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Angels And Wetshaves
Gli Angels
And Wetshaves sono un gruppo nato per scherzo che ha fatto una canzone
intitolata Good Shave prendendo come testo quello di Good Day modificandolo un
po'.
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qui per scaricare Good Shave.
Good Shave
It should have come back
It should have grown better
Than to fall away defeated
I'll shave it tonight, I'll shave it forever
And this time I really swear I mean it
Oh I need you now
You grew fast on me,
This beard is safe and sound
You won't stay here with me
I'll shave it...
I think I like to shave
I think it's good
It's something that can make my hair fall down
A moustache is something that comes easy
Just one kiss, but then no one wants to...
I heard my hair drop and a nervous heartbeat
Have you ever heard me scream "I cut me"
Oh I need you now
You grew fast on me,
This beard is safe and sound
You won't stay here with me
I'll shave it...
I think I like to shave
I think it's good
It's something that can make my hair fall down
Dadah da dah dah dadadah [x8]
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About We Don't Need To Whisper
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Tom on the cover of Guitar World
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DeLonge regroups with A & A
TORONTO - Tom DeLonge torn and frayed would be no surprise. So, when the
ex-frontman for California punk-rock sensations Blink-182 blew through town last
week to unveil his new band, Angels & Airwaves, and play a sold-out gig at the
Phoenix Concert Theatre, he caused onlookers to do a double-take when he showed
up at The Brasserie in Toronto's entertainment district garbed in a chic,
chocolate coloured ensemble, complete with Fly-era Bono sunglasses, and hair
that was neatly gelled and parted to one side.
The way guitarist David Kennedy looks at it goes like this. Early last year,
with Blink's future in doubt, DeLonge was at a crossroads. "When everything went
off with Tom and his last band, he gave me a call," says Kennedy, who was the
guitarist in DeLonge and Blink drummer Travis Barker's other side project, Box
Car Racer. "We just started talking about life, trying to figure out what to do
and where to go. We wanted to be in a healthy environment, a creative
environment and a drama, ego-free environment.
"At the time I had gone through a lot of stuff with a different band and I
decided I didn't want to make music if I couldn't do it exactly the way I wanted
to do it. And having the same values, the same goals and the same agenda as Tom,
it seemed like this would be a healthy, exciting environment to get involved
with."
The pair having been friends since high school, Kennedy suggested the
30-year-old singer-songwriter give a call to ex-Distillers bassist, Ryan Sinn.
Having played in the same circles as DeLonge and Kennedy, fellow Californian,
Atom Willard (drummer for the Offspring), was offered a spot behind the drum
kit.
With Blink lying in tatters, Angels & Airwaves were born.
Moving production to Never Pants Ranch and the Foo Fighters' Studio 606, DeLonge
and his new associates began recording the group's debut - "We Don't Need To
Whisper" - in mid-2005. But having already conquered the worlds of pop and punk
(Blink has sold in excess of 20 million records worldwide, won an array of MTV
awards and sold out arenas across the globe), the quartet wanted A & A to be
anything but a rehashing of the million-riffs-per-second DeLonge had already
proven he could play.
"As much as I might have liked Blink, I could've never played in that band,"
Kennedy says, sipping from a cup of Orange Pekoe. "That didn't speak to me.
That's not my silly kind of personality. Now, instead of being one thing, we can
be what everyone is, which is humorous, which is serious, which is dramatic. The
emotions everyone goes through in their everyday life, we can be all of that."
Gazing down on the late-afternoon lunch crowd seated below, Willard nods in
agreement. "That's the beauty of being in a new band. People aren't going to be
saying, 'I can't wait to go to the show tonight and laugh.' Some nights Tom can
be serious and I can guarantee you he's going to say some shit that's going to
make you think. So it's nice not to have those preconceived ideas. Whatever we
want to be, we can be."
It was understood that if the foursome were going to take part in creating
something new and completely different from what their fans were used to, A & A
could and would frolic amidst a variety of sounds.
Whether it's the way they emote "Do It For Me Now," which takes on the same
grandeur of Pink Floyd sans Roger Waters, the way they swoop through arena-ready
songs like "Distraction" and "The War," or the way they let Larry Mullen-like
drums and Edge-sounding guitars unfold on "Valkyrie Missile," A and A's debut
trades Blink's punk-friendly sounds for epic rock stylings that mine the same
terrain as U2 and Queen.
"The music was more than the tempo or the notes," Willard says. "It's about this
feeling that it evokes."
