Love In October Move To Chicago

From their news page:

Kent and I moved to Minneapolis on a whim and started this project two and a half years ago. Ever since we've been traveling the country playing shows, making music, and living our dream. At the end of the month we'll be moving to Chicago to continue our musical endeavors from there. We are making this move for practical and personal reasons. We will miss the city of Minneapolis and all the good people we've met here, but we also look towards the future with great optimism.

Erik also added that this does not mean that Love in October will be breaking up, but rather, continuing on in a different city. The group's current line-up has a last hometown show scheduled Friday, December 19th at the Uptown Bar. The group also hinted at a return to MPLS on future tours.

As far as we're concerned, this just means that LiO goes from this blog to this blog.

Watch their live video of "Dance Johannes Kepler" below:


Love in October "Dance Johannes Kepler" Live from Erik Widman on Vimeo.

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Love In October Gives Away Free Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Show at the Triple Rock

Download: Love In October - "A Day in the Life Of"

If you act quickly, you can score a shot at winning free tickets to tomorrow night's Love In October show at the Triple Rock. Here's how, via the band's MySpace blog:

We are playing a show with our friends The Hard Lessons this Wednesday, March 5th at 6:00 p.m. at the Triple Rock in Minneapolis. We have free tickets and CDs to give away at the show. All you have to do is send an email with your full name and favorite flavor of popsicle to management@loveinoctober.com by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4th to qualify. One winner's name will be selected out of a hat for two tickets to the show and five others will be selected for a free CD. Winners must claim prize at the show. Can't wait to see you there!

There are about seven hours left in the day. Hop to it! After all, it could be the best day you'll ever have, circa 2008.

In the meantime, check out LiO on the MinneapolisCast Song of the Day

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(Jonathan Graef)

Love In October - Pontus, The Devil, And Me

Love In October
The Pontus, The Devil And Me (The Musik Group, 2008)
Grade: B+

Download: Love In October - "Circa 1989"

In our current atmosphere of instant nostalgia, where television shows dedicated to reminiscing about the pop culture happenings of last week (just in case you forgot) are most popular amongst viewers, it can be hard to differentiate between songwriters who are actually wistful amongst about instances in their past and those who are merely playing into the 21st century’s insistence that anything in one’s personal life that’s vaguely remarkable is worth writing about. This is especially the case with emo and pop-punk, both of which which started off as the sensitive, more melodic, spawns of hardcore punk but now have mutated to the point where nth generation sub-Morrissey witticisms pass as lyrics and songs are dominated by generic, uninspiring hooks.

So it’s no small feat at all then that Love In October have created an utterly engaging indie-cum-pop-punk album in Pontus, The Devil, And Me. Starting off with a rainstorm clean minor-seventh chords (by god, someone’s been listening to jazz!) before erupting into a Moog-enhanced roar of anthemic power-chords, “Circa 1989” is about singer’s Erik Warden’s childhood in Sweden. However, the navel-gazing is kept to a minimum because of the simple and direct nature of the lyrics. Though Pontus has its share of schmaltz (“Song 11”), Love In October manage to cram enough diverse elements (”Vi Gar Til Stranden”, sung entirely in Swedish) and crafty songwriting (“Oh, The Truth” features a jaunty bass line, flutes, and a doo-wop-as-done-by-Weezer chorus) to make one forget about the likes of Fall Out Boy and Good Charlotte. Well, almost.

Love In October MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Video: Love In October - "An Average Idea"

Paste Magazine just featured the video for Love In October's "An Average Idea", from the week-old Pontus, The Devil, And Me, as their video of the day. You can watch it at the top of this post.

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(Jonathan Graef)

CD Release Party: Love In October Saturday At 7th Street Entry

Download: Love In October - "A Day in the Life Of"

Love In October are having a CD release party for their just-released record Pontus, The Devil And Me at the 7th Street Entry on Saturday night. Whether you dream of Marie Antoinette or of Petrula The Destroyer, it's much better than an average idea if you go see the band live and buy their record. Opening are Ready Goes and Attention.

Furthermore, Love In October will be playing a show in Chicago at Reggie's Rock Club on the South Side on February 2nd. Needless to say, there's going to be a "Minneapolis In Chicago" entry about it.

In the meantime, Saturday's show at the Entry is 18+ and doors are at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 dollars and can be bought at the venue.

Love In October MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)