Blink 182 Announces Tour :
Blink 182 has announced concert tour dates for this summer (and a few in the fall) and I’m happy to see them going on tour. It’s been a tough few years for the Blink 182 that split up in a very messy way back in 2005. I read on Billboard that the reunion is probably due to the fact that drummer, Travis Barker, was almost killed in an airplane crash last year which left him with serious burns to his body.
Blink 182 isn't just testing the waters, either. This is a massive 50-date North American Blink 182 tour featuring support (on various dates) from Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth and Chester French. Sounds awesome if you're a Blink 182 Fan!
Tickets for the tour go on sale May 30. Check out the tour dates HERE to see if they will be playing in a city near you!
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Blink-182 Announces Tour Plans and Dates :
If it hadn't been for drummer Travis Barker's near-fatal airplane crash last year, Blink-182 might not be touring this summer.
But after a five-year hiatus, Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge will embark on a nearly 50-date North American arena and amphitheater tour, beginning July 24 at the Joint in Las Vegas, and wrapping Oct. 3 at the Borgata Events Center in Atlantic City, N.J.
The Live Nation-produced Blink 182 tour will feature support on various dates from Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth and Chester French.
"My goal was to have name-brand acts all the way," Blink-182 manager Rick Devoe tells Billboard.com.
The rock act has also tapped stage designer Martin Phillips to help create "the most ridiculous display of lights and images we can imagine," Hoppus said in a statement. Phillips has worked on tours stage designs for such artists as Kanye West, Daft Punk and Nine Inch Nails, among others.
Rumors that Blink-182 could reunite after its messy split in 2005 started last year after Hoppus posted a blog saying that Barker's survival and the death of Blink-182 producer Jerry Finn put the band members back in touch.
"Unfortunately it took something catastrophic to do it, but sometimes that's how life is," Devoe says. "These guys got together for the right reasons."
Although Blink-182 confirms it is writing new songs, "the word on the street is that this tour is about the hits," says Devoe, who couldn't say when a new album might be released. "As the rehearsals go by, we're hoping to have at least one new song in the repertoire."
The manager adds that Blink 182 fans who are short on cash this summer will be happy to learn that amphitheater lawn tickets will be available for $20. "If you have $20, you get in. No fees or anything," he says.
Tickets for the tour go on sale May 30 at livenation.com. Presenting sponsors of trek include T-Mobile Sidekick LX, State Farm Insurance and MySpace.
Beyond October, Blink-182 has offers to play Australia's Big Day Out and other European music festivals in 2010, according to Devoe. "That's what I'm hoping is going to happen," the manager says. "And in between these tours is when they're going to be working on an album."
Blink-182 doesn't plan to route another North American tour until the band releases a new album, Devoe says. He notes that Blink 182 can't work as quickly as it used to because the band members have family obligations and some live in different cities.
"Everyone has got full lives," the manager says. "It's a different Blink, in the sense that you have to pick your kids up after school, and one of your kids has dance class and the other kid has this."
Blink-182's last tour in 2004 grossed $14.4 million from 42 concerts that drew more than 421,000 fans, according to Billboard Boxscore. The trio's self-titled album in 2003 has sold 2.2 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.  
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Blink 182 Announces Summer Concert Dates
After a five-year hiatus, Blink 182 is hitting the road for an almost 50-date North American tour.
Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge will kick off the tour July 24 in Las Vegas and will wrap things up Oct. 3 in Atlantic City, N.J.
Last year, Hoppus wrote on his blog that Barker’s survival following a tragic plane crash and the death of Blink 182 producer Jerry Finn helped get the band back together.
Check out Blink-182’s full tour schedule here.

Blink 182 Announces Tour Dates
So I think that my heart just stopped… Blink 182 is for sure going on tour and they are for sure coming to my town. Yay! Oh, and you’ll be happy to learn that the Blink boys are thinking about their fans… the tour manager has released a statement saying that lawn tickets are gonna be cheap as $hit. “If you have $20, you get in. No fees or anything,” he says. Sweet… I can find $20 somewhere… ... Source ...

Blink 182 Biography :

Blink-182 continued the unexpected '90s journey of pop-punk into the mainstream. The trio emerged from Southern Californian skate-punk culture with a high-energy stage show heavy with slapstick and fart jokes. But like the slightly older Green Day, closer study revealed hook-filled rock songs obsessed with breakup and loneliness, even occasionally delving into such topics as teen suicide ("Adam's Song").

