From Issue #24
the Scene
Angels and Airwaves
By: Adam Grant
Flying
in from the punk rock landscape, Angels and Airwaves are finding
their wings with a new project that’s a far cry from anything
its members have previously undertaken. Featuring Tom DeLonge
(of Blink-182), Ryan Sinn (The Distillers), Atom Willard (Offspring),
and David Kennedy (Box Car Racer), A&A may appear to be a
super side project for each band mate, but that’s certainly
not the case. “If it’s thought about as a side project,
that’s definitely a misconception,” affirms guitarist
David Kennedy. “This is our own thing, it’s all we’ve
got, and this is all we want.”
Their debut album, We Don’t Need To Whisper, features
epically spacious rock tracks that clock in at between four to
six minutes each. While it may seem to have taken a while to develop
such a broad, barely mainstream-sounding album, it actually came
together quite organically. “We just started talking—where
we needed to be, ultimately in life—and by talking about
that, music started being talked about,” reflects Kennedy.
“We talked real big at the beginning amongst ourselves about
what we wanted to do. If we knew that something felt comfortable
or normal, [we thought] maybe that was the wrong direction for
it.”
The band: Angels and Airwaves, the highly anticipated
return of Blink-182 veteran Tom DeLonge.
Right now: Their debut album, We Don’t
Need To Whisper, is now in stores.
Coming up: The band takes to the road this summer, hitting
Toronto on July 5th.