Kennedy sets his cup down on the table alongside an ornate teapot before
settling back into the bar's expansive couch. "We've already done what we've
done before," he allows matter-of-factly. "But at this point, we all wanted to
do something that spoke to where we were at personally. If we were going to do
music, we were all like, 'I don't want to do something I've already done.' A lot
of music right now is rehashing a lot of older stuff. Not that that's bad, but I
just wanted to be part of creating something new."
"Nobody in this band is trying to deny anybody's past," he continues. "Everyone's
excited and proud of what we've done. But we're coming from there," he says
pointing across the room, "and this is where we're going," his hands now planted
firmly at his side. "That's really what this all is."
Willard slouches back, his head and tattooed arms basking in the early afternoon
sun. "Here was an opportunity to do something with people who were all so
likeminded from the ground up," he says gesturing. "It was like the stars were
all perfectly aligned. With his musical past, I never would have looked at David
and gone, 'That guy's gonna like the same music I want to play.' But we all came
together in this one room and everything else just kind of washed away."
With the album having hit shelves, listeners (many of whom got a jump start on
the record's street date after songs were leaked onto the Internet) have kept an
open mind. "Hopefully, any anticipation of what we're going to sound like has
stemmed from what people have already heard or seen from the band. I'd like to
think that all the anticipation or lead-up has kind of been from what we've
already put out."
"I hope people aren't saying, 'Oh, here's these guys who were in other bands and
now they're in this new band. I wonder what they sound like.'"
Perhaps tired of having to qualify DeLonge's new project to a spate of anonymous
tape recorders, Willard says the record goes beyond anything any of them have
done before, uncovering emotional truths that will resonate decades from now.
Positivity, believing in yourself and going after your dreams narrate the
album's 10 tracks. "It's really about making yourself happy," Willard offers
with a smile. "What could be better with your life and how do you make that
better? These are the kinds of things we want people to ask themselves."
Kennedy knows that A & A have the blessing and curse that goes along with
already-made stardom. So, he'll put up with the band's political-style
campaigning as DeLonge weans Blink's fans to this new project. "It's pretty much
what you do when you want to start a rock band," he quips. "But it's only worth
it if it's going to be original. I'd rather be a failure, and be original, than
be successful and a copycat."
And though he likes DeLonge's adolescent antics as much as the next guy, Kennedy
feels invigorated by his new role in A and A. Laughing as he recounts how
DeLonge will still veer off into "some funny directions sometimes," the
guitarist says the group's message is the perfect antidote for apathy.
"Despite whatever situation you're in, tomorrow can still be the best day of
your life," he says seriously. "I like communicating the idea that I might not
be in a good mood now, but I'm going to be...even if I have to wait until next
week."
Angels & Airwaves will appear alongside Taking Back Sunday at the Molson
Amphitheatre in Toronto on July 5.
- Mark Daniell (Canoe.ca
- JAM! Music)
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Tom DeLonge Chat
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Thanks to Angels and Airwaves, Tom DeLonge’s
moved on from Blink 182
Angels and Airwaves' members didn't pick the band's moniker because its acronym,
AVA, is also the name of singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge's daughter. (For the
record: The "V" comes from the "A" in "and"-upside-down.) But it didn't hurt.
Nicknaming a rock band after a baby daughter? Sounds like the 30-year-old
guitarist of now-defunct Blink 182 is growing up. DeLonge says he hasn't spoken
to fellow former Blinkers Mark Hoppus or Travis Barker since the band's breakup.
But, despite his decision to quit and devote more time to his family, DeLonge
says he was "losing his mind" after doing so. But his latest project seems to
have cleared his head. Angels and Airwaves' debut album, "We Don't Need to
Whisper," delivers a gargantuan sound, and DeLonge is delighting in the
opportunity to speak-and sing-his mind, even rambling about politics in
interviews, something the Blink guys weren't too keen on.
While DeLonge scrambled to leave New York for a Philadelphia tour date, metromix
tried to understand what Angels and Airwaves means to him.
If you had a reality show like Travis' "Meet the Barkers," what would you
call it?
"Attention Deficit Disorder." "Wannabe Van Gogh." Some guy that's artistically
going crazy in his head.
I really, really almost lost my mind making this album. I had this thing inside
me, where I really felt this energy and saw this world, and I really had an
appetite to do something positive and wonderful with music, and to achieve it.
It's not easy. I had an intervention by my management. They sat me down and
they're like, "What is wrong with you?" I'm in my backyard, I've got tears in my
eyes, and I just go: "F**k! I can't sleep, I can't breathe, I'm having these
panic attacks because there's so much in my head that I want to get out."
And I looked at them and I said, "But this kind of craziness is exactly what's
going to make this record truly great, and I don't know how to describe it to
anybody."
The album's sound is so big, it seems like it's supposed to be listened to in
space.
