Pop-punk: Last News

Blink-182 have announced that they are cancelling a number of their upcoming shows in the UK and Ireland due to “an urgent family matter”.The run of UK tour dates was due to kick off today (September 1) with a show in Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, and see them later play in Belfast and Dublin next week (September 4 -5). However, according to a new update on the band’s X/Twitter page, all upcoming September tour dates will now be rescheduled as drummer Travis Barker has been forced to return home.“Due to an urgent family matter, Travis has had to return home to the States,” the post read.

Blink-182‘s next album could be arriving soon according to Tom DeLonge.DeLonge revealed today (August 26) that the pop-punk act’s upcoming album is “only weeks (days) away”, as are music videos to accompany the record. However, a firm release date nor further information surrounding the album has been revealed.“@blink182 music video(s) and album are only weeks (days) away.

Taking Back Sunday played a surprise gig at a house garden in Long Island, New York this past weekend. Check out the video below.The house show took place in Lindenhurst, Long Island on Sunday, August 13.

Paramore have cancelled the remaining shows on their 2023 North American tour due to illness.The band recently postponed four live gigs after frontwoman Hayley Williams fell ill during a performance in Houston, Texas. She later revealed that she was suffering from a lung infection.Williams and co.

Paramore at a recent show. Check out footage of him singing the chorus of ‘Misery Business’ below.The athlete – who plays for the Golden State Warriors – delighted fans in San Francisco last night (August 7) when he made an appearance on stage with Hayley Williams and co.The moment took place during the rendition of their 2007 hit, ‘Misery Business’, in which the pop-punk front woman usually chooses a lucky audience member to join her on stage for the track.

Meet Me @ The Altar have covered ‘Take Me Away’ from the soundtrack of Freaky Friday.The song is set to appear, alongside recent original song ‘Give It Up’, on the deluxe version of their debut album ‘Past // Present // Future’, which will land on September 29 via Fueled By Ramen.The song is performed in Freaky Friday by the fictional band Pink Slip, which protagonist Anna (Lindsay Lohan) is a part of.“Aside from it just being an absolutely iconic moment in pop culture, ‘Take Me Away’, Pink Slip, and Freaky Friday as a whole had a lot of influence over us growing up,” the band said in a press release. “It’s everything we love all meshed into one – female representation in punk music, and on screen! Being able to pay homage to such an endless well of inspiration to us was really gratifying.

Tom DeLonge has teased the upcoming album from Blink-182 – telling fans that it is set to be their “best album” yet.The comments on the forthcoming LP were teased by the musician in a new interview, promoting his latest collaboration with Fender and announcing his new limited-edition Stratocaster guitar.During the discussion, he shed light on the status of new music from the pop-punk veterans, and explained that the band are writing what they consider to be their strongest songs to date.“I still think we’re writing our best songs. I think our album coming out is probably our best album we’ve ever made,” he began, going on to reflect on their recent US live shows.“The production that we brought on this tour is finally the first perfect, cohesive branding and symbol of everything that the band is about.

Paramore were joined on stage by both MUNA and Billie Eilish during their recent gig in Los Angeles. Check out footage below, as well as the full setlist.The moment took place last night (July 19), as the band played their latest show as part of the second leg of their North American tour.Taking place at the Kia Forum, the gig was the first of two back-to-back performances lined up at the venue, with the latter set to kick off tonight (July 20).As well as performing countless fan favourites throughout the show, including renditions of ‘Still Into You’ and ‘The Only Exception’, the main highlights of last night’s set came during the encore, when Hayley Williams and co.

Hayley Williams brought a nine-year-old fan onstage at a recent Paramore show. Check out footage of them both performing ‘Misery Business’ together below.The moment took place during Paramore’s recent show in Houston, Texas, and carried on the longtime tradition of the band inviting a special guest onstage to collaborate on their hit 2007 song.For the show on July 11 however, the members pulled at fans’ heartstrings by choosing a nine-year-old fan called Riley to take part in the rendition, after seeing her in the audience with a sign reading “Pick me!”.In the fan-captured footage from the moment, frontwoman Hayley Williams can be seen looking across the crowd deciding which audience member she would like to invite onstage, before pointing out a little girl stood on the balcony.“Oh my god! You wanna come up here?” she can be heard saying to Riley, who smiles and nods at the singer.

Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams performed a moving cover of Beyoncé’s ‘I Miss You’ during a recent live show. Find footage of the moment and the full setlist below.She broke out the cover during the band’s set in Houston last night (July 11), as part of their second leg of North American tour dates.The rendition of the track — which is taken from Beyoncé’s fourth studio album, co-written with Frank Ocean — arrived during the a cappella segment of the show, and was preceded by a performance of ‘Liar’.

Machine Gun Kelly covered Don Omar’s ‘Danza Kuduro’ and spoke Spanish to the crowd at Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival this week.The pop-punk artist performed at day one of the Spanish festival on Thursday (July 6), where he surprised fans with a cover of the Puerto Rican reggaeton star’s 2010 hit.“Spain, thank you so much for welcoming me to your country. I can feel all the love here today,” MGK told the crowd in Spanish.“In return, I’d like to sing a song in your language with all of you.

Machine Gun Kelly has fulfilled one of his fans’ most odd requests yet – being punched in the face.While performing at Rock Werchter in Belgium, Kelly was seen visibly confused upon reading a fan’s sign that read “I just came from Mexico 4 u 2 punch me in the face”. The moment was filmed and posted onto Machine Gun Kelly’s Instagram page, jokingly captioned “making dreams come true”.A full clip of the moment was captured and posted onto YouTube, which shares more of what Kelly said.“Why do you want me to punch you in the face so bad? I got rings on dude, that shit is gonna hurt.

Taking Back Sunday have shared their first new music in four years with ‘The One’. Check out the music video below.Produced by Tushar Apte (Demi Lovato, Nicki Minaj) and mixed by Neal Avron (Twenty One Pilots, Bleachers), ‘The One’ is an anthemic rock ballad described as “a sweet love song – full-on John Cusack holding a boombox” by the band.On the track’s deeper meaning, the band explained: “This song came from a riff that [bassist] Shaun Cooper wrote the day he lost his grandmother while she was in a nursing home at the start of the COVID pandemic.”They continued: “Devastated with overpowering sadness, he found comfort in writing music and initially titled the riff ‘Posivibes’ in an effort to find some light through the darkness.

Yungblud has announced that he has dropped the ticket prices for his upcoming North American tour to make it affordable for fans.The Doncaster pop-punk star took to social media to share that he will be offering a limited amount of tickets to his forthcoming North American tour for the price of $20 (£15.70), which includes fees.His decision to offer the discounted tickets was to provide a way for as many people as possible to be able to come to the upcoming leg of his world tour this summer.A post shared by YUNGBLUD (@yungblud)In a video posted to his official social media accounts, Yungblud – whose real name is Dominic Harrison – shared: “I know a lot of you out there right now can’t afford tickets to live shows, and I see it and I read it every day, and it breaks my heart.”“I don’t want some one to not be able to come to a show because they can’t afford it,” he continued. “That just hurts, so I just said to myself I’ve got to try my best to do something about it,” he added.He continued: “I know a lot of you out there have paid full price for tickets, but I want to let you know that every single penny I have earned from this tour I have put back into you guys and put back into this so we can make tickets available for this price.”“I am not making anything off this tour now, because this is what it’s about.

Foo Fighters were joined onstage by Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams during their set at Bonnaroo. Check out footage of the moment below, as well as the full setlist.The set at this year’s Bonnaroo in Tennessee marked the latest of many upcoming festival appearances Foo Fighters are set to make this summer, and saw them take to the stage as the headliners for the US event yesterday (June 18).Kicking off with a rendition of their 2002 hit ‘All My Life’, taken from their fourth studio album ‘One By One’, the set ran for 19 songs, and featured fan favourites including ‘Learn To Fly’, ‘The Pretender’ and ‘Best Of You’.A key highlight from the gig arrived during the second half, however, when the American rock veterans were joined onstage by Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams.

