Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire

If Tom Delonge is anything, he's a man of conviction. He holds onto his beliefs long after other men would abandon them, cherishing them with the obstinate fervor of a teenager even though he's long past adolescence. Others would have buckled at the lukewarm, occasionally mocking reception of his post-Blink-182 project Angels & Airwaves and their 2006 debut, We Don't Need To Whisper, but instead of revamping the group for their quickly recorded sophomore effort, I-empire -- who knows whether the title is either a pun on Apple's iCulture or a reflection of Delonge's never-ending quest of self-improvement -- he digs in his heels, refusing to budge from his oddly misconstrued Cure and U2 amalgam. Read More