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The world has been waiting for the longest time for a new blink-182 record, and finally our prayers will be answered! The full band hopped on stage last night and made the big news known at the 2009 Grammys. Travis Barker said it like this: "We used to play music together, and we decided we're going to play music together again." The band's official/casual press release said it like this:

Hi. We're blink-182. This past week there’ve been a lot of questions about the current status of the band, and we wanted you to hear it straight from us.  To put it simply, We're back. We mean, really back. Picking up where we left off and then some. In the studio writing and recording a new album. Preparing to tour the world yet again.  Friendships reformed.  17 years deep in our legacy.

Summer 2009.

Thanks and get ready...

Yeah. Get ready. Here, I'll help.

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Tags Blink-182, Grammys, Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, Travis Barker

Tom DeLonge stopped by Buzzworthy Studios with his first love -- his acoustic guitar -- and revealed his second love -- the one recurring punk riff (he copped it from guitarist Brian Baker of Bad Religion, Minor Threat and Dag Nasty) that kickstarted his career and followed him from his middle school days through blink, straight into AVA's "Everything's Magic."

Watch Tom riff on his favorite riff, watch the videos that feature his trademark motif, and check out Buzzworthy's exclusive interview with Tom, where he discusses his documentary, Start the Machine, I-Empire, and his sobriety.

Tags Angels & Airwaves, Blink-182, Celebrity, Interview, Interviews, Music, Tom DeLonge, video, Videos

We were backstage during today's TRL Rock Band special, crammed into a tiny room at the Times Square Hard Rock with Angels & Airwaves, Sebastian Bach and Flyleaf. (Poor us, right?) The tight quarters gave us a chance to get up close and personal with AVA's Tom DeLonge. Here's what we found out about his band's new album, his addiction to pain killers and what the deal is between him and his former Blink-182 bandmates.

Buzzworthy: Tell us about your documentary, Start the Machine.

Tom DeLonge: The documentary is being finished right now, and it was submitted to Sundance. It's an odyssey, and we've been working on it for two years. It started out as a making of the record and then the story got pretty insane. I broke my back years ago and got spun out on all these narcotics, so when we were making the first Angels & Airwaves record [We Don't Need to Whisper] all that stuff kind of exploded and I went out into the press with all these crazy things and all this controversy erupted.

BW: Because of something you said?

TD: Yeah, 'cause I went out and said [the band] was the second coming of Christ. But that's what's funny in the documentary; I was like, "If God came down I really, truly believe it wouldn’t be bigger than this record." [Laughs.]

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Tags Angels & Airwaves, Blink-182, Flyleaf, Interview, Interviews, Music, Sebastian Bach, Tom DeLonge, TRL, Videos