American Songwriter

Mark Hoppus Remembers Green Day and Blink-182’s Intense Rivalry From 2002 Tour

Pairing Green Day with Blink-182 on a tour sounds like it would have been a no-brainer in 2002. That was the pop-punk era and golden age, after all. However, as Mark Hoppus has recently revealed, the ...
Uproxx

Mark Hoppus Reminisces About Blink-182 And Green Day’s Early-2000s Rivalry: ‘It Definitely Made Us A Better Band’

Green Day’s origins stretch farther back than Blink-182’s, but ultimately, both groups would be defining pop-punk bands of the early 2000s. There was a stretch during that time, though, where there ...
New York Post

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus had suicidal thoughts when band split in 2005: ‘I sank lower and lower’

Mark Hoppus didn’t take Blink-182’s breakup lightly. The 53-year-old musician revealed in his new memoir, “Fahrenheit-182,” that he had suicidal thoughts when the band broke up in 2005. “When Blink ...
NPR

In his new book, Mark Hoppus talks about the sense of loss when Blink-182 broke up

SUMMERS: He says they were both just Southern California skateboarders who dreamed of making art. It helped that Mark Hoppus played bass and Tom DeLonge played guitar. MARK HOPPUS: From the day that I ...