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Since coming together in 2005, the San Diego-based, quasi-spiritual alt-rock group Angels & Airwaves has focused on one mission: becoming the biggest band in the world. Frontman Tom DeLonge served as the driving force behind the formation of Angels & Airwaves after enjoying a dozen years of success helming the snotty pop-punk trio blink-182, which peddled some 20 million albums around the globe. When blink-182 went on hiatus, DeLonge launched Angels & Airwaves with the intention to create powerful, emotional, melodic epic records. "My goal is to pick up where I left off and take it to a larger level," DeLonge told Lina Lecaro of the Los Angeles Times. "To walk away from a band that was that huge, selling out arenas … was a gnarly decision and I didn't take it lightly. But now I'm being myself completely for the first time and I'm focused on making this the biggest band in the world."

DeLonge grew up in Poway, California, and by high school had developed a fixation with punk rock. Some of his early influences included the Cure, Screeching Weasel, and the Descendents. His favorite hobby was playing his guitar. "I picked up the guitar in seventh grade," DeLonge noted during a video interview posted on MTV's Buzzworthy blog. "I couldn't put it down."

During the interview, DeLonge went on to describe his teen days—how he would come home from school, grab his guitar, and play some fast punk rock riffs. After awhile, he would slow it down until he relaxed and dropped into a slumber, often falling asleep with his guitar on his chest.

In 1992, the teenage DeLonge became a founding member of blink-182. The pop-punkers enjoyed their biggest success with 2000's quadruple-platinum album Enema of the State. Known for their juvenile hijinks, messageless songs and onstage swearing and nudity, the band became one of the most popular acts of the 1990s punk movement. In 2005, blink-182 announced an indefinite hiatus and DeLonge began dreaming of other things.

Angels Hit the Airwaves
After the blowup with blink-182, DeLonge realized he still wanted to create music—just in a different way. "When I decided not to continue with that part of my life, I still wanted the same things that I wanted when I was in Blink: I still wanted to be in the biggest band in the world, and I still wanted to be the best songwriter that I can," DeLonge told Rolling Stone's Alex Mar. "I thought, ‘I can create anything I want to create … And it's going to be the most epic and anthemic and heroic music that I've ever made.’"

Out of these musings, DeLonge came up with the concept for Angels & Airwaves and quickly set about finding other musicians to join him with his vision. DeLonge recruited high school friend David Kennedy to play guitar, Ryan Sinn to play bass and Atom Willard for drums. Speaking to the BBC, DeLonge said that getting the band together pretty much occurred like most music ventures. "David, I played in a band called Box Car Racer with him. Ryan was in the Distillers in San Diego and David knew him. And Atom grew up down the street from David, so it's very much like a normal band coming together."

Kennedy, the guitarist, grew up in Poway, California, with DeLonge. Before joining Angels & Airwaves, he played with Box Car Racer and the hardcore groups Hazen Street and Over My Dead Body. Sinn, another California boy, began his music career as a guitarist but learned bass in the early 2000s when the punk-rock outfit the Distillers, desperate for a bass player, came calling. Willard, the drummer, joined his first band in his teens. By 1990, Willard was playing drums for the rock group Rocket From the Crypt, an endeavor that lasted a decade. In 2003, Willard joined the Offspring and in 2005 he joined Angels & Airwaves.

In a group interview with musicOMH.com, members talked about how the name Angels & Airwaves was conceived. "Basically, we wanted a name that was larger than life to reflect the great expectations we had on the band. The ‘Angels’ part was inspired by one of our managers who walked away from a serious car accident with just a few scratches. We realised that we needed a delivery system for our message to be heard, which led to the perfect marriage of ‘Angels’ with ‘Airwaves’." Sometimes, the group's name is abbreviated "AVA" and the band uses an "AVA" logo. DeLonge told the BBC that he thinks of the "V" as an upside-down "A"—but it also stands for "Victory." In addition, his daughter is named Ava, so he likes that the band's name reminds him of her.

Made Noise with Whisper
AVA released its heavily contemplative debut album, We Don't Need to Whisper, in 2006. The 10-song CD opens with "Valkyrie Missile," which is a reference to a Cold War missile with nuclear capabilities. Complete with long, easy basslines and energetic drumming, the song discusses destruction and how destruction can yield beautiful things. Another track, "A Little's Enough," invokes religion. Narrated by Jesus, the song talks about God fixing the world in just one day. The album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. It also won album of the year honors at the San Diego Music Awards.

