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Owl City has announced a full North American tour for Spring 2010. The tour starts March 30th in Boise and ends May 2nd in Milwaukee.

Pre-sale tickets are on sale now. You’ll need a password to buy tickets. Watch the video above for details.

Owl City US Spring 2010 Tour Dates:
Mar 30: Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
Mar 31: Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
April 1: Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
April 2: Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
April 3: Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
April 5: San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
April 6: San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
April 7: Pomona, CA @ The Fox Theater
April 8: San Diego, CA @ Soma
April 9: Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia
April 10: Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
April 12: Magna, UT @ Salt Air Theater
April 13: Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
April 15: Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Ampitheatre
April 16: Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theater
April 17: Grand Prairie, TX @ Nokia Theatre
April 19: Nashville, TN @ War Memorial Auditorium
April 20: Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
April 22: Washington, DC @ Constitution Hall
April 23: Boston, MA @ House of Blues
April 24: New York, NY @ Terminal 5
April 25: Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
April 27: Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
April 28: Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
April 29: Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
April 30: Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
May 1: Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre
May 2: Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom

Owl City just released an iPhone/iPod app that allows fans to remix the keyboard, percussion, guitar, and vocal parts from Owl City’s tracks “Fireflies” and “Vanilla Twilight.”

Fully integrated with Twitter, users can also stay up to date with all of Owl City’s real time twitter posts. Oddly, there are even options to text or call Owl City’s Adam Young directly.

Is your inability to articulate your undying servitude to his musical universe really a good enough reason to call?

Adam Young – aka Owl City – discusses the recording process of his debut album Ocean Eyes:

“I used a freeware recording program called GoldWave and did all my programming and sequencing in [Propellerhead] Reason,” Young says. “I used an old Behringer condenser mic and an analog mixer for vocals and to record guitars — my uncle’s old 1979 Alvarez Dreadnought and a Fender Strat.”

“I had to unplug the furnace in the basement for each take,” he says, “and by the time I was done recording vocals for a song, the ceiling was sprouting stalactites. It’s okay though — I’m part Eskimo.”

“I don’t know much about recording,” Young says, “but I love how alive music can make me feel; that’s all the inspiration I want. For me, it’s more about songwriting and creativity than gear. However, ‘a mechanic is only as good as his tools,’ as they say, and I want to be the best mechanic I can be. So I have a lot to learn.”

Read more about his recording process and details of the studio he set up in his parents’ cellar here.

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