Angels & Airwaves
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Angels & Airwaves is an American alternative rock
supergroup
led by Blink-182
guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge
, also including guitarist David Kennedy
from Over My Dead Body
, Hazen Street
and Box Car Racer
, bass guitarist Matt Wachter
from 30 Seconds to Mars
and former Lostprophets
and Nine Inch Nails
drummer Ilan Rubin
. Former original members are bass guitarist Ryan Sinn
(formerly of The Distillers
), who left the group in 2007 for still unclear reasons, as well as drummer Adam "Atom" Willard (formerly of The Offspring
), who amicably parted ways with the band in fall 2011 after completion of their fourth album.
Formed after Blink-182 breakup in 2005, the band has continued to record and tour albeit that DeLonge reignited his career with Blink-182 in 2009. For the half-decade of the band's existence, they have established themselves as extremely prolific artists, having released four studio albums We Don't Need to Whisper
(2006), I-Empire
(2007), Love
(2010) and Love: Part Two
(2011). The project also resulted in the documentary film Start the Machine (2008). In 2011, the group released the science fiction
film Love, accompanying the aforementioned albums and directed by 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 two studio albums.
[that approaches] larger human themes
and tackles them in different mediums
", or simply "a multimedia project". This has been seen in the group's films, live events, and novel approach to fan-artist interaction.
On the first two albums, the band state that they are mainly influenced by the music of Radiohead
and Pink Floyd
, combining them with the grandiosity of U2
. On the first album, Tom Delonge stated that the album would be "the best music in generations", but afterwards admitted that during this time he had addiction to painkillers. Love albums show further blending of the band's musical aspirations of epic and grandiosity and the cultural revolution in the digital era.
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
bassist 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."
on May 23, 2006. The album reached 4th on the Billboard 200, and went gold in both the US and Canada. Contrary to this success, critics had generally mixed reviews, with one critic 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 consisted of tours, and in early 2007, the supergroup retreated to the studio to work on the follow-up.
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.[5] Matt Wachter (former bassist 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
" 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 shot the video for the single on January 20 and 21, and it premiered on MTV2 Unleashed on February 25, 2008. The band came out with a third single, "Breathe", that was released onto the internet June, 20.
Angels & Airwaves performed at every location on Warped Tour 2008
. They also underwent a Fall tour in support of Weezer
.
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 their 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. 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. The first single from the album, "Hallucinations," was made available for free through the band's Modlife on December 23, 2009. The band have also released the video via Modlife on March 7, 2010.
The band toured North America, starting March 27 in Anaheim, CA. The tour wrapped up 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 will be another tour rumored to have UK dates after the release of the Love film in the autumn, but plans were changed due to Delonge's commitments with Blink-182. "Epic Holiday" is on the soundtrack to the German film Kokowääh
with Til Schweiger
.
The second studio album Love II
in the Love project was released on November 8, 2011. Tom has described the album as better than the first part of Love and has also confirmed that there would be a box set with the two Love albums and a DVD of the movie. The first single to be released was, "Anxiety", and was premiered following Love Live
on August 10, 2011. The music video for "Anxiety" was then released on YouTube
on August 11, 2011. It was made available for purchase on iTunes
on September 14, 2011.
, famous for his work with Lostprophets
and Nine Inch Nails
, is the new drummer of the band. According to the band's website, next in the pipeline is an album accompanying an animated film called Poet Anderson.
, the genesis of Angels & Airwaves, and the making of their debut album We Don't Need to Whisper
. It was released on DVD on June 17, 2008. 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."
The band is working on a new animated movie called Poet Anderson
as band-members explicitly state Pink Floyd
influences in their work.
The band has revealed that the Love album will be released as a double record with corresponding graphic novel.
Former members
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
led by Blink-182
Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...
guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge
Tom DeLonge
Thomas Matthew "Tom" DeLonge, Jr. is an American rock musician. He is the guitarist and one of the two lead vocalists for the American pop punk band Blink-182 as well as the guitarist and lead vocalist for the alternative band Angels & Airwaves...
