The band struggled to record juggling individual priorities; in the case of Hoppus, his new television show Hoppus on Music required him flying to New York once a week. Hoppus moved to London with his family late in the recording process, also complicating matters. The band’s comeback album, Neighborhoods , debuted high but undersold label expectations, and Blink-182 parted with Interscope Records in 2012, going independent for their next release, the EP Dogs Eating Dogs. Hoppus grew increasingly lonely on these tours, having no significant other while other band members did.
On June 22, 2010, Fuse announced that Hoppus would be hosting his own weekly, one-hour television series entitled A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus. “HiMyNameIsMark” is a podcast that was set up in the wake of the Blink-182 k swiss white shoes hiatus by Hoppus, and can be found at HiMyNameIsMark.com. Every few weeks he released a show of songs by underground bands, interviews with band members and/or friends, and reminisces about happenings in his life.
The show also features musical performances by both mainstream and emerging bands. The show’s second season premiered in March 2011 and the show was re-titled Hoppus on Music. He also wrote columns swiss shoes for Risen Magazine’s March/April and May/June 2005 issues entitled “Beyond Us”. Mark Hoppus has been confirmed to be a part of a documentary about modern punk music entitled One Nine Nine Four.
On April 25, 2014, Hoppus announced, via Twitter, the name of the band as Nothing and Nobody. Their first album is expected to be released in the “not-too-distant future”. Mark Hoppus was born in Ridgecrest, California, on March 15, 1972, to Kerry Wernz and George “Tex” Hoppus . Ridgecrest is a small town in the California desert, composed mainly of what Hoppus later described as “geniuses, scientists, physicists and then just complete strung-out meth-heads”.
Born in Ridgecrest, California, Hoppus spent his childhood moving back and forth between his mother and father’s houses, as they divorced when he was in third grade. He became interested in skateboarding and punk rock in junior high and received a bass guitar from his father, Tex Hoppus, at the age of fifteen. After moving to San Diego to attend college at California State University, San Marcos in 1992, Hoppus’s sister introduced him to Tom DeLonge, and together with drummer Scott Raynor, they formed the band Blink-182. In 2015, Hoppus became the last remaining original member of the group.