Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge didn’t invent pop-punk when they began softening the edges of a SoCal hardcore scene that had exploded in popularity during the first half of the ’90s, but they did more than any other band to reconfigure it for the masses. Blink-182’s 1995 studio debut, Cheshire Cat — a scrappy collection […]
Stereogum — Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge didn’t invent pop-punk when they began softening the edges of a SoCal hardcore scene that had exploded in popularity during the first half o... more info