BLINK 182’s pop breakthrough arrived in 1999, with its third album, the quintuple platinum “Enema of the State,” which took punk’s already playful core and gave it a shiny, accessible polish. Its hits were plenty: ecstatic, goofy numbers about teenage uselessness, with a smattering of tender introspection. It was among the catchiest music of the time, which would have been enough.

But the group’s members — Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker — happily turned themselves into video stars at a time when MTV could still cement a band’s image. Amid the boy bands and teen pop of the era BLINK 182 was a gaggle of pranksters, savvy enough to use the visual tricks of the popular kids to their own ends, transposing the heartthrob model onto the outsiders. Fame doesn’t discriminate based on origin, though: soon the group was as famous as those it was parodying. 

Angels & Airwaves is an American alternative rock supergroup led by Blink-182 guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge. Other members are guitarist David Kennedy (from Over My Dead Body, Hazen Street and Box Car Racer), bassist Matt Wachter (from 30 Seconds to Mars) and drummer Ilan Rubin (from Lostprophets and Nine Inch Nails). Former original members are bass guitarist Ryan Sinn (formerly of The Distillers), who left the group in 2007 for reasons still unclear, as well as drummer Adam "Atom" Willard (formerly of The Offspring and Rocket from the Crypt), who amicably parted ways with the band in fall 2011 shortly before the release of their fourth album.
Formed after Blink-182 went on hiatus in 2005, the band has continued to record and tour despite DeLonge reigniting his career with Blink-182 in 2009. The band has established themselves as very prolific musicians having released four studio albums We Don't Need to Whisper (2006), I-Empire (2007), Love (2010) and Love: Part Two (2011) in the space of 5 years. The project also resulted in the documentary film Start the Machine (2008). In 2011, accompanying the two Love albums, the group scored and produced the science fiction drama film Love by director William Eubank in 460 theatres nationwide during their multimedia event, Love Live. Tom Delonge has said in an interview that the band is working on two new films (Strange Times and Poet Anderson) with accompanying studio albums.[1]
Of the first two albums, the band says that they were mainly influenced by the music of Radiohead and Pink Floyd, combining them with the grandiosity of U2.[2] Of the first album, Delonge said that it would be "the best music in generations", but afterwards admitted that during this time he was addicted to painkillers.[3] Love project shows further blending of the band's musical aspirations of epic and grandiosity and the cultural revolution in the digital era.[4]

Angels And Airwaves

Box Car Racer was a short-lived American alternative punk band from San Diego, California, formed in 2002. The band was a side-project of guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker of Blink-182, along with lead guitarist David Kennedy of Hazen Street, and touring bassist Anthony Celestino. Driven by a more mature and introspective sound than previous Blink-182 recordings, DeLonge was the primary lyricist of the group and created the group in order to experiment with ideas that were not "Blink-friendly".
The band released one studio album, the eponymous Box Car Racer, and played a tour throughout 2002 until Blink-182 went to record their new album in 2003. Delonge stated that the band is permanently defunct. Delonge's new band, Angels & Airwaves, is proclaimed a continuation of Box Car Racer, allowing him to continue what he started with David Kennedy.