, also including guitarist David Kennedy
David Kennedy (guitarist)
David James Kennedy is an American guitarist, songwriter and performer. He currently plays guitar for the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves....
from Over My Dead Body
Over My Dead Body (band)
Over My Dead Body was a straight edge hardcore punk band from San Diego that featured former members from Built To Last, Forced Life, Palpatine, Four Walls Falling and Unbroken. David Kennedy of Box Car Racer, Hazen Street and Angels & Airwaves fame was also in the band for a short period between...
, Hazen Street
Hazen Street
Hazen Street is a supergroup that formed in early 2004.The band features Freddy Cricien and Hoya of New York hardcore band Madball; Toby Morse of hardcore band H2O; David Kennedy of post-hardcore band Box Car Racer, hardcore punk band Over My Dead Body, and later neo-progressive rock band Angels &...
and Box Car Racer
Box Car Racer
Box Car Racer was a short-lived American post-hardcore band from San Diego, California, formed in 2002. The band was a side-project of guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker of Blink-182, along with lead guitarist David Kennedy of Hazen Street, and touring bassist Anthony Celestino...
, bass guitarist Matt Wachter
Matt Wachter
Matthew Walter "Matt" Wachter is the bassist, keyboardist, and the backing vocalist in the rock band Angels & Airwaves. He was the former bassist for alternative rock group 30 Seconds to Mars, He was with the band from 2001 to 2007...
from 30 Seconds to Mars
30 Seconds to Mars
30 Seconds to Mars is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1998. Since 2007, the band has consisted of actor Jared Leto , Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević...
and former Lostprophets
Lostprophets
Lostprophets is a Welsh rock band from Pontypridd, formed in 1997. Founded by vocalist Ian Watkins, bassist Mike Lewis, drummer Mike Chiplin and guitarist Lee Gaze, they were originally a side-project to hardcore punk band Public Disturbance. To date, Lostprophets have released four studio...
and Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
drummer Ilan Rubin
Ilan Rubin
Ilan Rubin is an American musician, best known for being former drummer of Lostprophets & industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails during their last tour...
. Former original members are bass guitarist Ryan Sinn
Ryan Sinn
Ryan Sinn is the former bassist for the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves and The Distillers, but has joined Love Equals Death, after Dominic Davi's departure...
(formerly of The Distillers
The Distillers
The Distillers were an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1998. They released their first two albums on Hellcat Records/Epitaph Records before moving to Sire, part of the Warner Music Group. The Distillers were originally formed by Australian-born Brody Armstrong , a woman with a...
), who left the group in 2007 for still unclear reasons, as well as drummer Adam "Atom" Willard (formerly of The Offspring
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Known as Manic Subsidal until 1986, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Greg K. and drummer Pete Parada...
), who amicably parted ways with the band in fall 2011 after completion of their fourth album.
Formed after Blink-182 breakup in 2005, the band has continued to record and tour albeit that DeLonge reignited his career with Blink-182 in 2009. For the half-decade of the band's existence, they have established themselves as extremely prolific artists, having released four studio albums We Don't Need to Whisper
We Don't Need to Whisper
We Don't Need to Whisper is the debut album by American rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was released on May 20, 2006 in Australia, on May 22 in the UK, and on May 23 in North America....
(2006), I-Empire
I-Empire
I-Empire is the second studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was officially released worldwide on November 6, 2007 from the Angels & Airwaves website, where it was available for download...
(2007), Love
Love (Angels & Airwaves album)
Love is the third studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was released on February 12, 2010 on Fuel TV, and on February 14 on Modlife. The album was released free of charge due to "corporate underwriting". A "special edition" hard copy version of the album was scheduled for...
