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What
is Plus 44?
Plus-44 is an electronica-based band
from blink-182 members Mark Hoppus (bass and vocals) and Travis
Barker (drums and keyboards). Plus-44 also features Carol Heller
(guitar and vocals), formerly of Get The Girl. The name Plus-44
is a reference to the international dialing code for the United
Kingdom, where Hoppus and Barker first discussed the new project.
By September 2005 the band had recorded 16 songs and is expected
to finish recording in the following months. At first the band
was supposed to release their debut album in fall of 2005, but
due to Travis' busy schedule with the Transplants (who broke up
at the end of the Warped Tour) the release of the CD will be sometime
in 2006. There have been rumors lately that Plus-44's debut album
will be called "Break the Record". In the April edition
of the Alternative Press magazine Mark stated that the group will
release their debut album on Interscope records.
When Mark was
asked about the development on Plus-44's sound in an interview
on November 14, 2005 he stated "Well the sound of Plus-44
is still developing right now. Right now to me it sounds like
punk rock meets '80s synth rock, meets...all different kind of
influences are in there. I mean, there are songs where it's like
a hip hop beat with electric guitar over it or like a really trance-y
beat with keyboards on top of that, and some are just straight
forward rock songs. We have like three or four songs now that
are pretty much done and a lot more songs that are just ideas
and even more to write. So we're really just getting started on
the recording process and we'll see what ends up like at the end.
Right now it's really diverse, really all over the place and schizophrenic,
which is a good thing."
Plus-44 released their first song, entitled "No
It Isn't", on their website on December 13th - the same day
as the scheduled release of the first Angels and Airwaves material,
the band recently formed by Tom Delonge. This Song was taken down
after a countdown on the website. The countdown was apparently
meant to be for a new song to be released, although, much to the
dissapointment of many avid fans, no second song has been released
to this date.
More recently, Mark included unicorn pictures in
his 7th podcast and stated they were real. His MySpace page also
states "unicorns are real". Many fans believe this is
only a joke, although some fans believe that the unicorn is a
reference to a fictitious battle that Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus
had; in which they use a unicorn to fight a dragon. This is documented
in the DVD "The Urethra Chronicles II: Harder Faster Faster
Harder".
What
about Tom?
He started another project, Angels&
Airwaves.
Also
see:
 See
Angels& Airwaves section on aliens-exist.net.
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