iTunes Find

I discovered this song thanks to iTunes sometime late last year. Surprisingly the little free downloads iTunes has every week are actually really good most of the time. This song is from an indie rock band from Chicago. Their debut album, Ordinary Riches, in it's own debut appeared at #5 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. I'm talking about...

Company of Thieves

The song "Oscar Wilde" was the iTunes magic I stumbled across which is kind of funny because in my senior year of high school for AP English we had to read The Picture of Dorian Gray by you guessed it, Oscar Wilde. It's a great book. I recommend it to anyone who likes a little mystery or sci-fi. It's about a guy who never ages. The character Dorian Gray is also a character in the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I don't recommend seeing that one though).

Back to the song. Oscar Wilde was a great inspiration for not only just this track, but also the whole album. They were inmpressed by his tenacity Drummer Mike Ortiz says, "It's better to struggle doing what you love than just settling for doing whatever everyone else is doing. We all took risks with this band, and had to make sacrifices in our personal lives, but if you really pursue what you love then you'll ultimately reap benefits from it."