As we’ve been told for many years when one person and another love each other they create something really magical and special with the birth of their child. And that’s exactly what’s happened to Blink 182 and Linkin Park.
They’ve have joined forces to temporarily create the band Blinkin Park.
The two bands are co-headlining for two shows this summer in a mini-tour named “Welcome to Blinkin Park,” along with WU TANG CLAN and Machine Gun Kelly as supporting artists. Hence the birth of their newfound band.
And in typical punk rock fashion, Blinkin Park made a Funny or Die video about the first date they shared, and offered great dating advice for those who need it. And if that’s the advice I need to follow in order to score my dream date with Travis Barker, well dammit I’ll do it!
This collaboration brings back a lot of feelings for fans of the genre and are causing them to be shocked that they would even consider doing any type of work together. Especially after they’ve both had a bit of time away from the spotlight, focusing on making new music for quite some time respectively.
Blink-182 released their latest album “California,” that topped the Billboard chart just last year, marking the first release since the departure of co-founder and former guitarist Tom DeLonge. Linkin Park is releasing a new album later this month, called “One More Light.”
“In the end, it doesn’t even matter though, because this is now both bands’ greatest artistic accomplishment”. Or at least that’s what the Huffington Post said. Blink 182’s actual greatest artistic accomplishment, and only other musical collaboration was when they went on their Pop Disaster tour with Green Day back in 1999. AKA the only tour my 10 year old soul would sell all her belongings to see (which was band merch from both bands).
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