182 Day: The top 5 blink-182 shows I ever covered/ seen live

Happy 182 Day to those who celebrate. As the band is currently on its massive 2023-2024 world tour, I decided to go back in time and remember and rank the top blink shows I’ve attended /covered as a music journalist at Hearst Media, and as a fan from over 20 years’ worth of shows. The ranking is based upon stories associated with the show, setlist, and overall memories.

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REVIEW: Fall Out Boy, Alkaline Trio rock Wrigley Field in Chicago

CHICAGO- Fall Out Boy’s North American Tour launched in grand fashion at the historic home of the Chicago Cubs Wrigley Field on June 21 in Chicago. The show’s grandiose setting was a perfect match to Fall Out Boy’s longstanding aspirations of global pop dominance, and served as a bucket list moment for Chicago’s favorite dark, pop-punk sons Alkaline Trio.

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'Above the fold and the fringe: How UAPs became mainstream news' out now from Beyond The Fray

Beyond The Fray has released its second book by journalist and author Mike Damante “Above the Fold and the Fringe: How UAPs Became Mainstream News.

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The top 10 best NOFX songs of all time

Every band has an expiration date, and NOFX is calling it quits at 40 years, as they band is doing 40 dates of its popular “Punk In Drublic” festival that includes punk rock bands and craft beer. Is NOFX really done for good? Who knows, but let’s take a look at the band’s best 10 songs from a crazy career that helped define American punk.

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Archives of the Impossible conference to return to Rice University May 11-13

For the second year, Rice University will host one of the largest conferences centered around its massive archive of documents, data and research from the likes of Jacques Vallee, Whitley Strieber, and others, as well as the academic exploration of the paranormal.

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Newer startups Enigma Labs, PhenomAInon pick up where To The Stars V.A.U.L.T left off

Before To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science pivoted its post-pandemic plans to focus on the entertainment division with To The Stars, the Tom DeLonge-founded venture planned to release an analytical tool for tracking UAPs called the V.A.U.L.T.. The V.A.U.L.T (Virtual Analytics UAP Learning Tool) was supposed to be an app to serve as a public-facing database of UFO sightings. As of 2022, the app has yet to be released, but two newer companies seem to be taking the lead on this technology as the UAP topic continues to interest those in the intelligence and scientific communities.

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From the vault interviews: Matt Skiba talks surfing, bikes, and Alkaline Trio

The first installment (right in time for Halloween season) is Matt Skiba ( Alkaline Trio/ blink-182). There are three video clips below,- two where Skiba talks about his love for surfing and motorcycles that was recorded on his bus prior to a show in Houston. The last video ( very dark quality) is from Warped Tour where I interviewed Skiba on the bus, and includes which includes interesting information about the never-made “American Scream” video, and the one song the band would never cover.

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