Sejarah Angels & Airwaves

Angels and Airwaves dibentuk Tom pada masa - masa kevakuman Blink di 2005. Tom mengajak salah satu temannya yang pernah membantunya dalam menggarap Box Car Racer yaitu David Kennedy, serta mengajak ex-Distillers bassist Ryan Sinn dan drummernya Offspring, Atom Willard. Salah satu komentar Tom mengenai band barunya ini adalah Just before all the blink-182 stuff happened when we were in Europe, I had a really weird epiphany. My heart was beating about a hundred miles a minute for three weeks straight and it had never happened to me before in my life. I really felt like I’d been touched by something and I felt I was meant to do something massive. Album mereka We Don’t Need to Whisper rillis 23 mei 2006, dengan first singlenya The Adventure, Angels and Airwaves akan lebih rock and roll daripada Blink 182, sepeti yang disebut Tom “”the greatest rock’n'roll revolution of this generation” and “more emotional than Blink 182 and Box Car Racer put together”.