(2010) and Love: Part Two
Love: Part Two
-Personnel:Band*Tom DeLonge – vocals, rhythm guitar, producer*David Kennedy – lead guitar*Matt Wachter – bass, synthesizers*Atom Willard – drums, percussion, programming-Charts:...
(2011). The project also resulted in the documentary film Start the Machine (2008). In 2011, the group released the science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
film Love, accompanying the aforementioned albums and directed by William Eubank
William Eubank
William Eubank is an American film director, cinematographer and director of photography. For his 2011 feature film Love, in addition to directorial and director of photography duties, Eubank also served as production designer, a combination of skillsets noted in the film's review in...
, in 460 theatres nationwide during their multimedia event, Love Live
Angels & Airwaves Presents Love Live
Angels & Airwaves Presents Love Live was a one-night film screening and live-streamed concert that took place at 8:00pm ET on August 10, 2011 in 480 movie theatres across the United States and presented by the international rock multimedia project Angels & Airwaves.Over 480 theatres hosted the...
. Tom Delonge has said in an interview that the band is working on two new films with two studio albums.
Influences and themes
The group has been described by Delonge as more than a band but more accurately "an art projectArt group
An art group refers to an association of artists who may work communally, for the purpose of facilitating the creation of art, either that belonging to the individual, or the collective....
[that approaches] larger human themes
Theme (literature)
A theme is a broad, message, or moral of a story. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and are almost always implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with plot, character,...
and tackles them in different mediums
Media (communication)
In communications, media are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data...
", or simply "a multimedia project". This has been seen in the group's films, live events, and novel approach to fan-artist interaction.
On the first two albums, the band state that they are mainly influenced by the music of Radiohead
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
and Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
, combining them with the grandiosity of U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
. On the first album, Tom Delonge stated that the album would be "the best music in generations", but afterwards admitted that during this time he had addiction to painkillers. Love albums show further blending of the band's musical aspirations of epic and grandiosity and the cultural revolution in the digital era.
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 hiatus 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, Tom 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 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!Kerrang!
Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on June 6, 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper...
magazine, where he unveiled the name of his new band, "Angels & Airwaves". The band included former Hazen Street
Hazen Street
Hazen Street is a supergroup that formed in early 2004.The band features Freddy Cricien and Hoya of New York hardcore band Madball; Toby Morse of hardcore band H2O; David Kennedy of post-hardcore band Box Car Racer, hardcore punk band Over My Dead Body, and later neo-progressive rock band Angels &...
guitarist and high-school friend David Kennedy
David Kennedy (guitarist)
David James Kennedy is an American guitarist, songwriter and performer. He currently plays guitar for the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves....
, former Rocket from the Crypt
Rocket from the Crypt
Rocket from the Crypt was an American rock band led by John Reis, formed in 1989 in San Diego, California and disbanded in 2005.The band gained critical praise and the attention of major record labels after the release of their 1992 album Circa: Now!, leading to a recording contract with Interscope...
drummer Atom Willard
Atom Willard
Adam David Willard , known professionally by the pseudonym Atom, is an American drummer who has been a member of several notable musical acts. Willard's drumming career began in 1990 when he joined Rocket from the Crypt, whom he remained with until 2000...
and former The Distillers
The Distillers
The Distillers were an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1998. They released their first two albums on Hellcat Records/Epitaph Records before moving to Sire, part of the Warner Music Group. The Distillers were originally formed by Australian-born Brody Armstrong , a woman with a...
bassist Ryan Sinn
Ryan Sinn
Ryan Sinn is the former bassist for the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves and The Distillers, but has joined Love Equals Death, after Dominic Davi's departure...
. Atom Willard told Shave Magazine
Shave (magazine)
Shave is both a print and online men's-lifestyle magazine created by Shave Media Group. Shave also syndicates content through news portals, such as MSN....
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."
