Paddy Casey is coming to America. Paddy Casey is a rare breed, an Irish rocker looking to make it big stateside. The only Irish band anyone knows is U2, and luckily for Paddy Casey, the same people who represented U2 are repping for him.

Backed by the same management team that broke Ireland’s top seller, U2, almost three decades ago, Casey has been touring the U.S. for three months, mostly playing record stores and Hard Rock Cafes through shoddy speaker systems to audiences that don’t have a clue who he is.

All of that could change quickly. On the heels of his recent showcase at Austin’s South By Southwest Music Conference, his third album, “Addicted to Company (Pt. 1),” comes out today on Sony/BMG. Produced by Los Angeleno George Drakoulias, one of the founders of Def Jam records, “Addicted” came out in September in Ireland and was named album of the year in the Meteor Ireland Music Awards. Casey is MTV’s featured artist this week, which includes a 20-foot-high billboard of his face in New York’s Times Square. Thursday he will play on David Letterman’s show. He plays the Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 5 opening for Scottish phenom, KT Tunstall.

To give you an idea of his music, check out this video of Paddy Casey performing “Saints and Sinners.”