Mark Hoppus grew up in the California desert town of Ridgecrest before moving to Washington, DC, when his parents divorced. A fan of the Cure and the Descendents, Hoppus played bass in a high school garage band. Meanwhile, Tom Delonge grew up riding skateboards near San Diego and picked up his first guitar at church camp. They met in 1991 while Hoppus was attending college near San Diego, and with drummer Scott Raynor they later formed a band, at first simply called Blink. When an Irish band with the same name threatened a lawsuit, it was changed to Blink-182.

Early shows featured wet T-shirt and wet pants contests. The band slowly built a young, devoted following with indie recordings and an endless series of performances at various clubs and festivals. Major labels took notice in 1997 with the fast-selling indie release Dude Ranch (#67), which included the modern rock hit “Dammit (Growing Up)” (#11). Raynor was then fired from the band and replaced by Travis Barker (Aquabats). The band signed to MCA, releasing the Top 10 triple-platinum album Enema of the State (#9, 1999). It included the hits “All the Small Things” (#6) and “What’s My Age Again” (#58). Band members also appeared briefly in the teen comedy American Pie. The band’s next release was a live album, The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (#8, 2000), which yielded one single, “Man Overboard,” that had only moderate success. Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (#1, 2001) took Blink-182 to the top of the album chart for the first time.

Their 2003 self-titled release held fast their penchant for teen-drenched hormonal brooding, but also revealed a developing musical and personal maturity, the kind that galvanizes matters of the heart as evidenced by Robert Smith’s (The Cure) presence on the album. Then in early 2005 the band declared an immediate, indefinite hiatus in order to be closer with their growing families. A Greatest Hits was released later that year. Hoppus and Barker later formed the band Plus 44. Each member continues to work on various clothing line companies.   ...Source...

Blink 182 Biography (More) :

The new-school punk trio blink-182 was formed in the suburbs of San Diego, California around guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Scott Raynor. Originally known as simply Blink, the band debuted in 1993 with a self-released EP, Fly Swatter. After releasing the album Buddha in 1994, the trio signed to Grilled Cheese/Cargo and released Cheshire Cat the following year. The threat of a lawsuit from a similarly named Irish band forced them to change their name to blink-182, but the group earned a higher profile touring the world with Pennywise and NOFX on the 1996-1997 Warped Tour, plus appearing on innumerable skate/surf/snowboarding videos.

The third blink-182 LP, Dude Ranch, was jointly released in 1997 by Cargo and MCA. Dude Ranch expanded the group's audience and went platinum by the end of 1998, due in part to the popularity of their infectious teen anthem, "Dammit (Growing Up)." The group also signed officially with MCA, which released the band's fourth album, Enema of the State, in the summer of 1999. The album, produced by Jerry Finn (Green Day, Rancid), also welcomed a new member into the trio's ranks; Travis Barker, formerly with the Aquabats, settled in on drums after Raynor left midway through a 1998 U.S. tour. Enema was greeted with almost immediate success, and helped the band achieve the mainstream status of toilet-humored pop-punk kings that Dude Ranch had only hinted at. Driven by the commercially successful singles "What's My Age Again?," "All The Small Things," and "Adam's Song," music videos for the three songs (whose clips included themes of streaking and boy band spoofs) were MTV smashes as well.

After selling over four million copies of Enema of the State, the trio played on with the limited-edition release The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back) in fall 2000. The album featured the band's radio hits in a live setting, intertwined with their quirky sense of humor as well as the new song "Man Overboard." Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, issued in spring 2001, saw the band return to their SoCal punk rock roots. Maturity, of a sort, came with 2003's self-titled album, released on Geffen. Not only did the album sport a song ("All of This") that featured Robert Smith of the Cure, but "I Miss You" also topped the modern rock charts in 2005.

In February 2005, however, popular as ever and seemingly indestructible, blink-182 unexpectedly announced they would be going on an "indefinite hiatus," supposedly to spend more time with their growing families. Asking fans for help in selecting tracks, the group issued Greatest Hits that November. Bandmembers also continued on with other projects: Barker -- who had previously released an album with DeLonge as Boxcar Racer -- continued playing with the Transplants and running his clothing company, Famous Stars and Straps. His family was also spotlighted in the MTV reality show Meet the Barkers. Hoppus carried on with his Atticus fashion venture, began producing -- starting with Motion City Soundtrack's Commit This to Memory -- and hosting his own podcasts. He further began work with Barker in a new band, Plus 44. DeLonge also continued work with his lifestyle clothing company, Macbeth, and formally announced his new project, Angels and Airwaves, that fall. ~ John Bush & Corey Apar, All Music Guide.   ...Source...