First albums and artistic development: 2005–2009
Soon after forming, the band began recording their debut album in Tom's studio in California from mid 2005 to early 2006. However, after a fan e-mail hacked Tom 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, they released their first album, We Don't Need to WhisperWe Don't Need to Whisper
We Don't Need to Whisper is the debut album by American rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was released on May 20, 2006 in Australia, on May 22 in the UK, and on May 23 in North America....
on May 23, 2006. The album reached 4th on the Billboard 200, and went gold in both the US and Canada. Contrary to this success, critics had generally mixed reviews, with one critic 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
It Hurts
"It Hurts" is the second single in Europe by Angels & Airwaves' from the debut album We Don't Need to Whisper. A short-film for this song was released on April 18 on the Angels & Airwaves official website, which continues where the video for "The Adventure" left off. During the time of its first...
". The remainder of the year into 2007 consisted of tours, and in early 2007, the supergroup retreated to the studio to work on the follow-up.
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.[5] Matt Wachter (former bassist of 30 Seconds to Mars), filled in for the show and was later confirmed as a permanent member.
The new album, titled I-Empire
I-Empire
I-Empire is the second studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was officially released worldwide on November 6, 2007 from the Angels & Airwaves website, where it was available for download...
and the first song "Everything's Magic
Everything's Magic
"Everything's Magic" is the second track and first single from Angels & Airwaves' second studio album I-Empire. It was released on October 29, 2007. However, the track was leaked by KROQ-FM on August 25. The song reached as high as #2 on the iTunes Rock chart on September 12, 2007...
" 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
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
profile on August 28, 2007. It also became available on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
, 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 shot the video for the single on January 20 and 21, and it premiered on MTV2 Unleashed on February 25, 2008. The band came out with a third single, "Breathe", that was released onto the internet June, 20.
Angels & Airwaves performed at every location on Warped Tour 2008
Warped Tour 2008
Warped Tour 2008 was the 2008 installment of the annual Summer Warped Tour music festival. Vans Shoes was again the tour's primary sponsor.-Main stage:*The Academy Is...*Against Me! *All That Remains...
. They also underwent a Fall tour in support of Weezer
Weezer
Weezer is an American alternative rock band. The band currently consists of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Brian Bell , and Scott Shriner . The band has changed lineups three times since its formation in 1992...
.
Multimedia projects: 2009–2011
The band took a break from performing in 2009 while Tom Delonge reunited with Blink-182Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...
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 their next album. Love
Love (Angels & Airwaves album)
Love is the third studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was released on February 12, 2010 on Fuel TV, and on February 14 on Modlife. The album was released free of charge due to "corporate underwriting". A "special edition" hard copy version of the album was scheduled for...
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
Fuel TV
Fuel TV is a U.S. cable and satellite specialty channel that launched on July 1, 2003. It focuses on the cultures of such extreme sports as skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding, motocross, surfing, BMX and FMX. It is a unit of Fox Cable Networks and is currently available to 26-million...
also released it two days earlier for Modlife
Modlife
Modlife is a website that connects fans with bands, artists and personalities using live video broadcasts, text messaging, video blogs, mobile updating and twitter feeds. Modlife's goal is to reward loyal fans and to create a new revenue stream for content creators through a high level of...
members, along with Mark Hoppus' remix of Hallucinations available to those who donated when downloading the album. 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. The first single from the album, "Hallucinations," was made available for free through the band's Modlife on December 23, 2009. The band have also released the video via Modlife on March 7, 2010.
The band toured North America, starting March 27 in Anaheim, CA. The tour wrapped up 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 will be another tour rumored to have UK dates after the release of the Love film in the autumn, but plans were changed due to Delonge's commitments with Blink-182. "Epic Holiday" is on the soundtrack to the German film Kokowääh
Kokowääh
Kokowääh is a 2011 German film directed by Til Schweiger. It was released in German–speaking countries on 3 February 2011. The film stars Til Schweiger, his daughter Emma Tiger Schweiger, Jasmin Gerat and Samuel Finzi. Another Schweiger's daughter, Luna Schweiger, also makes a small appearance in...
with Til Schweiger
Til Schweiger
Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger is a German actor, director, and producer.He is one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers. Since 1968, when the FFA started counting, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.-Early...
