In an issue of Billboard Magazine, they dubbed Young Love a “Face to Watch” of 2007. Check out the article below.

Last year, Young Love - aka Dan Keyes, former frontman of Texas rock band Recover - was busing tables and working at American Apparel in New York, casually carting a demo of dance-rock tunes from one hipster to the next.

DJs dug them, especially the Bloc Party-meets-Blur “Discotech,” a guitar-laden ode to boogie-ing in the Big Apple that’s so joyful and unpretentious that it had to be written by an out-of-towner.

Then Jay-Z called.

“This is where it’s at,” Jay-Z told Keyes over brunch in Miami, as Beyoncé lounged by the pool and paparazzi helicopters circled.

So Keyes signed with Island Def Jam and took his demos into the studio. The result, “Too Young To Fight It,” is the kind of pop that we’ve been missing: melodic, catchy, smart and as young and in love- with the city, the music, the ubiquitous “she” - as Romeo.

Keyes himself resembles the shaggy teen hero, fair and lanky with an intense gray-eyed stare. “A friend gave me Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery‘ for Christmas a couple of years ago, and it kind of destroyed my rock band” he says. “I didn’t want to play guitar anymore, so I started experimenting with electronic stuff.”

An organic dance convert with a knack for pop? Let love rule.

- Kerri Mason