I guess that was the only way it could sound for what I was going after. We
definitely went after this kind of a futurism, of an endless hope of space. No
one knows what's out there, and there's infinite possibility out there.
Too bad I wasn't able to travel to space to listen to it.
I promise you that if you smoke a joint and put some headphones on, you might
actually get there.
I'll keep that in mind. You've also said you're hoping to give people chills,
like John Cusack's boombox scene in "Say Anything."
Yeah, it's pretty much that kind of idea, absolutely. I think everyone has had
those moments where you're watching a movie or listening to a song, and the
right thing happens at the right moment, and you get those chills. This whole
record was about creating that feeling all the way through.
We all came from situations that we wish could have been better in their own
right. And we're all pretty sick of the way things have been in the world for
the past few years.
I think we're also at that age where we're becoming a little bit more socially
aware and politically conscious. I have my second kid on the way; my brother
fought in the war; my dad has leukemia; so it's like everywhere I turn, things
need to be better.
This whole record really is about this conflict and this tug of war between love
and war. If you're in a situation you don't want to be in, how to find a light
at the end of the tunnel.
How will you feel about your kids seeing you naked in a video [for Blink
182's "What's My Age Again?"]?
My daughter is three-and-a-half, and she does that already; she runs around
naked. Everyone just looks at her and goes, 'Dude, that's so your daughter.' If
you can make millions of dollars doing it, then you can.
So you're in favor of running around naked, as long as it's on TV?
As long as you're getting paid for it, then I absolutely support it.
- Matt Pais (Metromix.com)
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Former Blink singer calls album 'beginning
of something completely new.'
Tom DeLonge isn't crazy. He's just super-psyched about his new band, Angels &
Airwaves.
And he doesn't care who knows it, which is why — on the day A&A's debut album,
We Don't Need to Whisper, hits stores — he's turned into a human
quote-machine, delivering head-scratching gems like this one:
"When we were making this record, I remember one night, it was about 2 a.m. and
I went into the studio — which was in my house — and it was pitch black and I
put the record on and listened to it, and I had this overwhelming rush of
emotions," he said. "I was like, 'Oh my God, this is going to be huge,' and I
started having these panic attacks thinking about every country in the world
wanting us there multiple times. Conquering the globe is a pretty large endeavor."
You can't blame the dude for being excited. After all, Whisper has been
an endeavor almost a year in the making, and in the time since he first
announced he was starting the record, he's been peppering the media with
statements of its sheer awesomeness. And now his fans will be able to have a
listen.
"People ask me, 'Is this the next Box Car Racer album?,' and I say, 'Kind of.'
And people ask me if this is the next Blink record, and I say, 'Kind of.' But
it's also the beginning of something completely new," DeLonge laughed. "This
band contains an inner energy and a spiritual awakening that's kind of magical.
And it's so full of positive energy that I think that whoever comes to the shows
or listens to the album and wants to become a part of it, it will happen to them.
I think it's going to be a sort of magical, organic thing that happens with
anybody that is willing to have that kind of feeling in their life."
A&A made their worldwide debut in April at the Glass House in Pomona,
California, and next month they'll launch an assault on the arenas of America
alongside Taking Back Sunday.
So what can fans expect when they come to an Angels show? Well, given that we're
asking Tom DeLonge, you probably can guess the answer.
"These shows have been incredible. ... They're so much different than Blink
shows," he said. "They're anthemic and heroic. There's a huge group of people
coming to feel the exact same thing at the exact same minute. And it really
feels like an ascension to heaven. People are lifting off the ground. There are
people crying, and there are these battle flags flying in the wind. It's
incredible."
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Clicca qui per scaricare We Don't Need To Whisper (Japan Retail).
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Clicca qui per scaricare Do It For Me Now (Live), una bonus track dell'album degli Angels And Airwaves We Don't Need To Whisper.
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Clicca qui (PunkDisasters.com) o qui (kcx182) per scaricare la performance degli Angels And Airwaves su BBC Radio 1.
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Clicca qui per scaricare la performance degli Angels And Airwaves su 91X.
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Gli Angels And Airwaves saranno sul divano del Gonzo Show su MTV2 UK venerdì alle 7pm BST.
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C'è una nuova versione di Valkyrie Missile sulla pagina MySpace degli Angels And Airwaves. Clicca qui per scaricarla.
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Angels And Airwaves live at Give It A Name Festival
Clicca qui per scaricare il video di Down.
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Intervista agli Angels and Airwaves
Angels And Airwaves - There Is at the Ballroom.
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Gli Angels And Airwaves sono stati oggi su XFM Radio a Londra. Hanno suonato tre canzoni e fatto un'intervista.
The Adventure
It Hurts
Do It For Me Now
Intervista
Clicca qui per scaricare.
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We Don't Need To Whisper review by TeenSpot
Tom Delonge, from Blink 182, spoke to us recently
about his new music project, Angels and Airwaves.
TeenSpot: First of all, could you give us a short background of all your
bandmates, since you all come from different bands?
Tom Delonge: Yeah, uh, David Kennedy was in Boxcar Racer with me. He was
also in a couple hardcore bands (Built To Last and Hazen Street), Ryan Sinn was
in The Distillers, and Adam Willard was Rocket From The Crypt and he was
actually playing with The Offspring a little bit before, but I don’t think he is
actually a former member of the band or not.
TS: How did you meet one another?
TD: Well, obviously I knew David from Boxcar and he introduced me to Ryan…
I really vibed well with him before, I guess, and we needed a bass player, and
he was like “Dude, you gotta meet this dude named Ryan. He’s a really good dude,
just a good dude, you know?” Ah, met up with him, Adam called me. I knew Adam
from some acquaintances and he called me as well. You know, it’s interesting too
because I see how a lot of different people, well, not a lot, but a good handful
of people, called me from big established bands… some of them have sold millions
of records, you know, I was really actually honored that these people wanted to
do this with me. At the end of the day, after I talked to everybody and went
through all of the motions of doing what I needed to do to figure out who I
wanted to do this with, all of these guys ended up being the very first people I
talked to, which I think is a testament to how much faith played in this stuff.
Everything with Angels and Airwaves has happened so perfectly and beautifully
that uh, it’s so funny that we keep saying, “Hey, it’s Angels and Airwaves… it’s
going to work out fine,” because it keeps doing that it seems like, so, yeah.
TS: How and why did you make the decision to start a new band?
TD: Oh, well, you know I wasn’t doing the Blink thing and I needed to do
something with music and I was at a point in my life where it was really
important for me to feel good again. I wanted to do something positive. I wanted
to do something different than everything else that was happening in music where
music seemed to be being used as a catalyst to show off how angry you were or
how depressed you are and it just wasn’t exciting to me to hear that anymore. So
what I decided to do was create an autobiographical story about me finding and
creating a new life for myself and my family, and a new world and using the band
almost is more experimenting to record a series of emotions rather than just
trying to record some catchy pop songs. It really became this grand, artistic
experiment that ended up being a lot of fun and really enlightening along the
way.
TS: Was it awkward adjusting to playing with new people, on and off
stage?
TD: You know what, oddly enough it wasn’t. I thought it would be. I
thought that because a band is so much of a family and it takes so long to
really get to know each other and to mesh musically with other musicians. It is
something that takes a long time to where you can really read each other and
everyone kind of does… they do what they do and you can kind of predict it at
the time or whatever. With Angels it really didn’t take long at all. It really
feels like we were playing for a decade. I’ve never really played with other
musicians besides who was in Blink with me so I was expecting it to be a lot
more difficult, but like I said, everything in the band is so meant to be. There
has not been any obstacles, there hasn’t been one. Everything has just happened.
It’s also the way we look at things too, we are very much all into this for the
same reason where we don’t seem obstacles ever. We always look for every little
perfect thing that must have happened to make it what it is. We don’t really see
anything negative. It’s been a pretty great way to realize how you see the world
as well.
TS: What do you draw on for song writing inspiration in Angles & Airwaves,
and how does that differ from previous projects?
TD: Well, usually I write something on guitar and try to fit something
lyrically over it and work at it to make it the best song it can be, which is
obviously, probably a normal process for a lot of musicians. On this record we
would do something where we would dim the lights, close all of the blinds in the
studio, I’d put up Stanley Kubrick’s 2010 on the TV, I’d openly past a bunch of
black and white photos from World War II of these cities burning and mothers
rushing their infants out of a war zone or whatever and then I would write a
love song. You end up having a song that represents a really confusing array of
emotions where there is this endless hope of space, but the ugliest and darkest
side of mankind in the worst war in history, and then writing a love song which
represents the best thing that humans can do with one another, you know, and it
was that kind of idea… it was that kind of environment and atmosphere that we
created this record. We really tried to put ourselves in a landscape and create
a music that was very cinematic in its feel.
TS: Any particular bands you're into these days? What's on your iPod?
TD: Ah, I have a lot of different stuff on there. Obviously the cool
bands from The Arcade Five to The Cure, I listen to a lot, but you know, I
honestly seem to… I keep going back to a bunch of the same stuff from David
Bowie to Peter Gabriel to U2 to The Cure, I already said The Cure, I guess. I
don’t know, a lot of that kind of stuff. I’m really not into the cool,
underground, indie rock stuff anymore. I used to really want to like it a lot
more than I really did, but last year I just… I’m just not into it anymore. I
really only like timeless, classic music these days.
