Love Letter To A Record: All Time Low On Blink-182’s ‘Self-Titled’

Music Feeds’ Love Letter To A Record series asks artists to reflect on their relationship with the music they love and share stories about how it has influenced their lives. Here, Alex Gaskarth from Maryland pop-icons All Time Low share their love for Blink-182‘s 2003 Self-Titled LP.

It comes as ATL gear up to make their long-awaited live return to Australia at Good Things festival and a pair of headlining sideshows this December off the back of their freshly-minted tenth full-length studio release, Everyone’s Talking!  “Our music showcases us literally growing up,” Gaskarth explains. “Our band has been this unfiltered piece of ourselves that we’ve put out there into the world. We see ourselves as a current band, a current act that continues to push forward and not one that’s just built on its legacy”.

Read Alex Gaskarth’s love letter to a record down below.

All Time Low – Everyone’s Talking

Alex Garskarth For my Love Letter To A Record, I’m definitely going to go with Blink-182’s self-titled album. And I say that because I think that album was them hitting this stride of perfecting the band. They have so many great records, great records that came before it and great records that came after. But I think that album was the perfect blend of Blink being Blink, while also bringing a bunch of experimentation to the table that changed the way people looked at Blink-182 forever. And to me that was maybe the most exciting moment as a Blink fan, it was just so different but so great. And it’s rare that bands nail that.

Jack [Barakat] was with me when I got it, we got out of school, we went to Best Buy and we bought the album immediately and threw it on in the car. And I remember being kind of mad at first because of how different it was, I was like: I don’t like this, this isn’t the Blink I know. And then I listened again and listened again, and then I went: this is the best thing I’ve ever heard! It’s them experimenting and

growing and I just remember feeling so excited. We went and saw them live a few weeks later too, I

think it was the DollaBill Tour, at the 9:30 Club in DC. It was amazing.

I love the song ‘Asthenia’ on that record, and I love ‘Stockholm Syndrome ‘ as well. I put that record on quite a bit to be honest. I haven’t listened to it recently, but it’s one of those records when I’m not sure what to listen to, I’ll put it on and I’m never not satisfied. It covers literally everything I need.

All Time Low 2025 Australian Tour Dates

• Friday, December 5th – Good Things | Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne VIC
• Saturday, December 6th – Good Things | Sydney Showground, Sydney NSW
• Sunday, December 7th – Good Things | RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane QLD
• Tuesday, 9th December – The Tivoli, Brisbane QLD
• Thursday, 11th December – Hindley St Music Hall, Adelaide SA

Further Reading

Good Things 2025 Sideshows: All Time Low, Dayseeker + More

Good Things 2025 Lineup: TOOL, Weezer, Garbage + MORE

All Time Low Announce 10th Studio Album ‘Everyone’s Talking’