Angels & Airwaves

Before founding Angels & Airwaves, Tom DeLonge spent more than a decade playing with blink-182, the pop-punk band he cofounded in 1992. ∙ After blink-182 went on hiatus in 2005, DeLonge announced his new band, Angels & Airwaves. ∙ Angels & Airwaves’ debut album, 2006’s We Don’t Need to Whisper, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard chart. In 2008, the band appeared on an episode of One Tree Hill, performing as themselves at a USO concert. ∙ They coproduced and provided music for Love, a 2011 film about an astronaut grappling with questions about the human condition while stranded in space. ∙ Their 2014 album, The Dream Walker, was released alongside the animated short Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker, which DeLonge cowrote and codirected. ∙ DeLonge, who has a deep interest in aliens and the paranormal, was named UFO Researcher of the Year at 2017’s International UFO Congress.