Travis Barker with news of their pregnancy by holding up a sign during a Blink-182 concert.The Keeping Up With The Kardashians reality TV star, who married the Blink-182 drummer last year, held up a large placard that read: “Travis, I’m pregnant”.Kardashian confirmed the news to her followers on Instagram later by sharing a video of the surprise reveal, which happened at Blink-182’s concert at LA’s BMO Stadium last night (June 16).Blink bassist and singer Mark Hoppus is heard saying in clips posted online: “Let’s hear it for Travis, someone’s having a baby.” Elsewhere, videos show Barker jumping down off stage to embrace his wife.The moment Kourtney Kardashian announced she’s pregnant at her husband, Travis Barker’s concert in Los Angeles American Reality TV Star, Kourtney Kardashian and her musician husband, Travis Barker, are expecting their first child together. pic.twitter.com/sMZQqwL41S— Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) June 17, 2023Kardashian shares three children with her ex-partner Scott Disick, while Barker shares two children with his ex-wife Shanna Moakler.The news follows a similar recent public romantic outing.

Apple iPhone and Watch users who were in mosh pits at Bonnaroo festival this week fired up multiple accidental calls to emergency services.Crash Detection Mode, a new feature rolled out by Apple for iPhones and Apple Watches, automatically alerts first responders if a user has been involved in a car crash.On Thursday (June 15) police in Manchester, Tennessee where the event is held informed people that “multiple accidental 911 calls” had been made by attendees of the festival.“It’s likely that these calls are a result of ‘Crash Detection Mode,’ a new feature on Apple iPhones,” read a message by the police on Twitter. “Please be mindful and consider deactivating this feature on your phone until Bonnaroo concludes.”Bonnaroo Guests:MPD has responded to multiple accidental 911 calls at Bonnaroo.

Machine Gun Kelly has released a new single called ‘Pressure’ – you can listen to it below.The song sees the Ohio artist – real name Colson Baker – contend with his own legacy. It marks MGK’s return to a rap sound after he moved towards pop-punk for his latest two albums, ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ (2020) and ‘Mainstream Sellout’ (2022).“Everything’s destined, it was inevitable I take on his aggression,” he spits in the second verse.

Vampire Weekend’s ‘Modern Vampires Of The City’ album, a decade after it was first released.The frontman took to social media yesterday (May 14) to discuss the impact of the album, and provide fans with an insight into the writing and recording process the band went through at the time.Released back in 2013, the album was the third full-length LP to be released by the band, and featured fan favourites including ‘Unbelievers’, ‘Step’ and ‘Diane Young’. Now, a decade after its launch, Koenig has listed the reasons why he thinks the album “still means something to people”.“MVOTC is ten years old.

Fall Out Boy have reflected on the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Take This To Your Grave’, describing it as “lightning strike accident of a record that absolutely changed my life”.The US pop-punk band — Pete Wentz, Andy Hurley, Patrick Stump and Joseph Trohman — released their studio debut on May 6, 2003, two years after they formed in the Chicago suburbs.“About 21 or so years ago, as I was applying to colleges I would ultimately never go to, Fall Out Boy began as a little pop punk side project of what we assumed was Pete’s more serious band Arma Angelus,” Stump posted to the band’s social media this week.“We were sloppy and we couldn’t solidify a lineup, but the three of us (Pete, Joe, and I) were having way too much fun to give up on it.”He explained that they were “really rough around the edges”, adding: “As an example of how rough, one of my favorite teachers pulled me aside after hearing the recording that would become “Evening Out With Your Girlfriend,” and tactfully said “What do you think your best instrument is Patrick? Drums. It’s drums.

Blink-182 have covered Taylor Swift‘s classic hit ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ — watch the footage below.The pop-punk icons are currently on their highly anticipated world tour that features the original lineup of guitarist Tom DeLonge, bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker.