Atom Willard, Matt Wachter, Tom DeLonge and David Kennedy of Angels & Airwaves, playing the Pompano Beach Amphitheater on Friday. (Courtesy Live Nation)

Since the band was first pulled together in 2005, there’s always been something a little different about what’s going on with Angels & Airwaves.

It initially got attention for being a “side project” for Blink-182 guitarist/singer Tom DeLonge Jr., but quickly gained a lot more for bringing together four musicians grounded in punk who were outputting music that was more sweeping and cinematic.

And now, AVA — the “V” in the middle serves as an inversion of the second “A” — is continuing to do things a little differently, releasing its newest album, Love, for free on the Internet and putting together a movie by the same name that takes the new music and tells a story through it.

“Angels & Airwaves is really a band about a bigger picture,” said drummer Atom Willard.

Musically, Angels & Airwaves, which is playing the Pompano Beach Amphitheater Friday night, May 14, has a more positive approach to its lyrics, and Willard says group members believe they can change the world through attitude.

“We’re trying to inspire people to see the good and positive side to life,” he said. “There’s a lot of gloom and doom in music right now, and yeah, it’s all a part of life and growing up, but the more you focus on that stuff, the more it’s going to surround you. If you want to have a little more positive outlook on your world, you can actually have a positive effect on the entire world.”

The idea of releasing the Love LP free has been gestating among Willard, DeLonge and AVA’s two other members, guitarist David Kennedy and bassist Matt Wachter, ever since they were working on their second album, I-Empire.

“Music in general isn’t selling the way it used to,” Willard said. “In the last five or six years, we’ve seen the industry decline at a rapid pace, in terms of its old ideas. You can still make a living at this, but the old days of five Ferraris in the driveway are over.

“You have to be a little more realistic — you can make a living, but you have to be more creative in the way you do business. For us, being free and clear of a record label, we were able to say, ‘What’s best for us now?’ And we wanted to get our songs out to as many people as possible. It proved to be a great strategy.”

The music also proved to spur other strong ideas, such as Love, the movie. AVA always has employed a visual element — they’ve already put out one film, Start the Machine, which was a documentary about the band’s formation. Their videos have served more as short films with a single uniting plot. So a movie seemed only natural, Willard said.

“The movie’s about a man who’s trapped aboard a space station, and it just evolved through us talking about the plot,” he said. “We never wrote a script ourselves, we just told (filmmaker William Eubank) ‘He’s gotta do this, he’s gotta do that’, and he would just run with it at that point.”

Though there are no concrete plans as to how the band will release the movie — whether it’ll be a straightforward release to theaters or part of a concert-going experience — clearly, Willard and the other members of AVA are excited about yet another evolution for this young group.

If you go:
What: Angels & Airwaves/Say Anything
Where: Pompano Beach Amphitheater
When: Friday, May 14, 8 p.m.
Tickets: Available at the amphitheater box office, (866) 448-7849, livenation.com or ticketmaster.com.