MARK HOPPUS HITS ALL TIME LOW FOR SONG

Former Blink 182 and current Plus 44 frontman Mark Hoppus has co-written a new song with All Time Low, and Alex talked songwriting with his idol.

All Time Low is currently wrapping up their tour schedule for 2008, but one of the highlights for this year will probably see the fruits bear in 2009. Alex Gaskarth, vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the band said that former Blink 182 and current +44 frontman Mark Hoppus collaborated on a song with All Time Low that will probably be on their next album.

Gaskarth talked about the collaboration with one of his musical inspirations.

“I did a co-write with Mark Hoppus on one song, and it was a really cool experience if not for the song but for the sake of meeting the guy and seeing how a dude that I idolized for so long, seeing his process for writing a song. It was very cool. Hopefully that song will make the record, and hopefully he’ll maybe make an appearance on the record or something.”

He also said that drummer Robert Rian Dawson was instrumental in getting the Hoppus connection going.

“Rian got a Blink 182 tattoo, and we had posted a video of him getting the tattoo online, and it turns out that Mark Hoppus saw that video and posted that video along with a little blurb about it in his blog, himynameismark.com. So we were informed of that, and so it was awesome he even recognized that. I think Rian emailed him.”

Gaskarth added that after several emails went back and forth, the two management teams hooked the pair up. Look for All Time Low to follow-up their latest release, So Wrong, It’s Right, with a new release in early summer of 2009. Keep it locked here. We’ll have his holiday break plans shortly.