TS: How do you feel about music, technology, and sites like MySpace?
TD: I think it’s great! I think it’s a great vehicle to be in a real time
conversation with your fans. I think that’s why it’s so big. I think that is
something that was completely needed for a long time and now bands can talk
directly to their fans or can always hear what they’re thinking or saying and I
think it’s… I think it’s going to change a lot of how bands discover what their
fans are thinking.
TS: Would you call this album your best work yet?
TD: Absolutely! I have been fortunate enough though where every album I’ve
done I’ve seen a lot of improvement. I think a lot of artists would judge their
improvement with different parameters, but with myself I have always determined
things that are more complicated or try to make things more artistic and over
people’s heads. It’s just in terms of songwriting and presenting the art itself,
this record is so deep and has so many layers and was so emotional in its making
that I can’t get sick of it. I just know… you get a feeling. I just know that I’ve
done the best work of my life on this record.
TS: Are you guys currently touring or planning on?
TD: Yeah, we leave in like a week, actually. Pretty soon we leave in a
week and then we’re going to be gone off and on for the next two or three years
probably.
TS: If you could tour with any band, from any period in time (i.e. 1960's
band) who would it be?
TD: Ummmmm, I would love to tour with, ah…. anyone with Pink Floyd to U2
to The Police would have been a lot of fun. The Cure, too. I could actually see
that happening, haha, you know?
TS: Rolling Stones?
TD: Ah, I like the Stones, but I’m not really a big fan of them that much,
you know. I don’t like just normal rock stuff, it doesn’t really appeal to me.
TS: Do you guys have any whacky requests in your ryder?
TD: Ah, you know what? We just started putting it together so I highly
doubt there is anything crazy in it yet, but I’m sure it will find its way. Once
you get on the road is when you discover what you need to keep yourself
entertained. You know, like on the Blink ryder we always had an assortment of
architecture and science magazines and lesbian themes, adult magazines as well.
And then a movie chosen by the person buying it… they can go to Blockbuster and
pick out any movie and sometimes we get the weirdest, stupidest shit and other
times we’d just get Gladiator every day, for like a week.
TS: What's the story with Blink 182? Are you guys broken up? Is there
ever going to be another Blink 182 album?
TD: There’s never an official anything because I don’t think anything can
see what the future holds. I would be honored to play with those guys again…
they’re amazing in every which way and I miss them so much, but at this point in
my life I’m so happy, and I’m so, so… far along in my art and my process and
this is my life. Angels and Airwaves is my band, which is why I’m staying for
eternity. What the future holds with doing something with those guys down the
road… you know, who knows? This is what I’m going to be forever.
TS: Where are you right now? I hear some stuff in the background…
TD: I’m in a car, driving.
TS: Oh, alright… so, what's this I hear about a Angles & Airwaves film?
TD: Well, the film is basically a… we’re using it as a vehicle to help
describe the depth of the record. It is very complex in its emotional reasoning.
Just like architecture alone, the way the story unfolds from the beginning to
the end, it’s just a hard thing for people to understand and grasp. I don’t
think it’s a thing people need to understand and grasp, I think it’s one of
those records that you can buy and like anyway. For the people that are
interested in having a complete Angels and Airwaves experience, the movie is
going to be that vehicle and I think it’s something that rock and roll needs
right now. I think bands need to reinvest in their art and do something more
exciting and interesting and that’s what we’re doing. I think Angels and
Airwaves is the first band to try and use new media in all avenues of technology
to enhance and bare art and create a much grander experience.
TS: So .... why should everyone buy this album?
TD: Well, I can’t tell you that everyone should, but I can tell you that
if there is anybody out there in the world that put as much emotion and passion
and heart into any piece of art to challenge the way I view the world or myself,
I would be super excited to be a part of it. I’m at a point in my life too where
I don’t give a fuck about the punk scene or what’s cool or uncool. I really
respect people that go out of their way to try and do something to make me a
better human being or actually make me have a little bit of an escape on a
normal, everyday kind of life, and that’s really what I have created. If people
want to surrender just a little bit and be a part of it then I truthfully think
that they will have a great, great experience. It’s something that is spiritual
and something that is deeper than what they’re used to with just normal rock and
roll.
TS: Anything else you'd like to say to your fans?
TD: I would like to say, “Hello,” and I will see you in space when they
come to the show.
-
Aaron Kalsnes (TeenSpot.com)
Audio:
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l'intera intervista!