To set the mood for the album, AVA recorded the tracks in a studio with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space odyssey projected on a flat screen, playing concurrently with photos showing images from World War II. The idea was that the Kubrick film represented endless hope while the war photos reminded the musicians of some of humanity's worst qualities. "And then we'd write a love song in the middle of that so this love song would end up pulling and gnawing on all these different emotions and it would leave the listener kind of confused but uplifted," DeLonge told Bobby Hankinson of the Boston Globe. With this album, AVA hoped to send a message to listeners urging them to seek love and find hope amidst despair.

AVA also released a movie in conjunction with We Don't Need to Whisper. The movie—part science fiction, part documentary concerning the making of the album—is called Start the Machine. Speaking to Rolling Stone, DeLonge said the movie "is this poetic metaphor about how humans can create the worst thing in life—war—and the best thing as well, which is love. It's a third CGI, a third documentary and a third love story." Besides real-life footage and interviews with band members, the movie contains "planes arcing through space coming down into a D-day of missiles exploding in a nebula. It's very The Wall … but futuristic."

The band's Web site includes movies and videos in an effort to reach people living in a new media world. DeLonge launched a highly interactive social networking site called Modlife, which houses the band Web site. DeLonge envisions a future where music is free but fans pay a subscription to sites like his, which enables them to view videos and blogs by their favorite bands and chat with band members. AVA makes short movies to accompany its songs, then releases them exclusively to Modlife members. DeLonge believes sites like his will allow musicians to make money because, he says, with today's easy digital copying, music does not make money like in the past.

Built Empire
In 2007, the bass player, Sinn, was let go from the band and replaced by Matt Wachter from the band 30 Seconds to Mars, fronted by Jared Leto. Wachter grew up on the East Coast and took an early interest in piano and drums. By high school he was playing in bands. Eventually, he picked up bass because he wanted to join a band and the only opening they had was for bass.

Wachter joined AVA in time to work on the band's second album, I-Empire, which was released in 2007. Complete with plenty of synth-heavy jams, the album hit number nine on the Billboard 200 chart. The "empire" the album's title refers to is the "inner" empire. "It's a way of looking at the world, as the world is yours," DeLonge said in a band biography posted on the Geffen Web site. The energy-laden, bass-driving, synthrock anthem "Everything's Magic" turned out to be one of the biggest songs on the album, hitting number one on the iTunes Modern Rock Chart.

Willard relishes the band's approach to music. As he told John J. Moser of the Morning Call, "[We're] trying to make almost an escape through the music and at the same time just deliver the idea of hope and that you can make your world a better place." Willard also likes that the band allows members to focus on their families, too. As Willard told Moser, "Everybody's priorities and personal lives are important, and if someone says, ‘I want to go do this with my wife’ or ‘My kids are this or that,’ nobody's going to sit here and go, ‘Dude, what the [heck], man, miss a practice?’ We're all professionals, it's going to be all right, we're going to make it happen one way or another."

Angels Floated in Balance
As for becoming the "biggest band in the world," reviews remain mixed. Radio station music director Dan O'Brien has placed some of AVA's songs in heavy rotation. "This band has this underground swelling of support and interest," he told the Boston Globe. "For Tom [DeLonge], this is a progression; a lot of the blink stuff was juvenile, this to me is more mature."

Some see little hope for the band. Writing in Variety, music critic Steven Mirkin complained that AVA's music contains nothing but formulaic gestures and easily digestible clichés. Critiquing a live performance, Mirkin complained that "DeLonge's vocals have the quavery whine of the Cure's Robert Smith, Dave Kennedy … sprays moody, spiky guitar lines and drummer Atom Willard plays (or, to be more precise, overplays) furiously." Mirkin suggested that if DeLonge's desire was to make the world a happier place, "he might want to rethink Angels and Airwaves' direction and add some of Blink's jokiness. Even sophomoric humor is preferable to his current sophomoric existentialism."

As for the future, DeLonge's aspirations remain high and he intends to keep moving forward with his vision for AVA. The band's first album, after all, was certified gold, proving the band has potential. "I want to come out with an album that people will refer to twenty years from now as the album of this decade," he told Rolling Stone, noting there has not been an album like that since Nirvana's Nevermind. "I don't think there's ever been a band as good as U2. But I'm willing to take on that challenge."

Selected discography
We Don't Need to Whisper, Geffen Records, 2006.
I-Empire, Geffen Records, 2007.

