There are 9 results

• 

  Owl City's Sickly-Sweet Oreo Commercial Jingle May Cause Gag Reflex

  May 13, 2013 – During last night's episode of Mad Men, a 90-second animated commercial aired touting the "wonderfilled" nature of Oreo cookies. The storyline of the commercial was straight out of  Laura Numeroff and Felicio Bond's classic 1985 children's book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the series it launched. …
  Read on

• 

  Owl City, The Midsummer Station (Universal Republic)

  September 11, 2012 – We should’ve heard the last of Adam Young, a.k.a., Owl City. Back in 2009, "Fireflies" simpered virally across America, and annoyed grown-ups wished 1,000 slugs from 10,000 frightening thugs upon the moony outstate Minnesotan. But we took comfort from the fact that his shtick — a twee tween's Ben Gibbard, the Postal Service for kids too young to have ever licked a stamp — was a one-off novelty fluke. …
  Read on

• 

  Owl City, 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' (Universal Republic)

  June 14, 2011 – Imagine you're five years old. You've never heard the Postal Service, never had your heart broken, and never swallowed anything stronger than gumdrops. You'd have no reason not to love this synth-pop equivalent of a totally awesome plush toy. …
  Read on

• 

  Owl City's Adam Young: New Album, Track by Track

  March 3, 2011 – When Owl City's Adam Young released his debut record in 2009, he didn't know he had a hit on his hands - he honed his songs in his parents basement in Owatonna, MN, during his off hours working at a Coca-Cola factory - but Ocean Eyes went on to become the sleeper smash of the year, topping the iTunes Albums Download chart in its first few weeks and moving more than one million copies to date. On May 17, Young will return with his secon …
  Read on

• 

  Owl City's Adam Young Returns as Sky Sailing

  May 7, 2010 – Adam Young, the Minnesota-based mastermind behind chart-topping electro-pop project Owl City, is going back in time. The 23-year-old musician is reviving his former moniker, Sky Sailing, to release an album -- called An Airplane Carried Me to Bed -- of pre-Owl City songs on June 13. …
  Read on

• 

  FIRST LISTEN: 'Alice in Wonderland' Soundtrack!

  February 4, 2010 – Franz Ferdinand, Wolfmother, Avril Lavigne, Owl City, and Pete Wentz and Mark Hoppus, among others, have re-imagined songs from the 1951 movie classic Alice in Wonderland for Tim Burton's psychedelic remake of the Disney film, in theatres March 5. …
  Read on

• 

  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  January 23, 2010 – This week, Conan closed out his tenure on The Tonight Show with musical guest Neil Young, Vampire Weekend hit No.1 on the Billboard album chart, Kate Moss got engaged to the Kills' Jamie Hince, and Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz were confirmed as this year's Coachella headliners. These stories, plus the week's top news, audio/video, and live reviews, below.top StoriesCoachella 2010: Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz to HeadlineFull lineup for April 16- …
  Read on

• 

  Owl City Launch Tour in Kansas City

  January 22, 2010 – His hour-long show hadn't reached the halfway point Thursday night when Adam Young – the voice and brains of Owl City – threw down his ace. …
  Read on

• Owl City, 'Ocean Eyes' (Universal Republic)

  July 30, 2009 – The third album from MySpace phenom Owl City, a.k.a., Adam Young, is pristine pop electronica: synths and strings meld seamlessly into dreamy, summery atmospherics (with guest vocals from Matt Theissen of Christian emo mainstays Relient K). But while Young's compositions occasionally flirt with the nuanced melodicism of Jimmy Tamborello or Jona Bechtolt, he rarely lets even the slightest risky idea emerge. …
  Read on