Owl City Tour - Owl City Lands on 'Alice in Wonderland' Album6431005

Tim Burton's future adaptation of Alice in Wonderland is certainly one the many definitely anticipated movies of spring 2010, and today rumors of which artists will score a coveted spot of the film's soundtrack have established to surface. Disney online is currently hosting snippets of all 15 records for the companion launch to Danny Elfman's official score, titled Virtually Alice. The album definitely will include Avril Lavigne's "Alice" along alongside songs by Owl City, All-American Rejects, Franz Ferdinand, Cure frontman Robert Smith, Plain White T's, Wolfmother, Estonian pop celebrity Kerli, 30h!3 and also a duet from blink-182's Mark Hoppus as well as Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. Seems like the star-studded soundtrack to Twilight: New Moon may have some competition!

Although Owl City's "The Technicolor Phase" is the track included in the soundtrack to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, it is "Fireflies" which is currently climbing the Billboard charts. Owl City's "Fireflies" topped the Billboard 100 chart as well as also rose to the No. 1 place found on the U.K. singles chart during the very first week of February. The accomplishment of "Fireflies" has appeared with a side of controversy, however, since Death Cab for Cutie guitarist/producer Chris Walla newly took a swipe at Adam Younger (a.k.a. Owl City).

Similarities between the Postal Service (the electronic-leaning side project of Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard) and additionally Owl City tend to be previous news, but Walla took to his Twitter account just lately to help make a couple scathing remarks still. Walla established that he thinks the copyright-infringement ruling issued upon Males at Work by a particular Australian court is rubbish, but did take the opportunity to help make a reference to Owl City. "The Guys at Work plagiarism verdict is garbage, they had gotten robbed. Related: Owl City should consider buying Ben a pony," wrote Walla. Whenever asked by MTV News about the similarities between the two projects last fall, Walla responded coyly, "Delay. Which? I've did not heard of the Postal Service." Younger has however to comment directly on Walla's remarks, however did Tweet, "Honk if you really love peace and quiet."

Adam Young set about fooling around through a computer and a couple instruments in his parent's basement during the course of sleepless nights in Owatonna, Minn. in 2007 and additionally the idea for Owl City was actually given birth. After completing a batch of emo-pop meets electronica tracks, Young uploaded them onto his MySpace webpage, and also because of songs like "Hi Seattle" landed a tracking contract alongside Universal Records. In 2009, Young circulated Owl City's first record album, Seashore Eyes. In addition to the title track, the record spawned the electro-pop sensation "Fireflies," what kind of boasts some sort of impressive array of AutoTuned hooks and also the lyrics: "'Result I get a thousand hugs/ From 10,000 lightning bugs/ As they try to teach me exactly how to dance."

Owl City, the.k.a. Adam Young, played its 1st real time shows in February 2009 in Minneapolis and additionally Chicago. Steve Brusky of Foundations Singer Management, Young's manager, recalled the sold-out accomplishment of Owl City's initial concerts to Billboard.com, saying which fans had been "buying tickets, T-shirts and registers. That has been a really early indicator which [Owl City's music] had been translating on the market." After playing dates last fall, Owl City embarked on another string of dates in 2010 and additionally will remain of the road through May. Check online for Owl City tickets to see Adam Young work his magic real time!

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