.
The second studio album Love II
Love: Part Two
-Personnel:Band*Tom DeLonge – vocals, rhythm guitar, producer*David Kennedy – lead guitar*Matt Wachter – bass, synthesizers*Atom Willard – drums, percussion, programming-Charts:...
in the Love project was released on November 8, 2011. Tom has described the album as better than the first part of Love and has also confirmed that there would be a box set with the two Love albums and a DVD of the movie. The first single to be released was, "Anxiety", and was premiered following Love Live
Angels & Airwaves Presents Love Live
Angels & Airwaves Presents Love Live was a one-night film screening and live-streamed concert that took place at 8:00pm ET on August 10, 2011 in 480 movie theatres across the United States and presented by the international rock multimedia project Angels & Airwaves.Over 480 theatres hosted the...
on August 10, 2011. The music video for "Anxiety" was then released on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
on August 11, 2011. It was made available for purchase on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
on September 14, 2011.
Line-up change and Poet Anderson: 2011–present
Before the release of Love II, Tom Delonge revealed that Angels & Airwaves had already begun working on two new albums and two corresponding films. On October 4th it was announced on their Facebook page that drummer Atom Willard departed from the band. The departure seemed to be a mutual understanding and Atom thanked the members of Angels & Airwaves for a great 6 years of making music together. Also on October 7th, it was announced that Angels & Airwaves would be part of the lineup for the Soundwave Festival in Australia, over the course of February through to March in 2012. It was revealed on October 20, 2011 that Ilan RubinIlan Rubin
Ilan Rubin is an American musician, best known for being former drummer of Lostprophets & industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails during their last tour...
, famous for his work with Lostprophets
Lostprophets
Lostprophets is a Welsh rock band from Pontypridd, formed in 1997. Founded by vocalist Ian Watkins, bassist Mike Lewis, drummer Mike Chiplin and guitarist Lee Gaze, they were originally a side-project to hardcore punk band Public Disturbance. To date, Lostprophets have released four studio...
and Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
, is the new drummer of the band. According to the band's website, next in the pipeline is an album accompanying an animated film called Poet Anderson.
Films
Start the Machine is a documentary that focuses on the break-up of Blink-182Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...
, the genesis of Angels & Airwaves, and the making of their debut album We Don't Need to Whisper
We Don't Need to Whisper
We Don't Need to Whisper is the debut album by American rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was released on May 20, 2006 in Australia, on May 22 in the UK, and on May 23 in North America....
. It was released on DVD on June 17, 2008. Start the Machine was filmed over a course of almost 3 years.
Love is a science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
film directed by William Eubank
William Eubank
William Eubank is an American film director, cinematographer and director of photography. For his 2011 feature film Love, in addition to directorial and director of photography duties, Eubank also served as production designer, a combination of skillsets noted in the film's review in...
and starring Gunner Wright
Gunner Wright
Gunner Wright is an American film actor known for his role in the film Love and for "portraying" the face and voice of Isaac Clarke in the videogame Dead Space 2. Wright raced motorcycles competitively until the age of 21 when he moved to Southern California. There he began working on Fox...
that was released in a special event called Love Live
Angels & Airwaves Presents Love Live
Angels & Airwaves Presents Love Live was a one-night film screening and live-streamed concert that took place at 8:00pm ET on August 10, 2011 in 480 movie theatres across the United States and presented by the international rock multimedia project Angels & Airwaves.Over 480 theatres hosted the...
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
ISS
The ISS is the International Space Station.ISS may also refer to:* I See Stars, an American electronic rock band* ISS A/S, a Danish service company* Idea Star Singer, a Malayalam music reality show by Asianet TV...