Sources
Periodicals
Boston Globe, May 19, 2006, p. D17.
Los Angels Times, May 11, 2006, p. E12.
Morning Call (Allentown, PA), February 16, 2008, p. D1.
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), January 27, 2008, p. G4.
Variety, May 11, 2006, p. 14.

Online
"Angels And Airwaves," Geffen Records, http://www.geffen.com/artist/default.aspx/aid/407 (June 10, 2008).
"Angels & Airwaves—Between The Blinks," MusicOMH.com, http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/angels-and-airwaves_0606.htm (June 22, 2008).
"Angel Delight!," BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/news/interviews/2006/06/19/33030.shtml (June 22, 2008).
"Biography of Angels & Airwaves," Angels & Airwaves Official Site, http://www.angels-and-airwaves.com (June 10, 2008).
"Q&A: Blink-182 Man Launches Angels," Rolling Stone, http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9264432/blink182_man_launches_angels (June 10, 2008).
"Video Interview: Tom DeLonge," MTV Buzzworthy Blog, http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2008/05/27/video-interview-tom-delonge/ (June 22, 2008).

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With the hiatus of pop-punk superstars blink-182 in full effect by the fall of 2005, singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge revealed the formation of his new band -- one he'd already been working with for six months -- called Angels & Airwaves. Much hype ensued after the announcement. In interviews with outlets like MTV.com, DeLonge proclaimed that his new music would borrow elements from bands like U2 and Pink Floyd and, ultimately, be something of a revolution to change the face of rock & roll forever. Rounding out his lineup were guitarist David Kennedy (Boxcar Racer, Hazen Street), drummer Atom Willard (Rocket from the Crypt, the Offspring), and bassist Ryan Sinn (the Distillers), and the group made its live debut on April 12, 2006, to a sold-out crowd at Pomona, California's Glass House. Those unable to attend the show were given a taste of Angels & Airwaves' shimmering, arena-ready rock later that spring, when We Don't Need to Whisper was released on the Geffen label.

We Don't Need to Whisper was met with mixed reviews but went gold nonetheless, due in large part to a popular pre-sale that ensured the band a healthy first week of sales. Several U.K. festival appearances and a month-long headlining tour followed, and the group also served as an opening act for Head Automatica for Taking Back Sunday during a tour of American venues. After replacing Sinn with former 30 Seconds to Mars bassist Matt Wachter, Angels & Airwaves returned in 2007 with their second album, the equally dramatic I-Empire. Although deemed by DeLonge to be "as exciting as rock 'n' roll gets!" in an interview with Kerrang!, I-Empire didn't fare nearly as well as the previous album, with sales eventually stalling around 260,000 copies in America. A stateside tour in early 2008 proved to be fairly popular, though, and the group remained on the road by joining the Warped Tour later that year.

At the Grammy Awards on February 8, 2009, DeLonge climbed on-stage with Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus to announce plans for a blink-182 reunion. The band toured that summer and spent significant time in the recording studio, where sessions for a new blink-182 album kept DeLonge busy. He found enough free time to record a third album with Angels & Airwaves, however, and the finished product -- simply titled Love -- was released free of charge on Valentine's Day 2010. The second part of Love arrived in November of 2011, not long after DeLonge released his reunion album with blink-182, along with a set that combined both parts of the album. ~ Corey Apar & Andrew Leahey, Rovi
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Left to right: Wachter, Kennedy, Rubin, and DeLonge in 2012
Background information
Origin San Diego, California
Genres Alternative rock, space rock, art rock, neo-progressive rock
Years active 2005–present
Labels Geffen, Suretone, Independent - Adventure Intermedia, To the Stars
Associated acts Blink-182, Box Car Racer, Denver Harbor, Lostprophets, The Offspring, Rocket from the Crypt, 30 Seconds to Mars, Nine Inch Nails, The Distillers, Hazen Street, Over My Dead Body, Moth, Alkaline Trio, Social Distortion, Special Goodness
Website angelsandairwaves.com
Members
Tom DeLonge
David Kennedy
Matt Wachter
Ilan Rubin
Past members
Ryan Sinn
Atom Willard

Angels & Airwaves is an American alternative rock supergroup led by Blink-182 guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge. Other members are guitarist David Kennedy (from Over My Dead Body, Hazen Street and Box Car Racer), bassist Matt Wachter (from 30 Seconds to Mars) and drummer Ilan Rubin (from Lostprophets and Nine Inch Nails). Former original members are bass guitarist Ryan Sinn (formerly of The Distillers), who left the group in 2007 for reasons still unclear, as well as drummer Adam "Atom" Willard (formerly of The Offspring and Rocket from the Crypt), who amicably parted ways with the band in fall 2011 shortly before the release of their fourth album.

