Owl City Tour - Owl City Lands on 'Alice in Wonderland' Cd5967184

Tim Burton's future adaptation of Alice in Wonderland is certainly one the most highly expected films of spring 2010, as well as today rumors of which artists will score a coveted spot to the film's soundtrack have established to surface. Disney online is presently hosting snippets of all of the fifteen songs for the companion release to Danny Elfman's official score, titled Virtually Alice. The album will consist of Avril Lavigne's "Alice" along with tracks by Owl City, All-American Rejects, Franz Ferdinand, Remedy frontman Robert Smith, Simply White T's, Wolfmother, Estonian pop star Kerli, 30h!3 along with a duet from blink-182's Mark Hoppus and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. Looks like the star-studded soundtrack to Twilight: Brand new Moon may have some competition!

Though Owl City's "The Technicolor Phase" is the track included regarding the soundtrack to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, it is "Fireflies" that is presently climbing the Billboard charts. Owl City's "Fireflies" topped the Billboard 100 chart and rose to the No. 1 spot on the U.K. singles chart during the course of the initial week of February. The achievements of "Fireflies" has appeared alongside a side of controversy, however, since Death Cab for Cutie guitarist/producer Chris Walla just lately took a swipe at Adam Younger (a.k.a. Owl City).

Similarities between the Postal Service (the electronic-leaning side venture of Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard) and Owl City tend to be familiar news, however Walla took to his Twitter account freshly to make some scathing remarks however. Walla launched which he thinks the copyright-infringement ruling issued upon Men at just Work by a particular Australian court is nonsense, but did take the opportunity which will make a reference to Owl City. "The Men at just Work plagiarism verdict is rubbish, they got robbed. Related: Owl City should consider buying Ben a pony," wrote Walla. Whenever asked by MTV News about the similarities involving the 2 projects last fall, Walla responded coyly, "Hold off. Which? I've did not heard about the Postal Service." Young has however to comment directly upon Walla's remarks, but did Tweet, "Honk if you really love comfort and additionally quiet."

Adam Young started fooling around through a computer and also a couple instruments in his parent's basement during sleepless nights in Owatonna, Minn. in 2007 and also the idea for Owl City ended up being born. After completing a batch of emo-pop meets electronica songs, Younger uploaded them on his MySpace page, and due to the fact songs like "Hello Seattle" landed a recording contract with Universal Records. In 2009, Young released Owl City's first record album, Seashore Eyes. In addition to the title track, the record album spawned the electro-pop sensation "Fireflies," that boasts a particular impressive array of AutoTuned hooks as well as the lyrics: "'Cause I get a thousand hugs/ From 10,000 lightning bugs/ As they try to teach me personally exactly how to dance."

Owl City, the.k.a. Adam Young, played its very first real time shows in February 2009 in Minneapolis and additionally Chicago. Steve Brusky of Foundations Singer Control, Young's manager, recalled the sold-out achievements of Owl City's initial concerts to Billboard.com, suggesting which fans were "buying tickets, T-shirts as well as registers. Which was a really early indicator which [Owl City's music] had been translating inside the marketplace." Soon after playing dates last fall, Owl City embarked on an additional string of dates in 2010 and definitely will stay on the highway through May. Check online for Owl City tickets to see Adam Young work his magic reside!

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