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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. The group earned a high 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 the infectious teen anthem Dammit (Growing Up). The album, produced by Jerry Finn (Green Day, Rancid), also welcomed a new member into the trio's ranks: Travis Barker. Successful singles What's My Age Again?, All the Small Things, and Adam's Song on their own, videos for these three songs (whose clips included themes of streaking and boy band spoofs) were MTV smashes as well.

In 2009, blink-182 announced that they were reuniting and would be getting back to work on new material as well as touring again, hitting the road with Weezer for their reunion tour.