YUNGBLUD, Halsey and Travis Barker have teamed up for a new single, 11 Minutes.
Doncaster alt-rock dude YUNGBLUD, U.S. singer-songwriter Halsey and blink-182 drumming legend Travis Barker have teamed up for a new single, 11 Minutes.
“The song tells the story of a perfect tragedy that reflects modern love within our society," YUNGBLUD explains. "We are so distracted and focused on what’s next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us. We don’t realise how much we need something until it’s taken away from us.”
Of his collaborating partners, YUNGBLUD adds: “Working with Halsey and Travis was a fucking dream – at the end of the day we’re all rock kids. We grew up with a mutual adoration for the genre so it completely makes sense that we would come together and try to modernise it.”
Check it out below.
In blink-182-related news, bassist Mark Hoppus recently revealed that he wants to return to the band's mentality of their 2003 Untitled album.
“After playing in this band for 27 years, I want to push it and do different things and take blink to places where we haven’t been before," he told Kerrang!. "We’re really trying to do that on the new record. We want to do with our band what we did in 2003 with Untitled, where we take our foundations and go off in completely weird directions."
Even though Mark has only just unveiled his new Simple Creatures project with All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth, he's still hard at work on the next blink record.
“We’re in the studio all the time,” he continues. “That’s the thing, our main bands are our main focus and will always be. We all have our outside interests and our outside things, but we’re pretty straightforward with one another; blink really is everybody’s priority and that’s understood among all of us."
Meanwhile, catch YUNGBLUD live at the following dates this year:
March
6 Dublin Whelan's
7 Belfast Empire Music Hall
9 Glasgow St. Luke's
10 Newcastle O2 Academy2
11 Manchester Club Academy
12 Birmingham O2 Institute2
14 Brighton Haunt
15 London Electric Ballroom
16 Bristol Thekla
October
27 Amsterdam Paradiso
28 Brussels AB Main Hall
31 Munich Backstage Werk
November
2 Milan Fabrique
4 Prague Roxy
5 Warsaw Proxima
7 Berlin Kesselhaus
10 Copenhagen Amager Bio
11 Oslo Parkteateret
13 Hamburg Docks
14 Cologne Essigfabrik
16 Paris Trabendo
19 Bristol O2 Academy
20 Manchester O2 Ritz
21 London O2 Academy Brixton
22 Birmingham O2 Institute
24 Norwich UEA
25 Glasgow SWG3 Galvanisers
29 Sheffield O2 Academy
Header photo: Spencer Miller
