From Billboard.com

Having abandoned the idea of completing a full new album as “too ambitious” before its upcoming tour, blink-182 will instead have one new song ready before it hits the road on July 23 in Las Vegas.

Guitarist Tom DeLonge tells Billboard.com that the track, titled “Up All Night,” has “got a little bit of (Pink) Floyd, a little bit of Rush, a little bit of blink in there. It’s crazy, but it somehow sounds exactly like where we left off (in 2005). It’s an amazing song.”

DeLonge says the tune is nearly finished, waiting just for Travis Barker to complete his drum tracks. Release plans haven’t been determined yet.

The guitarist explains that he, Barker and bassist Mark Hoppus fully intended to complete an album but the success of the tour derailed that idea. “I think nobody realized how massive this tour was going to be,” DeLonge says. “The tickets outsold what the promoters expected, three to one. So everyone’s trying to play catch-up right now and really nail this tour to be the best it can be and get everything ready, so there’s no studio time right now. Everyone’s so busy just trying to make this thing happen, I think.”

DeLonge says blink-182 fans can expect to hear plenty of hits in a two-hour set that will feature “massive production and arcs in the show that involve lots of bad words…The talks this morning were hot to incorporate the word ‘fuck’ in such a way that it somehow is parallel if not better than when it was lit on fire 10 years ago.”

That, of course, poses an interesting conundrum for DeLonge and his bandmates, who did not have children in the days of the flaming Fuck sign.

“I remember on the very first song of some of these larger tours we did, when the big Fuck sign lit on fire, parents would stand up and walk their kids out,” says DeLonge, who’s also working on a film and movie project called “Love” with his other band, Angels & Airwaves. “Now I feel like that’s what I’m gonna be doing, but to my own (six-year-old) daughter. I’m gonna have to leave the stage to go walk her out.

“A DJ explained it really good to me once; ‘I tell my kid it’s not bad if it’s art. If you’re not doing art, you can’t say words like that.’ I thought that was a really good way to handle it.”

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Travis Barker has never been one to sit still. And when it came to his role in the reunited Blink-182, that wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

“We all got together and met up and, almost immediately, we got inspired. So it went from just playing around together to being like, ‘Let’s lay down demos! And tour!’ ” Barker told MTV News. “And, to be honest, it was crazy. I was still recovering from all my surgeries [from his September plane crash], and was way out of it when we first got back in there. I was in no shape to be in the studio, and we were kinda held back a bit. We decided to just get used to playing with each other again.”

So the trio scaled back their expectations — sure, there’d still be a record, but let’s just get this massive, laser-packed arena tour out of the way first. And once they got that sorted, it all started clicking again.

“We just started practicing for the tour, going through the old sh–, playing the greatest hits — only we’d start experimenting on them a bit, working on different versions,” Barker said. “So, it ended up that some of the old songs have new flavor to them, and then we also got around to making four demos, including one song that’s pretty much complete.”

That new song is called “Up All Night,” and Barker said Blink fans can expect to hear it out on the road this summer. He calls it both “a logical step” from where the band left off [their darker, more mature self-titled 2003 album] and a hint as to where they might be headed in the future.

“When we do go in [to make the new album], it’s gonna be like that. You can’t help but have everything on the table … all the stuff we’ve done — like +44 and Angels & Airwaves — since we last played and recorded, it will influence the new stuff,” he explained. “In the case of ‘Up All Night,’ it feels like it could’ve been on the last record, or right where the last one left off. It’s kind of heavy, if you mixed Box Car Racer and Blink. It all makes sense. The pieces are all together.”

So just when can Blink fans expect to hear that new album? Well, there are no firm dates just yet, though Barker did say the band plan on entering the studio after they wrap their tour. Oh, and they’ll also be working on it while they’re on the tour too, because, once again, Barker refuses to sit still.

“I’ll have the studio out on tour with me, and I think Mark will too. I wanna work on it while we’re on tour,” Barker said. “But that’s just me. I’m taking it day-by-day. Loving life. Working.”