Formed after Blink-182 went on hiatus in 2005, the band has continued to record and tour despite DeLonge reigniting his career with Blink-182 in 2009. The band has established themselves as very prolific musicians having released four studio albums We Don't Need to Whisper (2006), I-Empire (2007), Love (2010) and Love: Part Two (2011) in the space of 5 years. The project also resulted in the documentary film Start the Machine (2008). In 2011, accompanying the two Love albums, the group scored and produced the science fiction drama film Love by director William Eubank in 460 theatres nationwide during their multimedia event, Love Live. Tom Delonge has said in an interview that the band is working on two new films with accompanying studio albums.[1]

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Music history

Formation and origins: 2004–2005

Tom DeLonge began working on new material during Blink-182's final tour in 2004 and shortly after they began their break in February 2005. For half a year he worked alone in his home studio before gathering musicians to form the band. Upon fiddling randomly for several weeks with the band's logo, DeLonge realized that if he were to invert the middle "A" of the band's acronym into what appeared to be a "V", he would have the name of his daughter, Ava. As rumors were floating around about the band's "break-up", DeLonge chose to abstain for six months from any interviews surrounding the issue and his future plans; instead he concentrated on writing and recording in his home-based studio. In September 2005, he finally spoke publicly in Kerrang! magazine, where he unveiled the name of his new band, Angels & Airwaves. The band included former Hazen Street guitarist and high-school friend David Kennedy, former Rocket from the Crypt drummer Atom Willard and former The Distillers bass guitarist Ryan Sinn. Atom Willard told Shave magazine that the experience of all the members of the band made the band formation very easy. "There’s nobody trying to figure out what is and what isn’t going to work, not just for themselves but for music and for a band, what life’s going to be like on the road and all that kind of stuff. Everybody had enough experience to just buckle down and do the work. It really has made it easier than anything else."[2]

First albums and artistic development: 2005–2009

Soon after forming, the band began recording its first album in DeLonge's studio in California from mid-2005 to early 2006. However, after a fan e-mail hacked DeLonge and stole four demos, Angels & Airwaves had no other choice but to release "The Adventure" as their first single, which was leaked onto radio stations, causing a premature release on May 18, 2006. A few days later, on May 23, they released their first album, We Don't Need to Whisper. The album reached #4 on the Billboard 200, and went gold in both the US and Canada. Despite this success, critics gave generally mixed reviews, with one noting that “while well-intentioned [the band] failed to reach the lofty heights to which they aspire”, especially in light of claims made by DeLonge that the album was “the best music made in decades”. Yet, later that year, popularity picked up with the release of singles "The War", "Do It For Me Now" and "It Hurts". The remainder of the year into 2007 was taken up with tours, and in early 2007, the supergroup returned to the studio to work on a follow-up album.

However, problems accumulated and on April 23, 2007, AVA announced that Ryan Sinn would not play at the Free Earth Day concert at the M.I.T. campus due to difficulties within the band. Following this incident, on May 15, Sinn posted on the Army of Angels fan club message board stating that he was "no longer a part of Angels & Airwaves" and had received a call on the evening of April 19 concluding his relationship with the band. Matt Wachter (the former bass guitarist of 30 Seconds to Mars), filled in for the show and was later confirmed as a permanent member.

The new album, titled I-Empire and the first song "Everything's Magic" were leaked to the Internet, and on August 25, 2007, it was the most requested song on California radio station KROQ. Angels & Airwaves began streaming the song on their MySpace profile on August 28, 2007. It also became available on iTunes, and reached number three on the iTunes Rock Chart on September 11, 2007, before the song was even made available for nationwide airplay. The band recorded the video for the single on January 20 and 21, and it was premiered on MTV2 Unleashed on February 25, 2008. The band released a third single, "Breathe", that was released onto the Internet on June 20.

