Since 1991, Mike Daly has been the lead singer and principal songwriter for New Jersey-based power-pop stalwarts, Every Damn Day. In 2008, with EDD on hiatus, Daly embarked on a solo recording and performing project designed to feature an ever-evolving and revolving cast of musicians.

The result is Mike Daly & The Planets, which for this release featured members of Daly’s bar band of the same name – Jim Van Sickle (bass/organ), Jim “Smitty” Smith (drums), and Tim Gillespie (lead guitar) – as well as Mike’s brother Chuck Daly (lead guitar) and brother-in-law Charles Moeller (piano), and Smitty’s daughter, Amy Marie Smith (acoustic guitar/violin).

The band’s debut 4-song EP, "The Cosmic Adventures of ManBoy," was released internationally in August 2010 on Daly's independent label, Pop Goes The World. The title was partially inspired by a quote from the 2005 film, Fever Pitch: "You're like a man-boy: half man, half boy." Daly elaborates that he imagined "ManBoy" as "sort of a superhero whose primary power is h