“This was by far the fastest-selling tour of their career,” says CAA co-head of North American touring and music agent Darryl Eaton, who has booked the band since 1999. While blink-182 toured in the latter half of the 2010s, it hasn’t hit the road with founding member Tom DeLonge since 2014, making its 2023 arena outing - which coincides with an upcoming new album by the original trio and a 13-week Alternative Airplay No. 1 in October’s “Edging” - a must-see for fans. Pop-punk legends blink-182 co-headlined the Bleezer Tour with Weezer in 2009, and this year will set out on a hotly anticipated trek of its own. “But most of the acts we work with really are about innovating, and they’re still hungry to make new and better music.” In doing so, a band like Weezer can remain front of mind for existing fans while, critically, reaching new ones - who, thanks to the accessibility that streaming offers, can become superfans in short order. “There’s definitely acts out there that just kind of rest on their brand and their catalog, and they go out and they do successful tours,” he continues. McLynn recognizes that “there’s legacies tied to all these acts” but emphasizes the importance of “not just playing defense with the brand, playing offense with it.” Since 2019, Weezer has released four albums and four EPs, which have spawned four No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart. “I think the fan base is stronger than ever, and I think continuing to put out great new music is a part of that.” “I think their touring is stronger than ever,” McLynn says of Weezer, which toured the United States every year from 2008 to 2019. On Hella Mega, Weezer played before Fall Out Boy and Green Day, but this year, the band will headline amphitheaters on its Indie Rock Roadtrip, a package offering with rotating support from Modest Mouse, Spoon, Future Islands, Momma, Joyce Manor and White Reaper. A package is nothing new, but I think a package of that nature was definitely groundbreaking.” “I definitely know it influenced a lot of the different tours out there. “It was one plus one plus one equals five,” says Crush Music co-founder Bob McLynn, whose company manages Hella Mega’s three marquee bands. With a gross of $92.2 million, according to Billboard Boxscore, the bill also proved the commercial viability of package tours, the format that forgoes lesser-known openers in favor of support artists who themselves can drive substantial ticket sales. I think there’s an authenticity in their songwriting that has just created timeless music.” “Green Day, blink-182, a lot of those bands in that genre, the songs really never went away. “Hella Mega obviously laid some framework for, ‘Hey, these rock tours are still really, really big these songs are still so relevant,’ ” says Live Nation global tour promoter Steve Ackles, who worked on the team behind the stadium run. The 2021-22 Hella Mega Tour took Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer to stadiums in the United States and Europe - proving along the way to fans and industry insiders alike that alt-rockers of the ’90s and early aughts could now fill the kinds of venues that were once only the provenance of pop stars and classic rock acts. But the blueprint they’re using isn’t identical to their precursors. And as older touring stalwarts like Paul McCartney, Elton John and the Stones stare down their golden years, alt-rock’s now middle-aged lodestars have started to assume the mantle of reliable, top-grossing arena and stadium artists (and at roughly the same time that their most loyal fans, who’ve aged along with them, have deeper pockets to afford such tickets). Now, three decades later, those acts are as deep into their careers as the Stones were into theirs in the ’90s. Blink-182 (finalmente) se reúne para un set épico en Coachella 2023Īs the Stones crisscrossed the globe in the ’90s, new rock heroes like blink-182 and Weezer were making names for themselves.
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