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Blink-182  "Dogs Eating Dogs" Album "EP" Review

Blink-182's latest release "Dogs Eating Dogs" EP was a great, small record for the Christmas time. Although the EP only has 5 songs, it's got a great sound that sounds different from their previous album "Neighborhoods." Also, this EP sounds very folky, which is cool for the Blink-182 sound.

The EP starts off with "When I Was Young" which is about someone who says that their life is going bad and goes to reminiscent about his past explaining how much it was better with everything he had until later his life. Parts that are explained would be in the 2nd verse: "But life has a way/It showers with greatness/Then takes it away". Also said in the chorus: "It's the worst damn day/Of my life." This song is a great opener, that delivers a fast paced rhythm and deep meaning, which makes this a great song to start the EP off.

The next song is the self-titled EP "Dogs Eating Dogs" which talks about "devouring friends" as a metaphor for killing off or betraying their friends: "We would always starve and devour/Our closest friends my beautiful friends." This song is a little heavier than the first song, but that just makes the song more fast paced and great.

"Disaster" comes next in the EP. This song is more about death. (Not the "dark ritual" or satanic" ways your probably thinking of. If you're not thinking that, then good. Don't. Because it's not) It explains more of a disaster type of way, meaning that someone he knew has died and says to avoid death: "White stones of hollow eyes/Death comes you better hide." "Disaster" is softer than the previous songs, but delivers a strong message with awesome musical build-up.

"Boxing Day" is the most soft/light song on this EP that brings a nice, peaceful, acoustic sound that's great for easy listening. This song has two perspectives. When you listen to it, you here Tom Delonge say that a guy says he will search for the girl he lost, and when Mark Hoppus sings, he says that the girl he loves decided to leaving "the day after Christmas" and he was speechless so all he could say was "Goodnight." But this song has another view to it. "Worst painkiller, that all-in filler" (not 100% sure about this) might mean about he painkiller addiction and "I’m empty like the day after Christmas..." means about the break-up of Blink-182, when they broke up, they played a concert before doing so, but they canceled a previous concert in Southeast Asia, which was on December 26, which is Boxing Day in China.

Lastly, we have "Pretty Little Girl" which also is a love song, but also is a sort-of breaking up and trying to resolve song. At first Tom says that he's nineteen and he's in love with a girl. He also explains how he plans on having kids with her and watch them grow up as he and his wife are growing old. The song also explains: "Can we learn to get by if we learn to have scars/If we learn to forgive and accept who we are" meaning even with a troubled past, they both need to get past about both their pasts and accept of what they are now. The melody and rhythm of this song is just nice to listen to, giving it a perfect ending to the EP.

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Released From Rehab!

Back in September, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong made headlines for an unfortunate outburst, in which he clarified that he's not Justin Bieber (lest there was any confusion).

"One minute left, one minute (expletive) left. You're gonna give me (expletive) one minute? ... I'm not (expletive) Justin Bieber, you (expletives)!" he yelled during a performance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, before smashing his guitar.

And now, in a new Rolling Stone cover story, Armstrong opens up about the incident that led him to seek treatment for years of alcohol and prescription drug abuse.

Armstrong started taking pills for anxiety and to help him sleep, but adds, “I started combining them to a point where I didn’t know what I was taking during the day and what I was taking at night. It was just this routine. My backpack sounded like a giant baby rattle.”

"I couldn't predict where I was going to end up at the end of the night," he tells the magazine. "I'd wake up in a strange house on a couch. I wouldn't remember how. It was a complete blackout."

His substance abuse almost led to the group canceling a string of European shows last summer, when Green Day’s manager realized Armstrong was in trouble.

"I remember tiny things," Armstrong, 41, says of the meltdown in Vegas. "The next morning, I woke up. I asked [my wife] Adrienne, "How bad was it?" She said, "It's bad."

The singer recalls, “I got a text from my manager: ‘Come on down, we have to talk about the Reading Festival’. I went down there… and he goes, ‘We’re getting on a plane. We’re canceling the rest of this tour, and you’re going to rehab.’ I was like, ‘What the f– are you talking about? I’m not going to do that.’

“We got to this theater gig we were playing in London. I said, ‘I don’t want to cancel these gigs. It just can’t happen. Tell you what, as soon as we get home, when we’re done with the press and stuff, after iHeartRadio, the week following I’ll go to rehab, but I can’t cancel any of this s– now.’
“It turned out I was a week ahead of schedule.”

Though the band postponed the start of their 2013 tour in order to focus on Armstrong's well-being, they bumped up the release of new album "¡Tré!" in December and have since added new tour dates for March and December.

"I just wanted to thank you all for the love and support you've showed for the past few months," Armstrong wrote on his Instagram account in December. "Believe me, it hasn't gone unnoticed and I'm eternally grateful to have such an amazing set of friends and family. I'm getting better everyday."

Armstrong checked into rehab the day after his Las Vegas meltdown at the iHeartRadio festival.

Billie finally checked from rehab in the past 2 weeks and is finally clean.

Now, the musician insists he's on the mend and no longer drinking. "I want to put on good shows," says Armstrong, who will resume touring with Green Day on March 10 in Pomona, California. "I want to be reliable."

Armstrong also admits on maintaining his sobriety will be a challenge. "There is still the obsession for alcohol," he says. "There's also sleepless nights. But I have to work on it every day. Because I know what goes on out there … I've got to watch my step."