The following cd’s are being played in my car right now:

1. The Beatles - “1″

“Lady Madonna” is the perfect feel good Saturday morning track, and then the very next track “Hey Jude” is a classic. You’ll be singing “na na na na na na na” by the end.

2. Bloc Party - “Silent Alarm”

I love Bloc Party, exclamation mark. Their drummer, Matt Tong, makes me into analogue drums again. The sound captured in “Silent Alarm” is pretty much what I would have hoped for Red Team Go! Standout tracks include everything.

3. Angels and Airwaves - “I - Empire”

Tons of great atmospheric rock. If U2 died in the 80’s and reincarnated in time for the 21st century, this is what they would’ve sounded like. I’m definitely impressed Tom. Track #8 “True Love” and #4 “Love Like Rockets” are my favorites.

The highly anticipated follow up to their debut album, We Don’t Need To Whisper has landed and is shaking things up.

Angels & Airwaves’ sophomore album, I-Empire was released this past Tuesday with the lead single off the album, “Everything’s Magic” and finds itself sitting in the number 1 spot on iTunes, bumping Britney Spears off the top spot.The album is an epic journey in music, but without the hard to grasp melodies of the freshman album. Simply put, it’s more “Blink 182ish”, radiating catchy hooks, while preserving the bold crescendos, climax, and denouements they’ve now come to own.”

Everything’s Magic” is an ode to a simpler time, harkening back to the innocence and naivete of love, friendship, and when and where everything is purely magic. Close your eyes, and just remember those times without worry, without callousness, when the world around you was nearly perfect.

Those Friday nights when you’re under the bleachers with your friends, hear the stomping above you in the rafters, the cadences from the drumline, the impacts of the players, and smell the brisk dew of the night, under the bright lights, and building up the courage to talk to a crush of yours just standing yards from you. You build up that courage and you say hello, and at that moment, everything’s magic.

I-Empire is an experience, that brings you to another place, where you are within your own empire of thoughts, reflection, hope, and refinement. The trailer made for the album encapsulates the epic journey within the music and body of work that is I-Empire.

Watch and experience your own empire.

I’m not sure if I know a single soul who wasn’t moved at least a bit when they heard the epic build and roaring of The Adventure by Angels and Airwaves last year.

I was driving back home from the daily grind, as the sun was setting behind me, and the radio DJ comes on. Here’s the new song called The Adventure by Angels and Airwaves, leaked onto the web today. First listen baby.

And the reverb of light guitar strums begins to fill my car followed by the massive anthem wailed on the electric guitar…

Angels & Airwaves - The Adventure

Their follow-up album is called i-Empire and from what I’ve heard, it’s a mixture of Blink 182, Boxcar Racer and their previous AVA sound. Catchier melodies and hooks, but retaining the epic and experimental sounds they had with Boxcar and AVA. Their new album is due out in November, and I am stoked.

Here’s a preview of their single off of i-Empire called Everything’s Magic. The video is made by a fan. Rumblings are the official video comes out in 2 weeks.

Angels & Airwaves - Everything’s Magic