Owl City Tickets

Accessible "frequency rock" charmers Owl City released their 2010 tour dates. Tickets for this post-disco brainchild of Adam Young will provide audiences with a live dose of the electronic music made famous by word-of-mouth after the MySpace downloads of Adam Young became technologically wide spread. The Owl City Tour will include hits from his pre-Universal Republic days, off the EP "Of June" and album "Maybe I'm Dreaming." "Fireflies," "Hello Seattle," "Hot Air Balloon," and "Strawberry Avalanche" are the four Owl City releases thus far. If they are any indication of how seeing Adam Young live will be, then the fact "Fireflies" broke a record for iTunes downloads speaks volumes. Owl City's "Ocean Eyes" is synth-pop with "Dental Care," "Cave In," and "Meteor Shower" being the album's stand-out tracks, showcasing the band's ability to be memorably appealing.

Owl City has three keyboard players when playing live. A band over driven by one instrument could be potentially robotic, but Owl City is the furthest thing from cold. The warmth of their live audience is impressive. The cheering at a recent show was actually termed "deafening." There is an attachment Young's fans have to his music, like they discovered him themselves, which many of them did. His starkly original songs, too, are like breathing figures with different characteristics, ideals, and sizes. One tune will sound thick and haunting, another thin and lonely. Owl City uses tape loops, sequencers, keyboards, and vocoder in the studio. They reproduce the sound well live in concert, but the sound soars a bit more and delays a bit less when played by a full band from stage, less an encryption, more a melodious song. Owl City do not rely on a light show. The lights are slightly "up" and steady. The band feeds off the singing along. It's almost as if Young wants to see other people's faces while he croons. Is electro-synth hot right now? If so, it looks like Owl City is the worldwide favorite; at least, by the look of their tour schedule (it inludes Japan, China, the U.S., and U.K.), they are attempting to spread the pop with a long tour. "Ocean Eyes," the title of Owl City's new album arguably would make a better name for the band than Owl City. The image of ocean eyes shares something intrinsic with the way the band creates seascapes of music, having sight, soul, and individuality of its own, never getting washed away by the sound torrent made by the dreamy waves of sound. Nonetheless, the clean and cute lyrics aren't everybody's cup of tea. The band has had criticism, which they have risen above. Most criticism leveled at Owl City comes from sources who are hostile to the idea of synth music in general, possibly not understanding the raison d'être, missing the intense emotional connection being made between Owl City and those who frequently attend shows. Not for praise of critics, but feedback of fans does this band center its hopes. Owl City barely needs a record label to be successful. Fans enjoy that independent feeling. For people who love post-disco, Owl City is underground music. Just because the overall sensibility, coming from fans and a band who seem like they would cast a vote for the nerd over the jock, is different, it does not follow that synth-pop is an inferior product. Owl City and their fans do not seem to care about anything but the next song. If there is a similarity is mood, it works to them as shared roots in the disco garden. Most good bands share and re-evoke themes, as do most symphony movements.

The Eagles Ballroom at The Rave in Milwaukee, Aragon Ballroom of Chicago, and The Pageant in St. Louis are tour stops for Owl City before they travel to London and Cologne, Germany. Returning, Mr. Young and company will fly to Arizona to hit their big pavilion and amphitheater shows, beginning in Phoenix, sweeping west to California, and then flying from Los Angeles to Florida's Gulf Coast. Owl City have successfully gigged at Electric Factory, Washington D.C., and House of Blues, Boston, places they may schedule to return. Check this ticket sales site for further information concerning Owl City added tickets and shows. Buy your Owl City ticket here.