Angels & Airwaves performed at every location on Warped Tour 2008.[3] They also made a fall tour in support of Weezer.[4]

Multimedia projects: 2009–2011

The band took a break from performing in 2009 while Delonge reunited with Blink-182 for a summer tour. During their time off, Atom Willard joined Social Distortion as their touring drummer, while Matt Wachter and David Kennedy began work on the upcoming film. When Delonge and Willard returned in the fall, the band resumed production of its next album. Love is the third studio album by Angels & Airwaves, which was officially released worldwide on February 14, 2010, after being delayed from Christmas 2009. Fuel TV also released it two days earlier for Modlife members, along with Mark Hoppus' remix of "Hallucinations" available to those who donated when downloading the album.[5] The album was released free of charge due to "corporate underwriting". They began producing it in January 2009 but progress was slow due to Blink-182 reuniting and going on tour. The band finished the album in time for its release on Valentine's Day 2010. Love was downloaded nearly 500,000 times during the first 48 hours after its release day making it the most downloaded album in history.[citation needed] The first single from the album, "Hallucinations", was made available for free through the band's Modlife on December 23, 2009. The band also released the video via Modlife on March 7, 2010.

The band toured North America, starting on March 27 in Anaheim, California. The tour ended on May 30 in Ventura, California, and Delonge returned to Blink-182 to prepare for their upcoming album and European tour. Delonge originally revealed that there would be another tour, rumored to have UK dates, after the release of the Love film film in the autumn, but plans were changed due to Delonge's commitments with Blink-182.[6] "Epic Holiday" is on the soundtrack to the German film Kokowääh with Til Schweiger.

The second studio album in the Love project, Love II, was released on November 8, 2011.[7] DeLonge described the album as better than the first part of Love and also confirmed that there would be a box set with both albums and a DVD of the movie.[8] The first single to be released was "Anxiety"; it was premiered following Love Live on August 10, 2011. The music video for "Anxiety" was released on YouTube on August 11, 2011.[9] It was made available for purchase on iTunes on September 14, 2011.

Line-up change and Poet Anderson: 2011–present

Before the release of Love II, Delonge revealed that Angels & Airwaves had already begun working on two new albums and two corresponding films. On October 4, it was announced on their Facebook page that drummer Atom Willard had left the band. The departure seemed to be a mutual understanding and Atom thanked the members of Angels & Airwaves for a great six years of making music together.[10] On October 7, it was announced that Angels & Airwaves would be part of the lineup for the Soundwave Festival in Australia, in February and March 2012. It was announced on October 20, 2011, that Ilan Rubin, famous for his work with Lostprophets and Nine Inch Nails, was the new drummer of the band.[11] According to the band's website, the band will release an album to accompany a film called Poet Anderson.[12] In March 2012, it was confirmed that Angels and Airwaves would perform the 2012 Reading & Leeds Festivals in August 2012.[13] The band also performed at the annual KROQ Weenie Roast concert on May 5, 2012.

Other media

Films

Main articles: Start the Machine (film) and Love (2011 film)

Start the Machine is a documentary that focuses on the break-up of Blink-182, the genesis of Angels & Airwaves, and the making of their first album We Don't Need to Whisper. It was released on DVD on June 17, 2008.[14][15] Start the Machine was filmed over a course of almost 3 years.

Love is a science fiction film directed by William Eubank and starring Gunner Wright that was released in a special event called Love Live on August 10, 2011. "It starts in the Civil War and you travel through time and space. There's a couple of different storylines. The main one is, a guy gets sent up to the International Space Station, and he gets abandoned up there. He doesn't know why. So throughout his years of being stuck up there, he sees the Earth starting to collapse below. He ends up basically becoming the last person alive. And then decades later, he wakes up one day and there's something outside of his spaceship, in low Earth orbit with him."[16]

The band is working on a new movie called Poet Anderson[12]

Graphic art

The band's albums have featured space rock images with considerable influences from the work of Storm Thorgerson as band members explicitly state that there are Pink Floyd influences in their work.[17]

In November 2011 the band released a special edition copy of the feature film LOVE in Graphic Novel format with the double album and movie from the band's official website. [18]

Influences and themes

The group has been described by Delonge as more than a band but more accurately "an art project [that approaches] larger human themes and tackles them in different mediums", or simply "a multimedia project".[19] This has been seen in the group's films, live events, and novel approach to fan-artist interaction.[20]

Of the first two albums, the band says that they were mainly influenced by the music of Radiohead and Pink Floyd, combining them with the grandiosity of U2.[21] Of the first album, Delonge said that it would be "the best music in generations", but afterwards admitted that during this time he was addicted to painkillers.[22] The Love albums show further blending of the band's musical aspirations of epic and grandiosity and the cultural revolution in the digital era.[23]

Band members

Current members
Former members

Discography

Main article: Angels & Airwaves discography

Awards

Notes

  1. ^ Adam Willard performs on the fourth album although he had left the band by the time of its release.

References

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