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Tour degli AvA in America con i Taking Back Sunday
2006/06/22 Six Flags- Great Adventure, Jackson, NJ
2006/06/23 Nassau Colesium, Uniondale, NY
2006/06/24 Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA
2006/06/25 Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ
2006/06/27 Chevrolet Amphitheatre, Pittsburgh, PA
2006/06/29 Meadow Brook, Rochester Hills, MI
2006/06/30 Charter One Pavillion, Chicago, IL
2006/07/01 The Eagles Club, Milwaukee, WI
2006/07/03 Plain Dealer Pavilion, Cleveland, OH
2006/07/05 Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON, Canada
2006/07/07 Meriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
2006/07/08 Harbor Center Pavilion, Portsmouth, VA
006/07/09 Verizon Wireless, Charlotte, NC
2006/07/10 Gwinnett Arena, Duluth, GA
2006/07/12 Pompano Beach Amphitheater, Pompano Beach, FL
2006/07/13 TO BE ANNOUNCED, Tampa, FL
2006/07/15 Reliant Arena, Houston, TX
2006/07/16 Nokia Theatre, Grand Praire, TX
2006/07/18 Mesa Amphitheatre, Mesa, AZ
2006/07/21 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2006/07/22 ARCO Arena, Sacramento, CA
2006/07/23 Bayside Concerts, San Diego, CA
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Clicca qui per ordinare il singolo di The Adventure su Amazon.com.
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The Adventure on MTV
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Clicca qui per scaricare il video di it hurts degli Angels and Airwaves
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Ecco altri video live degli AvA:
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C'è una video-visita dello studio prove degli Angels And Airwaves e quasi 100 foto di esso su Macbeth All Access.
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Clicca qui per scaricare un video di The War al Chain Reaction (Anaheim, California - 2006.04.13).
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Tom DeLonge Addresses Blink With A Song At First A&A Show
Singer/guitarist shows depth
in new band's first show but can't help squeezing in a butt joke.
POMONA, California — Tom DeLonge debuted his new band, Angels & Airwaves,
on Wednesday, and while there were no fart jokes, there was plenty of rock &
roll, heart & soul and even a little Blink & Box Car.
And, to answer the first question Blink-182 fans are dying to know, the singer/guitarist
did acknowledge the anomalous breakup of his potty-mouthed former band.
"Think about this sh--," DeLonge told the capacity Glass House crowd near the
end of Angels & Airwaves' hour-long set. "There's a time in your life where you're
not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not
perfect. ... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in
the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing
anything in life, you can do it. ... The last year in my life was a complete
change, and I know a lot of you are wondering what happened. I'm not going to
tell you, but this song is called 'Restart the Machine.' "
DeLonge then tore into the song about moving on and craving change, addressing
the Blink situation in the manner he saw fit.
As for those curious fans, since only one Angels song has surfaced, their second
question would probably be, what does this new band sound like? And there are a
few answers.
DeLonge's got the kind of voice that if you put a klezmer band behind him, he
would sound the same. So it's certainly Blink-esque but more emo (he even looked
the part, with his Izod polo over black long sleeves), industrial and stadium
rock.
And with that said about DeLonge's voice, it was shocking to hear how similar he
sounds to Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst when singing more emotive tunes over tragic
melodies.
The songs also had giant choruses that only half-worked for fans hearing them
for the first time but could someday have the same sort of profound effect as
most of U2's library.
Wednesday's show, which featured an opening set from energetic dance punks the
Pink Spiders, got off to an odd start when the lights dimmed and the crowd began
chanting "A-V-A," apparently the common interpretation of the band's logo
hanging above the stage. (Since when has V represented "and"?)
The first sounds came from an organ track, setting the tone for a set that
featured background tracks on nearly every song. Bursts of Nine Inch Nails-like
distortion began interrupting the music, and eventually the band joined in, with
DeLonge and guitarist David Kennedy playing an infectious guitar lick.
The song, called "Valkyrie Missile" on the band's set list, set angst-driven
verses against a spacey, echoey chorus, during which DeLonge crooned, "Never say
goodbye."
From there, A&A went seamlessly into "It Hurts," which sounded like "All the
Small Things" if it were a Dashboard Confessional song. Midway through, DeLonge
took off his guitar and danced around the stage, spreading his arms and twirling
in circles.
The frontman then addressed the crowd, with a statement that mixed both his
signature humor and the outright arrogance he's displayed since announcing his
new band.
"There was some gnarly traffic coming up here, and that was bullsh--. I'm gonna
write your mayor about that sh--," DeLonge joked, before changing gears. "The
item tonight for you to learn: All that sh-- you think about when you come to a
show, whether it's punk or not punk, whether it's cool or not cool, this is a
different thing. I ask for you to do one thing tonight, and that's to feel as
best as you can possibly feel with us. This is our first show."
