Before OWL CITY there was SKY SAILING

Sky Sailing is the new side project of Adam Young, lead singer of Owl City. The band’s first album, "An Airplane Carried Me To Bed", is due out July 13.

Song of the Week

I saw Marit Larsen live in November last year and have to say that I was impressed with all the instruments she played live. Her voice is amazing and she's a total sweetheart as I can say from meeting and talking to her afterwards.

The Song of the Week this time is:

Addicted - Marit Larsen

New Stars album "The Five Ghosts"

The Five Ghosts marks the inaugural release on Stars' own Soft Revolution label. Each of the band's five members participated in writing the new album, resulting in what singer Amy Millan calls "quintessential Stars." It's the band's first full-length album since 2007's In Our Bedroom After the War.

Notable about The Five Ghosts is the band's return to producer Tom McFall, who recorded their breakthrough, 2005's Set Yourself on Fire. Fellow Broken Social Scene member Andrew Whiteman also makes an appearance.

Accompanying the album's release is a summer 2010 U.S. tour. Stars will perform the album in its entirety -- and take audience requests, via its website.


Tracklist:

1 Dead Hearts
2 Wasted Daylight
3 I Died So I Could Haunt You
4 Fixed
5 We Don't Want Your Body
6 He Dreams He's Awake
7 Never Been Good With Change
8 The Passenger
9 The Last Song Ever Written
10 How Much More

Stars - The Five Ghosts

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is a rock band from San Francisco, United States now based in Los Angeles. The band formed in 1998, influenced by much classic rock music of the past six decades, particularly the Jesus and Mary Chain and Love and Rockets. Their style also encompassed slower-paced grooves influenced by shoegaze. With their third record Howl, they added blues, folk and gospel, a la Spiritualized.

B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Songs of the Week

This week is special since the FIFA World Cup started today! I'm cheering for Germany and of course South Africa. Therefore you get three different World Cup songs from me today:

1. Waka Waka- Shakira feat. FreshlyGround

2. The Vuvuzela Song - Salutations

3. I Am An African - FreshlyGround

Song of the Week

This week you get a Lady Gaga song from before she actually became Gaga ;) When I heard it for the first time, I was really impressed with her voice. With all the amplifier in her new songs one can't really tell how amazing her voice is. Enjoy listening :D

No Floods

Two Hours Traffic

Two Hours Traffic was initially conceived as a two-piece, lead singer Liam Corcoran and guitarist Alec O’Hanley recruited bassist Andrew MacDonald and drummer Derek Ellis while attending university in their hometown of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. After releasing their “April Storm” EP in 2003 a friendship was struck up with Halifax hero Joel Plaskett who offered to produce the band’s first proper album. They’ve been working together ever since. While their eponymous debut and their follow up “Isolator” EP were received warmly by critics, it wasn’t until 2007’s breakthrough “Little Jabs” that the world really took notice. Appearing on dozens of year-end best of lists, Little Jabs also garnered an ECMA for Best Pop Recording and was a finalist for the coveted Polaris Music Prize. Add to this, three coast to coast tours, appearances at festivals such as Hillside, CMJ and SXSW and shows across the Atlantic and you have one of the most visible and successful Canadian independent acts of the last two years.

Territory is the follow up to the Charlottetown band’s Polaris Prize nominated and internationally acclaimed sophomore album, “Little Jabs”. Once again produced by Joel Plaskett, Territory builds on the promise of Little Jabs as the band continues to write and record sunny pop gems for the heart and head. Territory, however also finds Two Hours Traffic discovering the shadows at the side of the road.

Two Hours Traffic - Territory