Blink & Airwaves

Angels & Airwaves

Angels and Airwaves is a solo project created by blink-182 guitarist, Tom DeLonge. His friend and former Box Car Racer member David Kennedy, Offspring drummer Atom Willard and Distillers former bass-player Ryan Sinn are also members of Angels and Airwaves. According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office DeLonge trademarked “Angels and Airwaves” on June 24, 2005 amidst the lingering confusion of blink-182’s abruptly announced hiatus. Although no specific release date for an album has been set, DeLonge claims that his new project will be “the best music made in decades” as well as being “much more powerful, emotional and melodic than Box Car and blink put together”.

In an interview with British magazine Kerrang! DeLonge commented about the band’s beginning: “Just before all the blink-182 shit happened when we were in Europe, I had a really weird epiphany. My heart was beating about a hundred miles a minute for three weeks straight and it had never happened to me before in my life. I really felt like I’d been touched by something and I felt I was meant to do something massive.”

In addition to the corresponding release of the album, the band is currently working on a movie involving the band’s music. The World War II-based movie is being created primarily through the use of CGI. This “story” is apparently based upon Tom’s life and will give viewers insight into the hiatus of blink-182. Currently, the only known cast member is Michael Ostman.

Originally, “Valkyrie Missile” was slated for release iTunes on December 13, 2005, DeLonge’s 30th birthday. However, due to discussions with their record label, Geffen, the band decided to push the release date back to a later date. Instead, the Angels and Airwaves website produced the first ever glimpse at the movie currently in production, a 1-and-a-half minute long trailer featuring portions of the delayed song.

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.

On May 26, 2006 “We Don’t Need To Whisper” was certified gold in Canada. The album has also gone silver in the U.K.