Box Car Racer DVD (2002)

Original title

Box Car Racer

Directed by

Marc "Cheetah" Steinberger

Genre

documentary, music

Country

United States of America

Runtime

16 min

How it feels

This is a concert film and music DVD from the side project of Blink-182 members Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker. It captures the band playing songs from their darker and more personal debut album. The release shows a band pursuing a heavier sound than the members' main project.

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What happens

Box Car Racer was an American post-hardcore band formed in San Diego, California, in 2001. The band was a side-project of Blink-182 members Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, with David Kennedy of Hazen Street completing the band's studio lineup. A friend of Barker, Anthony Celestino later joined the band as a bassist. DeLonge created the project to pursue darker ideas he felt unsuited to his work with Blink-182. The group recorded the band's eponymous debut, Box Car Racer, in quick fashion with a more DIY spirit. MCA Records issued the band's lone release in May 2002, which peaked on the Billboard 200 at number 12. Singles "I Feel So" and "There Is" also charted on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, with the former peaking at number eight. The band embarked on their sole headlining tour across North America in the fall of 2002 with supporting act The Used. The project was largely the cause of ongoing tension between DeLonge and Blink-182 bandmate Mark Hoppus and influenced the band's following studio album, the more experimental Blink-182 (2003). DeLonge ended the project in mid-2003, considering it to have served its purpose; however, he described his later band, Angels & Airwaves (which also features Kennedy), as a continuation of Box Car Racer. Between 2018 and 2021, the project was rumored to have been revived by DeLonge and Barker, with talk of a new song recorded by the duo. That song, Barker confirmed in 2023, was eventually repurposed as the Blink-182 song "Terrified". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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