, 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."
The band is working on a new animated movie called Poet Anderson
Graphic art
The band's albums have featured space rock images with considerable influence by work of Storm ThorgersonStorm Thorgerson
Storm Thorgerson is an English graphic designer, known for his work for rock bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, 10cc, Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, Muse, The Cranberries, and Biffy Clyro.-Biography:...
as band-members explicitly state Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
influences in their work.
The band has revealed that the Love album will be released as a double record with corresponding graphic novel.
Band members
Current members- Tom DeLongeTom DeLongeThomas Matthew "Tom" DeLonge, Jr. is an American rock musician. He is the guitarist and one of the two lead vocalists for the American pop punk band Blink-182 as well as the guitarist and lead vocalist for the alternative band Angels & Airwaves...
– lead vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, rhythmRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
and lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
(2005–present) - David KennedyDavid Kennedy (guitarist)David James Kennedy is an American guitarist, songwriter and performer. He currently plays guitar for the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves....
– leadLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
and rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
(2005–present) - Matt WachterMatt WachterMatthew Walter "Matt" Wachter is the bassist, keyboardist, and the backing vocalist in the rock band Angels & Airwaves. He was the former bassist for alternative rock group 30 Seconds to Mars, He was with the band from 2001 to 2007...
– bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
s, backing vocals (2007–present) - Ilan RubinIlan RubinIlan Rubin is an American musician, best known for being former drummer of Lostprophets & industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails during their last tour...
– drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussion (2011–present)
Former members
- Ryan SinnRyan SinnRyan Sinn is the former bassist for the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves and The Distillers, but has joined Love Equals Death, after Dominic Davi's departure...
– bass, backing vocals (2005–2007) - Adam "Atom" Willard – drums, percussion, programming (2005–2011)
Discography
- We Don't Need to WhisperWe Don't Need to WhisperWe Don't Need to Whisper is the debut album by American rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was released on May 20, 2006 in Australia, on May 22 in the UK, and on May 23 in North America....
(2006) - I-EmpireI-EmpireI-Empire is the second studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was officially released worldwide on November 6, 2007 from the Angels & Airwaves website, where it was available for download...
(2007) - LoveLove (Angels & Airwaves album)Love is the third studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was released on February 12, 2010 on Fuel TV, and on February 14 on Modlife. The album was released free of charge due to "corporate underwriting". A "special edition" hard copy version of the album was scheduled for...
(2010) - Love: Part TwoLove: Part Two-Personnel:Band*Tom DeLonge – vocals, rhythm guitar, producer*David Kennedy – lead guitar*Matt Wachter – bass, synthesizers*Atom Willard – drums, percussion, programming-Charts:...
(2011)
Awards
- MTV Video Music AwardsMTV Video Music AwardsAn MTV Video Music Award , is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in music videos...
- Nominated: Best New Artist in a VideoMTV Video Music Award for Best New ArtistThe MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist is one of the four original general categories that have been given out since the first annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984...
(2006) for "The AdventureThe Adventure"The Adventure" is a song by American alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves and the lead single from their 2006 debut album, We Don't Need to Whisper. It was also the first full song to be heard by fans. "The Adventure" entered the UK singles chart at its peak position, #20.The song received...
" - Nominated: Best Special Effects in a VideoMTV Video Music Award for Best Special EffectsThe following is a list of MTV Video Music Awards winners for Best Special Effects in a Video....
(2006) for "The Adventure" - Nominated: Best Editing in a VideoMTV Video Music Award for Best EditingThe following is a list of MTV Video Music Awards winners for Best Editing in a Video. Five artists are tied for the record of biggest winner in this category, each having won the award twice: Peter Gabriel, R.E.M., Madonna, The White Stripes, and Gnarls Barkley. The latter two, in fact, won...
(2006) for "The Adventure" - Nominated: Best Band of 2006 (2006) for "We Don't Need To Whisper"