Tom DeLonge Leaves Blink-182 “Indefinitely”

“We were all set to play this festival and record a new album and Tom kept putting it off without reason,” they wrote. “A week before we were scheduled to go in to the studio we got an email from his manager explaining that he didn’t want to participate in any Blink-182 projects indefinitely, but would rather work on his other non-musical endeavors.”
There are “no hard feelings,” they added, “but the show must go on for our fans.”
The news comes on the heels of this morning’s Musink announcement, where it was revealed that Alkaline Trio‘s Matt Skiba would be filling in for DeLonge. Skiba does not appear to be a permanent replacement for DeLonge.
