Angels & Airwaves To Play Starland Ballroom On October 17th
originally published: 09/20/2021
(SAYREVILLE, NJ) -- Angels & Airwaves will headline a night at Starland Ballroom on Sunday, October 17th at 7:30pm. Tom DeLonge (founding member of Blink-182) formed the band in 2005. They are releasing Lifeforms, their first album in six years, on September 24. Bad Suns and 1990nowhere will open the night.
In 2005, when Tom DeLonge’s then-band blink 182 went on a hiatus, he formed a high concept art project dubbed Angels & Airwaves. With their first release, 2006’s We Don’t Need To Whisper, Angels & Airwaves went gold and burst onto the scene as an arena rock powerhouse that wouldn’t be limited. It's a trans-media world that can and has existed in music, in film, in books, as well as in any visual platform: DeLonge co-directed the award-winning 2014 animated short Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker, which won Best Animation at the Thess International Short Film Festival, and the band produced the 2011 movie LOVE, which won Best Musical Score at Toronto After Dark.
More than 15 years after its founding, Angels & Airwaves – now consisting of DeLonge (lead vocals, guitar/synths), Ilan Rubin (Nine Inch Nails) (drums/guitar/backing vocals/synths), David Kennedy (Box Car Racer, Hazen Street) (guitar), and Matt Rubano (Taking Back Sunday) (bass) – is preparing for the release of their first full length record since 2014’s The Dream Walker.
Lifeforms is as adventurous as it is thoughtful, both in its sonics and subject matter. It's a stepping-stone for Angels & Airwaves to have far deeper and wider conversations about that which we yet do not know. When DeLonge was a child, he was fascinated by conspiracy theories but, as he got older, he discovered more and more of the topics he was drawn to contained enormous amounts of truth.
“Even though we like to think we do, in my experience, we don't know everything,” he says. Tom says Lifeforms was the most difficult album he’s ever made, but he is now confident in the exploration it took to create it. After the release of the album will come his directorial debut in the form of a sci-fi adventure feature film titled Monsters of California.
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