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Tom DeLonge fills us in on AVA and Blink-182

Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 2/5/10 @ 5:55 PM - altpress.com

It's a little more than a week until ANGELS & AIRWAVES release their third full-length, Love, on Sunday, Feb. 14 (for free, natch). The album will also be accompanied by a film that will see a theatrical release later this year, plus a deluxe edition of the disc for purchase. We did a quick check-in with AVA frontman TOM DeLONGE to see what all the Angels & Airwaves attention means for new BLINK-182 music. --Rachel Lux

"Blink are in the process of scheduling how we are going to record the next record. We already started before the tour, the only issue we're having now is that Angels are having quite a lot of electricity being built, so we have kind of the release of our life, and with this film and everything, we're just trying to schedule how we're going to be able to be in the studio. That meeting was actually supposed to take place last week and then this week, but this week already came to a close, so it's hard because we're all so busy.

Mark [Hoppus] is actually doing a remix for Angels & Airwaves that will be on the sellable version of [Love]. We have a record that we're selling that has 30 minutes extra music on it, plus a remix from Mark. Travis [Barker] has got a million things going on as well, so we're focusing on that and this week kind of went out the window. But I'm gearing up for tour, so the goal is that we're going to be meeting once or twice a week up until when I leave, and then when I get back from tour, it'll open the window up to really dig into it.

We actually got a lot done quickly [on the new Blink album] because people were working simultaneously in different studios, so we're hoping it will go really quickly. I'm in a good spot, because I have two great bands. I know how people are with Blink. I know how big Blink are and I know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life. This is the most complicated and all-encompassing and heartfelt project--this album and this movie--that I've ever done in my entire life. It's really, really exciting because it really exceeded my expectations. I thought it was going to suffer to some degree because I was getting thrown around with the other band as well, and the tour or whatever, but I'm really, really, really excited about [the album release on] Valentine's Day. One step at a time for me--it's hard for me to bounce back and forth, and right now my mind is all Angels and trying to figure out how to schedule the upcoming Blink recording, because that's coming quick, too." alt

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a_rodhowe Posted 02.05.10 at 11:20PM
Having heard "Hallucinations", I am super-excited to hear LOVE.

BPerala Posted 02.06.10 at 05:11PM
I absolutely Love what Tom does with AVA. Pretty much my favorite band (ever?)

richardradical Posted 02.07.10 at 01:45AM
honestly... blink is far better then ava. for someone to say that tom has done better things with ava hasn't grown up with blink and doesnt understand the phenom that IS blink. the new stuff from him might be good but it will never touch cheshire cat and enima of the state. tom is riding his involvement in blink and its selling... for now.

B.ry716 Posted 02.07.10 at 03:02AM
If anyone can keep two bands in good shape it is tom. no doubt about that. he is a gunius with blink and ava. tom co writes all of blink songs (the ones he sings). he can maintain it. who cares about popularity. he would have still been on the main stage 2 yrs ago on warped tour. i recall + 44 onlymade 1 album that failed wit 1 hit. played the honda civice tour but was the opener. they didnt make headlines like ava. both or really good so you cant hate on him. blnk will always be blink and ava will always be ava. it will take sumtime for him to defere his singing stle between the bands. look at the reuninion tour, started off bad but he got better.

smilefadesnthesummer Posted 02.07.10 at 12:02PM
i love ava and blink is my favorite band but tom's starting to aggitate me everytime he releases a new ava record its always the biggest record of his life and honestly the ava albums are good but when is he going to see that they would be so so much better mixed with some style of blink's last album and so much better musically with mark and travis.

richardradical Posted 02.07.10 at 02:27PM
tom thinks he's some rock and roll god trying to recreate the music business. its not happening. +44 may have been a flop as a popular attempt but im pretty sure that hoppus is producing everything and anything he wants and travis remixes anything and everything from rap to rancid. so b. ry... step that game up. blink stopped because tom got to big for himself. his first show with ava he was STILL playing blink songs acoustically as a part of the set.



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