Travis Barker Is Working on a New Album With Fellow Pop Punk Legends

Travis Barker teased a new musical era for Yellowcard while giving a tour of his studio.

The Blink-182 drummer showed off all his equipment with Reverb in a video shared this week, where he shared his favorite drum kit. “This is my main kit. I’ve tried all different variations; nothing beats this stainless steel DW. It’s ridiculous,” he said, showing off the DW drum kit, which he said he used for several albums including Blink-182’s most recent One More Time… album and Machine Gun Kelly’s Lonely Road.

“I just did the entire new Yellowcard album on this,” he casually added.

Yellowcard’s last album was their 2016 self-titled project, which hit the top 10 of Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart. The band has yet to announce details of their upcoming album, but frontman Ryan Key recently told Wall of Sound that the group is in a “very secretive stage of making new music right now,” but they’re “close [to] something happening.”

Key said that the upcoming musical era is it “so much more than just an album,” adding, “I just mean that the news around it; how it was made, who we made it with, it’s surreal. I’m pinching myself every day, since April of last year when we started working on it. We’ve really poured ourselves into this thing.”

Blink-182, meanwhile, is scheduled for several music festival appearances this year, including Sea.Hear.Now on Sept. 14, Shaky Knees on Sept. 21, Aftershock on Oct. 2 and, of course, When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 18 and 19. Get tickets here.

Watch Barker’s full studio tour with Reverb below.