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Angels & Airwaves is an alternative rock group fronted by former Blink-182 and Box Car Racer guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge. The band includes guitarist David Kennedy, notably from Over My Dead Body, Hazen Street and Box Car Racer, former Rocket From The Crypt and Offspring drummer Atom Willard and former 30 Seconds to Mars bassist Matt Wachter, who replaced former The Distillers bassist Ryan Sinn in May 2007. The band has released two albums thus far: We Don't Need to Whisper (2006) and I-Empire (2007). They are planning on releasing a documentary involving their music, titled Start The Machine, as well as a feature film entitled I-Empire.
History
We Don't Need to Whisper
Tom DeLonge began working on the debut album, We Don't Need To Whisper, shortly after Blink-182 began their hiatus in February 2005. As rumors were floating around about the band's "indefinite hiatus", DeLonge chose to abstain for half a year 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". Upon fiddling randomly for several weeks with the band's logo, Tom suddenly realized that if he were to invert the middle A of the acronym (A)ngels (A)nd (A)irwaves into what appeared to be a V, he would have the name of his daughter, Ava. The band included his friend and guitarist David Kennedy from Box Car Racer, The Offspring drummer Adam "Atom" Willard and former The Distillers bassist Ryan Sinn.
Angels & Airwaves released their first single, "The Adventure", on May 18, 2006. They released their first album, We Don't Need to Whisper, a few days later on May 23, 2006. The album reached 4th on the Billboard 200, and went gold.
The song 'Start The Machine' is thought to be about the break up of Blink-182. Which can also make some references to Mark and how he left Blink-182.
Ryan Sinn's Departure
On April 23rd, 2007 - Ryan Sinn's 28th birthday - it was announced that he did not play the Free Earth Day concert at the M.I.T. campus the day before, due to difficulties with the band. Following this incident, on May 15th Sinn posted on the Army of Angels fan club message board, stating that he was no longer a part of Angels & Airwaves. He was said to have received a call on the evening of April 19th concluding his relationship with the band. Sinn reportedly began playing with Love Equals Death. In May 2008 Ryan departed from his post-Angels and Airwaves band "on good terms". Sinn's website now promotes his involvement in The Innocent, a notably more aggressive band than Angels and Airwaves. Sinn's relationship with DeLonge and the other Angels has seemingly discontinued. He auctioned-off his Signature DeLonge Gibson, a gift by Tom, shortly after his departure.
DeLonge has since talked about Sinn's departure, telling Kerrang, "He's a really great person and a really great bass player. But we had different priorities and he had things going on in his life that he needed to take care of. The rest of us were relying on him to tackle those things, but he couldn't do it. And so it put him into a defensive position."
Matt Wachter, previously of 30 Seconds to Mars, covered for him for the tour and was later confirmed as a permanent member of Angels & Airwaves.
I-Empire
Tom DeLonge revealed in an interview with Kerrang! the new album would be titled I-Empire and would be released on Universal/Island records. He stated that the new album will be stripped down, a departure from the heavy effects found in We Don't Need To Whisper. DeLonge also revealed that I-Empire would contain 12 tracks, including "Star of Bethlehem", which was recorded in late 2006 and had already been released on the KROQ 2006 Christmas CD. I-Empire debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at No.9 with sales of 66,000 in its first week. It also reached number one on the iTunes Top Albums chart. The sales have dropped considerably since then; third week sales put the album at No. 103 on the Billboard 200 chart.
On June 18, 2007, the band released a newly designed website depicting a motorcyclist and a flash application with flashing text that read "I-Empire, Fall 2007". The flash application also played a short music clip, which is from the intro of "Love Like Rockets", along with a portion of a speech from President Dwight D. Eisenhower via the Project SCORE Satellite from 1958. The portion of this message included on the website is, "Through the marvels of scientific advance, my voice is coming to you from a satellite circling in outer space... Through this unique means I convey to you and to all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth..." The flash application ended with the quotation "If I had my own world... I'd build you an empire...".
The first single from the new album, "Everything's Magic", was leaked onto 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 song received a lot of criticism by fans due to the fact that the intro sounds very similar to the blink-182 song, "Anthem, Pt. 2". Several videos were made on Youtube where the two tracks were played over each other, displaying the evident similarity of the songs. On December 28, 2007, Matt announced on Modlife that Secret Crowds will be the next single. The song went to radio on February 4, 2008. The band shot the video for the single on January 20th and 21st, and it premiered on MTV2 Unleashed on February 25th, 2008.
