OWL CITY: Yup. It's about 15,000 or 16,000 people ... I went to a little community college in my hometown. I went for my general arts degree. I didn't really know what I wanted to do specifically ...

Young certainly did not anticipate the tornado that would carry him halfway across the world after he started uploading his homemade recordings onto the Internet under the name Owl City.

Two years after the ascent of Owl City's "Fireflies" forced Adam Young ... not far from his tiny hometown of Owatonna, Minn. “Then I show up and the place is sold out, and it’s way bigger ...

“Owl City live is a lot less ‘intimate’ in ... changed and that he prefers to stay in Owatonna. “I love my little hometown and I wouldn’t live anywhere else if I had all the money ...

Owl City is an American electropop musical project by Adam Young. Young started out making music in 2007 in his basement in his hometown of Owatonna, Minnesota, United States, later developing a ...

For Adam Young, the singer, keyboardist, drummer and guitarist behind one-man band Owl City, the lack of a music scene in his small, sleepy hometown in southern Minnesota was a blessing in disguise.

If you've never heard of Owl City until now, you're forgiven ... Westword (Dutch Seyfarth): What's your name, hometown, and where are you living today? Adam Young: Oh hi! My name is Adam.