Alexia Roditis and Violet Mayugba started Destroy Boys in 2015, when the Sacramento teens were still in high school. The openers, Destroy Boys, had their work cut out for them with this crowd, plenty of whom showed up early, from the pit all the way up to the nosebleeds. It’s safe to say their reunion world tour may have been the most highly anticipated rock show of recent memory, and we’re happy to report that it did not disappoint. There isn’t a punk-rock-adjacent musician around today who hasn’t been influenced by blink-182 in some way. Their music raised an entire generation, and now, more than three decades later, they’re living legends. Vera "Velma" Hernandez The contributions that Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge have made to the genre cannot be overstated. (Although, that’s a drop in the bucket compared to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which is now projected to rake in a record-setting $1.4 billion.) According to Billboard, blink-182’s world tour could bring in a staggering $150 million in sales when all’s said and done. Pop-punk is big business right now, thanks in large part to millennial and Gen X fans with disposable income looking to relive the glory days. Wednesday, July 5, was a day long awaited by tens of thousands of live music fans in Dallas - the day when blink-182 would grace the stage at AAC, reunited with founding vocalist/guitarist/UFO enthusiast Tom DeLonge, in their first North Texas appearance since 2011. That’s right, some people paid money to be in the same room as the iconic trio just to watch the spectacle from the giant screens. Nothing could have stopped 20,000 of blink-182's biggest fans from making it out to American Airlines Center for the rock show of the summer on Wednesday, not even sky-high ticket prices or having to sit behind the stage.
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