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For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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Mark Hoppus on blink-182’s triumphant third act, their next album and his one-off Fender Jaguar Bass

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Octopuses. Legendary Pokémon. blink-182 smileys. Mark Hoppus has never been one to shy away from a custom bass guitar , but now he’s made one of his favorites available to the wider world.

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