ROCKTUNE by Kimberly Gutiérrez

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The unheard song of Kurt Co-

David Fricke dives into the making of Brett Morgen’s documentary

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Sticky Fingers: LIVES AGAIN!

Jagger called up Rolling Stone to discuss plans

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Fall Out Boy’s Loving Green Day Tribute at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 3

F I R S T

EDITION

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New Blink-182 Guitarist Matt Skiba: “A Lot of Things Have to Happen Before We Can Make Any Solid Plans”

att Skiba has a tour coming up with Alkaline Trio and a second album, Kuts, on its way from his other band, the Sekrets. But the guitarist acknowledges that his new role playing in Blink-182 means there’s yet another consideration when it comes to putting together his calendar these days.

I’ve know the Blink guys for 15 some odd years, so we were already friends but we’d never played music together. But it went really well and the shows went really well. The fans are really happy. I’m sure there’s some disgruntled fans, but it seems the majority of people were really impressed with what we put together.”

Mark Hoppus: Blink-182 Skiba says he learned 27 Was Never Going To Part Blink songs during two with Travis Barker months of rehearsals, which he said were “labor“There’s a lot of things that intensive, but really fun. have to happen before we When you’re playing with can make any solid plans such great guys and such or any solid statements,” great musicians, it’s a lot Skiba tells Billboard. “I of work but fun work.” And don’t really know what the like fans, Skiba too was status is, but we are hope- “shocked” at the news Deful to do more stuff in the Longe was out of the group. future. How soon that’s “I knew I was meeting going to be, I don’t know.” Mark and Travis for lunch, but I didn’t know why,” Skiba was tapped by bas- Skiba recalls. “It took me a sist Mark Hoppus and good week to kind of wrap drummer Travis Barker my head around what they early this year to fill in had just asked me to do.” after parting ways with He is, however, adamant guitarist Tom DeLonge. that he intends no disresSkiba played with Blink pect towards DeLonge. for a pair of club shows and at the Musink festi- “Tom and I have always val, and he reports that, been very friendly,” Skiba “the experience was really says. “We’ve toured with great. We clicked. We had a Blink several times over really great time together. the years, and Tom and I

have always been friends. I’d like to think that we still are. I haven’t spoken to him since this whole thing went down, but it’s in no way personal. Tom’s been nothing but cool to me over the years. His band took my band out on tour and that helped us tremendously, so I don’t have a negative thing in the world to say about the guy. The story I got is he left the band and I was asked to fill in, so that’s what I did. I hope there aren’t any hard feelings. I didn’t go up there and try and do what Tom did; they billed it as Blink-182 with Matt Skiba, so I went up there and did Matt Skiba.” Skiba acknowledges that the Blink association has brought some welcome additional attention to his other groups. Alkaline Trio starts a nearly seven-week North American run on April 22 in Denver and will play U.K. dates during late June and early July with NOFX. The Kuts album, produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, the Vines, Beck), comes out June 2, and Skiba hopes to take the Sekrets on the road pending Blink-182 plans.

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EVENTS

Best Random Collision of Rock Royalty: The Scene Backstage

Bathroom Anecdo9.Best te: Patti Smith Inducts

Rock Roll

& Hall of Fame 2015

Best Help From Famous Friends: The Superjam

Steve Cropper Honors The “5” Royales

Best Badass Speech: Miley

.Laurie Anderson Accepts for Lou Reed

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Green Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speeches and

Best Surprise Comedian: Bill Withers

Best Returned Favor: Dave

. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Tribute

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Fall Out Boy Deifies Green

Best Return to the Mic: Bill Withers

Paul and Ringo, Together Again

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