lisbon, Portugal - Altice Arena ^
10-03 Madrid, Spain - Wizink Centre ^
10-04 Barcelona, Spain - Palau Sant Jordi ^
10-06 Bologna, Italy - Unipol Arena ^
10-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome ^
10-09 Paris, France - Accor Arena ^
10-11 London, England - The O2 ^
10-14 Birmingham, England - Utilita Arena ^
10-15 Manchester, England - AO Arena ^
10-21 Las Vegas, NV - When We Were Young Festival
02-09 Perth, Australia - RAC Arena !
02-11 Adelaide, Australia - Entertainment Centre !
02-13 Melbourne, Australia - Rod Laver Arena !
02-16 Sydney, Australia - Qudos Bank Arena !
02-19 Brisbane, Australia - Entertainment Centre !
02-23 Auckland, New Zealand - Spark Arena !
02-26 Christchurch, New Zealand - Christchurch Arena !
+ with Wallows
% with Turnstile
^ with The Story So Far
! with Rise Against
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly indicated that Blink-182 are going on a stadium tour. Only a handful of the band’s reunion shows will take place at stadiums.
