“Rebel Girl” by Angels & Airwaves

"Rebel Girl" was the sound of Angels & Airwaves waking back up: released at the end of April 2019 as the first single from Lifeforms, it was also the band's first release on Rise Records. Tom DeLonge had spent the preceding stretch buried in other projects, many of them tied to his company To the Stars, before the band started hinting on social media that new music was on the way.

DeLonge wrote it with Ilan Rubin and Aaron Rubin, and he pitched it as a love song from outer space that pulls together his long-running fixation on new wave, pop punk and big, anthemic rock and roll. Ilan Rubin covers the drums and also plays guitar, bass and synth; Aaron Rubin co-produced with the band, and Tony Hoffer mixed.

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