World Premiere – Angels & Airwaves’ New Song “Surrender”

“ This whole thing has been a massive accomplishment and something we've been working at for a long time.
” Tom DeLonge on 'Love' Considered a powerhouse alternative supergroup, Angels & Airwaves, is the artistic collaboration of four accomplished musicians.

Many know frontman Tom DeLonge from his successful career with Blink-182 and the other members of Angels and Airwaves have similar laurels attached to their names. Guitarist David Kennedy was in Boxcar Racer; bassist Matt Wachter was in 30 Seconds To Mars; and brand new drummer, Ilan Rubin is known for his work with Lostprophets and Nine Inch Nails.

All together they make up  Angels &  Airwaves, which is dubbed by DeLonge as ”an art project [that approaches] larger human themes and tackles them in different mediums.”

This creative concept is demonstrated perfectly with the November 8th deluxe option release of Angel & Airwaves’ past album, LOVE Part One, their 85-minute LOVE science-fiction film, and their newest album, LOVE Part Two.

This morning, KROQ and Kevin & Bean world premiered the first single, “Surrender,” from their upcoming album. Listen to “Surrender” here first! 

In his interview with Kevin & Bean this morning, DeLonge described Angels & Airwaves’ LOVE project as part of a complete artistic vision of: “we’ll take a large theme about the human race–like love–and we’ll communicate in the album and in the film.”

The “culmination of a five-year project,” DeLonge said that regardless of the album tie-in “the movie just stands on its own…it’s a complete science fiction feature film.” LOVE has been shown at about twenty film festivals and won a few awards.

Angels & Airwaves in Studio K

“ We wanted to do something that took quite a lot of investment for people to get into....I think when people finally get it...you kind of get a fan for life.
” The film, which was an 100% independent endeavor is about an astronaut stuck in a Space Station, seeing the Earth crumbling below him.

According to DeLonge, the Space Station was ingeniously constructed in the director’s driveway in Santa Barbara as well as the epic Civil War scenario at the beginning of the film. Here’s the trailer for “Love.”

Respectively, just the whole process of constructing these situations believably and relatively inexpensively took about 11-months and bled into DeLonge’s work with Blink-182, but Angels & Airwaves wanted to do something rife with symbolism that would speak to people in the long-term:

“ We're kind of like a progressive punk rock band, we all grew up in the Southern California punk rock sensibility..lots of synthesizers, lots of building crescendos...and really handsome band members.
” We wanted to do something that took quite a lot of investment for people to get into….I think when people finally get it…you kind of get a fan for life.”

“I think what’s happening is that rock bands are becoming way more progressive and need to be…you make a little bit of noise not by marketing but by…taking risks.”

DeLonge joked that the imagery is so “esoteric” that at Angels & Airwaves shows “we will provide acid when you walk in the door.” 

The band wrapped up the interview by describing what the experimental alternative band might sound (and look) like to a new listener.

“We’re kind of like a progressive punk rock band, we all grew up in the Southern California punk rock sensibility..lots of synthesizers, lots of building crescendos…and really handsome band members.”

If you love the new tune as much as we do, “Surrender” is available on iTunes as a free “Single of the Week and tomorrow, November 1st, all of LOVE Part Two will be on iTunes for only one week!

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