Reacting to the giant roar, DeLonge explained the next song, a tool he used a
few more times throughout the night.
"This song's called 'Distraction,' and I want you to picture yourself sitting in
a city, and there's these planes flying and bombs are dropping and there's fires
all around," he said. "And you turn to the girl next to you and you say, 'I will
be your distraction.' "
The song, which could almost replace the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" in the
closing scene of "Fight Club," was as epic as its explanation.
After another Angels tune, "Good Day," DeLonge promised something special and
delivered a few bars from Blink-182's "Down" that segued into A&A's first
single, "The Adventure."
"This show is not for poseurs. This is for old-school fans," DeLonge announced
to a widespread cheer after another new one, "A Little Is Enough." "I need to
remember that line. It worked."
DeLonge then played "There Is," a "song about being in love" from his
side-project Box Car Racer album, halting his singing midway through to
let the diehard fans finish out.
"Restart the Machine" and another new one followed, with a more at-ease DeLonge
joking in between songs. Before introducing the final number, "War," which
married a Papa Roach riff to an emo backdrop, the singer finally referenced a
body part.
"To think I've been on the elliptical [training machine] for months," he joked
of his exhaustion. "All it is [doing] is tuning up my butt."
Angels & Airwaves continue their inaugural tour Friday in Ventura. The band's
debut album, We Don't Need to Whisper, is due May 23.
— Corey Moss (MTV.com)
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Angels and Airwaves first show
Valkyrie Missile
It Hurts
(video)
Distraction
Good Day
Down (blink-182, Tom solo)
The Adventure
A Little's Enough
There Is (Box Car Racer, Tom solo)
Start The Machine
Do It For Me Now
The Gift
The War
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Aggiunti tutti i testi dell'album degli AvA
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Unica data in Italia: il 6 giugno al Rolling
Stone di Milano!
Gli Angels And Airwaves (abbreviato AVA), con il loro album 'We Don’t Need to
Whisper, in uscita il 19 maggio lanciano un soffio di speranza in tempi scuri.
Nella band con Tom DeLonge (ex-chitarrista dei Blink 182) ci sono il chitarrista
David Kennedy (suo compagno nei Box Car Racer), Atom Willard (ex-batterista
degli Offspring) e l’ex-bassista dei Distillers, Ryan Sinn.
A pari passo con la registrazione del disco, lo stesso Tom DeLonge sta
ambiziosamente girando un film, 'AVA' ambientato durante la seconda guerra
mondiale, che avrà come colonna sonora l'album della band. L'impostazione del
film sarà simile a quella di The Wall dei Pink Floyd.
Il bliglietto costa € 20,70 e lo potete comprare da qui e il concerto si terrà al Rolling Stone in Corso XII Marzo 32, Milano
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Cliccate qui per scaricare We Don't Need To Whisper, l'album degli AvA
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Ecco una notizia grandiosa, gli Angels and Airwaves suoneranno in Italia e in Germania, ecco le date:
- 6 giugno 2006
- Milano, Italia al Rolling Stone (i biglietti sono in vendita da mercoledì 12
aprile su
http://www.ticketone.it/)
- 10 giugno 2006 -
Berlino, Germania al Postbahnhof (i biglietti sono in vendita da mercoledì 12
aprile su
http://www.eventim.de/)
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Intervista a Tom
In
February 2005, Blink-182 cancelled its participation in a caritative concert
with the intention to make a break. A few months later, Travis Barker released
the news to Rock Mag : the Blink-182 adventure was finished. Whereas Mark and
Travis work jointly on Plus 44, it is Tom Delonge who declads first his new
project : Angels & Airwaves.
- This band, you have had the idea of the time of Blink-182?
Not, the idea came to me afterwards. Blink-182 doesn’t exist any more since 1
year now, I think that none us saw coming the end, that was a surprise for
everyone. I needed really to do something new and exciting at the time, to
rebuild me a musical career. The only thing of which I thought was to make the
album of my life, so it is what I started to do.
- Then, is We don' T need to Whisper the album of your life?
Completely, but it will be necessary that I make better afterwards. (Laughter).
In any case, it is the best album that I made until now.
- Certain elements of the album make me think of BoxCar Racer. Can we say
that Angels & Airwaves is in the continuation?
Yes, completely. But I noticed that certain people think that this album could
as well have been next Blink-182. Me I would say that it is a mixture of the 2.
It is a very personal disc, which represents for me something of special.
- When I listened to the album, I felt a epic dimension and a strong
emotional side...
Completely, the disc is not made to be a compilation of songs, but rather the
recording of various state of minds. It was thought to be opened of
interpretation and to come out again your emotions, as if you listened to a
history. The texts are centered on the love and the war, and are used like
metaphors of the life, as for example the obstacles which people meet and the
way in which they surmount them. I am very happy that you felt that, because it
is exactly what we wanted to make feel.
