Blink have been going hard at it lately, and with good reason, the European tour kicks off in about 17 days. Here’s another photo of them rehearsing courtesy of Haven from the Blinkumentary. Also, on the right, is that a new drum riser for Travis?

Haven tweeted:

blink production rehearsal. Its good in here. Footage is look sick my friends.http://twitpic.com/29w0zt

Dress Rehearsal

Every day this week we are in final dress rehearsals before the European tour. Our trusty crew is back, there is a lot of gear being staged, and we’re getting the set together. Lots of hard work and fun!

Travis mentioned the ‘full production rehearsals’ recently in a recent interview with MTV, and it seems they’ve started today by a recent tweet from Mark.

Mark tweeted:

blink-182 full production rehearsals begin today! Yes, have some!

Also… some blink rehearsing going on late at night? (9:20PM)

Travis tweeted:

Blink rehearsal.

It seems that a logo has showed up on the City (comma) State Twitter account (Mark follows the account). Mark has said this has been finished up months ago and all that’s left is to release it. Also, this “project” doesn’t really seem to be centered around Mark, but Joanna Pacitti. She tweets about the project quite a bit. And, judging by a leaked video from a while ago, she’s also the “Frontwoman.” The twitter account seems like it will be active soon, so it may be a good idea to follow it if you’re interested.

Thanks to forum member notnow123487 from our forums!

Mark was apparently at a Justin Bieber concert for what appears to be for his new television series  ’A Different Spin’ (note the Fuse mic) that will premiere in September. More on that here. Check out the video (if you can hear anything over Bieber’s clearly insane fans) of him interviewing a fan at the show below.

Thanks to member Bergy from our forums!

Last month, Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus made waves when he promised that new music from the band was “on the way,” and that, after almost seven years, the wait for their next album was mercifully entering the homestretch.

“Blink-182 is full-steam ahead!” he wrote on his blog. “In June and July we will be at the rehearsal spot, getting ready for the European tour this summer, and writing new songs. When the European tour is finished, we head back and play ONE SHOW in Southern California. Then that is IT for live shows for the rest of 2010. Why? Because we’ll be in the studio recording the new Blink-182 album. Until it is finished.”

It seemed pretty definite … but when MTV News found ourselves on the set of Blink drummer Travis Barker’s new video — for “Carry It,” which will appear on his long-delayed solo album — we got a little worried. If Trav was here, who was laying down drums at Blink rehearsals? And who would be playing on the new record?!?

Of course, we had to ask him … and luckily, he assuaged our fears. And, much like Hoppus, he promised that 2011 will mark the return of Blink.

“We are in rehearsals — what will soon be production rehearsals — for our European tour, and that’s exciting,” he said. “[The new record] is gonna be [out] next year, so we’re gonna start on it right when we get home [from tour.]”

Barker added that, despite the fact that he’s rehearsing with Blink andgearing up to promote his solo album, neither project will be put on the back burner. That’s just not the way he operates.

“I love juggling stuff. It’s in my best interest to stay busy,” he said. “I don’t like downtime, and I love playing music. So it doesn’t even feel like work.”

Thanks to Ferdehh182 from the forums!

From Fuse.com:

In Today’s Noise, we talk to Blink 182′s Mark Hoppus, who’s gearing up for the September premiere of his new music show on Fuse, A Different Spin With Mark Hoppus.

Hoppus talks about reuniting with Blink 182 bandmates, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, for a short tour and possibly recording new material, as well as the group’s evolution as a band and individually.

Tune in to Fuse everyday at 4P/3C for new editions of The Daily Noise. Or log on and watch it here whenever you want. More Noise lives here.

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Like all things involving Travis Barker, shooting a video for “Carry It” — the potential first single from his oft-delayed solo album — involved a whole lot of waiting. Though, also like everything he does, the waiting was worth it.

“This song’s been mixed for a couple weeks, and I’ve just sat with it, made sure it aged well,” Barker told MTV News on Wednesday night on the set of the video in Los Angeles. “And then it was a matter of getting everyone at the same time in the same room for this video. I wanted it to be performance. I didn’t want there to be a story line. I wanted it just to be about us playing together.”

And in this case, “us” means Barker alongside Rage Against the Machine maestro Tom Morello and Wu-Tang mastermind RZA on guitars (“We’re like two black Ted Nugents, shredding simultaneously,” Morello joked) and fellow Wu mainstay Raekwon on the mic. So, really, waiting for everyone to come onboard was key. After all, it’s not often you get this kind of dream team together in the same room.

“The song started with RZA and I in my studio, with him playing guitars and me playing drums, just jamming out,” Barker explained. “Then I got Raekwon on it, and I showed it to Tom Morello, who was stoked on it, so he played on it. And that’s how I wanted the video to be.”

So that’s exactly what the “Carry It” clip — directed by Petro Papahadjopoulos (TV on the Radio, Incubus) — is. And, much like the track itself, the energy of the four friends jamming together in one room is palpable, to the point where there’s nothing else you could possibly think of adding to the mix. So no one involved really ever bothered to try.

“There was never any corny ideas [for the video],” Barker smiled. “[It's] just us rocking out. That’s what’s good about it. The track’s raw; it’s not candy-coated. … This is like ‘punch you in the face,’ real hype music.”