Earlier this autumn, Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge told fans that a new album would be coming, and now the group is reportedly ready to roll on the business side of things.

"We've been searching vigorously for a partner of how we're going to put that out," DeLonge told WRRV. "I literally think I got the last email last night, as far as signing this paperwork to say, "Okay, this is our partner." So, I can't announce anything yet, but next is all the scheduling of when and how, where and with whom we do it. So I think the goal is right after the holidays, we're going to be going pretty hardcore."

Co-frontman Mark Hoppus told AltPress in August that a new album was on the agenda.

"We are basically at the very beginning of the process," Hoppus said. "We were going to start recording at the beginning of this year, but there were some things happening in some of our personal lives that prevented us from getting in the studio, so now we are getting in the studio at the end of this year instead. We have the beginning of song ideas at this point, and we are really just excited to get into the studio and have an album out sooner rather than later."

DeLonge recently did a lengthy interview about Blink-182's classic 1999 album Enema of the State, but he also let some current information slip.

"I am hoping that we can get this thing out by summer, but we will see," he said.

That was, of course, referring to a new Blink-182 album. The band hasn't produced an LP since 2011's Neighborhoods.

"We actually have our very first big writing session coming here in the next few weeks where we'll get together and lay down our first tracks," DeLonge said.

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