Angels & Airwaves
Oct 31, 2011
Angels & Airwaves has announced a new band member: 23-year-old drummer/keyboardist Ilan Rubin was most recently the tour drummer for Nine Inch Nails and has also toured and recorded with Lostprophets. Additionally, Rubin is proficient on guitar, bass and piano, and has released two albums under the moniker The New Regime, on which he wrote all the material and played all the instruments.
AVA is led by Blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom Delonge and includes guitarist David Kennedy, notably from Over My Dead Body, Hazen Street and Box Car Racer, and bassist Matt Wachter from 30 Seconds to Mars, who replaced Ryan Sinn, from The Distillers, in 2007. The band has released three studio albums: 2006's gold-certified We Don't Need to Whisper; 2007's I-Empire, which rocketed into the Top 10 of Billboard's Top 200 charts; and 2010's LOVE. To date, AVA has sold more than two million albums worldwide .
Last year, AVA gave away nearly one million downloads of their album LOVE Part One. This summer, more than 460 U.S. movie theaters broadcast the one-night-only Angels & Airwaves Presents LOVE Live event. Now, AVA is poised to release LOVE Part Two (To The Stars Records), just as the band welcomes Rubin into the fold.
On October 31st, LOVE Part Two's second single, "Surrender," will world premiere and be available as iTunes' free "Single of the Week." LOVE Part One, Part Two and LOVE (the movie) will be available at retail on November 8 through Rocket Science/RED, while AVAshop.com will unveil three special packages.
On November 8, AVA will make LOVE Part Two available in a variety of packages: a standard version that contains both LOVE Part One and LOVE Part Two albums; and a deluxe version with both LOVE albums plus the 85-minute LOVE movie on DVD. AVAshop.com will offer a "black edition" that upgrades the deluxe version with a 128-page comic book based on the movie; a "gold edition" which also adds a limited-edition t-shirt; and a "platinum edition" (limited to 25) that contains a signed, customized Epiphone guitar similar to the one frontman Tom DeLonge uses.
