YEAR IN REVIEW: Tom releases a new album and goes on tour with his new supergroup, Angels & Airwaves, deeming it the biggest rock and roll revolution in a generation. Mark and Travis, meanwhile, remain silent until later in the year, whenever they announce +44 in earnest. +44 release their debut album and also tour, though neither act is as successful as Blink.

 

1/5/2006: Tom is featured on the cover on Kerrang!

1/11/2006: Angels & Airwaves announce their first UK shows.

1/14/2006: Travis participates in a Guitar Center Drum Off at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.

2/14/2006: Tom gives an interview to Rolling Stone.

2/28/2006: 

• Fuse begins a partnership with Mark and his podcast under their new site “Just for the F of It”.

• It’s the first such relationship with Mark, one that potentially begat his later television show for Fuse, Hoppus on Music, which ran between 2010 and 2012.

3/22/2006: Angels & Airwaves announce their first North American tour.

4/7/2006: The music video for Angels & Airwaves’ song “The Adventure” premieres on MTV.com.

4/12/2006: Angels & Airwaves perform their first show at the Glass House in Pomona, California.

4/26/2006: The music video for Angels & Airwaves’ song “The Adventure” premieres on MTV.

4/28/2006: The movie "Stick It" is released in theaters. The song "Anthem Part Two" is included on the soundtrack and in the movie. Song Inclusion in the Movie

5/23/2006: Angels & Airwaves’ debut album, We Don’t Need to Whisper, is released.

7/27/2006: Some news or information about +44 premiered on this date on TRL.

9/7/2006: 

• +44 announce their first North American tour dates.

• +44 perform their first show at the Roxy in Hollywood, California.

9/15/2006: +44 film the music video for “When Your Heart Stops Beating”.

10/5/2006: It is announced that Travis has injured his arm whilst filming +44’s music video for “When Your Heart Stops Beating”.

10/12/2006: +44 reschedule shows due to Travis’s arm injury.

10/27/2006: The music video for Angels & Airwaves’ song “The War” premieres on Yahoo Music!.

11/14/2006: +44’s debut album, When Your Heart Stops Beating, is released.

11/14/2006: +44 perform at Bowery Ballroom in New York, New York, beginning the first stint of the When Your Heart Stops Beating Tour.

11/15/2006: +44 perform on the Late Show with David Letterman.

11/16/2006: +44 do an in-store signing at Virgin Megastore Times Square in New York, New York.

12/15/2006: +44’s AOL Session premieres.

12/17/2006: 

• +44 do an in-store signing at Tilly’s in Sacramento, California.

• +44 perform at the Boardwalk in Sacramento, California, ending the first stint of the When Your Heart Stops Beating Tour.

12/18/2006: +44 do an in-store signing at Virgin Megastore in San Francisco, California.