Angels & Airwaves have announced they are planning on releasing a documentary involving their music, titled Start the Machine, as well as a feature film entitled I-Empire, named after the upcoming album. The documentary has been submitted to several festivals for consideration, and DeLonge has said he hopes it will be released to theaters in 2008 before coming out on DVD. In an interview with SuicideGirls, David Kennedy described the feature film as "all these vignettes that intertwine kind of like Pink Floyd's The Wall meets Crash". On August 29, 2007, Angels & Airwaves updated their website with a new trailer for the upcoming album. The trailer shows a montage of video from the upcoming I-Empire film and the upcoming documentary, featuring the new song "Secret Crowds". Additionally, another trailer was uploaded detailing the motion picture endeavors of the band.
Post I-Empire
At recent concerts, the band has covered "Not Now" and "Reckless Abandon" by blink-182, "There Is" and "My First Punk Song" by Box Car Racer.
Both Angels & Airwave's MySpace and Warped Tour's Kevin Lyman have confirmed that Angels & Airwaves will be playing all of Warped Tour 2008.
On March 17th, 2008, Tom DeLonge stated in a blog on the band's Modlife site that the band were working on remixes of certain songs. DeLonge also mentioned the possibility of starting a new album soon.
The song "It Hurts" is downloadable for the game Rock Band on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions.
Breakup
Tom ate hamburger... Tom got tummy ache... Tom went into the bathroom took a fat crap and died...
Multimedia Endeavors
Cinema
Among short films for many of the songs from We Don't Need To Whisper and I-Empire, Angels and Airwaves have filmed two full-length films. A documentary following the creation of the band entitled "Start the Machine" will be released as a DVD to coincide with the Warped Tour.
A feature film soundtracked by the band's music entitled "I-Empire" will be released during the latter part of 2008, but the band isn't sure of the format in which they'll be released.
According to Amazon.com, the "Start the Machine" DVD will be released on June 24, 2008.
Modlife.com
Modlife.com is an online operating system for musicians. The website is in beta form as of now. Tom DeLonge has stated that Modlife is his attempt to "fix" the record business. He believes that music should be free and the intimate blogs and videos of the musicians should fund the artists. Currently on ModLife, Angels and Airwaves require a membership to view the many blogs, pictures, short films, live performances, etc. but allow visitors to stream their latest effort, I-Empire, in it's entirety for free.
DeLonge stated in a blog on March 20th, 2008 that the Modlife website was now completely built. He also mentioned that other bands are being set up with their own Modlife pages, and that Modlife will properly launch before Warped Tour 2008, including user-created pages.
Live performances
The band uses many special effects and magnificent lighting and sounds while playing live, adding to the dramatics of an Angels and Airwaves show.
Band members
Current members
- Tom DeLonge — Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
- David Kennedy — Lead Guitar, Keyboard
- Matt Wachter — Bass, Backing Vocals
- Atom Willard — Drums
Former members
Other personnel
- Roger Joseph Manning Jr. – Keyboards on We Don't Need to Whisper and I-Empire
Discography
Main article: Angels & Airwaves discography| Year | Album | U.S. | UK | Canada | Australia |
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| 2006 | We Don't Need to Whisper | 4 | 6 | 3 | 8 |
| 2007 | I-Empire | 9 | 29 | 5 | 31 |
External links
- Angels & Airwaves Official Website (ModLife.com)
- Angels & Airwaves Official MySpace
- Angels & Airwaves On PunkDisasters
- Angels & Airwaves Community Forum
References
- Angels and Airwaves fan-site
- Kerrang! interview on punkdisasters
- Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales
- PunkDisasters.com - The Stage is Set
- FMQB: Radio Industry News, Music Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings, Music News and more!
- Angels & Airwaves Thinking Big For 2008
- SuicideGirls > Interviews > Angels And Airwaves
- Angels and Airwaves - Modlife
- AbsolutePunk.net Chat: Kevin Lyman
- Jay-Z Leapfrogs Eagles, Britney For No. 1 Debut
- CANOE - JAM! Music SoundScan Charts
- Australian Record Industry Assocation
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