The City of Lost Children
Their second album, an extreme stylistic departure from their first album, the alt rock "Sleep With You", became the group's biggest seller and reached #24 on the "Billboard" Rock Specialty Show Charts and yielded two hits for the band – "Superhero Girl" and "Girls" The band were invited to tour Europe in 2003, and have released six albums in the last ten years: including "Rise and Shine", "Sleep With You" and "Nothing Is Cohesive" (2004). In 2008 they released the b-sides and rarities album "The City of Lost Children". In 2011 they released the rock opera album entitled "All Your Heroes Become Villains", again to critical acclaim. which they followed up with another album recorded during the same sessions for the "All Your Heroes..." album, the garage-pop rocker entitled "The Great Mistake", which was originally held up by ever increasing problems in the music industry, specifically with the group's distribution company. Dying Van Gogh Records eventually released the new album in November 2012 under the artist name Ed Hale and the Transcendence. The album debuted in the #12 slot on the CMJ Top 20 Most Added Chart in its first week and went on to yield three moderate hit songs, the opening track "ManChildWoman"—which was used in the Showtime series "Shameless", "Monday" and "Babybop". Songs by Ed Hale and Transcendence meanwhile are often heard on a variety of television shows on major and cable networks including VH1 and MTV and in many films.