Formed in 1992 in Poway, California, a San Diego suburb, Blink-182 has endured as one of pop punk’s most beloved acts. The trio, famously composed of Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, helped vault the genre into the mainstream alongside Green Day and The Offspring nearly 30 years ago. In the group’s early days, which included co-founder Scott Raynor on the drum kit, they made distorted, unpolished skate punk for Cargo Records and became Warped Tour legends (thanks to the success of their 1997 song “Dammit”).
After a long battle with alcoholism, Raynor was dismissed from the band and replaced by Barker, who’d previously drummed in ska bands. Blink immediately became the group we think of them as today: MTV mainstays who went big with their 1999 breakout record, Enema of the State, and helped make millennial rock and roll fashionably lame. They were groundbreaking in how they made explicit lyrics so perfectly compatible with radio-friendly instrumentals; unabashed and unafraid of leaning as far into corny songs as they could to evoke candy-coated emotions (here’s looking at you, “I Miss You”).
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