- As you said, there are several references to the war...
I knew, when Blink-182 finished, that I had lost my friends and the group which
I founded. It was a personal fight, I said myself from there that to communicate
what I crossed, it was necessary to show this fight on a metaphorical way. It is
for that that I refer to the war because it is something of recurring, which is
even held in this moment. It kills me that we are always in war at our time,
whereas there are fantastic things which happen like the formidable discoveries
of science. I thought that it was a good starting point for people to know what
I have in the head.
- At the time of Blink-182, you were favorable to the war in Iraq. You gave a
concert besides over there. What made you change opinion on the war?
Not, I never was for the war in Iraq. My brother fought over there, so we have
did this show to support the troops. It was for them, not for the war. I am for
the change, but I don’t understand the war. It is alarming what occurs to the
USA in this moment. I do not understand that one does not find another thing
that bombs to make change the things. Everyone should live together in harmony
rather than to make the war. I am against the bombs, but since always I am for
the change.
- I intended to say that you are working on a movie, is it true?
Yes. With Angels & Airwaves, I want to create a universe much deeper and
complexe that what was never made. It is a very futuristic concept which, I hope,
will be released in the movie theaters, but I don’t know which scale it will
have. The idea is to assemble the visual epics with a DTS 5.1 sound. We would be
the first group to do something of also ambitious. I can’t tell you more. You
know, the universe of the rock'n'roll needs to reinvent yourself. It is
necessary that the bands do something to advance the things, which they more
invest in the visual one, which is a complement of the music.
- You seem to be very implicated to this new band. Are Angels & Airwaves a
band, or the solo project of Tom Delonge?It is not a secret for anybody,
Angels & Airwaves is my baby. However it’s definitely a band, so it’s not my
solo project. I could never have made this band without the other members,
especially that I have no desire to be an artist solo, if not I would have made
the album under my own name. And then, you want that I say to you, I would be
bored to death if I was all alone. (Laughter).
- Does Atom Willard, which is drummer in AAA, always form part of Offspring?
Atom was never a true member of Offspring, he played a little with them but it
is especially a member of Rocket from the crypt. In any case, it is clear that
currently it does not play any more with Offspring, it is a permanent member of
Angels & Airwaves.
- The music of AAA peaceful and is impressed serenity. Can we say that it
reflects the man who you are currently, somebody who is filled?
Absolutely. My life is now completely different. It is more exciting and
electric than before. I have much more than this I would never have hoped. I
can’t even imagine to better want than what I have now.
- To finish, are you always in contact with Mark and Travis?
Not, I did not speak to them since a good moment.
- And did you listen to their project, Plus 44?
Yes, and I like. Mark and Travis are brilliant. Travis is an excellent musician,
probably one of best than I ever knew. What they will do will be very good, and
I know what I speak since I worked with them. (Laughter). These guys are
incredible!
PREVIEW ALBUM
We Don’t Need To Whisper, whose release date is fixed at May 23, is likely to
disconcert the fans of Blink-182. The structures are very complexe, the titles
exceed the 4 minutes and contain a big gilds of electronics. The voice of Tom
Delonge is put at the foreground, but with a tone much more serious than in the
past. The compositions are luminous and calm, with slow rises and very worked
refrains. The richness of arrangements, combined with a more accessible facet,
unquestionably makes think of the pop bands of the Eighties, in particular U2.
The complete tracklisting is as follows:
1- Valkyrie Missile (6,39)
2- Distraction (5,36)
3- It hurts (4,10)
4- Do It For Me Now (4,30)
5- The Adventure (5,09)
6- The War (5,07)
7- A Little's Enough (4,41)
8- The Gift (4,57)
9- Good Day (4,30)
10- Start The Machine (they have forgotten to talk about this song...)
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MTV.com ha aggiunto una pagina dedicata agli Angels And Airwaves. Per adesso c'è una nuova foto della band, una biografia e la possibilità di vedere il video di The Adventure.
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Clicca qui per scaricare l'intervista fatta ad Atom Willard da TomAngels.com
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E' uscita la premiere del video di The Adventure, clicca qui per scaricarlo
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Clicca qui per pre-ordinare We Don't Need To Whisper a $13,99, un dollaro in meno al prezzo di listino
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Aggiunti i testi di A Little's Enough, It Hurts e The Gift nella sezione discografia degli Angels and Airwaves e un aggiornamento della Tracklist dell'album:
Valkyrie Missile
The War
Burst
Crush
Distaction
Do It For Me Now
Start The Machine
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