This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Angels and Airwaves have released the new song “Rebel Girl” and announced a new tour. 09/04 – Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre 09/06 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s 09/07 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues 09/09 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade 09/10 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues 09/11 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore 09/13 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore 09/14 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore 09/15 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club 09/17 – New York, NY @ PlayStation Theater 09/18 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues 09/20 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrews Hall 09/21 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues 09/22 – St. Louis, MO 2 The Pageant 09/24 – Denver, CO @ Summit 09/25 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union 09/27 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo 09/28 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater 09/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom 10/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco Theater 10/02 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues 10/04 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues 10/05 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues It’s been seven years since multi-platinum rock band ANGELS & AIRWAVES have played live and three years since they’ve released new music. The waiting ends with today’s announcement of a much-anticipated tour and the release of new track “Rebel Girl” (Rise/BMG) – click HERE to listen. “Rebel Girl” is the lead track from an upcoming Angels & Airwaves album and feature film project. It’s the band’s first new music since 2016’s Chasing Shadows EP. “Rebel Girl is a space-age love song that combines my enduring obsession for New Wave, pop punk and anthemic rock and roll music,” says lead vocalist/guitarist Tom DeLonge. “As some of you might’ve heard, I recently took a brief minute to start up an aerospace company, so you never know – I may play this song from a satellite deep in space, beamed toward everyone’s house viciously on repeat.” ANGELS & AIRWAVES (DeLonge, guitarist David Kennedy and drummer Ilan Rubin) will perform “Rebel Girl” live on September 4th when they kick off a long-awaited North American headline tour with a show at the Marquee Theatre in Phoenix, AZ (the band will be joined on tour by bassist Matt Rubano). The show will take place almost seven years to the day of their last performance, which was September 2, 2012 in Bologna, Italy. Pre-sale tickets are available for Citi card members now thru May 2 at 10pm local time via Citi’s Private Pass program. For complete pre-sale details, please visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, May 3, at 12pm local time. For additional ticket information, including VIP packages offering meet & greets and photo opps, please visit www.angelsandairwaves.com. DeLonge, a founding member of seminal pop punk band Blink-182, formed Angels & Airwaves in 2005. A year later came debut album We Don’t Need To Whisper, which hit No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and featured Top 5 modern rock hit “The Adventure.” 2007’s I-Empire followed, hitting No. 9 on The Billboard 200 and featured rock radio hit “Everything’s Magic.” In 2010, AVA released Love and a year later, Love: Part Two accompanied by a critically acclaimed film, Love, which was shown in 460 theaters nationwide during a one-night film screening and live-streamed concert event titled Love Live. The band’s last full-length album was 2014’s The Dream Walker, which hit No. 1 on iTunes and No. 5 on Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums chart. A multimedia project, the album was accompanied by a graphic novel, comic books and a Blade Runner-meets Harry Potter short film, which won Best Animation at the Toronto International Short Film Festival. In addition to his work with ANGELS & AIRWAVES, DeLonge created To The Stars, a multimedia entertainment company that creates original content across music, film, television, and publishing. To The Stars’ content plays an essential role DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a think tank of artists, scientists, intelligence officers and technology experts that explore, engineer and educate the public about unexplained scientific phenomena. DeLonge currently has a television series (“Strange Times”) in development at TBS and is executive-producing a 6 part docu-series on The History Channel titled “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.” He’ll be composing music for both. “After my kids, music has and will always be the most important thing in my life,” says DeLonge. “It’s given me everything – every opportunity and every relationship I have. There is no stronger art form than rock ‘n’ roll to deliver a galvanizing message and at the end of the day, change lives.” Expand - View Original
Real talk - what did AVA do that went multi-platinum? A cursory Google search doesn't find anything about that.
They must be considering all sales of all albums to come up with that. None of their albums individually have made it to platinum status.
Interestingly, RIAA only shows We Don’t Need to Whisper as Gold. Not sure if in other countries any Angels albums went platinum, or it’s counting blink.
Listening to The Dream Walker right now and it's probably their best record in my opinion (this is coming from someone who dislikes a majority of AVA's songs). Tracks like Mercenaries, Bullets in the Wind, The Wolfpack, Paralyzed, and Teenagers & Rituals are all A+. Hoping this new record stays on that course.
The beginning of this song, where the vocals start, made me laugh out loud oh my god. I do like the sound of this song though. Even if the lyrics are.. well..
Dream Walker is the only album of theirs I can return to without cringing. Judging by the straightforward and punchy nature of this song I'd say it's a good bet this album will follow suit.
Did you see the short film that went along with Dream Walker? The music goes along perfectly with the visuals.
Not surprised that im not liking this at all. The cringe lyrics are worse than theyve ever been. Tom should not be allowed to sing about (little) girls anymore, its too fucking weird. But im guessing this is melodically stale because tom started the album by himself and im guessing he brought in ilan and david once the cringe foundations had already been laid. Ilans songwriting contributions were immediately heard on every track of TDW, but not here IMO (other than drums). Hopefully im wrong and theyve got some surprises up their sleeves with the rest of the album. Prob not tho.
I think Tom has good songwriting direction but has gotten all the angst out of him. He is basically just having fun with space sounds and they peaked with I-Empire and Love.
I mean WDNTW was good and The Dream Walker was their best effort since then. I made a harsh statement earlier, this song is insanely catchy.